Sentences with phrase «prominent place in church»

Many have questions about whether the miracles and manifestations should have such a prominent place in church life.

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My own participation in such monastic worship has also sent me back to the scriptures to ponder Mary's place in them — more prominent than I had thought on the basis of her place in the churches that reared me.

Also, given the prominent place religion occupies in Africa, I was baffled by the apparent determination of my church superiors to keep religious subjects from all «decent» and «cultured» conversation.

The Pentecostal movement has a prominent place for mystical experiences in the life of the Church.

Still in his book on the Trinity (1986), Boff holds that the Church is, in reference to Lumen Gentium 1.48 where it is considered as «sign and instrument» of salvation, revealing (sign) and realizing (instrument) of the «mystery of the love of God towards Man», the «historical sacrament» of the Trinity, it later loses this prominent place in Boff's writings.

The prominent place evil assumes in the stories broadcast by the electronic church indulges our need for this strange form of «beauty» without granting us an enabling vision.

There needs to be a place in the modern Catholic church for a married priesthood, said Daly, a prominent figure in the Catholic church in Ireland and the most senior Irish cleric to question the Vatican's celibacy rule.