Sentences with phrase «prophetic role of the church»

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Here, I thought, is a continent where the church exercises the prophetic role of monitoring justice and courageously calling for change.

He believed that all too frequently not enough of the church's attention had been given to the prophetic and governance roles.

The Relating Churches of the New Covenant look to Dudley Daniels, who is seen as having a prophetic or apostolic role.

The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.

(64) The church's prophetic role has to be appropriate both to its vision of creation and redemption and to the particular way in which its society is structured.

The role of the church as the prophetic critic of society is neglected today; instead, the chief emphasis is on the healing ministry of the church, on Christianity as the antidote for anxiety, on the gospel's promise of peace of mind.

It is a contemporary application of the historic formulation of the role of ordained church leaders as priestly, pastoral, and prophetic.