Sentences with phrase «received by the churches»

I wonder if it's about the need to be sent and received by churches and organisations that might be at the heart of your struggle?

The advent of the mass media was well received by the churches, although they expressed certain fears.

Thus it may be said that these together constitute the historic canon of scripture as received by the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

This meant that he would be «received by the churches as an accredited and regular preacher» although he could not «administer the sacraments.

Not exact matches

He received his degree in Industrial Engineering in Munich, Germany, is an Honorary Senator of the University of Innsbruck, received the Medal of «Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres» from the French Republic in 2001; the «Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold» for Services to the Republic of Austria in 2006; and the «Order of Merit» in Gold given by the Lutheran Church of Austria, 2007.

however, * by * his own Church's standards, it would have ultimately been dehumanizing for her if she received communion on false pretenses.

Time will show just how much the Orthodox want to realize the Great Council of 2016 and how the status of this council will be received by the Orthodox Churches themselves.

Can men study books written by the early church fathers; and then say, we did not receive it from man?

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

The gospel can not be preached in any other language than its own: a language deeply shaped by the Sacred Scriptures, a language that has been revealed and received and is not to be recast when the culture suggests that the Church do so.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

By placing a priority on the Kingdom ways, the entire church will receive the favour, we only stand to benefit and to be blessed from a richer tapestry of leadership, a vision for leadership that includes the whole people of God.

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

The apostles understood this teaching and new model brought by Jesus so well that the Acts of the apostles recorded that they sold all they had and brought the proceeds to the church to be shared by all and they all received equally and none lacked.

Though the English allowed the Dutch Reformed Church to receive public support by taxation, they sought the official establishment of Anglicanism as the religion of the colony.

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It was Mark who began this process of transvaluation, as far as we can make out at this distance, by insisting that Jesus became Messiah at his baptism — though perhaps the evangelic tradition had already received this interpretation in the Roman community, or even, earlier still, in Palestine or in the early Gentile church.

It sounds good to say «spend less on a building and send the extra money for mission endeavors instead», but in reality that amount money would not be received and sent out by the local church otherwise.

I do, however, believe that just like the church, the received text is subject to corruption by human sin.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives an appealing but also a very self - committing description, saying that consent is the act «by which the spouses mutually give and receive one another» (no. 1639).

They came so close to Hebrew and Christian moral insights that some early Church Fathers wondered whether some Greeks had received private divine revelations; a contemporary secularist historian of ancient philosophy once wrote that almost the same sex ethic was espoused by Plato and Paul VI.

It was, it will be remembered, received with great acclaim in Rome, among others by Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary for the Congregation for Clergy, who said that his outfit had «studied the document with great interest and hopes it will become an example for other Dioceses in the country in their implementation of the General Directory for Catechesis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.»

When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers... The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly... The Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar.6

When someone receives forgiveness by the Church, he can be sure, that God has forgiven him, according to His promise.

The small oratory at Littlemore» dark but warm, dominated by red damask hangings that exude Victorian piety» is the room in which John Henry Newman was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

In some jurisdictions, information received during religious confessions - which are considered highly confidential by churches - is considered privileged, and thus exempt from mandatory reporting requirements.

If the suburb was the reverse side of the American family's plunge into the rush, complexity and work of urban life, it was there that people were met and received by the Christian church.

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

Since the Catholic Church in 451 A.D. had so grossly departed from the Biblical faith, why do you respect, receive and follow the Chalcedonian Creed, as if it were written by the Apostles and included in the New Testament?

In the interview, they talk about how the book was received by Christians, and what changes they have seen in the church since the book was released.

The early apostles also knew, however, that the church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.»

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But the church in particular thought that its teaching possessed incontestable authority because it had been received in ancient times by divine revelation.

Such a concern that social justice receive equal billing in the church's missionary task is motivated by two factors - the Biblical and the pragmatic.

In accordance with a revelation received in 1833 by LDS Church founder Joseph Smith, something known as the «Word of Wisdom,» faithful Latter - day Saints abstain from coffee, tea and alcohol.

Indeed the Church's whole mission and life is one of leading humanity to communion with the Trinity, a communion that indeed reaches into our subjectivity, but which at the same time heals us and enlightens us and leads us to receive that which we could never attain by ourselves - a share in God's own life, in the immense glory of eternal life in the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.

One wonders if by refusing these sacraments to those not properly predisposed to receive them in truth, the Church might first honor Christ and thereby care for souls and fortify its cultural witness.

After assuring me that the baptism of the Methodists was recognized by the Catholics, he agreed in principle to receive me into the church.

Well, perhaps some say they are spiritual but not religious because it is somewhat better received by churchies than if we say that their god and church and everything they believe is one giant man - made power - grab delusional fantasy story that causes incredible suffering around the world.

Of the adults entering the Church in the past year, 83,157 were received by baptism, and 87,799 had previously been baptized in other communions.

The releasing strength and power of the real Redeemer Jesus Christ we receive by the sacramental baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized again).

This is not the place to show that this concept of freedom either exists explicitly in the creed of the Church or is implied by the teaching of Christianity, that free faith justifies, that salvation must be received from God in freedom and that the eternity of salvation is not an indefinite continuation of time but must be understood as the final result of history itself which is produced by freedom.

But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

Oh yes, that old antiquated law of holiday observance that must be obeyed or we shall receive 50 lashes, be subject to fines and imprisonment, brought before a firing squad, burned at the stake, and worst of all, face excommunication from the Church, as decreed by the Holy Roman Empire!

«For example, the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA) provides: «By baptism, individuals are publicly received into the church to share into the church to share in its life and minChurch (USA) provides: «By baptism, individuals are publicly received into the church to share into the church to share in its life and minchurch to share into the church to share in its life and minchurch to share in its life and ministry.

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

Spelman, who's also a Conservative MP for Meriden, claimed those being cared for by churches and faith - based charities have not received sufficient support.

Last December the Pope received in audience a delegation of the Joint International Commission sponsored by the Baptist World Alliance and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who had been discussing «The Word of God in the Life of the Church: Scripture, Tradition and Koinonia».

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.