Sentences with phrase «renewal movement»

What is common to nearly every spiritual renewal movement in history?

This connection to the life of his own time can be seen in his roles as prophet and renewal movement founder.

This same awareness among some segments of the clergy has begun to spark renewal movements within the church as well as reexaminations of Christian education, preaching style and liturgy.

We were not surprised, therefore, that he plans to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the charismatic renewal movement coming in 2017 by inviting «all Christians of all confessions» to celebrate Pentecost in St. Peter's Square and to pray for Christian unity in the Holy Spirit.

Jesus sharply denounced the path on which his people had embarked, including the ways advocated by the other renewal movements.

The story is well known and has been variously used to ignite a church renewal movement by the same name, to underline the connection between preaching and the Lord's Supper, and to uphold the validity of a christological reading of the Old Testament.

The term ressourcement is often associated with a Catholic renewal movement led by theologians such as Henri de Lubac and Yves Congar, who sought to return «to the sources» of the Christian tradition.

(The irony of Wesley's own position will not, however, be lost on the perceptive reader, for Wesley made this attack on parties within the church all the while he was organizing one of the most effective renewal movements that Anglicanism had seen.)

Wasn't Lonnie the Mother's Day preacher when the Holy Spirit explosion occured at Wimber's church and the beginning of the Vineyard renewal movement was born?

cry of various renewal movements.

For their liturgical life they owe much to the liturgical renewal movement in the Reformed churches of French - speaking Switzerland.

The pastor and some of the members are active in a theological renewal movement in their denomination (a denomination dubbed by a national newsmagazine as «the social action church»).

Her life influenced many people who were encouraged to begin many renewal movements and many new ecclesiastical communities in the later part of the twentieth century.

I am told that an exciting lay renewal movement in the church of Cyprus nearly collapsed with the arrival on that island of television.

Rob Renfroe, president of the evangelical Methodist movement Good News, stated that the commission is «fraught with peril» and cautioned that «well - known and respected leaders of the traditionalist and orthodox renewal movement» need to be included.

At this stage, we and our children regularly went to the prayer sessions of Emmanuel — the French charismatic renewal movement — in Paray - le - Monial, where we discovered the joy of the faith and the wealth of the universal church to which we belong.

In place of «holiness» as the imitatio dei followed by the other renewal movements («You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy,» Lev.

He supported almost any church renewal movement:

, you can discover that Steubenville is an historic home of the Charismatic Catholic renewal movement.

As a prophet and renewal movement founder, Jesus called his hearers into «an alternative community with an alternative consciousness,» to use Walter Brueggemann's illuminating phrase (The Prophetic Imagination [Fortress, 1978]-RRB-.

But there's something I notice in charismatic type churches, or churches who have been connected in any way with the renewal movement: we are more transient.

As Allen recognises, the change of the last quartercentury is not only due to papal leadership under John Paul and Benedict but is joined and reinforced by a resurgence of new publications, renewal movements and catechetical and evangelistic programmes strongly attuned also to young Catholics.

For all of its diversity and debate, as a renewal movement, Evangelicalism can facilitate conversions that lead persons back to the Great Tradition if Evangelicals themselves remain committed to the cultivation of a broad Christian culture.

And while there are signs of hope to be found in renewal movements and new forms of Catholic community across the continent, the continued embrace of Catholic Lite by too many western European Catholic leaders and intellectuals bodes ill for a European Catholicism that can inspire Europe to reject demographic suicide and rediscover the joy of creating the future through having children.

Evangelicalism is a renewal movement within historic Christian orthodoxy; it can not be equated with any one denomination.

I'm a child of the renewal movement, I teach Sunday school, we lead a home group, we love our pastors, I sit near the front and sing my heart out.

Yet even given all of this, the fact remains that on the ground, this renewal movement is sweeping the globe.

It's this messiness that is still prevalent in the first and second great awakenings and remains with us in all of the revivals since that have formed the heart, not the periphery, of Evangelicalism as a renewal movement within Protestantism.

In 1973, Dennis Bennett helped start Episcopal Renewal Ministries, soon renamed Acts 29, specifically founded to promote the charismatic renewal movement.

The Vineyard is a part of the continualist or renewal movement, not really Pentecostal or charismatic in the technical sense, but rather a «spirit - filled movement» that believes in and practices all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, prays in expectation of divine healing, and is in regular expectation of hearing from the Lord through different means.

The portfolio also had another purpose to serve - to become an instrument in building up relationships with such groups as conservative Evangelicals and the renewal movements within the Roman Catholic Church.

And while most residents of the Empire no doubt clung to political aspiration, a different note was sounded by the renewal movement known as hesychasm (from esychía, the Greek word for stillness).

Thus the new evangelization that marked the beginnings of Evangelicalism as a renewal movement within Christianity began on premises similar to those outlined by Weigel.

I didn't grow up on hymns like some others, I grew up at the kitchen table of grateful baby disciples humming happy - clappy choruses of the renewal movement, so I sing into the cavern of the bathtub with my hair bound up and my hands slippery with soap, hanging onto the last few baby dimples that remain in our house.

Yet over the years, it has gone through various cycles of gaining complexity until a renewal movement arises, and brings -LSB-...]

The marks of his renewal movement stand out sharply against the background of his time.

As recent scholarship has emphasized, Jesus founded a renewal movement within Judaism which competed with other Jewish renewal movements for the allegiance of his contemporaries.

But many mainline Christians, including a number of those who, having been affected by the renewal movements that have swept through major denominations at the grass - roots level, seek a deeper spirituality are unhappy with the choice before them.

Yet over the years, it has gone through various cycles of gaining complexity until a renewal movement arises, and brings a portion of the church back to simplicity.

She urges evangelicals not to build higher walls but to look for spiritual allies — including among the renewal movements going on in the mainline, where she resides.