Sentences with phrase «represent church tradition»

For most people, church steeples represent church tradition and...

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Polemically, Reformation theology grounded its teaching on Scripture alone, rather than on Scripture and tradition, the polemical pole represented by the Roman and Greek churches.

Pope Francis represents many firsts for the Catholic Church, including the first pope from the Americas, the first from the Jesuit tradition, and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi.

To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.

That not only destroys their purpose and makes denominational and ecumenical resources less useful, it also prevents opportunities for interaction in marriages and families whose members represent different traditions and attend different churches.)

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

Dismissing tradition as representing only the worldliness of the church reflects unbelief in the Spirit's work since Pentecost as the church's teacher; embracing the dogma of faultless tradition reflects a lapse into ecclesiastical perfectionism.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church meChurch rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church mechurch members.

The churches would continue in such a plan to have much diversity, but with freer passage back and forth for both ministers and members, a far higher consciousness of Christians representing traditions other than one's own, an arena for mutuality in mission.

In the area of Gospel and culture, in contrast to the basic understanding of the Gospel as represented by western missions, which was to all intents and purposes a non - negotiable given, the evangelicals speak of the necessity for churches in the non-western world to find indigenous expression of Christianity in ways appropriate to people's culture and traditions.

The Gospels, of course, represent Jesus as being fully aware of his messiahship, but the fact that this awareness is more conspicuous in the later than in the earlier Gospels and, particularly, that in Mark the messiahship is a secret which at first no one and later only a few shared — this fact strongly suggests that the tradition that Jesus was conscious of being the Messiah developed in the church in response to its own faith in his messiahship, and does not truly represent Jesus» actual conception of himself.

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

Certainly, every single parable in the tradition has to be approached with the basic assumption that, as it now stands, it represents the teaching of the early Church: that the voice is the voice of the risen Lord to the evangelist, and of the evangelist to the Church, not that of the historical Jesus to a group gathered by the sea of Galilee.

Their student bodies represent diverse religious and denominational traditions, none of which functions as the reigning source of the views about church and ministry that are behind the curriculum.

The beautiful opening of the Third Eucharistic Prayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early thirdTradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early thirdtradition of the early third century.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

It represented the union of Churches out of a different theological tradition as well as a different tradition of polity.

I love being part of ecumenical dialogues because I always learn as much about my own family of churches as I do about the other traditions represented.

But as I have said, it has its truth, which is simply that the preacher, representing the historic Christian tradition, is commissioned to proclaim the Church's gospel, by which it lives and for whose declaration it has been given the inescapable responsibility.

The church's website was down Tuesday morning, but it had described the house of worship as fundamentalist, meaning it represents a Baptist tradition that's more conservative than the Southern Baptists.

In honor of the centenary of Leo XIII's encyclical, Pope John Paul II declared 1991 a Year of Church Social Teaching and issued a ground - breaking new encyclical, Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year), which represented a dramatic development in the encyclical tradition, promoting a just, fair and free economy.

Within such an approach, several themes would play especially important roles: pastoral care as the ministry of the whole congregation in the world; the identity of the ordained minister in his or her pastoral office as both enabler and representative of the calling of all Christians to minister in the world; and a threefold focus of pastoral care, including the person or persons in need, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the faith of the Christian church as represented in Scripture and tradition.

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

The Alliance has nonetheless seen a need to continue its work to gather together the Reformed family, to bring the witness of its theological tradition to the ecumenical movement, to represent the Reformed family in international ecumenical dialogue, to work for human rights and religious freedom, to be the advocate of Reformed churches under pressure in daunting situations, and to facilitate mutual assistance among the members of the Reformed family.

The chaplains quoted earlier go on to point out that the unhealthy attitudes and practices do not represent the «deepest and best in the Christian tradition or in the contemporary church.»

Chillingworth could insist that the Bible was the religion of the Anglican, and no Puritan was ever indifferent to tradition as represented by «the best reformed churches abroad» and by John Foxe's accounts of the English martyrs.