Sentences with phrase «rich tradition of the church»

It brings to bear the rich tradition of the church, which becomes food for thought.

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But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

We know, for example, that there were hymns and spiritual songs in the biblical church, and later, the rich traditions of chanting and polyphony developed.

Many felt that the theological task of India need not be the preserve of the «Brahmanic Tradition» within the Indian Church, which had always used «intuition, inferiority oriented approach» to theologising.14 Dalit theologians were of the opinion that the theological and cultural domination of Brahmanic traditions within Indian Christianity, ignoring the rich cultural and religious experience of the Dalits had to be ignored, if not rejected completely.

I have met here the church not only in its geographical outreach but also in its historical roots — seeing, for example, the rich traditions of the Orthodox Church, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church (even though it is based in the Vatican), the reconciling positioning of the Anglican Communion, the dynamic vitality of African independent churches, and church not only in its geographical outreach but also in its historical roots — seeing, for example, the rich traditions of the Orthodox Church, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church (even though it is based in the Vatican), the reconciling positioning of the Anglican Communion, the dynamic vitality of African independent churches, and Church, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church (even though it is based in the Vatican), the reconciling positioning of the Anglican Communion, the dynamic vitality of African independent churches, and Church (even though it is based in the Vatican), the reconciling positioning of the Anglican Communion, the dynamic vitality of African independent churches, and so on.

His broad brush often covers the whole evangelical movement, but here and there he suggests that «in the ecumenical community of the church the evangelical tradition is an honored member» and that «its views of conversion, of personal salvation and so on constitute a source of riches.»

Much surely remains to be done so that the inestimable riches of the Catholic tradition become more visibly present in the day - to - day life of the Church.

Wainwright pleaded, «We should be seeking to bring the churches and Christians of this country to a deeper awareness of the riches of the great Tradition.»