Sentences with phrase «role of the church»

CNN: Faith leaders sound off on role of church in public education Dozens of faith leaders from across the country recently gathered to attend The Stand Up Education Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk education reform.

Whatever may be said in terms of the eschatological parable about the future role of the Church as judge of the nations, nothing belongs to its present responsibility for which it can not answer to the one who gave his life as ransom and whose whole activity was a seeking and saving of the lost.

It becomes a collective name for an array of types of theory whose only connection to one another is the fact that they each bear on one or another of the functions that comprise the professional role of church leaders.

It is this cultural role of the Church for its non-members, for all the Queen's subjects, which gives it such stature in the life of the nation — «woven into the fabric of our nation» as she put it — and which makes her so committed to it.

Though in a world of skyscrapers and office towers churches are no longer so prominent, the public role of church buildings to sacramentalize the heavenly city and redeem the earthly one remains critically important and demands new and compelling expression.

In Hegel, Harrington notes an important role of the church in the culture, what Hegel called the «liturgy of community.»

The dismal result is that in the Catholic Church in this country, as in the oldline / sideline Protestant churches, there is almost no real dialogue about the appropriate role of the churches in the political arena.

In most instances, basic Christian values were affirmed, and there was some acknowledgment of the positive role of the church in the society.

The last of the clerical heroes, Edmund Bertram, is far and away the best model, and the issue of the public role of the Church takes on a great deal of importance in Mansfield Park.

In calling attention to the present lack of balance in the message of the church and, perhaps even more, in the current popular interpretations of Christianity, I want to emphasize something more than the need of preserving both the prophetic role of the church and its role as healer of the soul.

Hahn points out the crucial role of the Church, the qahal, ecclesia, in Benedict's thought, and the crucial interrelationship of his Christology and his Ecclesiology.

The storm has to do not only with the social role of the church but also relates, as Hadden points out, to confusion having to do with beliefs and the authority of the minister.

Third, it must be a congregation willing to actualize the mothering role of the church.

A further element in this new conception of reception, and an inheritance from the classical model of reception, is that it understands the agents of this comprehensive process to include all of the members of the Church, while specifying g the particular roles of Church leaders, of the whole body of the faithful, and of theologians.

The dominant role of the Church in Ireland was not some kind of alien imposition.

The long - range role of the church in this process can be vitally important.

«He emphasised the real role of the Church — not seeking a protected status within an official structure, but operating in true freedom, offering an authentic message.

The instrumental role of the churches in carrying assimilation policies into effect on behalf of governments creates an interesting point of comparison between church and some government attitudes towards acknowledging institutional responsibility for past practices.

Rev. DeForest Soaries, Jr., a senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, laid out what he believes are three roles of the church in education.

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

Then I realized that what I was really questioning was the role of the Church as a representative of Christ, and what I hated was its marriage to Republican politics.

In this relationship, the man plays the role of Jesus, while the woman plays the role of the church, so that the world will see their covenant relationship to one another and have an idea of what it is like to be in a right relationship with God.

Legendary cast member Dana Carvey reprised his role of the Church Lady, a satirical, tight - lipped, judgmental,...

Many of the essays attend to the role of the church.

[What] I found deeply ironic, is that if there was anyone on the planet who would understand the role of the Church and nationalism and where that could go, I would say that I could be right in the group of top people who ought to understand that fairly well, because I'm a Christian and I wrote a book on Bonhoeffer and because I saw what happened to the Nazified German church.

In recent discussions about Britain as a Christian nation, Archbishop Justin Welby defended the role of church schools.

The role of the church musician is not to satisfy the musical desires of everyone in the congregation — a practical, theological description of the church musician's vocation.

But the point to remember is that these millions are voicing a conviction which it has been the role of the church to foster for centuries.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

We are not even talking, in this case, about the role of the Church in the «public square,» but about the Church's internal sacramental life.

But obviously the role of government is different from the role of the church.

And Bonhoeffer's insights into a nation's need to deal with its past through confessing its guilt are appropriate for the role of the church in relation to the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

After some preliminary discussion, I will provide a brief sketch of such a revised theology of orders and, finally, offer some observations on the application of that theology to current discussions of the role of the church in society.

Examples include misinformation regarding the alleged danger of overpopulation in geography; a negative presentation of the medieval period and the role of the Church in history; and the various attempts to promote sexual licence and undermine the family under the guise of sexual health education.

This issue is central to the definition of the role of the church in the world today.

All have reduced the role of the church more and more.

Bonhoeffer attracts Protestants because of his deep respect for the authority of Scripture in determining the idea of the Christian community, the meaning of the Incarnation, the role of the church in the modern world and in the life of modern man come of age.

We found that the ministers» opinions about the role of the church were strongly related to their belief in traditional doctrines.

This became distorted when the roles of Church and State were conflated.

Do you know what the role of the Church and missions has been?

I highly recommend Simply Jesus, and along with it, a book which deals more with the role of the church and individual Christians within the world: Simply Christian.

It's limited people in mission, like tying our hands behind our back while we're trying to fight, which isn't the role of the church; on the contrary!

That kind of exaggeration, says Russell, «distorts not only the facts but the entire perception of the role of the church and the role of Christianity and the nature of society.