Sentences with phrase «separated church bodies»

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So what separates the American Founding — a compromise throughout between Lockean (Cartesian) abstracted or isolated personalism and Christian or relational personalism — from the thoroughgoing «republicanism» of the French revolution is that our understanding of religious freedom is freedom of the church (meaning organized religious body).

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

God did not design the church to be a gilded temple designed to isolate and separate the body of Christ based on strict denominational interpretation.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

The body of Christ, the church, and the state are two separate and very different entities in our country.

Darby felt a literal interpretation of the scriptures required a literal Israel as separate and distinct from the church (the body of Christ).

In compliance with the Church and its teachings, Descartes theorises that although the soul is separate from the body, it is still nonetheless connected to it.

A Black Ministry Convocation in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, not one of the country's more radical bodies, has voted overwhelmingly for a separate black district (a district is an LCMS diocese, so to speak) because of the «institutional racism» blacks have experienced in the cChurch — Missouri Synod, not one of the country's more radical bodies, has voted overwhelmingly for a separate black district (a district is an LCMS diocese, so to speak) because of the «institutional racism» blacks have experienced in the churchchurch.

Emphasizing the collegiality of the Petrine office, the Pope says: «When the Catholic Church affirms s that the office of the bishop of Rome corresponds to the will of Christ, she does not separate this office from the mission entrusted to the whole body of bishops, who are also «vicars and ambassadors of Christ.»

As a Catholic I believe all believers are a part of the mystical body of Christ, the Church, and you shouldn't separate yourself from that.

Should the church, understood as a separate religious congregation or faith - communion, also set itself as a separate social and political community, or should it consider itself as a ferment in all social communities and the larger pluralistic secular society without itself becoming a communal body?

In a booklet published during Vatican II, Joseph Ratzinger wrote that the notion of the Mystical Body, as expounded in Pius XII's encyclical of 1943, «made it all but impossible to give any status to Christians separated from Rome» and that it «easily led to a false identification of the Church with Christ.»

And the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms clearly: «The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not «produced» by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.»

There is a strong charisma in these men which separates them from the thousands of other faithful preachers and aspirants who also have spent long hours in the preparation and planning of material and programs and long hours trying to convince stubborn church bodies of the desirability of purchasing television equipment.

But if the black church is to live up to its mission as a body separated unto God to do his work in the world, then it must give prominence to the question of commitment to Christ the Liberator.

In 1968 he recanted his earlier statements and preached a well - publicized sermon on «The Church of the Open Door»: «I have come to the profound conclusion,» he said, «that to separate the Body of Christ on the basis of skin pigmentation is unthinkable, unchristian, and unacceptable to God.»

It is over 1,000 years since the Great Schism fully separated Western and Eastern churches, and despite the Council of Florence in 1445, and a very temporary reunification, the divides and wounds in the body of Christ deepened greatly 500 years ago.

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