Sentences with phrase «taught church history»

Miller (whose father, Jim Nichols, taught church history at several Protestant seminaries) does not employ such theological categories.

My caution was perhaps the product of the hard lessons I have learned during the three years that I, a confirmed Protestant, have taught church history at a Roman Catholic seminary located within the confines of a Benedictine priory — a seminary for the education of men with belated vocations.

A friend who taught Church history suggested I read George Herbert's book The Country Parson and the Temple (Paulist Press).

The author teaches church history at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia.

Thus when one of his disciples, the future Cardinal, Baronius, proved incapable of preaching on any subject other than the pains of hell, Philip refused to allow him to preach on spiritual subjects at all, and made him teach Church History instead (Baronius went on to become one of the greatest Catholic historians ever, as well as a candidate for Beatification).

Of course, I do not teach church history here as I would a university course, but with a view to helping a student make some sense out of the whole Christian heritage and to apply insights to actual pastoral issues.

Walter Sundberg teaches church history at Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary.

Not exact matches

The Catholic Church's teaching, which I hope to follow, is underspecified on this point (and its history is, well, complicated).

But church teaching is based on a lot of history and is there to help.

If Christians compromise on this teaching — which every Christian church held to be essential until 11:58 on the clock of history — the world will ask what other beliefs they will muffle when under duress.

Evangelical Catholicism affirms divine revelation and embraces its authority, which continues through history in the teaching authority of the Church.

Before reviewing the 2008 General Conference's action on the church's official teaching on abortion, a little history is in order.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

The subjects they teach each year are: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Early church history.

But then neither does the history of the Church's teaching on Christ's divinity, or its teaching on the real presence in the Eucharist.

It seems to be in vogue today to find ways to attack the Church, to look for cases in history where it is claimed the Church may have been mistaken in its judgments and teachings.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

We can not idealise the Church or the state there, but we can be thankful for the rich history of both — and for the many lessons they can teach us in the West and in the world of Islam.

And we look at church history and the churches and leaders we respect, not only in the US but globally, and what we see is that the overwhelming majority of Christians past and present continue to teach that these passages are very much applicable today.

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

Three decades of studying the Bible, the church and church history has shown me how far we've strayed from what Jesus taught.

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

Origen of Alexandria, the first major interpreter of the Bible in the Church's history, said that «the apostle Paul, «teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth,» taught the Church... how it ought to interpret the books of the Law.»

It raises a question that all thoughtful Christians must at some point address: How do we identify the true tradition of Christian teaching throughout history, and what part does the Church play in that tradition?

«After thirty - five years of studying and teaching the theology and history of the Church,» writes Eamon Duffy, «I find myself living more and more out of resources acquired not in the lecture room or library, nor even at the post-conciliar liturgy, but in the narrow Catholicism of my 1950s childhood, warts and all.»

The sometimes almost desperate conservatives must be taught to understand, not only theoretically but instinctively and in their spiritual life, that the Church does not exist outside time and history; that she is indeed founded on the grace of Christ, but is nevertheless a very human institution burdened by history.

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

Gerald J. Pillay applies these insights to the teaching of church history, seeking to overcome the artificial division between church history and general history and thereby to connect the particular with the whole.

people with time left over from teaching church music, church history, or homiletics.

«I know that most Christians throughout church history have taught that this passage means one thing, but last night God showed me what it really means.»

Reading the teachings of Jesus and studying early Church history shows - Christians were Socialists in the best possible way.

The gradual unfolding of the Messianic secret, in particular, and Jesus» lack of immediate success in instructing his disciples as to the true nature of the Kingdom, have an inherent probability that is confirmed by the later history of the misinterpretation of his teaching in the New Testament Church.

Through most of Christian history the Christian has for this purpose turned to the authoritative teaching of the church, and this included the Bible.

Through participation in the life of the Church, its liturgy, sacraments, teachings, and praxis, we are enabled to situate ourselves within the revelatory vision of Christ with its promise for the liberation of the whole of history and creation.

Yet if we truly believe that the Incarnation is the crowing glory of creation, of history and of humanity, then we have no need to fear that Church teaching will somehow rob us of our intellectual initiative or suppress our true selves.

Longley sketches the history of the question of artificial contraception through the 1960s and the widespread expectation that there would be a change in the Church's teaching concerning the immorality of its use.

Look into history, and see just how churches reacted when legitimate science contra - dic - ted what was taught by the church.

Paintings of bible scenes on church interiors functioned like a children's picture bible; they taught the scenes of biblical and church history.

Thus it is consistent forthe Church to teach at one moment in history that interest on money is immoral, and to teach at another moment in history that interest on money is moral.

Few matters of Church history and doctrine have been as significantly and disastrously misrepresented as the so - called «changes» in the Church's teaching on morality.

Hans Lietzmann was teaching the history of the early church, and Adolf von Harnack, Karl Holl, and Reinhold Seeberg were in one way or another connected with theology.

This explains why the innovative intellectual leadership required for revamping church history and reconceiving the teaching of history across the entire academic syllabus, both secular and theological, has been painfully slow in emerging.

We initially supposed that historiography and hermeneutics could be taught in a way that would be applicable alike to the Old and New Testaments and to church history.

That choice is to recognize what the Bible and such exemplars of the Christian tradition as Augustine have taught us: to see and trust that the church and not any nation - state is preeminently the social agent through which God works God's will in history.

Therefore, we must be extremely cautious about any teaching to the contrary, for nearly all Christians throughout church history have held to this belief.

Look at the history and the teachings - they point the Catholic Church as the link between Christ and you in today's world.

@Truly Emulate Christ: I encourage you to look deeper at the history and current teachings of the Catholic Church and you might be surprised by how much the bible shapes the Church's teachings and sacraments.

It is clear in the history of Catholicism that its moral teaching embodies and sanctifies the relative social and cultural values of those civilizations in which the Church was formed and in which it has lived.

This is not the place to show that this concept of freedom either exists explicitly in the creed of the Church or is implied by the teaching of Christianity, that free faith justifies, that salvation must be received from God in freedom and that the eternity of salvation is not an indefinite continuation of time but must be understood as the final result of history itself which is produced by freedom.

Whether or not you share my admiration of the orthodox doctrine, we have to recognize that it represents an interpretation of God and Jesus which not only has had the allegiance of the vast majority of Christians in the history of the Church, but which also has a proven track record as a doctrine which can help people to lead faithful lives following the teaching and example of the Christ.