Sentences with phrase «teaching function in»

This creation order and its correlatives of headship and subjection appear in each passage [dealing with woman's ruling / teaching function in the church] just as they provide the one and only foundation for the role relationships in marriage.

And that is because he believes that what happened with this pastoral letter reflects a deeper problem: the bishops are losing control over their teaching function in the Church.

Not exact matches

The Catholic Church has a hierarchy in order to function and to sustain its teaching of scripture and Tradition for 2000 years.

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

Last spring, as her strength dwindled, and her ability to function on her own became less predictable, the inexorable end of summer portended the dread awareness that this time my return to full - time teaching would require engaging full time care by strangers in my absence.

His truest function is revealed in terms of years and decades, as he watches children grow, marries them, and teaches their children in turn, and as he stands beside loved ones around the deathbed of a patriarch whom he has come to admire and respect.

No reform of worship will progress far until much more effort is invested in teaching seminarians and clergy to think through the functions of Christian worship.

Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His life, teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function upon the earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early Church.

Now, in the teaching of Jesus, this term has no secure place, (N. Perrin, Kingdom, p. 164, n. I) but the same function is served by «Kingdom of God», which is clearly used by Jesus to denote the blessings secured to men by God's intervention; (Ibid., pp. 178 - 85.

A churchly school should not teach religion as if all religions were equally true or false, or appoint a critical mass of its faculty from secularists, and undoubtedly in certain situations a functioning magisterium will say so with force, but such mandates are nevertheless mere preliminaries.

In spite of the emphasis placed by the Protestant Reformers especially Calvin, upon the function of teaching, no image of the ministry as teaching — apart from preaching — has come down to us from that age.

My objection is not, of course, to functional specialization, in teaching or any other function.

One of the factors in my own experience that has made me increasingly regard this as basic to the teaching function of ministry has been my service as theological consultant to mental hospitals, especially the Menninger Foundation.

But on the whole they are less bothered by them than they might be, for in their relation to the churches they have chosen or been required to devote themselves primarily to the second, that is, to the teaching function of schools.

The only cure for this crippling influence is a strong and independent organized teaching profession, whose members are protected against outside interference in the performance of their professional functions and who recognize and accept their responsibility for dealing knowledgeably and impartially not only with the proximate issues of life but also with the ultimate concerns of faith through which the particulars of life gain their deeper significance.

In particular, should the schools leave the teaching of recreation to parents and to other social agencies specifically designed for that function, or should instruction for the right use of leisure be a part of the school curriculum?

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

To dismiss the role relationships in the church in regard to the teaching / ruling function as simply cultural would carry with it the dismissal of the analogous role relationship in marriage as also cultural.

Similarly, women may be involved in diaconal tasks and non-authoritative teaching functions outside the worship context (Rom.

Being in a state of connection with nature should not stop us from carrying out our role as predator, but instead teach us what it means to be an appropriate predator, one that contributes to the proper functioning of the biotic pyramid.

Among other outrages, the programme shows cartoon animations of young people masturbating in order to teach children about the function of their sexual organs.

Accordingly, the function of the teaching of Jesus was to prepare people for the second coming, and not to root them in an existence whose nature is basically corrupted.

This same attitude is described by Paul to the Church of Rome of the function of the Scriptures: «For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.»

To do this, at our seminary we have an intensive twenty - four - hour - a-week course in psychiatric information for ministers and religious workers taught in another hospital where the students function as ministers alongside the chaplains.

Whatever the context in which this parable was first spoken, whatever general thesis we may hold of the function of parable in Christ's teaching, we are given here a story which, in fact, describes a raw piece of human life.

But I want now to indicate three facts which I have encountered in my experience as a teacher, who, because he came to that function by way of the parish ministry, has never been able to have an immediate and lively sense of vocation save in relation to the church and its teaching and preaching obedience.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciting.

It is the function of codified doctrines and authoritative teachings to determine who is in and who is outside the system.

The exultation of Science is still evident in modern society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»

The task of teaching us the law and helping us to apply it is the function of the state and the Church, and one can expect his reward or punishment in this life or in eternity, according to his obedience to civil and divine law respectively.

The church has been functioning like a teenager, and up to this point many Self described Christians have been half taught, and function much like teenagers in their knowledge and intellect.

If such a decision can be reached under the teaching of the encyclical, then there may be room for the separation of the procreative and unitive functions of intercourse within certain limits in the context of marriage.

The same notion of divine perfection as excluding all change is functioning in the famous passage in the Symposium in which Socrates, taught by the wise woman of Mantineia, denies the divinity of Eros.

What the laboratories and hospitals have lately been teaching us is not only that thought in general is one of the brain's functions, but that the various special forms of thinking are functions of special portions of the brain.

But he also records the fact that his teaching career at the University of London changed his mind about the function of Universities in a modern, industrial civilization.

This theory teaches that governmental intervention in the market inhibits its proper functioning.

To perform its teaching and research functions effectively, the Catholic university must have a true autonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of every kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself.

Because it's a part of our body and it requires special care not given to other body parts, it is necessary that we teach such biological functions in school (why teach about the entire body except for that one part?!?!?!!!?)..

Early in my own discipleship, I was privileged to attend a class that taught one how to explore what particular gifts one had been given and how to work within the Body by focusing on those and also understanding how members with other giftings functioned best.

But the church also has another function, and that is to teach and train those who believe in Jesus.

As I point out in The Crescent Directive, for most people, their perceptions of a particular group are more of a function of their observations and interactions with individual members of that group, than they are a function of specific teachings of that faith.

What makes us weariest, Paul teaches us, is not that we are different, but that we act as if our way of functioning in the body is the best way.

In doing so, they are removing the important aspects of the Christian faith which can only be communicated through an interactive, person - to - person community: personal challenge to change within a supportive community, individualized teaching, and personal - care functions such as counseling, support, and continuity of relationship.

The Ursulines, a new type of congregation of women, began in the last decade of the fifteenth century and had teaching as their primary function.

I could not possibly function in a pediatric department of a teaching hospital if I thought that God «wills» cancer on children.

Therefore, one function of a university, whether in teaching or research, in classrooms or dormitories, is to assist all of its members, and indeed all of its constituencies, toward that achievement of moral clarity — toward the clarification of the moral issues and alternatives which are resident in the university itself and in the disciplines it practices — which surely is an essential ingredient in all responsible action.

Just in case his readers construe this as being a human function, Upadhyaya qualifies the extra-mundane character of this teaching: «Jesus Christ claims to have given to mankind the completest possible revelation of the nature and character of God, of the most comprehensive ideal of humanity, of the infinite malice of sin, and of the only universal way to release from the bondage of evil» (Ibid.)