Sentences with phrase «theologically liberal churches»

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The CCCU's terms about theology, as I understand them, were designed to set a boundary against theologically liberal colleges and seminaries and against church - and denomination - based schools.

Those seeking church positions are often regarded as too liberal theologically or lacking the ascetical formation emphasized by church seminaries; graduates of departments such as sociology find that employers often prefer students of state universities whose training has been entirely secular.

Theological liberalism has split one church after another — to the point that the theologically liberal in different churches often have more in common with each other than with the more orthodox in their own churches.

The narrow Blaine Amendments bar state money for any sectarian institution — «sectarian» being an old theologically - liberal term of derision for the Catholic Church and, more generally, for a church that acts on itChurch and, more generally, for a church that acts on itchurch that acts on its own.

ELCA Lutheranism might be the least theologically liberal component of the mainline, but one feature distinguishes this new church body from its peers and sets it somewhat to the left of them.

However, those who believe that the churches can play a role in those problems have never pinned their hopes on the silent majority of clergy.4 Rather, they believe in an impending reformation based on the outspoken minority — a New Breed of theologically liberal, activist clergymen.

As an Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Warehouse 242 is by doctrine and practice somewhere between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which is considered theologically liberal, and the Presbyterian Church in America, which broke off in the early 1970s to maintain a more traditionalist approach.

Yet these young social liberals are not attending the dozens of theologically liberal old line Protestant churches in DC whose beautiful sanctuaries are typically half or more empty with disproportionately old congregants on Sunday morning.

It may be that the theologically bankrupt Western, liberal, secularized church is incapable of dealing with the matters of mission, gloalization and context from a Christian perspective.

It may be that the theologically bankrupt Western, liberal, secularized church is incapable of dealing with these matters.

My father considered himself an «irenic» minister, but managed to split 2 churches at the end of his career — conservative «theologically» and liberal in social and political concerns.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.