Sentences with phrase «toward freeing the church»

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While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power» its power, on the one hand, to strike down any law enacted with the political aid of believers, and its power, on the other hand, to move directly against churches and denominations that display a perceived animus in their teaching toward certain behavior.

In fact the ambivalence of the church toward marriage is grounded in the eschatological convictions which freed some from the necessity of marriage — i.e., singleness becomes a genuine option for service to the community.

Henceforth this kind of «localism» has been an essential characteristic of the free - churches, and a barrier to any tendencies toward overall uniformity imposed from above.

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