Sentences with phrase «traditional ordination»
I interviewed him on the Feast of the Assumption, during a parish party celebrating the first traditional ordination in Nigeria in over forty years, which I wrote about elsewhere.
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Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»
In fact, for nearly forty years the traditional elements in the Church of England have delayed progress on unity and the ordination of women and other matters.
And this is precisely the authoritarian foundation of traditional preaching, whether that authority be lodged in the church, the Scriptures, the ordination of the clergy, or in the exclusive ability of the clergy, by virtue of their training, to handle aright the eternal truths.
Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.
As she explains, theological education — in Payne's case, graduate - level training often required for ordination — is facing many of the same issues as traditional higher education.