Sentences with phrase «various early church»

The simple fact that we have a canon of Scripture, which was compiled and organized by various early Church Fathers, and became a tradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church Tradition.

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

Not exact matches

There is a war among churches and catholic church from very early age were as a target to be destroyed by various groups and religion, especially judaism.

Now this, of course, is done to a considerable extent by great Bible societies who act for the churches — one of the early interdenominational activities of the various divisions of the church.

The distance between the moral principles which the Church proclaims and — leaving aside for the moment the question of the Church's pastoral office — which alone can be propounded doctrinally, and the concrete prescriptions by which the individual and the various human communities freely shape their existence, has now increased to an extent that introduces what is practically a difference of nature as compared with earlier times.

Hatch examines five popular churches and religious movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century: the Methodists, the Baptists, the Mormons, various black churches, and the «Christian» movement (sometimes called the Campbellite movement, after Alexander Campbell).

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

Maybe its been said before but the early Church was evidently a time of stumbling through various ecclesial models, trying to figure out what worked.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

He had been an early opponent of the Nazis, denouncing their racial bigotry, their obsession with attempting to revive pagan myths to replace Christian worship and their nationalising of various properties belonging to the Church.

In contrast, however, far from carefully analysing such things, his treatment fails to distinguish between the views of theologians, the opinions of early Church Fathers, and the status of various statements from popes and councils.

However, leaders in the early church would often combine practices of believers from various backgrounds (early Christians were a mixture of former Jews and pagans).

We may say that a motif which can be detected in a multiplicity of strands of tradition and in various forms (pronouncement stories, parables, sayings, etc.) will have a high claim to authenticity, always provided that it is not characteristic of an activity, interest or emphasis of the earliest Church.

In broad outline, therefore, it appears that the ethical teaching given by the early church was pretty closely related to the general movement in Greco - Roman society towards the improvement of public morals as it was undertaken in the first century by various agencies.

In the early history of the church, when the New Testament was getting translated from Greek into Latin, there was no clear equivalent in Latin for ekklēsia, and so various terms were proposed.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

With respect also to earlier Christian thinkers and their various statements, there is Hodgson's further remark — which those of us who were his students vividly recall — that we must always ask something like this: «What must the truth be for us now, if people like that» — he was referring both to biblical writers and theologians in the past history of the Church --» «put it in the way they did?»

There the Brunner Foundation, in cooperation with the theological faculty of the university and various church and civic groups, is sponsoring a series of lectures and festivities which began in early November with three public forums, followed by an «Emil Brunner Faculty Day» on November 29.

If we look at the history of Christianity, the early church was also faced with a vast amount of plural voices as well — the various cults of the barbarians, local deities, and mystery religions.

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.

They have broken up into competing groups that have turned early church leaders into «superstars» around which various groups are rallying and finding their identity.»

In the early nineteenth century the broader interests of the clergy revolve around the various church societies, especially those for education and missions.

The business of historical criticism is to deal with the diverse materials in the New Testament (and in other early Christian literature) and to show (1) their unity in relation to the mission of the Church and (2) the relation of their diversity to the various cultural currents within which the mission was carried on.

Ward has, at various points in his career, used pieces of dried codfish, baby strollers, church pews, cotton balls, beat - up oil barrels, police shoes, pants pockets, folios from a catalogue of early Italian paintings, rum bottles, and even a recycled ambulance filled with blasts of smoke.

The icons are dispersed throughout various public and private collections, including the Dia Art Foundation, the Judd Foundation (Donald Judd was one of the artist's closest friends), and the National Gallery of Canada, but since April five of the eight have been on view at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, a former firehouse and Baptist church renovated under Flavin's direction in the early 1980s and housing a permanent installation of his fluorescent light - tube sculptures.