The conflicting
views of the Church of England and the British Humanist Association (BHA) were clear at today's evidence session on Bishops sitting in the House of Lords, the «Lords Spiritual».
Precisely
in view of the Church's situation the preachers of the gospel ought not to think themselves condemned to being always on the defensive.
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with views of the churches nearby).
He added: «In our Baptist network we don't have such a
sacramental view of the Church so we do let other people use it but only with certain qualifications
It is James's purpose to rescue the word «religion» in its personal sense (apparently the word «spirituality» was not yet available as a contrasting term), since he largely shares the negative
view of church held by «some persons.»
For Newman, a
high view of the Church meant a high view of the authority of the institutional Church and her offices and sacraments.
Please consider studying the history of your religion by reading the writings of the early church fathers to see that your stance suggests a very limited and
inaccurate view of the church's teaching on salvation.
Last night I was thinking about these ideas; being constricted to
certain views of church and religion even if I did not like them.
... They embody a shared interpretation of the Bible, a shared understanding of the gospel, and a
shared view of the church and its mission, and when on occasion they differ from each other in detail it is within this overall frame of agreement.»
This is material whose historicity is conceivable in terms of Jesus» Jewish, Palestinian background, and whose origin in the primitive Church is rendered unlikely by the absence of the
distinctive views of the Church, or even by the presence of traits which the Church could tolerate but hardly initiate
Browning's
primary view of the church is derived from that past from sociologists such as Parsons and Weber, and from theologians such as Gustafson.
The illustrations show no scenes from the Pope's childhood, but
simply views of the churches and towns visited, and the only pictures of the Holy Father are those with — yes, here they are again — our author and her friend well to the fore.
Such an understanding is essential in giving policy makers, Bishops, governors, teachers and parents the confidence to promote an authentic and
positive view of Church teaching on human sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life in schools, parishes and the home.
Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high»
view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.
Still, I believe that my
early view of the church was dominantly pyramidal, with authority and truth descending from above (pope and bishops) to rank - and - file believers (the rest of us).
Those in America, obviously, have a different
social view of the church's practices, values, rituals which often times are reluctantly ignored.
«19 He rejects as untenable the explanation that a concept of «the Holy» leads to community.20 Accepting the revelatory nature of the church, he briefly sketches the New
Testament view of the church.
In his tripod, the three legs, a view of the self that lends itself to a substantialist interpretation, an essentialist understanding of Christianity, enacted in and illustrated by his
separatist view of the church - world relation, are internally consistent and coherent, and mutually dependent.
I think I can show that none of the major Christian traditions is dogmatically opposed to an Israel -
like view of the church, but acceptance of it involves a break with nearly 2,000 years of both modern and premodern Christian self - understandings.
Hopewell found himself pushed to this new comprehension by his growing frustration with the
simplistic view of the church which he encountered within the congregations themselves.
First the concreteness of the church and its objectivity are points quite well taken, but one wonders whether Bonhoeffer fully distinguishes his view from the Roman
Catholic view of the church, particularly when Roman Catholicism sees the church as the mystical body of Christ.
The first attends to philosophical and theological questions relative to the American polity, including
shifting views of church - state relations, while the second is directed more to intra-Jewish questions relative to organizational concerns.
When I see someone in the church who is beginning to develop a
critical view of church,... I know I am looking at a «terminal Christian.»
Perhaps a
broader view of the church as an organization serving people's spiritual needs would speak more powerfully to the laity than does the picture of an institution clutching its «patent.»
A clear majority, in both groups, favored the plan; however, some within the Congregationalists argued that the union would destroy the autonomy of local congregations and thus deny the historical
Congregational view of the Church.
you are aware that there wasn't full membership for blacks because they basically embody sin according to the
former views of your church?
When the public and the broadly shared characters of the practice that constitutes congregations are held together, it is clear that the proposal to focus theological schooling through questions about congregations need not imply a
sectarian view of the church.
«Were you donating money to your church prior to 1978 when the
racist views of your church did not permit black people to be part of LDS?»