Sentences with phrase «whole story of the church»

The disagreements are not the whole story of the Church or the world: we have so much more to love and to celebrate.

Not exact matches

The whole story of our salvation is sandwiched between the marriage of man and woman in Genesis and the marriage of Christ and the Church in Revelation,» he says.

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The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

He further says that the East Syrian church was under the ecclesiastical control of Antioch and the whole story of Thomas's work in the East is a fabrication by Edessa to assert its independence of Antioch and also to prove its orthodoxy in faith, Hence Brown rejected the East Syrian tradition concerning the apostolic activity of Thomas in India.

On the contrary, he can serve the church only when he takes seriously the whole story of how it has witnessed and formulated its understanding of revelation.

I remember the whole story of how a coal loses its heat when away from the other coals, so we should attend church.

Some of the early liturgies of the Church contain a lengthy recital, summarizing not only the salient facts of the whole Gospel story, but also outstanding episodes of the Old Testament from the Creation onwards, and running to some pages in the service - book.

The whole story has been elaborated by Luke in an effort to show that the church of Jerusalem was responsible for the gentile mission.

I want the Bible's whole story because that whole story, ironically, makes sense only by including each of those voices — the same voices that are alive and well in our churches today.

And it will also be crucial to emphasise the fundamental unity that should exist between man and woman, male and female, the centrality of marriage not as a mere socially useful arrangement that might finally one day come into its own again, but as part of God's original plan «from the beginning», the great fact that the whole story of our redemption is a marriage story centred on Christ the Bridegroom and his Church, the Bride.

Similarly, the story of how Jesus fed the thousands is not concerned primarily to show how Jesus could set up a soup kitchen in the wilderness: rather, it is told to show how the whole Church can be fed with the bread Jesus blessed — the bread of the Lord's Supper.

It would therefore be easy to suppose that the whole story was a product of the later church.

But that is far from being the whole story behind the existence of the black church.

«To this extent, he has simplified the movement of church history and we do well to remember that he has not told us the whole story.»

In the Acts of the Apostles the word «church» does not occur before a summary which concludes the story of Ananias and Sapphira (a story reflecting the kind of discipline to which Matthew alludes); in it we read that «great fear came upon the whole Church» (church» does not occur before a summary which concludes the story of Ananias and Sapphira (a story reflecting the kind of discipline to which Matthew alludes); in it we read that «great fear came upon the whole Church» (Church» (5:11).

Spotlight, the feature film account of how The Boston Globe broke a major series of stories about the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandal that encompassed «not just Boston, it's the whole country, the whole world» as one character puts it, figured prominently at Deadline's The Contenders event Saturday.

Becket — The story of the friendship of St. Thomas á Becket and King Henry II, complicated by Becket's conflicting loyalties and overdeveloped sense of honor (a whole church vs. state thing).