Sentences with phrase «with early church»

But this is to say that there is nothing in the least wrong with the early church's criterion of canonicity, however mistaken its historical judgments in applying this criterion.

The «church» does not need to change its message as long as it is Jesus, as it was with the early church.

We need to remember that orthodoxy was not a pre-supposition with the early church and in the second and third centuries the demarcation between heresy and orthodoxy was rather thin or fluid everywhere in the church.

The examples of Jesus gathering crowds and what happened with the early church are not written in Scripture as examples to be followed for all Christians everywhere.

The argument is that since this is what happened with the early church, it is what God wants to accomplish in our communities also.

One can not gain even a little acquaintance with the early church — which means, one can not do even a little reading in the New Testament — without recognizing not only the importance of what the word «Christ» stands for in its life, but also the richness and manifoldness of this same reality.

«It makes them feel more in touch with the early Church's tumultuous beginnings.

Some of the sayings attributed to Jesus are thought by scholars to have very probably originated with the early Church and not with Jesus himself.

It reflected the early modern impulse to submit Scripture to reason more than it harmonized with early church tradition, which regarded a literal six - day creation as unnecessary to Christian orthodoxy.»

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

At that point we moderns simply have to part company with the early church fathers.»

In the case of the Bible, Textual Criticism, starting with the early church fathers who were students of the Apostles, the Bible could be pieced together just from their quotations.

Cessationist theology (which believes miracles ended with the early Church) is almost non-existent outside the Western Church.

Not exact matches

I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

Israel and the early Church are marginal and at odds with worldly powers.

Unless of course, you agree with the RCC's response (from your link): «Indeed, the Vatican's early response to the 2002 revelations of widespread Church cover - ups of se -LSB--RSB- xual abuse by priests was to declare that gay men should not be ordained.»

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

«We planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our dialogue with the Lutheran Church in Germany in late November or early December,» Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk noted at the time.

Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

5) the early years of this country were highly infused with politics in the church.

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

But I know a few evangelical and Pentecostal pastors who'd worry that one in four people in church on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early Cchurch on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early ChurchChurch.

The Vatican's failure occurred despite the establishment of safeguards established four years earlier to deal with the growing abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church, they said.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

A major emphasis of Mormonism is that the Mormon church is the restored church, with everything practiced as it was in the early church.

In disputes with Jews, Christian thinkers in the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the church.

But my early days of questioning the church were always in the context of seeking «biblical truth» when I found my views in direct conflict with those expressed in my church.

«The argument against the authenticity of 2 Peter turns on three main problems: (1) problem of external attestation in the early church; (2) stylistic and literary problems with 1 Peter and Jude; and (3) historical and doctrinal problems that seem to indicate internal inconsistency and a late date.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

My wife and have have a retired pastor friend who early on in his pastoral career, with the help of several new, young couples challenged the bullies in the church.

Evangelicals have been blessed with the recent increase of studies on the early church fathers.

As the early Church navigated the tension of «everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial,» we will continue to wrestle with tensions Austin Powers addressed.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

In Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

Perhaps a more thoughtful translation would be for us to understand that Paul did not want believers of the first century partnering with unbelievers who would impair the work of spreading the «good news» to build the early church.

I often struggle with what appear to be misogynistic elements of the Levitical purity codes, of ancient Israeli wartime conduct, of the letters of Paul and the doctrines of the early church.

Third and fourth reads of the text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall» of the early church; roots of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils of God.

How did the early church do so much with so little?

Ann Marie worked for CPS at the time, and having recently wed her partner, Patricia (in a church commitment ceremony at which I served as celebrant), she decided to become a foster co-parent to Hailey, a child with special needs stemming from the chaos of her life's earliest months.

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question of God's activity in the other sects and traditions and in the wisdom of humankind.

In the Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst of religious spontaneity such as marks periods of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the early Church and in the history of

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

This is what members of the early church were wrestling with when Peter and Paul wrote their household codes.

Four years earlier the other two households had left, angry with each other and the church over a vote at a session meeting.

It is my sense that Paul was warning the early church not to be «yoked» with folks who didn't allow God to make a real difference in their lives — inside and out.