Sentences with phrase «with ecclesiological»

Since the church teaching office appears determined to maintain its present positions, and even to discipline some of the theologians who propose other views, those interested in changing the church's official positions must first deal with the ecclesiological question.

There is also a more recent and specific historical reason why the area of sexual ethics is both so troublesome and so entwined with ecclesiological concerns: sexual ethics was not touched by the great changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council.

Not exact matches

But the MAIN reason was that not one of them was remotely concerned about all the ecclesiological and theological issues I'd become so obsessed with.

You can ignore my request to link his view of justification (which is of course covenental / ecclesiological only in his mind as mentioned above) with «final vindication» and entrance.

But more significant in the long run are the theological accents found in the interview, accents with important ecclesiological implications.

He specifically noted «It appears, indeed, consciously orunconsciously to promote a view of sacramental and ecclesiological theology that contrasts with the intentions of the Holy See.»

In spending time with Christians from a variety of church traditions this week, I was reminded of the degree to which theological and ecclesiological diversity strengthens the Body of Christ.

A final ecclesiological problem confronting the Churches of Christ and the Christian Church concerns relations with those whom Alexander Campbell liked to refer to as «the parties» — that is, the denominations of American Christianity.

He replaces those analyses with a theological analysis that is both teleological (ministry's proximate goal is to nurture church communities) and ecclesiological (the church's ultimate purpose is to increase love for God and neighbor).

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely, for the number involved is large and the stand of many of them based on the distinction between the spiritual fellowship of faith and the Christian communality, have theological justification.

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely.

If we're abandoned during times of relationship building, where do we, the ones with no homogenous evangelical ecclesiological enclaves supposed to go?

Weigel also confuses ecclesiological categories (what makes the Church) with eschatological categories (who is saved), misusing a text from St. Augustine to imply that we can now, with some probability, of living persons know who is «wheat» and who is «weed.»

There are neglected impulses toward Christian unity latent within the conservative, and even fundamentalist, sector of American evangelicalism: a passionate concern for theological truth - telling, an unflinching allegiance to the holy scriptures, an evangelistic and missionary impulse to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all persons everywhere, an ecclesiological postulate of an invisible church known only to God.