Sentences with phrase «with ecumenical»

Our readers are intelligent and compassionate, interested in the lives of others and engaged with the ecumenical Christian tradition.

Our readers are intelligent and compassionate, interested in the lives of others and engaged with the ecumenical Christian tradition.

In its stead, Klaatu answers, with ecumenical sensitivity: «No, that power is reservedfor the almighty spirit.»

Ahhh, keeping with the ecumenical skepticism, maybe adding to the silly religious imagery by adding a a few Buddhist Bodhisattvas and a couple Islamic Jinn rolling in the clouds laughing would have been fun!

Outside the Alliance, there are other Reformed churches, which are less comfortable with this ecumenical orientation and for which I can not speak.

Other Pentecostal churches, however, are working together with the ecumenical movement — for example, the movement «Brazil for Christ.»

Strengthening our engagement with our ecumenical networks at the local, national, and international levels will facilitate these contacts, offering opportunities for many kinds of exchanges.

On the other hand, we can also imagine a Russia in which the Wesleyan social witness of United Methodists and the Salvation Army links up with an ecumenical Orthodoxy to teach Russia what the early church knew about remembering the poor.

KC's involvement with the Ecumenical Christian Centre was considered to be unique because of a shift in orientation that he initiated at the Centre.

The crowning irony of this irony - filled era Marty effectively saves for the book's climax: this age filled with ecumenical rhetoric was also a great age of civil religion; hence with World War I, warfare became the great ecumenical event.

New York City has worked out what may well be a model arrangement with an ecumenical network of 110 churches and synagogues (collectively known as the Partnership for the Homeless) which either open their own doors or provide volunteers, resources and guest referrals.

An evangelical spirit, together with an ecumenical openness, could get lost in piety and obscurity; but properly witnessed it is not only compatible with denominational identity: it is perhaps the best way to motivate people to make their faith a part of their lives.

Consequently, one sad result of the integration was that several of the evangelical groups, who were associated with the International Missionary Council, and through it with the ecumenical movement as a whole, now felt alienated from the ecumenical movement as represented by the World Council of Churches.

At this level contact is needed not only with secular futuristic institutes and universities but also with local churches, with ecumenical and denominational headquarters, with the ghettos, the marketplaces, and wherever new ideas, values, styles of life, and socially effective forces are coming into being.

That experience gave me a face - to - face encounter with the ecumenical movement and left a lasting mark on me.

Although this move was opposed strenuously by Karl Barth, who looked upon Bonhoeffer's role in the church struggle as vital, the period served to strengthen his ties with the ecumenical movement, particularly with George Bell, Bishop of Chichester.

Also in this year, Bonhoeffer began an important relationship with the ecumenical movement.

Moreover, he has been in continual tension with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople over influence in the Orthodox communion.

He has on the whole a very good name in the Christian East, and not only for past services rendered: his long history of cordial ties to the Orthodox Church, especially to the Russian Cathedral in Buenos Aires; his close friendship with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; and so on.

He is fully acquainted with the ecumenical discussions and documents of our time, including the contemporary contributions of Orthodox theology.

... maximise the catechetical potential - possibly with ecumenical cooperation - of the artistic patrimony of the region... 7.

As the war of words dies down, the subsequent peace must bring with it ecumenical consequences.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

In particular, the movement of some LWF churches to break with the Church's historic understanding of Scripture and natural law by blessing same - sex marriages and ordaining homosexual ministers has led to division within the Lutheran World Federation and strained relations with ecumenical partners.

Not exact matches

Photo: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and his clergy with an international group of 30 Orthodox scholars.

This lack of thoughtful interaction with the opposite tradition's actual beliefs can wreak havoc on the ecumenical work begun by ECT.

The first seven ecumenical Councils struggled with the divine revelation concerning God, the trinity, and Christ.

Trust could be built if the Ecumenical Patriarch were to show sensitivity to the ways in which different Orthodox cultures understand «consensus» — a concept that has been mentioned often in connection with the council.

When asked this question, John Zizioulas and other authoritative representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate responded that the Council as a process, not as an event with an identifiable outcome, is itself the vision.

Moscow realizes that the gathering of the Council specifically in Istanbul has an important symbolic significance for the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, since six out of the seven Ecumenical Councils (with the exception of the Council of Ephesus) have taken place in Constantinople or its environs (Chalcedon is presently Kadiköy, a district of Istanbul, and Nicaea, modern Iznik, is within a short ride from the capital).

Consider the statement issued by the Holy See and the Ecumenical Patriarchate during Pope Francis's meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul in November 2014.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

Confessional Protestants — those whose churches explicitly hold to one of the great Protestant confessions of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and who value classical orthodox formulations as being faithful to scripture — should focus their ecumenical energy in dialoguing and working with those denominations which share their most basic commitments, especially to the Nicene Trinitarian identity of God.

(4) Serious ecumenical theological dialogue is impossible with men who are acting in the world as agents of Russian state power.

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

The great setback has been with the oldline Protestant communities, with which the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century began.

When the clergy abuse scandal has sent multitudes of Catholics to swim the Tiber away from Rome to either liberal or evangelical Protestantism, and the church is beset with both clergy and parishioners who ignore or defy Rome, one would hope for a bit of ecumenical modesty.

The ecumenical movement has adopted the position that «whatever is Christian I will try to belong with, in some sense.»

Mainline liberals tend to define overseas mission exclusively in terms of partnership with overseas churches (or ecumenical agencies).

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.

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 foreseeabEcumenical 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 foreseeabecumenical 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.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

But preferred partnership arrangements are with those denominations, leaders and ecumenical organizations sharing their goals: social change, development projects and institutional support.

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

He is at third order Franciscan with The Company of Jesus, an ecumenical order under the Anglican rite.

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

This is one major reason why I believe the most potentially fruitful ecumenical engagement for Presbyterians should be with Lutherans.

The remaining ecumenical contribution is what we ought to call «Lutheran culture,» one filled with blessed pieties, a love of Jesus Christ and Sacred Scripture, a sense of being a company of saints that is often lost in Roman Catholic parishes, and other collateral graces stemming from the passions of the Reformation.

* Chad Holtz with «You're a Poopy - Head (But so am I)» I'm convinced that any Rally to Restore Unity or any World Council of Churches or any ecumenical move will ultimately fail at making us one when they depend on the «positive» contributions each party brings to the table.

Christianity, with its claims in one way personal and in the other way ecumenical and both ways antithetical to omnicompetent government, must always in fact... be treated as an enemy [by the State].