Sentences with phrase «with images of churches»

The researchers then confirmed with a controlled experiment that environmental cues were likely to have caused the effect: participants who were primed with images of churches proved less likely to support a stem cell initiative than were subjects who were shown more neutral images, such as office buildings.

Closely connected with the image of the church as the people of God is today's growing realization that the church exists not for itself but for the world.

Not exact matches

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

The belief that all are made in the image of God carries with it profound moral implications for the church.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

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.

The FLDS Church, with a membership of no more than 10,000, has seized headlines and spread an image of fundamentalist Mormon women wearing pastel prairie - style dresses and updos.

«David Hayward says more of the hopes of God, the struggles of the church and the possible path forward for us all in images than anyone could with words.»

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

2) Equating worship of a deity with worshiping an image of said deity is ludicrous... unless you believe that all of the Christians with pictures of Jesus and / or crosses in their homes / churches are worshiping the picture / cross.

This covenant and ministry images the communion of Christ with Mankind, through his Church.

But doesn't the image of the Church as a «fortified city», taken from the Old Testament, conflict with the spirit of Lumen Gentium, the Vatican II dogmatic constitution on the Church, and Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution the Church in the Modern World?

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

True, some Evangelical leaders have spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin, who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some Evangelical organizations have cooperated with the Russian Orthodox Church in international conferences on the family.

Grant as we may the unquestioned power and reality of the Church's image of Jesus, we can scarcely deny that it has disappeared from our history, and with it has disappeared every possibility of mediating the New Testament Jesus to our time and space.

Until now (and with the exception of one attempt, fortunately thwarted, against a church in Ivry), the fanatics had attacked aspects of the flattering self - image that we «citizens» have of ourselves: the iconoclastic insolence of Charlie Hebdo, the pagan cult of sport at the French National Stadium, the carefree pleasure of the Bataclan and the boho outdoor cafés of the Eleventh Arrondissement in Paris, the 14th of July fireworks in Nice celebrating a Revolution that has promoted great ideals but also the guillotine...

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

This image of the church as a band of strangers who accept discomfort with one another as God's way of moving us forward may seem grimly Calvinistic.

The problem I've seen in the church, is this politically correct washing of Christ's image to present, not a biblical picture, but an image that is politically correct, with anything offensive and unpopular removed.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

In its most recent resolution on the subject, the Episcopal Church declared in July 1988 that hard - core pornography abuses the self - images of women, children and men, and urged congregations to support then — Attorney General Edwin Meese's report with its call for stricter and tougher enforcement of already existing laws against pornography.

Growing up with an overwhelming sense that God was calling you to be a leader in the Church, but where there are no images of what that looks like, you begin to have the little question mark in the back of your head.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

In the early Church the symbolism was applied to the individual as an image of his or her membership in the Church and union with Christ, common to all Christians.

Unlike many of the early church fathers who, under the influence of Greek philosophy, sought to identify the image of God with human reason, Niebuhr, following Augustine, saw the image of God as the self - conscious and self - transcendent character of man's whole self.

I know that there are all kinds of problems with Christianity as an enterprise; however, there's another image of the church that I see very often that bothers me more even than the image of the church as an enterprise, and the model that comes to me again, and again and again as I am working with congregations, is the image of the congregation as the Junior League.

This image of the Jewish people as «elder brothers» and the Jewish religion as «intrinsic» to the mystery of the Church touches» with tenderness and mercy» a wound that has remained open for two thousand years.

Following several years of confrontation with Andreas Karlstadt and his iconoclastic party over the destruction of images in churches, Luther concluded:

I would like to see church schools become nourishers of dreamers and creators of doers, providing growing minds with the insights of Christian hope and with the empirical data of secular futurists, setting imaginations free to create images of wonderful future worlds that could really be.

St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, also of the fourth century, saw Mary as a sign and image of the Church, in that in giving birth to Christ she also brought forth Christians who were formed in her womb with Him.

When, at the same time, church folk in Georgia actively looked with longing and trust to the image of children of all races sitting in the same classrooms, their vision of the feast without end conditioned their present and drove them into positions of advocacy and political action in behalf of their dream.

They are instructed that the good of the Church, meaning the public image of the bishops, is not compatible with the gift of redemption.

It is rather an image given with the office of the ministry in and by a church in obedience to the command of the Lord of the gospel.

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right end of the political spectrum, the term «conservative» evokes images of the board room, the country club, and the Episcopal church located not far from the latter.

From Boff's presentation it becomes clear that the specific image of the Trinity is being moulded by the needs of society which, in turn, is being viewed from a socially understood Trinity.12 The former becomes clear from his starting point which lies with the needs in church, society and cosmos, and with the opposition to a hierarchical church, an undemocratic society and a disregarded natural environment.13 The latter results from his dogmatic and historical treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity, especially from his developing the notion of perichoresis.

Heck any church with those images of a white Jesus are a distortion, aren't they?

But, continuing with the thought of God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world, do we not find a striking parallel with the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ» (I Cor.

He says that Catholic artists are no longer producing life - giving images of God, that Church people are themselves admitting that even in their rare moments of prayer they can not evoke the image of God nor call on his name (because these are inextricably linked with transcendence) and that many of the Church's own radical prophets and seers have witnessed to the death of God and to the fact that we can speak of God only when we speak of Christ.

In his more important argument Altizer says that God's dying to himself so as to become fully one with all men can have a ground in the very life of the Catholic Church in that the Church is not only not bound to any past images of herself, but her very goal and mission is to open up to and be incorporated into the entire world.

Regardless of whether your church allows women to preach and teach, does it speak respectfully of them, as full human beings made in the image of God, and with as much of a role to play in his mission as men?

Following the lead of the Council, the new Catechism of the Catholic Church begins with theology» the human person made in the image of God and called to share in the life of the Trinity.

By impoverishing the Church's genuinely «Catholic «image, the colonial missions have left the young Churches of Asia, Africa, South and Central America with a heavy historical burden till the present.

But unless it can be shown otherwise, any tampering with Communion for the divorced and remarried will corrupt the doctrine of marriage, and — by diminishing the image of the Church as bride of Christ — debase the Church.

This transformed image will enable the Church more effectively and creatively to be in communion with others for the cause of the Kingdom.

and if cases are reported they are dealt with and investigated by the authorities and folks go to jail, or teachers fired... you are still trying to deflect the appalling actions of the so called church of christ to protect its own image.

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

There were the image barriers having to do with ministers, church, Bible, from the layman's side; and with images of laymen, of nonreligious, of preacher, from the preacher's side.

If we disengage ourselves; if with courage and trust we release our hold on what we have been conditioned to believe was the immutable form of the church; if, to use a newer Testamental image, we lose our life, ecclesiastically speaking; then we may in fact gain our life as Christ's living body.

In so doing he perhaps had in mind the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image of God», man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has created.

Best Image (nominated by Paul DeBaufer): Sarah Moon with «Crippling Lies and Tennis Shoes of Truth» «I grew up in a church and Christian school that taught me some unhealthy things about what it meant to be a woman.