Sentences with phrase «with orthodox churches»

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.

The regularity and substance of your posts is something I look forward to, since I am not affiliated with any orthodox church, nor would I want to be; however, your transparency and openness continues to inspire me to want to be faithful to my committment to identify as a Christian, when there are so many reasons not to.

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Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

Theological liberalism has split one church after another — to the point that the theologically liberal in different churches often have more in common with each other than with the more orthodox in their own churches.

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.

Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the Church to explicate the truth of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.

«I recently was in a meeting with church leaders from across the UK that hold a historically biblical orthodox view on this subject.

These Blaine Amendments discriminate against the Catholic Church and against other relatively orthodox churches, whose attachment to their own distinctive authority and doctrine limits their ability to form institutions in concert with other religious groups.

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

The fact that she immigrated from the Soviet Union where there was an orthodox and corrupted church to the United States where the dominant strain of Christianity is Protestant is the real reason her philosophy contrasts so greatly with Christian Religion.

It is essential that a church school teacher have a growing relationship with God, though not necessarily «God» in the conventional or orthodox mode.

Verses 27 - 31 suggest a contrast between Jesus and the (as in 13:20 - 30); some have thought that this reflects an early church struggle with orthodox Judaism, but it can be more easily understood as Jesus» own criticism of the wealth and worldliness of the Sadducees of his own day.

Unfortunately, in the Western Church, after the substitution of «right beliefs» for «works» or «fruits of the Spirit» as the sign of authentic faith by in classical Protestantism and the Enlightenment's emphasis on a reductionistic understanding of reason based solely on empirical logic, faith became confused with orthodox theological beliefs.

Then Jesus replies with the ever contentious (since the orthodox split at least) verse «You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hades will not prevail against it».

There is already every sign that these suspicions were misplaced, and that after years of amiable drift, Westminster could soon experience the firm and orthodox leadership it (along with the rest of the English and Welsh Church) has long needed.

«The Tablet», wrote Damian Thompson for the Telegraph early in July «has welcomed Archbishop Vincent Nichols to Westminster with a snide and mean - spirited profile which suggests that he has become more orthodox in his theology in order to achieve promotion in the Church.

They were, he avers, operating out of classical Lutheran theology that was decisively shaped by the orthodox Lutheran Franz Lau, who, at the crucial time of the church struggle with the state in 1952, wrote a book entitled Luther's Doctrine of the Two Realms.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

Nonetheless he was an imaginative orthodox thinker, in the sense that he combined a commitment to orthodox church teaching (of the first four General Ecumenical Councils) with a thoughtful and creative application of ecumenical orthodoxy.

This occasionally includes the Celtic Church, but with little understanding that it was an integral part of the One Church, and was thoroughly orthodox and Trinitarian.

The church historian, Eusebius, writing around 325, quoting an «orthodox» writer, who had written against the Montanists, records: «It is thus evident that these prophetesses, from the day they wee filled with the spirit, were the first to leave their husbands.

Though he does not name examples, Nuechterlein would be hard - pressed to give a true, working definition of «orthodox Roman Catholic,» and then name persons who fit but refuse to comply with Church teaching on contraception, or anything else, including Scripture.

While Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone holds the line on the teaching of orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic Church out in San Francisco, here in New Jersey a theology teacher in Immaculata High School in Somerville is threatened with dismissal from her position for... agreeing with orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic Church.

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

But if Ehrman's assertion is correct, Irenaeus and the other early orthodox teachers — and the scribes connected with their churches — were equally guilty of corrupting scripture.

This treacle by Mr. Moloney, who apparently is an orthodox Catholic, is another piece of evidence that Catholics (and Protestants) need to reacquire a seriousness about what's at stake with respect to church membership, namely, their souls.

They are allied to the Reformed Political Party (Dutch: Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij (SGP)-RRB-, a theocratic organisation with roots in the bevindelijk gereformeerden, an orthodox protestant church.

The Holy Mandylion - Special Feature: The Shroud and the Eastern Orthodox Church You have a neshama that is for all purposes orthodox, just with some other fine tuning required.

The predominant oriental orthodox church in Ethiopia with 38 million members, the Tewhaedo church is also one of the few pre-colonial churches of sub-Saharan Africa.

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