Sentences with phrase «without reference to the church»

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For example, the China Christian Council, successor to the official Three - Self Movement, was welcomed as a member of the WCC without any reference to continued restrictions on Chinese Catholics and other non-recognized churches.

Furthermore, it is impossible to understand the Church's teaching about the sacramentality of marriage without some reference to the modern papal Magisterium that begins with Leo XIII and continues under John Paul II, whose instruction on marriage and family remains one of the outstanding features of his pontificate.

The link between western Christianity and the gospel was broken when the churches formed the doctrines of the divine investiture of kings and apostolic succession without reference to the rights of those who were not kings or apostles.

«Harkins brings the assets of Obama's Chicago church but without the baggage,» Lynch said, a reference to the president's former place of worship, Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama was close to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial paschurch but without the baggage,» Lynch said, a reference to the president's former place of worship, Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama was close to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial pasChurch of Christ, where Obama was close to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial pastor...

Rather, it is in the very manner in which he develops and emphasizes the distinctiveness of the Christian story — focusing on its own internal criteria for truth without reference to publicly accessible criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry — and the relation between the church and the world.

Conventional wisdom has had it that proof of the existence of God has to be established without reference to the specifics of Christianity (or Judaism) or to the experience of the church.

If the increase among men of love of God and neighbor is the ultimate objective may it not be that many of our confusions and conflicts in churches and seminaries are due to failure to keep this goal in view while we are busy in the pursuit of proximate ends that are indeed important, but which set us at cross-purposes when followed without adequate reference to the final good?

Perplexity and great regret are aroused by the fact that in the «Letter to the Churches» there is no significant reference - and primarily from the pastoral point of view - to that dimension of the process of salvation without which the very concept of salvation loses its implication.

Unfortunately, these passages of scripture are taken out of their original context and presented to both church and culture without reference to the Author of our salvation.

Even in countries where the churches have been active for centuries we see life organized today without reference to Christian values, a growth of secularism understood as the absence of any final meaning.

One can not ignore the comment made at the annual meeting of the (almost exclusively Roman Catholic) Indian Theological Association in May 1996, which focused on the issue of the identity of the church in India, where the Final Statement said that» [t] he church in India must situate her identity in the context of 97 % of the Indian population seeking their salvation outside the church without any reference to it.»

Bible has something to say about that.Ephesians 4:11 says,» And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;» He gave «some», without any special reference to men alone.So over there, if women can be evangelists or preachers, then they can pastor a Church as well.

[29] At the annual meeting of the (almost exclusively Roman Catholic) Indian Theological Association in May 1996, which focused on the issue of the identity of the church in India, the Final Statement said that» [t] he church in India must situate her identity in the context of 97 % of the Indian population seeking their salvation outside the church without any reference to it.»

Many local church histories are written without reference to the elements that produce tensions and strains, in this case the neighborhood poor, doubting church colleagues, an incongruous parade, and an amorous drunk.

Probably to a greater degree than most other churches, Wiltshire conducted its affairs and generated its problems without reference to any larger church, society, or deity.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

It is almost impossible to understand this paragraph without reference to the February 5, 2016 Press Conference of Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations.

In the Pope's moving and thought provoking «Letter of Apology» to the Irish Church, issued shortly before the calls for his arrest, he mentions the fatal «tendency during this period to adopt ways of thinking and assessing secular realities without sufficient reference to the Gospel.»

Pope Benedict to Pontifical Council for Culture Saturday 8th March 2008 Secularisation, which presents itself in cultures by imposing a world and humanity without reference to Transcendence... is not only an external threat to believers, but has been manifest for some time in the heart of the Church herself.