John Mark McMillan doesn't
write traditional church songs, but this recent performance (from this April) of «I Dreamed There Was a Fountain» is just as worshipful as anything you'll hear on Sunday morning.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, over in Europe, we seem to be somewhat more flexible with homosexuals in the
church, at least in the «
traditional» European
churches that focused on the practicality and contexts of the
written documents contained within the Bible.
The group operates a ministry called Indelible Grace Music, which seeks to be a resource to the
church by
writing original hymns as well as new melodies for
traditional hymns (usually simple folk or bluegrass tunes).
Yet some of the most substantive theology being
written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite
traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the
church.
Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement
wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no
traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the
Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the
traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»
Even more striking is the explicit use of the
traditional concept of paideia in a letter
written in A.D. 90 by the bishop of Rome, Clement, to the
church in Corinth, which was badly divided by controversy.
«There is no way in which African and Asian
church history can be incorporated within a
traditional Western - type syllabus; nor can they be appendages to Western
church history,» he
writes.
The
traditional Christian view is that Christ founded the
Church which
wrote the Scriptures, ratified them and gains constant nourishment from them.
In particular, one could ask the Prime Minister to put in
writing his personal guarantee that no
Church or individual will be forced to perform «gay marriages»; and that it will not be illegal for Christians to teach the
traditional and biblical view that homosexual acts are sinful; and that Christians who refuse to perform «gay «marriages will still be able to be registrars.
But I don't really tackle this with the
traditional work associated with my spirituality: fasting, prayer, singing,
church, bible studies, go and do, memorize Scripture, and
write a few more entries on my list of 1000 gifts.
James Hitchcock of St. Louis University
writes, «The Pope has... committed the
Church to a relationship with culture which is both modern and
traditional in the best sense of each term.»
Will
writes about his transition from
traditional, institutional
church to organic, missional
church.
He
wrote a German mass utilizing much from the
traditional liturgies, and said that, unless they were expressly forbidden by the Bible, what customs had come through the Roman Catholic
Church were not necessarily to be repudiated.
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This was based on the use of (
Church, 2010) «Blooms Revised Taxonomy Digital Approach» in which
Church transfers Bloom's
traditional verbs by inserting digital alternatives, so for example «creating» a
written piece of work becomes «blogging».