Sentence examples for church body from inspiring English sources

The church body would report the incident to the police.

This made the ELCA, with more than 5 million members, the largest Lutheran church body in North America.

They are, for the Americans, the key factor in the effort to pressure the world church into recognizing an alternative American church body or persuading ECUSA to repent.

They have compared her ideas to the theories of Stanley Hauerwas '65 B.D., '67 M.A., '68 Ph.D., an American theologian and ethicist, who believes that healing happens through membership in the church body.

Mueller said the LCWR — which represents about 80percentt of the more than 50,000 Catholic nuns in the U.S. — is dependent on the Vatican for its bona fides as a church body.

An influential panel of Bishops of the United Methodist Church, the third largest church body in the United States, has drafted a pastoral letter denouncing the use of nuclear weapons and the doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

Other church bodies, such as the Lutheran World Federation and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, shared this perspective.

Instruction is provided in the history, doctrines, and polity of all the major church bodies.

Parishes are civil subdivisions, usually centred on a village or small town, that are distinct from church bodies.

But two key procedures have prompted discussion in the past in the Vatican and in other church bodies.

But it's difficult to suppose that God has nothing to do with the deliberations of church bodies.