Outside the capital the past seems still alive in three villages: Plimoth Plantation, Old Sturbridge Village, and Shaker Village in Hancock, where the sect established its communal-church concept in the 1780s.
The program borrows in some ways from the mega-church concept because it offers people "multiple entry points" into synagogue life, said Rabbi Hayim Herring, the program's executive director.
In the second half of the 18th century Febronianism demanded a replacement of papal centralism with a national church episcopal system; in Austria a state-church concept was established under Josephinism (after Joseph II [reigned 1765 90]) through the dismantling of numerous ecclesiastical privileges.
I assume that you wanted to be a preacher, but somehow the mega-church concept became so darned doable for a person with your savvy that, well, why not?
The Curia is the holder of the church's concept of leading Catholic communities throughout its history, and it is intrinsically concerned with keeping with the traditionalism of Vatican's institutions.
He declared that Romero "was a man of God" and suggested that he wanted to expand the church's concept of martyrdom to include a broader field of candidates.
" Well, are we actually a church?" The concept was back-burnered until 2003, when the site created an online reality game called The Ark, which featured 12 characters walking and talking (read: typing) around a virtual 3D environment.
The lectures and unpublished writings are largely or elucidations of many of the themes he has touched on in published works, including the Southern mind, race and the Southern church, the concepts of original sin and Christology, and the general history of American theology.
However, extra construction expenses had put the congregation at greater financial risk, and the church-hotel concept did not prove popular.
The case of the Bronx Household of Faith was nationally watched because it pit the First Amendment claims of churches against the concept of the separation of church and state.
"The church introduced the concept of 'child conceived' to the common consciousness, which demands control over women, their lives and their sexuality.
