Sentence examples for church structure from inspiring English sources

Does this mean that Catholics do not need a worldwide church structure?

"If we don't win this election, you'll never see another Republican and you'll have a whole different church structure.

Despite failure to promote reform in matters of church structure, the Puritan spirit continued to spread throughout society.

Lutheran churches have not insisted on uniformity of the liturgy or even on uniformity of church structure.

It had a strong set of community organisations, because of its church structure, and something like the rule of law.

"To put the weight of his Hollywood celebrity behind the truth that the whole modern church structure is rotten to the core is excellent.

For one thing, he believes that church structures must evolve, as he says, "organically" rather than by grand design.

"But true justice and real change will happen in the civil and criminal courts, not in secretive bishop-run church structures.

By mid-19th century, many Americans were in full-blown rebellion not against religion as such but against church structures and authorities.

The underlying questions concerned the identification of what was essentially Christian in Western Christianity and theology and whether Western church structures and theologies were universally normative.

"All these incidents suggest that the hierarchy still is far removed from recognizing the problems of a church structured for the 15th century operating in the 21st century," said William D'Antonio, a research sociologist at Catholic University in Washington.