Sentence examples for conception of the church from inspiring English sources

None of these actions were illegal or uncommon at the Vatican, but they suggest a conception of the Church that is more Italian than global.

This corresponds to the fundamental Christian idea that human beings both the living and the dead are bound together in an indissoluble communion; it presupposes the conception of the church as the body of Christ.

His career as a bishop (during which he translated, among other works, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics from the Greek) was remarkable for his ruthless pursuit of three abiding principles: a belief in the supreme importance of the cure of souls, a highly centralized and hierarchical conception of the church, and a conviction of the superiority of the church over the state.

Against this he advocates a "positive" theology founded on study of the Scriptures and the Church Fathers; it is a typically humanist return to the sources, and it fits with More's conception of the church as a community embedded in history and process.

But More's conception of the church is far from being a static appeal to tradition, since he sees the Spirit as actively engaged within the church till the end of time as its founding doctrines evolve and develop (CWM 6 1, 146 47).

O'Malley cites changes made by Leonardo da Vinci in his famous painting Virgin of the Rocks, commissioned in 1483 by Prior Bartolomeo Scorlione and the Milanese confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for the church of San Francesco Maggiore in Milan.

The architectural conception of that church consisted of erecting a huge round dome on top of the classical early Christian basilica.

The most influential conception of the visible church was the historical-evolutionary doctrine of the German theologian Albrecht Ritschl, who saw the institutional church as the actualization of the Kingdom of God progressively realized in history.

To Vatican historians, Pius IX was the pope who locked papal infallibility and the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary into church doctrine.

The difference is also visible in France's conception of the separation of church and state, as Jane Kramer reported here in the magazine in 2004, according to which the enforcement of neutrality regarding religions is maintained by keeping them out of the public realm — not by treating people as if their religions were invisible, but by keeping religious affiliations actually invisible.

Leaving aside that LaMalfa uttered those words after having bellied up to the trough with his farm-owning family for more than $5 million in federal crop subsidies over the years, his conception of the relative ability of church and state to help the poor is an illusion.