Übersetzung für "Amtskirche" in Englisch

In this way the fire of the Official Church has turned into dying embers.

The New Apostolic Church is also a “church of ministry”.

There was still plenty of reason to criticize the institutional church.

When Sri Lanka became a colony of the Portuguese in 1505, the Portuguese established the official Church.

The official church lost massively in reputation, as the blossoming of the Pentecostal churches demonstrated.

In his day, Hansjakob expressed his criticism of the institutional church, as well as his concerns regarding the excesses in the rural economy, the consequences of industrialisation and the effects of the war.

After the ‘official’ church had prevailed, the sect’s texts were no longer copied and most traces of the existence of this heresy were erased.

To me God is like a great film, and the church like the village cinema that shows it.

I know that it is very difficult to acknowledge a Bishop who has been consecrated without the official Church’s consent.

The upheavals of the civil war in the early 17th century had also called into question the authority of the institutional church.

Indulgences were completely useless without repentance for past sins and the official forgiveness of the church representative.

Through this change in Church Law and practice the official Church has finally acknowledged, to some extent, that its prejudice against women based on ‘ritual uncleanness’ was unfounded.

Also the awakening movement is opinion-forming in Gerlingen: The Pietism gets new strength because of the public resistance against enlightenment, trust in progress and ossify church hierarchy.

Although a resignation from the official [Fantasy] Church also means to turn its back on the regional [Fantasy] Church, "we can understand the decision of the women very well".

Its leaders were crooks and men with bad manners, who had to leave the official church because of dubious behaviour.

Unfortunately, the initial relationship between them and the "official" church soon turned into such severe hostility, that Rome proclaimed their extermination by fire and by the sword.

It is basically clear to me, of course, that there are a great many opportunistic doings in the national church - as the official church is called in Switzerland - just because it is the done thing, and what churchgoers expect.

They are: the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches, the Old Catholic Church as well as some of the Free Bishops, who are outside the Official Church.

I underlined that these messages are theologically grounded, and that they have their foundation in the Bible, and do not differ from the official doctrine of the Church.

Christ the fish is an iconogram we are all familiar with, but many people may not be aware of the fact that is based on ancient Gnostic knowledge, which the official church never approved of.

Almost all the Small Groups asked for a deeper understanding of the meaning of the "ministerial Church", that is, a Church where the co-responsibility and commitment of the laity coexist.

In the same way the Pope turned against an alternative thinking: here the "institutional" official church causing alienation, there the people church present in the poor.