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According to Meredith McGuire (2002), in a book about the social context in religion, if the religious affiliation was a big part of a leaver's social life and identity, then leaving can be a wrenching experience, and the way in which one leaves a religious group is another factor that may aggravate problems. McGuire writes that if the response ...
Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow.
The notification required therefore that the decision to leave the Church had to be manifested personally, consciously and freely, and in writing, to the competent Church authority, who was then to judge whether it was genuinely a case of "true separation from the constitutive elements of the life of the Church […] [by] an act of apostasy ...
This year is not the first time churches have chosen to leave the denomination. It is just the largest group to do so as a combined 331 of the 856 (38.7%) fully connected members have been allowed ...
The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the denomination’s as-yet-unofficial commitment to both ordain and marry LGBT people within the church.
Salaverri and Nicolau give the following summary of theological opinions on excommunication and membership: [12] That those who have been excommunicated from the Church by a perfect excommunication are not members of the body of the Church is an opinion common among Catholics.
The early Christian church believed that Christians should not take up arms in any war, [7] and so struggled attempting to balance the obligation to be a good citizen and the question of whether it was permissible to take up arms to defend one's country. There developed a gap between the reasoning of the moral theorists and the practice of the ...
Eighty-three churches were approved to part ways with the United Methodist Church this spring. Another 59 churches were approved Nov. 18. Another 59 churches were approved Nov. 18.