Sentences with phrase «catholic orthodoxy»

at variance with those of St. Thomas Aquinas is not a mark of Catholic orthodoxy - it is a mark of misplaced intransigence.

And the late 20th century is hardly the first time that ethnic diversity, competing claims to Catholic orthodoxy, and overwhelming numbers threatened to eclipse the best pastoral efforts of the relatively few «professional Catholics.»

An even greater irony is that this new secular orthodoxy is much more like the old Catholic orthodoxy than it might care to think.

Zwingli, a former humanist whose abandonment of medieval Catholic orthodoxy predated Luther's, gets extended treatment, as does Calvin, who built on Zwingli's initiatives to create the disciplined structures and alliances with civic society which would become the normative form of Protestantism.

The decision of the Church this week to establish Personal Ordinariates to give Anglican converts flexibility in their liturgy is just the latest step towards reaffirming that Catholic orthodoxy is ready for whatever the world may bring.

This is why in Faith magazine we call for a new synthesis of Catholic orthodoxy and scientific reason.

George Weigel believes Benedict's rich insights have «turned the Church definitively toward the New Evangelization» the evangelical Catholicism of the future,» and thus placed Catholic orthodoxy in a far stronger position than his critics realize.

In the same issue, James Nuechterlein argues («In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity») that catholic orthodoxy can nonetheless exist in places outside the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

For Neuhaus, «right - wing» and «left - wing» describe two different kinds of dissenters from Catholic orthodoxy, the two branches of the party of discontinuity, which are «united in their agreement that the Second Vatican Council was a decisive break in the story of the Catholic Church.»

Ward emphasises the reasonableness of theism but his views are not always consistent with Catholic orthodoxy, particularly concerning the vital distinction between spiritual mind and physical matter.

Gerry Pontiero Cityford Crescent Rutherglen, Glasgow Faith Movement Dear Father Editor, Just a short note to say how much I enjoy the exceptionally good and thought provoking articles in Faith Magazine in defence of Catholic orthodoxy.

Moreover, it is foundational to Catholic orthodoxy that God, the origin and end of all things, «can be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason from the things that he created».

In as much as this view sees body and soul as distinct but complementary it is harmonious with the approach fostered by Faith movement (e.g. March 2008 editorial: Body and Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short of the Catholic understanding of the soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex development.

But there were others who tried to reconcile the insights coming out of this experience with the monotheistic affirmations of biblical faith» such as Isaac Luria, the principal theorist of the Safad school of the Kabbalah; or Bonaventure, who sought to retain the speculations of radical Franciscanism within the fold of Catholic orthodoxy; or al - Ghazzali, whose intellectual lifework was the intellectual integration of the Sufi experience with orthodox Islam.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

He won the friendship of the scatological comedian Lenny Bruce and of the champion of Catholic orthodoxy, John Cardinal O'Connor.

Academic theologians explicitly reject principles of Catholic orthodoxy, but are not (as they would be in the East) excluded from communion.

Pope Francis has been called a «conservative,» and that is true on the doctrinal plane, if conservatism means a sincere attachment to Catholic orthodoxy.

perspective on Catholic orthodoxy I've found refreshing, informative and thought - provoking.

So Catholic orthodoxy is in fact a defender of the integrity of science and its methodology, because it is through its very rationality and intelligibility

But sadly, too often the religious education in those schools is woefully lacking in sound Catholic orthodoxy.

Both stances are presented as vital to Catholic orthodoxy and to a vision of creation and salvation as a «garment woven without seam».

However, despite their best intentions, the confusion of matter and spirit that is common to their thought inevitably leads to the effective identification of God and creation, of nature and grace with far reaching consequences for the subversion of Catholic orthodoxy.

The term Protestant was not initially applied to the reformers, but later was used to describe all groups protesting Roman Catholic orthodoxy.

«For example, it is beyond the limits of Catholic orthodoxy to deny the reality of God — of the sacred, the holy, the supernatural, the transcendent.»

The reader may reply that the pope is in fact a stout upholder of Catholic orthodoxy; if he appears otherwise, it is the fault of his dodgy advisors, the excitable secular media, and the mean - spirited Catholic blogosphere.

I am just as confident that its unabashed Catholic orthodoxy will merit the usual criticism from those Catholic progressives who somehow manage to combine liberal Protestantism's distaste for dogma with a newly - minted ultramontanism that would even make Cardinal Manning turn in his grave.

And the final thesis: «It is beyond the limits of Catholic orthodoxy to deny any basis for our hope in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.»

McBrien writes, «Let it be said one more time: There are limits to Catholic orthodoxy.

McBrien believes there are limits to Catholic orthodoxy.

A theologian who is an Episcopalian, Lutheran, or Baptist (at least a high church Baptist) might agree with all his stated «limits of Catholic orthodoxy.»

Not exact matches

He surveys Catholic literature from the end of Vatican II to the present and finds dynamic writers with «personal visions of faith fueled by idiosyncratic passion rather than orthodoxy.»

If anyone had asked me what I thought about Eastern Orthodoxy before I converted, I would have said it was basically a popeless Catholic Church, except that its priests can marry.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

Though this idea has been soundly refuted by Father John McCloskey, among other proponents of orthodoxy, and though Francis has strongly upheld the indissolubility of marriage, stating that Catholic divorce «doesn't exist,» it is not so clear to many of the pope's critics, who no longer trust Francis, and who dismiss his affirmations of orthodoxy.

With his usual care, Griffiths assesses the main claim about the orthodoxy of Balthasar's theology put forward by Alyssa Lyra Pitstick in Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ's Descent into Hell (Eerdmans, 2007).

Alyssa Lyra Pitstick's trenchant analysis of Hans Urs von Balthasar represents an effort to recover a functional standard of orthodoxy for Catholic theology.

What Weigel calls «Catholic Lite» — a softening of orthodoxy under the guise of reform — began its ascendancy, and led to the malaise and indecision of the 1970s.

Braaten's critics charged that his antiwar enthusiasms led him to violate the Lutheran distinction between law and gospel (he still doesn't think so), but his overall theological perspective clearly placed him in the «evangelical catholic» camp of Lutheran orthodoxy.

Then, after reporting on the pedophilia scandals of the Catholic church, and almost losing his faith over it, he converted to Orthodoxy.

The Magisterium is clearly using Tertullian's lucid and succinct style from his Catholic writings to express the ancient orthodoxy of the Apostolic faith on these points without in any way endorsing his other, heretical, views.

The more constructive role Orthodoxy can play is captured in another story; Protestant and Catholic theologians decided that they needed help in adjudicating their disputes.

Certainly Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant mainline Christians would not yield to a 20th century innovation a patent on «biblical» or «traditional and conservative» orthodoxy.

Orthodoxy is the prevalent religion in Russia, Armenia, Byelorussia, Georgia, Moldavia and Ukraine; believers in the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia are predominantly Lutheran; Lithuania is strongly Catholic; and the Middle Eastern republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmen and Uzbekistan are almost completely Muslim.

West called Roman Catholic; the rest called Orthodoxy in the East.

But that is not true at a Catholic event, a FAITH Movement gathering, a pro-life conference, a get - together at a major Catholic venue known for its orthodoxy and devotion.

There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power of the modern media.

But the orthodoxy of a Catholic theologian should not be suspect only because he does his duty honestly and weighing his own views, remaining in an open dialogue with the magisterium and prepared to leave the last word to the authorities of the Church, always lovingly adapting his individual under - standing of the faith to that of the whole Church.

But the upsurge of interest in his work has made it clear, on the basis of such theological works in Chinese as The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven of 1603, that Ricci was and remained an orthodox Catholic believer, whose very orthodoxy it was that impelled him to take seriously the integrity of Chinese traditions.