Sentences with phrase «council taught a world»

In the nineteenth century, the First Vatican Council taught a world newly enthralled by the «death of God» that by the use of reason alone mankind could come to know the reality of the Uncaused Cause, the First Mover, the God of the philosophers.»

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This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

The paper of the World Council of Churches» development commission, submitted to the WCC's Central Committee in August, is a big step for the churches toward becoming accountable to each other in regard to God's justice teaching.

They are our authentic heritage from the Hebrew prophets, the Gospels and the early church (see, for example, Charles Avila's Ownership: Early Christian Teaching [Orbis, 1983]; they are themes that were anticipated in part by developments in the papal «social encyclicals» from 1891 to the present, and by the Vatican Council's 1965 pastoral constitution «The Church and the World Today.»

After ten years of teaching medieval thought at Yale (mostly in the philosophy department), I was selected by the Lutheran World Federation to be a delegated observer to the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), and since then have done most of my research and writing in the context of participation in national and international ecumenical dialogue, mostly with Roman Catholics.

There have been a variety of criticisms of the World Council of Churches» social teaching and programmes.

They bespoke deep conflict among the majority itself — all those who welcomed the council and strove to implement its teaching — about what it really means for the Church to be «updated» and open to the world.

As the council fathers at Vatican II taught: «By the power of the Holy Spirit the Church is the faithful spouse of the Lord and will never fail to be a sign of salvation in the world; but she is by no means unaware that down through the centuriesthere have been among her members, both clerical and lay, some who were disloyal to the Spirit of God» (Gaudium et spes 43).

Relying on «twenty centuries» of Catholic doctrine and tradition, the council's responsibility was to give pastoral teaching that would enable the Church of «our age» to distinguish what was good in the modern world from what was indifferent, or worse, and to make right use of the good while firmly rejecting the bad.

The ecumenical conversations between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity distinguished three contemporary Reformed attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church: of those who remain unconvinced that the Catholic Church has actually dealt with the fundamental issues that divided Rome and the Reformation, those who «have not been challenged or encouraged to reconsider their traditional stance» and remain «largely untouched by the ecumenical exchanges of recent times,» and those who have engaged «in a fresh constructive and critical evaluation both of the contemporary teaching and practice of the Roman Catholic Church and of the classical controverted issues.»

Two years ago the book The Fatherhood of God in an Age of Emancipation (Westminster, 1983); one year ago the forthcoming Inception and Formation of the World Council of Churches; and now this manuscript about the problem of teaching authority in the church.

World language curricula are based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages National Standards for Foreign Language Education.

ARLINGTON, VA — November 20, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) are pleased to announce an alliance that will, in the future, enable the National Board to expand National Board Certification to teachers of world languages other than French and Spanish.

National Council of Teachers of English: The NCTE, the world's largest subject - matter educational association, is devoted to improving the teaching of English and the language arts at all levels of education.

-- Inspired Teaching is pleased to announce that four of our Real World History students — three students from Benjamin Banneker Academic High School and one from Woodrow Wilson High School — were accepted to serve on the Smithsonian Secretary's Youth Advisory Council (SSYAC).

GTCS was the first professional registration body for teachers in the United Kingdom, and one of the first teaching councils in the world.

Candidates completing the World Languages certificate must also provide American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) certificates of Advanced Low or higher from ACTFL speaking and writing proficiency assessments.

He has been a fellow of the Creative Time Global Residency, the Socrates Sculpture Park Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views AIR Program, the Eyebeam Atelier Teaching Residency, the Studio Museum AIR Program, the P.S. 1 International Studio Program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency.

He has been a fellow of the Socrates Sculpture Park Residency; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views AIR Programme; the Eyebeam Atelier Teaching Residency; the Studio Museum AIR Programme; the P.S. 1 International Studio Programme, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency.