Sentences with phrase «ecclesial base»

At that time, I had just finished a study of Ecclesial Base Communities (CEBs), and I understood their importance and that of the theology of liberation in the Catholic Church.

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The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: to speak in this way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.

Lernoux is concerned that such a pattern may undermine the most promising developments of 20th - century Catholicism, especially the base ecclesial communities of Latin America.

It is very hard to see, however, how an ecclesial tradition could provide «authoritative parameters» for Scripture exposition, if the Church's interpretative authority has no other basis than the actual correctness of its interpretative decisions.

If they are unable to say what it is, he encourages them to define an ecclesial purpose based on scripture.

Martha is alive and well at countless meetings at which there is no vision, consultations at which there is no passion for an authentic ecclesial life, planning groups in which there is no strategy based on the Gospel.

Rightly, the study points out that religious education and catechesis take place within ecclesial, secular and personal contexts that intersect: religious education will not be successful if it ignores the language that pupils speak and the assumptions that they make, based on the world around them.