Sentences with phrase «magisterium interprets»

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Without the Magisterium any attempt to interpret the scriptures inevitably falls into fundamentalism or liberalism.

At this level the question has to be answered primarily in terms of revelation, as it comes to us through Scripture and tradition, interpreted with the guidance of the ecclesiastical magisterium.

Even with a magisterium, Catholicism has its own internal debates as to what weight to give to what authorities and how to interpret them in light of one another.

... the texts bequeathed by the [Second Vatican] Council Fathers... need to be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and normative texts of the Magisterium, within the Church's Tradition... «if we interpret and implement guided by a right hermeneutic».

The seven articulate a position that the faith of the church is preserved in the magisterium (i.e., the official teaching office of the church) and that theologians should interpret that given body of truth.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

This is why the Magisterium of The Church does the interpreting.

If one does not understand and can not interpret the meaning of a non-infallible teaching of the magisterium, given by Vatican II or in, say, an encyclical, one can not give the assent asked for in the Church's own Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelityrequired of candidates for Holy Orders and of others.