In their opposition to Protestantism, Tridentine and post-Tridentine theologians sought to defend the revelatory role of tradition and
the magisterium over against the sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) emphasis of Protestant Christianity.
Legitimate debate about the issue has in fact been conducted and permitted in the official organs of the Church's
Magisterium over the last forty years.
Not exact matches
To Evangelicals it appears that, in practice if not in theory, the Catholic understanding of
Magisterium, including infallibility, results in the Roman Catholic Church standing in judgment
over Scripture, instead of vice versa.
Not throwing the
Magisterium of the Church
over programs here, in the U.S., on which Rome has neither specifically spoken and which it doesn't understand (which we don't even fully understand at this time).
Scholarship helps us to understand it better
over time, and the
magisterium applies it to the needs of the day.
The undermining of the sense of objective truth in Western culture
over the last century and a half is now reflected in the steady undermining of assent to the teaching of the
Magisterium within the Western Church
over the last forty years.
Over the intervening 40 years, however, this analysis has been carried on in papal
magisterium, notably in John Paul II's catechesis on the «theology of the body».
A significant figure hovering
over this discussion is Hütter's Duke colleague Stanley Hauerwas, who
over the years has encouraged his students to engage Catholic theology and the teachings of the Catholic
magisterium.