Sentences with phrase «against the churches dogma»

It was for going against the churches dogma that the earth was the center of the universe.

Not exact matches

If you have arguments against the philosophy of the Church or the dogma of the religion, I can respect the difference and argue the points.

I believe, in sum, that my judgment faithfully reflects the mind of the Church as articulated by the Magisterium» some earlier statements in understandable reaction against the French Revolution, the attacks on the papal states, and the dogmas of militantly anti «Catholic secularism notwithstanding.

This was the issue when Martin Luther stood unafraid against the full weight of tradition and dogma, and in the name of God's Word insisted that the Church was wrong.

While the Church makes no judgment about the inner state of the heretic, and while good is brought out of the evil of dissensionand heresy through the formulation and definition of dogmas, the idea that heretics such as Valentinius, Arius and Nestorius were right to reject the decisions of councils and popes against them, and that their dissent was in fact nearer to the truth is unacceptable from a Catholic perspective.

The First Vatican Council (1869 - 1870) was held in part to strengthen the church against the onslaught of modem thinking, and did so by promulgating the Dogma of Papal Infallibility.