Sentences with phrase «apostolic teaching in»

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The divinely inspired writings of the New Testament convey the apostolic teaching, which is the authoritative interpretation of God's revelation in Christ.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense disputIn the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense disputin the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

It is hard, also, to equate enforced continence with the apostolic injunctions to remain in the state in which you were called and the Dominical teaching about not allowing anything to put the marriage bond asunder.

In the early patrisdc period it was common to draw a distinction between the apostolic paradosis (tradition) and the church's didaskalia (teaching).

But my time at St. Andrew has taught me that small congregations can more easily go through processes of spiritual transformation than larger ones and can be made «free for real missionary adventure and apostolic self - confidence,» in Rahner's words.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

«A clear and convincing testimony to the salvation wrought for us in Christ Jesus has to be based upon normative apostolic teaching: a teaching which underlies the inspired word of God and sustains the sacramental life of Christians today.»

This means that we must pay profound attention to the way in which the apostolic witness is formulated and test our own teaching against it.

A related aspect of theological teaching and studies arises from the fact that theology in practice means in large part relating to young students, which suggests the need to consider the apostolic fruitfulness of new orders, communities and movements including World Youth Days.

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

This was a constant theme of the early apostolic preaching: «And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease to teach and proclaim Jesus as the Messiah» (Acts 5:42; cf. 3:20; 4:10).

A point on which biblical scholars are agreed is that in the preaching and teaching of the apostolic church, it was Jesus himself as Christ the Lord, the Son of God, the Savior that became the central message.

Now I experience a liberation for orthodoxy in the endless flexibility of centered apostolic teaching to meld with different cultural environments while offering anew the eternal word of the theandric, messianic Servant in each new historical setting.

What one person thinks of as a «fringe opinion» may be included in other person's list of critical «apostolic teachings.»

Leo himself refers to Jesus as the «only - begotten Word of God», placing himself directly in the line of those Fathers, such as Polycarp and Irenaeus, who received the apostolic teaching of St John.

In the 16th century, Martin Luther initially considered it to be «neither apostolic nor prophetic» and stated that «Christ is neither taught nor known in it», [32] and placed it in his Antilegomena, i.e. his list of questionable doc.uments, though he did retract this view in later lifIn the 16th century, Martin Luther initially considered it to be «neither apostolic nor prophetic» and stated that «Christ is neither taught nor known in it», [32] and placed it in his Antilegomena, i.e. his list of questionable doc.uments, though he did retract this view in later lifin it», [32] and placed it in his Antilegomena, i.e. his list of questionable doc.uments, though he did retract this view in later lifin his Antilegomena, i.e. his list of questionable doc.uments, though he did retract this view in later lifin later life.

One who affirms a doctrine of apostolic succession culminating in the authority of the bishop of Rome must not only choose between succession of teaching or succession of office (as J. B. Lightfoot in his own day understood), but also surmount the historiographical difficulty posed by the early Church's transition from apostles to presbyters, and from presbyters to a single monarchical bishop.

In consequence, we can now see that what we have in the New Testament is what I have called throughout this book «the witness of apostolic faith», while the Old Testament has its particular Christian significance in giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian BiblIn consequence, we can now see that what we have in the New Testament is what I have called throughout this book «the witness of apostolic faith», while the Old Testament has its particular Christian significance in giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Biblin the New Testament is what I have called throughout this book «the witness of apostolic faith», while the Old Testament has its particular Christian significance in giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Biblin giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Biblin the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Biblin the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Biblin the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Bible.

He saw that «new occasions» not only «teach new duties» but that they also «make ancient good uncouth» and that our responsibility, granted the relativism that attaches to all our experience and our statement, is to think afresh, on the basis of the general apostolic witness and with due regard for earlier Christian teaching, as well as in the light of our own experience of «newness of life,» so that what we have to say is nove (newly said) and often is also nove (the saying of new things).

For, most confusingly, his John Knox persona suddenly turns into the reincarnation of Bishop Thomas Crammer, when, not forty pages later, he starts defending the hierarchy, albeit of the Anglican variety: «Pope Benedict XVI,» Wills sneers, «when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote in 1998 that it is an infallible teaching of the church that Anglican bishops and priests are fake bishops and priests, dispensing fake sacraments, because they are outside the apostolic succession.»

Because the Church claims to teach apostolic doctrine, efforts by Christians to explain what the Bible fully and finally says require addressing Church teachings and explaining their truth in relation to the Bible.

For, fundamental Christian thought (as articulated in the ecumenical creeds) and foundational Christian practice (such as worship and ethics) are more detailed reflections of apostolic teaching and practice.

Through 30 years of teaching in seminaries I have become convinced that the church has largely failed in its mission of educating its people in the apostolic, biblical faith.

In that radical commitment to real dialogue across theological and creedal divides, he was faithful to the teaching of two of his masters: Arthur Carl Piepkorn, who helped plant the seed of Richard's ecumenical work by teaching him to think of Lutheranism as a reform movement within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ; and Abraham Joshua Heschel, who inspired Richard to enter into the divinely mandated entanglement of Jews and Christians of which St. Paul wrote to the Romans.

«The beliefs of Seventh - day Adventists are rooted in the biblical apostolic teachings and thus share many essential tenets of Christianity in common with the followers of other Christian churches.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

11), free from pride and covetousness, discreet, responsible, trained in and loyal to the apostolic tradition, competent to teach, true officiants of the church's worship.

Whether Hebrew or Greek, the gospels originated in relation to (1) the apostolic preaching and teaching, concerned not only with the events of Jesus» life but also with what he taught, (2) the continuing worship of the Christian communities and especially the Lord's Supper, in which his death was proclaimed until he would return (I Cor.

It was two outside churchmen who made the apostolic claim for the teaching authority of the see in Rome, namely: the Syrian Hegesippus, who was concerned to ascertain the true apostolic doctrine as it was preserved in the episcopal succession, notably in Rome up to Eleutherus (174 - 89); and especially the presbyter and later bishop of Lyons, Irenaeus (d. 177 or 8).