Sentences with phrase «as magisterial»

This experience may have had a bearing on his celebrated pictures of women as magisterial, predatory, even ferocious totems, painted with violently expressive brushstrokes.

And so today, for instance, the casual remarks of a Pope made while travelling can be treated almost as magisterial teaching — something which would have been incomprehensible to a Catholic of the eighteenth century, whether «enlightened» or not.

The whole of his pontificate can be seen as a magisterial effort to restore the Church to reading the Summa as a whole.

Instead, we may see them as magisterial figures committed to Scripture and tradition, as men who were victims not of history but of hatred, the worst kind of theological odium.

Not exact matches

Note also that the bishops «argue» this position, as though it is their rather peculiar opinion and not the magisterial teaching of the Church consistently maintained for two millennia.

«To dismiss the attention due the Church's written instruction as listening to a dusty document, Mankowski writes, «is more the language of a high school manifesto than an episcopal council, and is especially perverse given the purpose and history of the magisterial office.»

These include the magisterial editions of Augustine, Jerome, and Origen, edited by Erasmus himself, as well as numerous other editions by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

In one respect this is the Protestant option as originally given in two forms, either the visible community of people through Anabaptism or the invisible community of the elect through the Magisterial Reformers.

As Ford and Grisez have shown, and subsequent Magisterial teaching has expressed, the charism of infallibility extends to faith and morals — to specific moral norms, not just to matters directly revealed, but also to those matters closely connected (such as the Natural Law) to the Deposit of Faith and needed to safeguard that deposiAs Ford and Grisez have shown, and subsequent Magisterial teaching has expressed, the charism of infallibility extends to faith and morals — to specific moral norms, not just to matters directly revealed, but also to those matters closely connected (such as the Natural Law) to the Deposit of Faith and needed to safeguard that deposias the Natural Law) to the Deposit of Faith and needed to safeguard that deposit.

Thus it downplays the traditional ontological duality of physical and spiritual, and interprets the magisterial affirmation by Humanae Generis (1950) of the soul's direct creation as being «open to a conveniently wide range of interpretations» (p43).

So too today, instead of engaging with the entirety of the twentieth century Magisterial teaching concerning artificial contraception — Pius XI, Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II — The Tablet focuses on Humanae Vitae and seeks to knock that down so as to knock the whole edifice of teaching in this area.

He was a relentless advocate for the proposition that truth can be known and binding, that faith and reason are compatible, that the Magisterium is arbiter of Catholic moral and dogmatic truths, and that Magisterial teaching should be taught in a Catholic university as integral to its mission.

On the one hand, by our historical amnesia we break our continuity with historic Christian faith as did the liberals and, on the other, we accord to some preachers a magisterial authority in interpreting Scripture not unlike Roman Catholics do!

I would want to distinguish between a ministerial and a magisterial role for science in theology, just as for reason in theology.

As I say, the new declaration says nothing that is not said in other magisterial documents, particularly in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, and it is always necessary to restate these important truths.

Early reviews of Melvin Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (Pantheon, 955 pages, $ 40) have described the book as «magisterial,» «comprehensive,» even «stately.»

In a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.

As John Boswell has shown in a magisterial study, these parents were not monsters; they knew what Tennessee Williams's character Blanche DuBois knows — that one can usually rely on «the kindness of strangers» (the title of Boswell's book).

He writes, as always, with magisterial command of all possible sources in all known languages and a gift for the occasional elegant epigram derived in part, I suspect, from a lifetime of reading Edward Gibbon for fun.

As Yehezkel Kaufmann, one of the twentieth century's great scholars of the Hebrew Bible, explained in his magisterial book The Religion of Israel (1960), in mythological religion «the gods are subject by their nature to sexual needs.

The Reformers, as wonderful as they were, still retained the Magisterial, hierarchical, building - centered approach to doing church which began after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

Along with allusions to values throughout John Paul's writings, we find the term in other magisterial documents as well.

Dei Verbum is not as sensitive to this question as we might have hoped, although in comparison with previous magisterial statements both its tone and content are significant departures from the apologetically bound past.

In part reacting to people leaving the church or converting to other confessions and religions it is closing in on its own identity and centralism, as can be clearly seen from the latest magisterial documents.

Looking at the world, we see that the magisterial truths of Genesis concerning the event of the Fall fit well with the world as we experience it today.

However, its authoritative power as a solemn magisterial document does not lie in anathemas, but in its repeated insistence on the urgency of a new evangelical imperative which is laid on the Church in these intellectually, socially and spiritually turbulent times.

Kennedy's judgment was a far cry from the words of the great legal scholar William Blackstone, who referred to sodomy in his magisterial Commentaries (1769) as «an offence so dark in nature, the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature, a crime not fit to be named.»

An attempt was made to broaden the governing authority of the Church by giving the bishops more than their present consultative Magisterial influence; but, as the latest scandals reveal, that change was never implemented and the power remains solely in the hand of the Pope in union with the Roman Curia rather than with the Pope in union with the Bishops which would be closer to the governing structure of the Othodox Churches of the East.

His Sources of Christian Ethics is a magisterial account of what went wrong with moral theology and, more importantly, how to understand the Christian life as a journey toward the good, as a call to holiness, rather than as a roadmap for avoiding the impermissible.

As any convert can attest, there are many ups - and - downs during the journey: Struggling with doctrine followed by insights from magisterial passages coupled with Scripture, feeling still and alone followed by being overwhelmed by the presence of the saints before us, crying out to God for His presence and having Him answer in the Blessed Sacrament.

They may be devout and spiritual, but they can not be honestly described as «thoroughly orthodox» if they refuse to submit to the Church's magisterial authority.

Of note, being God's minister restricts magisterial action as well as authorizes it.

Nonetheless, given the almost hysterical reaction of some theologians, particularly a fair number among the members of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), to such Vatican directives as Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) and Ad Tuendam Fidem (1998), we can conclude that many professional theologians, and theological faculties, apparently have yet to absorb Newman's point that magisterial authority is necessary for the proper teaching and pursuit of theology.

Seminaries obviously represent a redoubt from these trends — although, as is well known, some are more forthright in their adherence to magisterial direction than others.

It is unfortunate that there are some academic bioethicists who approach Catholic moral theology as if it were a discipline akin to tax law, where anything not yet expressly forbidden in magisterial documents may still be allowed.

It seems apparent that Lumen Fidei is intended as the guiding magisterial document for the «Year of Faith», a celebration which outlasted the reign of the pope who convoked it in commemoration of the opening session of the Second Ecumenical Council in the Vatican 50 years before.

In his magisterial account of the history of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch balks at the concept of magisterium which he says «had since the nineteenth century stealthily acquired a technical theological meaning as «authoritative teaching», peculiarly thanks to Pius Xll's propensity to deploy it.»

To these remarkable examples of magisterial teaching I can not provide here a full - blown commentary but only, as it were, a mere footnote: All I want to do on this site is to provide a brief reflection on how St. Paul uses the word body in his letters.

In this view a theologian can not take a position in faith or ethics that is contrary to the magisterial teaching «any more than you could espouse as fact in a secular university that one and one are three.»

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

At this point, concerning controverted moral issues, political manoeuvring became a major, if not the major concern of the Church, and magisterial proclamation has tended to be seen as nothing more than a slightly frustrating bottom line of what can be got away with.

One important manual for budding literary critics, for example, W. K. Wimsatt's The Verbal Icon, almost sounds like a theological tract for seminarians (as even its title implies); and so it issues its dire warnings in predictably magisterial tones:

For the Catholic community, while the insights of particular theologians are helpful along the way, an essential resource for study must be key magisterial documents, such as Fides et Ratioand documents from the Pontifical Council for Culture.

He goes so far as to imply that magisterial intervention is «improper» except when there is an error to be condemned or averted.

Besides the magisterial authority and the supervision of catechetical instruction, the bishop as chief pastor had at this time among his major duties the protracted ritual of baptism.

«That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others at large, on the same date, time, place and in the aforementioned magisterial district, did forge the signature of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun and a document known as MoU between Mut - Hass Petroleum Limited and Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, with an intent that it may be in any way used or acted upon as genuine.

The prosecuting counsel, ASP Mireti Wilson, alleged that,» that you Olagoke Adedamola «m» and others now at large between same period and place at the aforementioned magisterial district did unlawfully kidnapped one Akinduro Robert and took him to unknown destination in such a manner as to prevent any person entitled to have access to him from discovering the place he is imprisoned and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 364 (2) of the criminal code cap 34 vol.II of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

The Commons address by the former serviceman was described by judges as «theatrical, magisterial and moving».

The academic research enterprise has long functioned as a pyramid scheme based on cheap workers, notes labor market economist Paula Stephan in her magisterial book, How Economics Shapes Science.