"Authoritative teaching" refers to a method of teaching where the teacher has a clear understanding of the subject and provides knowledge and guidance to the students in a confident and influential manner.
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If authoritative teaching is representative teaching, it must actually be received as authoritative and representative in the Christian community.
The clear and
authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church is that it is always and intrinsically wrong to directly intend to terminate innocent human life.
Whatever procedures are developed, it is of the utmost importance that the churches find a way to exercise
authoritative teaching in a representative manner if the unity of the one faith and one church is to be given plausible expression.
No less important, he said, the Catholic Church also claims an «
authoritative teaching authority not made by other Christian communities, and certainly not by the NAE.»
May we Catholics hope that in the Protestant Churches there is a growing under - standing for the concept of «Church» and of
authoritative teaching together with the courage also to define and limit?
«Yes,» he reflects, his words interrupted by short, convulsive coughs, «who really decides on
what authoritative teaching is and how we are to draw closer ecumenically?
Authoritative teaching represents, first of all, the authority of Christ, but also the communion of the church on its many levels from local assembly to universal fellowship.
Moreover, it requires relentless effort to develop more adequate patterns of
authoritative teaching ministries» ministries that represent Christ to the community and represent the community to all its members and to the world.
One answer is that a public position of the Church should be derived directly from the clear and
authoritative teaching of the Church.
We who are Catholics must likewise address the widespread misunderstanding in our community that tradition is an addition to Holy Scripture or a parallel and independent source of
authoritative teaching.
The positions taken are not directly, or even plausibly, the necessary consequence of clear and
authoritative teaching.
Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of
authoritative teaching.
From the viewpoint of many Episcopalians, the claim that the church has
no authoritative teaching is the more damning indictment, vindicating their believe that the communion is doctrinally adrift.
It is true that the theologians who greatly influenced the Council — for example, Marie - Dominique Chenu, Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger, and Karol Wojtyla — disagreed among themselves and with others on how best to present the Church's faith and life, but none of them disagreed with, in the sense of rejecting,
the authoritative teaching of the Church.
Through most of Christian history the Christian has for this purpose turned to
the authoritative teaching of the church, and this included the Bible.
The great act of God had already passed through the stages of the sending of the Messiah, His miraculous works and
authoritative teaching, His death (according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God), His resurrection, and His exaltation to the right hand of God.
It is best to have this at the beginning, because
the authoritative teaching of the magisterium is always the most immediate source and the first and last normative principle of a Catholic theology.
Any dissent from
the authoritative teaching of our Holy Church has to contend with the inconvenient truth that when we reject the Church and its teaching we reject Jesus Christ Himself.
For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of
authoritative teaching.
It is the function of codified doctrines and
authoritative teachings to determine who is in and who is outside the system.
For this and much more, for a veritable torrent of beneficial and
authoritative teaching, every faithful Catholic should offer thanks to God.
The setting itself gives the tone for
this authoritative teaching: while Luke's account of the sermon takes place on the plain, Matthew has Jesus up a mountain, thus evoking the biblical notion of mountain as a place of divine revelation, and Mount Sinai in particular as the place where God's will for his people Israel was revealed.
Among them are longstanding advocates of gay causes, habitual ranters against Rome's putative oppression, and those who go far beyond respectful dissent in publicly declaring that
authoritative teachings of the Church are simply false.
In more recent years, the NCCB has generally contained the penchant for issuing comprehensive pronouncements on great public policy questions where the Church's
authoritative teaching is not univocally clear.
(b) He gave a new and
authoritative teaching or law.
The fact that there are pessimistic and apocalyptic «minded Catholics does not prove anything about dispensationalism, but says much of the dangers of straying from the norms of Scripture, Tradition, and
authoritative teaching.
It is tempting to shy away from
this authoritative teaching especially when what is taught is an unpalatable or challenging truth.
Behind the argument lies the uncomfortable feeling that there is
an authoritative teaching which dares to confront what Newman termed the «wild, living intellect of man» as well as acting against «that universal solvent which is so successfully acting upon religious establishments.»
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.»
As soon as you start to think about how Buttiglione's proposal would work, you realize that — even were it not for
the authoritative teaching summed up by St. John Paul — they had a very good reason indeed.
The purpose of
authoritative teaching is to witness to the content of the revelation of God in Christ.
The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, was considerably more successful in devising ways to continue the exercise of
authoritative teaching, but not without paying the price of excessive rigidity.
It's obvious he believes the only carriers of
authoritative teaching are men and all authoritative teaching is only from men.
Authoritative teaching of the American hierarchy in regard to religious liberty, a teaching squarely in line with the Church's tradition, has been consistently presented by Father Francis J. Connell.
The stress on
the authoritative teaching of Bible or church often leads to stopping at step 4.
While Śrī K Pattabhi Jois, or Guruji, was often quoted as saying, «Yoga is 99 percent practice and 1 percent theory,» he did not mean that we should practice blindly and ignore the underlying philosophy of yoga explained in the śastras, the ancient texts that contain
the authoritative teachings of yoga.
We argued that «
an authoritative teaching style where high responsiveness is accompanied with high demandingness provides the best model for enhancing both student achievement and self - esteem, and that a preoccupation with building student self - esteem through a permissive approach in the hope that this will translate into student achievement and development is counter-productive.»