Sentences with phrase «authoritative teaching in»

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.

Not exact matches

Second, Muslim leaders around the world have countenanced the largely negative and dehumanizing teaching about non-Muslims that we find in authoritative Islamic texts.

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

Of course not all of these are authoritative teaching documents, but they are issued in the name of the bishops.

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.

Bishop Righter's defense lawyer, however, insisted that there is no question of heresy because in fact the Episcopal Church has no authoritative teaching on these matters, and therefore Righter can only be guilty of bending the rules of procedure.

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Mormonism has no authoritative doctrine about how this conception occurred, but placing the origin of at least some aspect of Jesus» body in God the Father seems to deny the traditional teaching that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now, here's where I suspect Challies and I may agree: Because we believe Scripture to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice and a trustworthy testimony regarding Jesus Christ, we would be right to be highly suspicious of anyone whose claims about their experiences with God run contrary to the teachings of Scripture.

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?

Raymond de Souza, Professor Rice contended that Notre Dame was implicitly accepting the supplanting of the bishops in declaring what was authoritative Church teaching with respect to Catholic politicians» obligation to protect pre-born human life.

By the same token, some Anabaptists allowed Scripture (the externum Verbum) to be authoritative in practice only insofar as its teaching was authenticated by inner experience (the internum Verbum).

I say that tongue - in - cheek, but I do suggest that Paul contradicts himself and it's hard to point to one of the conflicting teachings as being authoritative for Christians.

In the present situation the first step that can and should be made is for the church to recognize officially the somewhat provisional character of the authoritative noninfallible hierarchical teaching.

He describes in characteristically straightforward language Protestantism's crisis of authority and its need for real shepherds: «The Church must have not only normative sources written down on paper but also authoritative officeholders ordained to teach the whole Church.»

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

He taught us that the Bible will have its authoritative, noncoercive way with us if we but attend with educated alertness to the cadences and sounds of the text in all its detail.

As Pelikan observes, many in this age feel «that even if the time for faith as such may not have passed, the time for teaching Christian faith as authoritative dogma probably has, and the time for confessing it in a nonnative creedal formulary certainly has.»

While admittedly of human origins, it has come to be thought of as authoritative also, in the expression of religious faith, and of very high value in the teaching of religion and morals.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

And as a matter of fact, the history of the Church's use of Scriptures in her preaching and teaching has tended to move in an either / or pattern, there being periods of strong emphasis upon the Scripture as the body of authoritative tradition, provoking a reaction in favor of an understanding of Scripture as address to the hearers.

And here and elsewhere, in explicitly authoritative teaching, Scripture teaches patriarchal, male - dominant marital relationships as the norm.

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.

The pope, evidently, was willing for a time to tolerate dissent on an issue on which he had made a solemn, authoritative statement, hoping that the day would come when, in a calmer cultural and ecclesiastical atmosphere, the truth of that teaching could be appreciated.

It is the function of codified doctrines and authoritative teachings to determine who is in and who is outside the system.

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.

There is no more authoritative thing in the world than to teach or preach the Bible.

V. 38 Paul states that if one doesn't acknowledge his teaching as authoritative, then that person should be considered as one having no authority to speak on spiritual things (he has in mind false teachers or church rebels who would oppose his teaching).

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.

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.»

If authoritative teaching is representative teaching, it must actually be received as authoritative and representative in the Christian community.

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 is wrong for a woman to «assume an authoritative, teaching role in your life».

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.

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.

The desired style of parenting, according to Baumrind, is authoritative, since, as Scott and I put it in «Parenting, teaching and self - esteem,» «authoritative parents are high on both responsiveness and demandingness.

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The Catholic Bishop's Conference Religious Education Curriculum Directory — the authoritative document that outlines the teaching of RE in Catholic schools — is clear that a broad understanding of the world's major religions is crucial to a child's understanding of his or her own faith.

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This book was a direct response to working in an authoritative school environment that was more about controlling students than teaching them.

Discipline measures in the authoritative style are not punitive but are exercised in a consistent manner aimed at supporting and teaching.

What you learn: How to give instructions in an authoritative way, use time - outs effectively, teach your child to think about the consequences of his actions, praise him, and create and use a rewards system.