Sentences with phrase «authoritative teachings on»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

Teaching on the specific and complex questions regarding the norms governing sexuality involves what has recently been called the authoritative noninfallible hierarchical teachingTeaching on the specific and complex questions regarding the norms governing sexuality involves what has recently been called the authoritative noninfallible hierarchical teachingteaching office.

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.»

Within the traditional understanding of the teaching function of the church, it is possible for authoritative noninfallible teaching on specific moral issues to be wrong.

Students know that their success largely depends on accepting what they are taught and obediently reproducing what their authoritative instructors have presented to them.

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.

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.

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.

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).

«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?

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.

Knowledge about God which includes everything above, but with an emphasis on those teachings and ideas which have the authoritative stamp of approval from the church.

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.

The stress on the authoritative teaching of Bible or church often leads to stopping at step 4.

On the other hand, the teaching of the Roman Hermas (early second century) contradicts that of Hebrews, and Hermas therefore can not have regarded the letter as absolutely authoritative.

When kids do something wrong, authoritative parents will discipline by trying to guide and teach their kids, and modify what they expect from kids depending on the situation and a child's individual needs.

Since then Carr has started a digital security firm, Taia Global; written an authoritative overview of hack attacks, «Inside Cyber Warfare»; and become an adjunct professor at George Washington University, where he will teach a course on cyberconflict this year.

It used to be that the Department for Education (DfE) and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) published reports on the efficacy of the computing curriculum, but this has recently dwindled, and thus, we have no authoritative research on how well we're doing, how effective the government sponsored support mechanisms have been or how teaching computing really benefits our students.

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.

This one volume brings together in readable, concise language the authoritative research on effective classroom practices in all major disciplines currently taught in elementary and secondary schools: the arts, foreign language, health, language arts, physical education, mathematics, social studies, and science, as well as generic practices that apply across all disciplines.

Certified school library media specialists have a significant impact on student achievement by motivating students to read and helping them to find level appropriate reading materials, teaching them to locate and evaluate authoritative information sources, and preparing them for success in college and careers.

Authoritative parents also allow children to act independently, which teaches kids that they are capable of accomplishing things on their own, helping to foster strong self - esteem and self - confidence.