Sentences with phrase «church teaching authority»

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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.»

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

Evangelical Catholicism affirms divine revelation and embraces its authority, which continues through history in the teaching authority of the Church.

Sabio, I do not share your atheistic beliefs, but I definitely share many of your criticisms of the formal theological beliefs taught by the institutional Church authorities.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

Iniatially, the Magisterial (Teaching) Authority of the Catholic Church was collegial, the Pope in union with the Bishops.

The Catholic Church is and has been the Biblical teaching authority for ALL Christians for 2000 + years and will continue to be because Jesus said all the powers of hell (including propserity organizations operating under the pretext of Christianity) would NOT prevail against it.

But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you to the church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not to listen to them, criticize their positions without ever going to them personally to find out what they actually believe and are teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have never been hurt or offended by them.

The council also led to a renewal of the liturgy, an affirmation of religious freedom and the primacy of conscience, a rejection of church - state unions, an openness to the truth of other religions (especially Judaism) and a renewed sense that the church's teaching authority resides in all of the faithful, not exclusively in the hierarchy.

(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

I have heard teachings that a marriage will only properly illustrate Christ's relationship with the church when the husband steps fully into his leadership role and the wife responds by joyfully placing herself under his authority.

Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

It is to be the teaching authority, the ruling power, and the pastoral directive of the future church.

And again: «Let us hear the church when it teaches and admonishes,» he writes, «but one must not believe because of the authority of the church.

However, it is essential that they are given a thorough grounding in what the Church teaches and especially the reasons why it does so and with what authority.

Sure, the church you attend... whatever,... but the religion you believe in teaches right from wrong and claims a connection to, or understanding of, or words directly from, the supposed ultimate moral authority does it not?

When the practicing Christian talks to modern man about the «Law of God,» the «Teaching of the Church,» or invokes the authority of Holy Scripture, he is to his own mind bringing out the heaviest weapons in his armory.

Integral Christian living means (i) being part of Jesus's family (i.e. being in «Communion» with the Holy Trinity, physically and spiritually), through having the actual touch of Christ in Baptism, Confirmation and Communion, and (ii) receiving his Teaching through the Church's magisterium (i.e. «teaching authority&Teaching through the Church's magisterium (i.e. «teaching authority&teaching authority»).

There need not be truly subjective guilt either in the case of the individual or of a social group, even when the subjective conscience is confronted with the official teaching of the Church as a formally binding authority.

We need to teach on submission and church authority structures in a way that equips women abused by the very leadership to which they were called to submit to boldly live out their gifting as co-heirs with Jesus Christ.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

The Church gives faith historical force and solidity by defining dogma and teaching it with authority.

The Church herself and her authority to teach provide crucial warrants for seeing a developing doctrine as the deepening of a continuous, unchanging revealed truth.

Rather, enlightened by Christian wisdom and giving close attention to the teaching authority of the Church, let the layman take on his own distinctive role [Gaudium et spes].

Church authority has added to its problems by failing to recognize explicitly the somewhat provisional nature of its teaching in these areas.

Bousma noted that the teaching authority of the church was claimed by the theological faculty, leading to a division between them and the «clergy who minister to the whole body of the faithful.»

Church authorities have taken action against some theologians who have dissented from the official teaching on matters of sexual morality.

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.»

The missionaries are careful to teach the young churches biblical principles of authority and organization.

These various kinds of authority — church authority as institutional and communal, Scriptural authority as teaching and judicatory, personal authority as spiritual and moral — are intricately interrelated.

Irony is involved because it appears to be the case that the office of Bishop among Episcopalians has become increasingly separated from that authority by which some are given the right and duty to teach and uphold the church's rule of faith and forms of life.

A close Nerbal study of such writings as the Epistle of James, the First Epistle of John, and the ethical sections of most of the Pauline Epistles, is needed to show how deeply embedded in the teaching of the early Church was the tradition of the words of Jesus which gave authority to it all.

The grounds on which church authorities resisted the advancing claims of the sciences were in the first place simply that they were at variance with the accepted teachings handed down from ancient times.

The Church of Rome attributed divine authority to the general corpus of Catholic teaching, which included the Bible, traditions of long standing, and the belief that the Divine Head of the church would not allow His church to err on important iChurch of Rome attributed divine authority to the general corpus of Catholic teaching, which included the Bible, traditions of long standing, and the belief that the Divine Head of the church would not allow His church to err on important ichurch would not allow His church to err on important ichurch to err on important issues.

Christian spirituality is based on the teaching of Jesus, as known through the Scriptures, and interpreted by the Christian tradition, generally through the authority of the churches.

But the church in particular thought that its teaching possessed incontestable authority because it had been received in ancient times by divine revelation.

I know many complementarians who, although they believe men should hold authority over women in the home, church, and society, make an exception for the marriage bed, acknowledging the Apostle Paul's teachings on mutuality in this regard (1 Corinthians 7:1 - 5).

Taken together, they argue for «change» but, in the hands of O'Malley, with a wary glance upon the inherited tradition of the Church, earlier conciliar authenticity and the authority of papal teaching.

He gave his Apostles his own authority to teach the Word of God and govern the Church.

I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet» and then they silence women in the church... in a well - meaning way.

Every thoughtful person has understood that the pro-life position - explicitly and consistently articulated by the Catholic Church at every level of teaching authority - is that justice requires that every unborn child be cared for andprotected in law.

If a Catholic educational institution accepts this mission for its theology programmes it will naturally function with a respect for magisterial authority and teaching, a love for the Church's tradition and a desire to transmit it without modification.

But it is quite clear that the Catholic Church teaches «as one with authority».

These questions are not without significance, touching on the person of Christ and the nature of faith, and the answers will only come from an engaged discussion of the authority of Scripture, the historical witness of the church, and the clarity with which the councils, creeds, and confessions give expression to the teaching of the Bible.

In Genesis 3, the woman usurped authority over her husband and took the lead in the Fall, and is now forbidden to do so in the local church by teaching Scriptures to men.

The Church believes it's the teacher nothing more and if it had not been for the Church's authority against dangerous heresies like Albigensianism which taught people that all the physical world is evil and caused people to starve themselves.

One indication of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on obedience to the hierarchical teaching authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.

The illusion of the conviction of the Holy Spirit... which is really an emotional response to something being very wrong and the turmoil experienced when these feelings contradict all you've been taught by the church and its Pastor, who has set him / herself up as the supreme anointed authority under God and is due utmost and unquestionable respect.

In such a case, if it exists, the scientist would, of course, be compelled to withdraw his assent to the legitimate teaching authority of the Church, if it were supposed that he really considered the certainty of the scientific «result» as definitively truer and surer than the grounds which he had previously believed he possessed in justification for the claim of the Church to teach.

Can the church teach with clarity and authority in a responsible relationship to its own past?