Sentences with phrase «divine teaching of the church»

Besides, any new mould had to be adequate to safeguard the old, and still objective and utterly divine teaching of the Church.

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He teaches us that Jesus Christ is the divine head of the Christian Church.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).

The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church» could maintain their princely life - style.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

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

«A church that puts its faith into action focuses not on themselves but on Christ's teaching and his divine example of compassion,» says Zondervan's director of church engagement.

Humanae Vitae (1968) talked of the procreative and unitive meanings of the marital act as governed by «two divine laws» which were in harmony, and the relevant teaching of the Church is often presented in terms of these two equal «polarities» and their inseparability.

And why did the Church hold to positions such as dyothelitism — the teaching that the person of Jesus had two wills, one human and the other divine, which seemed alien to the simple text of Scripture?

In this connection it must be clearly realized from the start that the belief of the Church, the object of its teaching office, contains both statements about divine realities such as the blessed Trinity, the Incarnation of the Logos, grace, redemption etc., and equally clear and equally obligatory statements about man's correct moral principles.

These are matters of divine revelation, however, and as the Church has long believed and taught, revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.

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Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).

That is the bottom line; the diocese of Westminster has now driven a wedge between the divine liturgical proclamation and some Church teachings.

If this divine causality is insisted upon in the official teaching of the Church in the precise case of the origin of the human soul, that does not of course mean that a divine causality of that kind is found nowhere else.

He notes: «A teaching Church that is not, above all, a learning, listening Church, is not on the wavelength of divine communication.»

For they fully realized that this See of St. Peter always remains untainted by any error, according to the divine promise of our Lord and savior made to the prince of his disciples... (John Clarkson, S.J., et al., The Church Teaches [St. Louis: B. Herder, 1955] 101.)

The council itself teaches this lesson with great clarity in Gaudium et Spes: It is the task of the Church «to distinguish the many voices of our times and to interpret them in the light of the divine Word» — and not the other way around.

I think the argument could be made that this Church teaching is not based upon the idea that marital sex intentionally practised during infertile periods is intrinsically «imperfect» - read, «somewhat bad» - but upon the divine command of Genesis 1:28: «Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.»

My belief, for what it is worth, is that this teaching and instructing can be done much more effectively in the parish house, in the church hall and the like, at sessions specifically arranged for the purpose, rather than in the course of divine worship.

He may have despised the simple catechism of his German congregation, just as we «moderns» take offense at the minimalistic theology of many of the folk who inhabit our standard - brand churches, but he knew also that they had a great deal to teach the young pastor by virtue of having surveyed the land «across the river» and having dared to cross the chilly waters of Jordan with a sense of divine protection.

The task of teaching us the law and helping us to apply it is the function of the state and the Church, and one can expect his reward or punishment in this life or in eternity, according to his obedience to civil and divine law respectively.

Scheidt says that efforts to downplay the theological interrelationships of paternity (God the father) and maternity (mother Church embodied in Mary) have «taught the seminarian to be insecure and embarrassed — or even suspicious and hostile — toward facets of the divine mysteries that give ultimate meaning to his life as a man and, one day, as a «Father.

If the Christ of Israel was in very fact the Word who is God in Person, then we must be able to show the continuity in this Church of the life, the action, the authority of very God, ever living to make intercession for us, ever operating with divine efficacy, ever teaching with divine infallibility: otherwise the Incarnation is an irrelevance of human history.

The Church teaches ignorance and sells it as divine teaching which harms millions, one day it will pay for its crimes regardless of how nice its leader is.

We can understand authority in terms of the family model of the Church in which the heavenly Father's divine authority is mediated through the priesthood which is true to itself insofar as it faithfully lives up to its own fatherly character in teaching and sanctifying.

A number of eastern church fathers have taught that God became human so that human beings might become divine.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.