Sentences with phrase «doctrine of the church for»

I also took a two - year catechetical certificate program, which included a class on Catholic social teaching with the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church for a textbook.

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Tell that to the ex-Mormons who are kicked out of the church for questioning doctrine.

The official doctrine of the Church was quite clear and unchanged, of course, and for the most part these accommodations have been tucked away in remote corners.

CNN: Nuns brace for Vatican meeting The leadership of America's largest group of Catholic nuns will head to the Vatican on Tuesday to address accusations that it strayed from church doctrine.

At the root of the question you pose, and beyond any apparent theological dispute, we must keep in mind that we are addressing a problem that casts doubt on the fact that it is necessary for the Church always to remain faithful to the doctrine of Jesus, whose words in this regard are absolutely clear.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

The liberal doctrine of «What's In It For Me» has been allowed to creep into churches everywhere.

In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etc..

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couChurch has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couchurch councils.

For example, many churches of the ILC feel the doctrine of justification needs additional discussion beyond the work accomplished in the landmark LWF - Catholic document Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justifdoctrine of justification needs additional discussion beyond the work accomplished in the landmark LWF - Catholic document Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of JustifDoctrine of Justification.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

I do not condemn others for picking and choosing any specific dogma / doctrine of the church to believe and obey.

For the life of me, I can't understand why you don't follow it, especially since you believe it is the truth, and the doctrine of the Catholic Church to be in error.

This failure, he suggests, then paved the way for a modern, hierarchical reconfiguration of ecclesial authority, in which Church authorities took a more decisive role in the determination of doctrine.

I do not understand all the revealed doctrines of my Church, but I have faith and I live, study, pray daily and I am a happier person for it.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

He came to restore his church and doctrine once again and to suffer and die for salvation of all mankind.

26, page 635... Now, in all fairness, their has been a Public Relations campaign recently to remove the «cursed» references to Blacks in the ever changing Book of Mormon / and Covenants and Doctrines — «specially since they have a chance to rule the world through Mitt Romney (gggrandson of one of the LDS church founders, Parley Pratt arrested for murder and treason for attacking and killing members of an army battalion)... Don't look in up in Wikipedia — the Mormons have deleted that part of Pratt's history.

How do you know that this wasn't part of God's judgment for splitting up the Christian body through denominations, creating structures that we call «church» and creating doctrine that isn't even biblical?

Christians are still the dominant religion, the wall of separation is still in place and, as Doc pointed out below, for countries where gay marriage is already legal, «NONE of those countries has a church been mandated to perform ceremonies that run counter to their doctrine.»

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years - long «doctrinal assessment» investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 % of the Catholic nuns in the United States.

«Particularly, for this issue of married priests, it is a practice of the Church and it has been for hundreds of years but it's not doctrine - it is open for debate.»

In a session on Evangelicals and the Second Vatican Council at the ETS, one older man complained that «Catholics don't budge an inch on any doctrine» and that for Catholics «dialogue is just a way of gobbling up weaker churches, like an amoeba.»

The Two Kingdoms Doctrine originates in Martin Luther's 1518 tract, «Two Kinds of Righteousness,» though before that it has resonance with Augustine's City of God, which had influenced Christian church - state relations in the West for a millennium.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Likewise if you are a pastor for a Church you should respect that Church and follow the legality, doctrine, rules, etc of that Church.

No doubt there is some justification for their belief that the lessening of knowledge and conviction about these doctrines has left a void that leads to lack of evangelical fervor in the church as a whole.

«But what's the point of church doctrine if everything is always up for grabs?»

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

I find that I have no quarrel with any aspect of the whole corpus of Catholic doctrine: Granted the ignition spark of faith, all the tenets of the Church would hold for me.

Origen, for this and other idiosyncrasies such as his universalist doctrine of apokatastasis, 32 came to be identified not as orthodox but heterodox by the church's official leadership.

On the other hand, Professor Martin Werner has studied the evidence for this supposed influence of «Paulinism» upon the Gospel of Mark, and concludes that instead of «Paulinism» Mark presupposes only the common Christianity, the generally accepted Christian doctrine, of the Gentile churches at the middle of the first century.

You can not find these as «dialog» in the old corporate culture of the church, because doctrine is key... and a clear chain of command has created a sustainable profit line for years.

[16] He also quoted his predecessor Pope Paul VI who said that the doctrine of Blessed John Duns Scotus «can yield shining arms for combating and chasing away the dark clouds of atheism which casts its shadow upon our era», and continued to state that the doctrine «energetically builds up the Church, sustaining her in her urgent mission of the new evangelisation of the peoples of the earth.»

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

In this letter he said that he was grateful for having known Msgr Escrivá personally «and for having received from him encouragement and strength to be faithful to the unchangeable doctrine of Christ and to serve the Holy Roman Church with apostolic zeal».

[Pope Benedict 22.12.05]... Thomas» realism was able to recognise the objectivity of truth... The Church's preference for his method and his doctrine is not exclusive, but «exemplary» [Pope John Paul II, 14.9.80].

John Paul II 1988 [5] Pope Benedict XVI, address to the Administrators of Lazio Regions and Municipality of Rome, January 2010 [6] Letter to the Bishops of the world on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2004 [7] Ibid.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

Be grateful for your disillusionment because it will push you away from revere - ing your own self or your heroes of the faith or the mystics or doctrine teachers or bloggers or missionaries or churches.

For him the development of doctrine does not simply derive from progress in thought and ideas, but is an aspect of deepening in being and communion of both mind and heart with God in Christ, which is the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

Whatever the ultimate outcome for Bonhoeffer in the history of doctrine and the history of the modern church, his name is certainly one of influence.

It is akin to the silence in the Church concerning the Nicene Creed for about 20 years or so after its formulation in 325: there were many bishops and clergy in the East who did not accept homoousios and who thought that silence, obfuscations and subsequent formulations of the creed would sweep away this inconvenient and troublesome doctrine.

It follows that the principles of change and permanence for this kind of ecclesiastical law are different from those which govern the Church's doctrine of faith.

The «orthodox» Protestant may say that he tolerates radical heresies in his Church only for the sake of freedom of conscience and teaching, but that they are not for this reason part of the official creed of his Church, while that of the Catholic Church includes doctrines which he must reject in conscience, even if it were only the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope or perhaps a Marian dogma.

We actually do not have sufficient hope and courage to develop the controversial points of doctrine in such a way that they can become intelligible and acceptable for the others, or at least need no longer be regarded as separating the Churches.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.