Sentences with phrase «dogmatic constitution»

Then, in the 1970s, came the revisionist view that Hecker, and bishops like John Ireland of St. Paul - Minneapolis, John Keane of Catholic University, and Cardinal Gibbons, were in fact exploring a new ecclesiology, a new way of thinking about the Church, that Vatican II would vindicate in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.

Consequently, although four of the six chapters (3 - 6) that make up Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, concentrate on the Scriptures, the document begins (chapters 1 - 2) by setting the Bible in the context of God revealing Himself to man in the history of salvation, in Christ who is the fullness of Revelation, and in the life of the Church through which Revelation is transmitted.

(Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius, Chapter 4, DS 3017).

The first, which is fundamental to the rest, is a close study of chapter 16 of Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.

In the opening chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, the Church is defined as the «sacrament... of the unity of the whole human race,» that is to say, the sign and instrument by which human beings are united in authentic communion with God and with one another.

The Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei verbum, reminds Catholics of the need to attend to the literary genres of scripture, since truth is presented and expressed differently in historical, prophetic or poetic texts, or in other styles of speech.

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) calls for openness, yet the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) strongly affirms traditionally held beliefs concerning the Church's structure and authority.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

In his interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Pope Francis invoked Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church to support his desire to think with the church.

And in this sense, he was the precursor of what Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, described as the «universal call to holiness.»

At the same time, Francis cites Dei Verbum, the dogmatic constitution on divine revelation, observing that the Church's duty to guard the deposit of faith, which closed with the death of the last apostle, is in «the very nature» of the Church.

But doesn't the image of the Church as a «fortified city», taken from the Old Testament, conflict with the spirit of Lumen Gentium, the Vatican II dogmatic constitution on the Church, and Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution the Church in the Modern World?

It was recognized that the Church needed to develop a dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

Not exact matches

The fact that the Constitution bears the tag «pastoral» is sometimes taken to mean that it has no dogmatic force.