Sentences with phrase «ecclesial authority»
"Ecclesial authority" refers to the power or control held by religious leaders, such as priests or bishops, within a specific church or religious organization. They have the responsibility of making decisions and providing guidance on religious matters within that organization. Full definition
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.
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This is why ecclesial authority must be underwritten by a promise of special divine assistance.
I also see areas where the Reformers seem to have needed to challenge ecclesial authority to refute clerical abuses — sale of indulgences and offices — without considering the logical consequences of their justifications.
We could move toward an understanding whereby the continuing «denominational» assemblies and conventions (now deriving ecclesial authority from their conciliar commitment) would endeavor to meet in the same city at the same time (and hence at the same intervals) the episcopal council met, thereby creating a uni - and multicameral structure graphically expressing both unity and diversity.
I thought he sought ecclesial authority, to become part of a church «rightly ordered.»
Yet the profundity with which liberation theologians have worked out this warning and deployed its terminology continues to be misunderstood and distrusted by too many ecclesial authorities (as Peter Hebblethwaite's essay recounts), and trivialized and ignored by too many academics.
In the end the crisis was simply too big for the Irish ecclesial authorities and they needed to be strengthened by St Peter's successor.
Anglicans do not agree on the content of the faith, the authority of Scripture, or the loci of ecclesial authority.
This is how Evangelicals and Catholics Together understand all of their documents since there is no ecclesial authority governing evangelicalism as a whole.
Since he is a Methodist and not a Roman Catholic or Orthodox Christian, he recognizes that this leaves him with some problems of ecclesial authority.
Can the bishop of Hippo, the establisher of orthodox dogma and ecclesial authority, really be linked with Machiavelli, Newton, Descartes, Gibbon, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Marx and Darwin, to name a few shapers of the modern spirit?
The effect of failing to teach the serious obligation of obedience to ecclesial authority, and to challenge prominent dissent and disobedience, clearly has a direct effect upon Catholic families.
But ecclesial authority is grounded in love, the love of God in Christ.