Needless to say, many people today do not share Paul's
high doctrine of the church.
Anyone who reads the letters of the Apostle Paul can not help being struck by the fact that Paul had
a high doctrine of the church.
That is to say,
a high doctrine of the church, to say nothing of the Christian hope for the world, is shot - through with eschatology!
Not exact matches
«Whatever You Bind On Earth» In terms
of dogma, moral
doctrine and indeed
of Church discipline, there is no
higher court on earth than that
of Peter and his successors.
That being said, this moment happens to be a very good time to bring out a book that contains such documents as Leo XIII's Libertas Praestantissimum, Pius XI's Casti Connubii, and John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor, since the
doctrine of these and other classic encyclicals is being contradicted regularly nowadays, even by those in
high places in the
Church.
But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter
of principle and method by the
Church's magisterium as the
higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction
of a
doctrine taught officially by the
Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).
To some
of us such a statement may appear at first to represent too «
high» a
doctrine of the
church; but actually the significance
of the
church can hardly be defined in terms too exalted since the revelation
of God in Christ took place only within it and has been conveyed to us only there.
We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the
churches had about succeeded in excising Bach and Palestina from the ken
of the new generation at the moment college and
high school choirs were finding them — and
church schools, afraid
of the recondite reaches
of the
doctrine of the Lord's Supper, beheld their children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become in large part the holy branch office
of the local psychiatric clinic, is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery in «Four Quartets.»
So theft was
high on the list
of the
church leaders «spreading the word»
doctrine.
Speaking
of the non-Christian religions, the Council taught that the
Church «has a
high regard for the manner
of life and conduct, the precepts and
doctrines which, although differing in many ways from her own teaching, nevertheless often reflect a ray
of that truth which enlightens all men.
The fact
of the matter is that the
Church should spend more time protesting the
higher costs
of insurance, the
higher costs
of higher education, the inequities in K - 12 education, demand that physical and mental abuses stop, and let GOD be the judge
of a woman's right to care for her own body... On a theological note... where in the Apostle's Creed (summary
of catholic
doctrine) does it mention anything about contraception anyway?
While Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone holds the line on the teaching
of orthodox moral
doctrines of the Catholic
Church out in San Francisco, here in New Jersey a theology teacher in Immaculata
High School in Somerville is threatened with dismissal from her position for... agreeing with orthodox moral
doctrines of the Catholic
Church.
Calvin's
doctrine of the
church implied a
high conception
of the ministry.
However, they all held a
high doctrine of the ministry, and they all agreed with Calvin that the
church as the school
of Christ becomes real through the ministry
of the Word.