Sentences with phrase «infallible authority»

The mistaken belief that we can have access to divinely guaranteed revelation, communicated to us by some infallible authority, is the root cause of another major error which accompanied the process of Christian theological reflection.

I have been horrified to see how in a university setting some of the best students in the natural sciences want just such an infallible authority for anything not done in the laboratory.

On the other hand, papal teaching as expressed through encyclicals has an almost infallible authority.

Catholics acknowledge an infallible authority in questions of both dogma and morals, whereas Protestants possess no objective rule for either but are buffeted to and fro by the winds of subjectivism and error.

Hiding behind claims of revealed truth that were not allowed to be questioned and of infallible authority that could not be challenged, Christians have condemned Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud and many other great breakthrough thinkers in the various fields of an exploding human knowledge.

In the one economy of creation and salvation, we would expect the Church as the full environing of man in his personal, social and cultural dimensions with the infallible authority of God.

Religion becomes idolatrous when the symbols of perfection are worshiped as though they were the ultimate itself: when founders, prophets, and seers are deified, when infallible authority is ascribed to certain organizations and books, and when the performance of rites is taken as a guarantee of salvation.

For in the Old Covenant such as it appeared in history there was much that was right and willed by God, but there were also a great many errors, wrong developments and depraved ideas, while there was no permanent infallible authority to separate the two.

Not exact matches

Other critics blanch when we use words like inerrant or infallible to describe the authority of the Bible: «Only God is inerrant!»

It was agreed in the Samaj that «the Vedas, the Upanishads and other ancient writings were not to be accepted as infallible guides, that reason and conscience were to be the supreme authority and the teachings of the scriptures were to be accepted only insofar as they harmonised with the light within us.»

Chris, however, sees belief in papal authority as standing in direct contradiction to the doctrine of sola scriptura — the Bible alone being the infallible guide for faith and doctrine.

«Inerrant» and «infallible» are both strong adjectives describing Scripture's total authority and trustworthiness.

This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of salvation by grace led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered salvation in a simplistic way.

«How shall I know in a given case what I ought to do,» he can always turn to the Church which claims to possess the infallible truth of God and which therefore claims to speak with final authority on every moral situation.

According to the Shi`as, they have had virtues and attributes which have been superior to those of anyone in their time; they were endowed with greatness and the ability to perform miracles; they were infallible and innocent; each one was introduced by the previous Imam as his immediate successor; the Prophet referred to them by name and designated them by number; they gave the best and clearest statements concerning the origin of man and the Day of Resurrection; and after the Prophet they were the best authority to speak about religious affairs and conduct in the affairs of this world.

If you want an idea of Mgr Egan's theology, you might like to look at the following video http://www.esnips.com/displayimage.php?pid=19884633 of a talk he gave in 2009, on the authority of Humanae Vitae (in which he argued that its teaching was infallible); a delighted John Smeaton, on the SPUC website welcomed the appointment and quoted Mgr Egan:

In Protestant thought, faith does not mean acceptance of certain infallible propositions on the authority of the church, but refers to an attitude of personal trust, self - giving, and willingness to act.

It is THE authority because for them it is the inspired, infallible Word of God.

I say I can do anything if I have some authority - give me liturgy, or articles, or Bishop or Caroline Divine, or Canons - but all is against me - but here laity may be secularised and ecclesiastics timid, but there is the infallible, keen - sighted, unwearied, undaunted, tribunal in the background, undaunted amid all worldly troubles and reverses, to inspire a salutary awe into the shufflers and to animate Christ's little ones.»

Besides the infallibility attached to the Pope's pronouncements taught with the fullness of his supreme authority (the «extraordinary magisterium»), the «ordinary magisterium» can also be a source of infallible teaching, when it concerns de fide doctrine (concerning faith and morals), when it is marked by unity and unanimity, and when it is proposed to be definitive and absolute teaching.

The voice of Peter is now, as it ever has been, a real authority, infallible when it teaches, prosperous when it commands, ever taking the lead wisely and distinctly in its own province, adding certainty to what is probable, and persuasion to what is certain.

He was charged with denying the inspiration of Scripture, denying that Jesus was the revealer of infallible truths, denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus by regarding it as myth, and undermining the authority of the papacy.

These examinations of the bound books» formal qualities question the assumed authority and infallible knowledge of historical material, especially in relationship to the recorded history of women and individuals of color.

That authority, and a strong (but not infallible) ability to hold majorities together for difficult cases, has given him the authorship of an unusual number of high - profile and noteworthy opinions during his recent tenure.

[38] That's a startlingly wrong way to use the but - for test — that's why the case doesn't cite any authority — but the SCC is infallible because its final.

The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the sole and final source of all that we believe.