Sentences with phrase «magisterial teaching»

At one level this might seem strange, since St Thomas's Eucharistic teaching has long enjoyed a high standing in the Church, and has clearly influenced magisterial teaching, for instance at the Council of Trent.

Catholic authors typically proceed to locate their claims in the magisterial teaching of modern Catholic Social Teaching: Look for mentions of Rerum novarum or any one of the subsequent encyclicals, which commemorate its anniversary (see here, p. 42ff.).

Where and when in the theology of the reception of teachings of the magisterium does one come across the idea that non-infallible magisterial teaching is non-interpretable whereas infallible teaching is?

In this view a theologian can not take a position in faith or ethics that is contrary to the magisterial teaching «any more than you could espouse as fact in a secular university that one and one are three.»

To these remarkable examples of magisterial teaching I can not provide here a full - blown commentary but only, as it were, a mere footnote: All I want to do on this site is to provide a brief reflection on how St. Paul uses the word body in his letters.

We needed someone who could answer off the cuff the detailed attacks made on Church history and policy: opposition to the use of condoms to combat AIDS, magisterial teaching about homosexuality; the Church's historical attitude to slavery, involvement in the crusades, relations with the Jewish people; someone who could properly confront and contextualise the evil actions of some members of the Church - in Ireland or Rwanda, for example.

This marks a step forward of extraordinary significance in magisterial teaching.

And so today, for instance, the casual remarks of a Pope made while travelling can be treated almost as magisterial teaching — something which would have been incomprehensible to a Catholic of the eighteenth century, whether «enlightened» or not.

In the context of the total document and magisterial teaching on human sexuality, it is quite evident that «self - control» means total sexual abstinence for homosexual Christians.

Many of the challenges to the instruction, however, reflect a continuing decline in the quality of dissimulation practiced by those who reject the magisterial teaching of the Church.

He has been split between loyalty to the pope, and loyalty to the magisterial teaching of the Church on marriage and the Eucharist.

The theologian who feels that a particular magisterial teaching seems unstable or underdeveloped is different from the theologian who thinks that Chalcedon and Nicea should be reopened for debate.

So one's revelation, one's scriptures, one's bible, one's magisterial teaching may give one a privileged insight; but those outside the fold can not — unless hypocritical — share the insight based on that revelation.

The cardinal replied that Catholics wanted U.S. law to criminalize abortion not because of the revelation or magisterial teaching but because, to paraphrase, the prolife position accorded with natural law; it belonged to the structure of things, and was accessible to all reasonable people.

And I can find nothing in the Church's magisterial teaching that would support the innovation they are proposing.

He was a relentless advocate for the proposition that truth can be known and binding, that faith and reason are compatible, that the Magisterium is arbiter of Catholic moral and dogmatic truths, and that Magisterial teaching should be taught in a Catholic university as integral to its mission.

In reality, there is a growing number of clergy who accept this teaching and are seeking to show it in its positive and life - giving fullness in their pastoral work: many of them have had the opportunity to be involved in movements which embrace the Church's teaching and / or have come into contact with Humanae Vitae for themselves and subsequent Magisterial teaching.

So too today, instead of engaging with the entirety of the twentieth century Magisterial teaching concerning artificial contraception — Pius XI, Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II — The Tablet focuses on Humanae Vitae and seeks to knock that down so as to knock the whole edifice of teaching in this area.

First, about how to read the trajectory these past three decades or so of magisterial teaching on judicial execution.

As Ford and Grisez have shown, and subsequent Magisterial teaching has expressed, the charism of infallibility extends to faith and morals — to specific moral norms, not just to matters directly revealed, but also to those matters closely connected (such as the Natural Law) to the Deposit of Faith and needed to safeguard that deposit.

Of the practising Catholics, some will accept magisterial teaching, some not.

Then turn to Feser and Bessette's comments on magisterial teaching in their book.

Tracey Rowland's suggestion that serious Catholic theologians can join in the renewal of academic theology «scommitment to magisterial teaching is both more hopeful and more helpful.

Theologians and priests learned that their dissent from magisterial teaching would bring few negative consequences.

Balthasar may have been wrong or one - sided when he was bold and unconventional, but he was not rejecting or undermining magisterial teaching.

Church spelled with small c and opinion used to describe the Church's magisterial teaching.

Note also that the bishops «argue» this position, as though it is their rather peculiar opinion and not the magisterial teaching of the Church consistently maintained for two millennia.

In the ongoing discussion of Catholic literature today, the basic question is whether Catholic writers actually need the Church, and not just any church, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings intact.

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 councils.

The reference in its wording could be taken to suggest that this book expresses a legitimate Catholic viewpoint on the nature of dogma and the degrees of assent required of the faithful regarding magisterial teachings.

And yet, the appeal to tradition, magisterial teachings, and some of the best contrarians of the age leave most unmoved.

Not exact matches

In our time and place the media will almost always be on the side of those who claim conscientious freedom; they will seldom be able to understand sympathetically a church's need for a magisterial voice to articulate and sustain its public teaching.

And, of course, there is much dispute about the «magisterial» status of national bishops conferences, with the Holy See tending to downplay their teaching authority.

Iniatially, the Magisterial (Teaching) Authority of the Catholic Church was collegial, the Pope in union with the Bishops.

The more important question is how magisterial Lutheranism could stumble into such a repudiation of classical Christian teaching on sex and marriage.

As I say, the new declaration says nothing that is not said in other magisterial documents, particularly in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, and it is always necessary to restate these important truths.

Papal statements and magisterial documents are unanimous in affirming that Catholic teaching is not pacifist and that just - war doctrine is the doctrine of the Church.

If a Catholic educational institution accepts this mission for its theology programmes it will naturally function with a respect for magisterial authority and teaching, a love for the Church's tradition and a desire to transmit it without modification.

Its method likewise emphasised continuity with Scripture, Tradition and magisterial pronouncements since all these sources of revelation and authentic teaching were listed and learned.This allowed priests readily to answer questions from believers and respond to criticism from Protestants and non-believers.

But when we situate it in the context of previous magisterial statements, it takes on the appearance of a dramatic breakthrough in Catholic teaching.

Nonetheless, given the almost hysterical reaction of some theologians, particularly a fair number among the members of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), to such Vatican directives as Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) and Ad Tuendam Fidem (1998), we can conclude that many professional theologians, and theological faculties, apparently have yet to absorb Newman's point that magisterial authority is necessary for the proper teaching and pursuit of theology.

In his magisterial account of the history of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch balks at the concept of magisterium which he says «had since the nineteenth century stealthily acquired a technical theological meaning as «authoritative teaching», peculiarly thanks to Pius Xll's propensity to deploy it.»

In 1973, upon hearing that the National Gallery of Australia had purchased Jackson Pollock's magisterial painting Blue Poles (1952), the artist Thomas Hart Benton remarked to a friend: «I taught Jack that.»