Sentences with phrase «not authoritative teachings»

Prayers and hymns, not authoritative teachings, nourish them.

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No less important, he said, the Catholic Church also claims an «authoritative teaching authority not made by other Christian communities, and certainly not by the NAE.»

Of course not all of these are authoritative teaching documents, but they are issued in the name of the bishops.

The positions taken are not directly, or even plausibly, the necessary consequence of clear and authoritative teaching.

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.

If the very nature and limitation of such authoritative noninfallible teaching were better understood, the fact of erroneous church teaching would not be as great a problem as it sometimes seems.

He describes in characteristically straightforward language Protestantism's crisis of authority and its need for real shepherds: «The Church must have not only normative sources written down on paper but also authoritative officeholders ordained to teach the whole Church.»

As Pelikan observes, many in this age feel «that even if the time for faith as such may not have passed, the time for teaching Christian faith as authoritative dogma probably has, and the time for confessing it in a nonnative creedal formulary certainly has.»

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

V. 38 Paul states that if one doesn't acknowledge his teaching as authoritative, then that person should be considered as one having no authority to speak on spiritual things (he has in mind false teachers or church rebels who would oppose his teaching).

In more recent years, the NCCB has generally contained the penchant for issuing comprehensive pronouncements on great public policy questions where the Church's authoritative teaching is not univocally clear.

The fact that there are pessimistic and apocalyptic «minded Catholics does not prove anything about dispensationalism, but says much of the dangers of straying from the norms of Scripture, Tradition, and authoritative teaching.

As soon as you start to think about how Buttiglione's proposal would work, you realize that — even were it not for the authoritative teaching summed up by St. John Paul — they had a very good reason indeed.

The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, was considerably more successful in devising ways to continue the exercise of authoritative teaching, but not without paying the price of excessive rigidity.

On the other hand, the teaching of the Roman Hermas (early second century) contradicts that of Hebrews, and Hermas therefore can not have regarded the letter as absolutely authoritative.

While Śrī K Pattabhi Jois, or Guruji, was often quoted as saying, «Yoga is 99 percent practice and 1 percent theory,» he did not mean that we should practice blindly and ignore the underlying philosophy of yoga explained in the śastras, the ancient texts that contain the authoritative teachings of yoga.

Discipline measures in the authoritative style are not punitive but are exercised in a consistent manner aimed at supporting and teaching.