Sentences with phrase «of authority in the church»

He added that if one of these three became too dominant, the right exercise of authority in the Church risked being compromised.

Why Tony is allowed to use his position of authority in the church to criticize the morality of others, but when his morality is called into question, he is allowed to use the exact same position of authority to silence any and all dissenters.

Protestants and Catholics tend to look at authority from rather different perspectives, and on the whole I think it fair to say that the version of the common tradition to which Catholics are heir tends to give them a more positive attitude toward the function of authority in the church than that found among Protestants.

Accordingly, while the arguments that follow are directed most particularly to the question of authority in the churches, they have relevance as well, I hope, to analogous concerns in the larger society of which the churches are a part.

Rt Rev James said: «The threefold sources of authority in the Church of England are scripture, tradition and reason, with scripture as the foundation.

The point is that the much - maligned structures of authority in the Church are as necessary to transmitting our faith as herdsmen are necessary to providing lamb chops.

They state under the category of the Holy Scriptures that, «The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.»

That's why a woman is not allowed to have that kind of authority in the Church.

The use and style of authority in the Church, in the interpretation of the Gospel and management of its followers, were at issue.

If so you might compare the levels of government to levels of authority in the church.

Not exact matches

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

Throughout the book, «laity involvement» means a desire for less episcopal authority, a diminution of the sacramental priesthood, and a conviction that the special place accorded to Latin in the liturgy and in the universal Church is a threat to «the Spirit of Vatican II.»

It has no authority in the life of the member churches, but it does have resources and the ability to attract attention.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

After WWII, Stalin wanted to destroy the moral authority of the Church in Europe, and ordered the KGB secret police to get on it.

All other Church are corrupt and either lost the Priesthood authority thru corruption (think Catholic) or never had it, but took it upon themselves to administer the audiences of the Gospel as in baptism, marriages ect...

But when Catholics speak up in disagreement with the Roman Catholic hierarchy, they are told to be quiet, to be good Catholics and submit to the authority of the church.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incrediblIn a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incrediblin an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incrediblin communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

It can only be met by a robustly evangelical Catholicism that proposes the gospel in a compelling and courageous way, and that insists that public authorities permit the Church the free space to be itself, make its gospel proposal, and offer the service of charity to others.

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I also don't believe that God wanted only men to be in positions of authority within the church, but I also must admit that there are select instructions attributed to God (or at least believed to be inspired by God) in scripture that strongly suggest otherwise.

The horrors perpetrated on «witches» or others who dared to cross the church were done in the name of the «lord» they knew what they were doing and felt god gave them that authority to kill.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

Elaine Pagels, among others, has argued that the success of the affirmation of a bodily resurrection was due to the way it functioned in the early Church, as it served to legitimate the authority of a narrow circle of bishops.

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.

Should the See of Constantinople cease to exist or be transferred to another location, the Orthodox Church would remain the same in terms of its structure of authority, its theology, and its sacramental reality.

The gospel proclaimed and sacramentally enacted in the Church is a word that calls us to put all our trust in Jesus the Son of Mary; thus who Jesus Christ is and where he gets the authority to promise such astounding things become the central theological questions.

Evangelical Catholicism affirms divine revelation and embraces its authority, which continues through history in the teaching authority of the Church.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ageIn this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the agein the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

Modernity was the effort to destroy the claims of the medieval church to authority in order to put its own conceptions of human rationality at the center of human thought.

This will be particularly significant, given that China only permits Christianity within the context of government - sanctioned churches, and the fact authorities have partly or wholly destroyed hundreds of churches and crosses and imprisoned at least dozens of Christians in the country over the last few years.

If the issues involved in the seminary struggle — how to read the Bible and how to locate authority within the church — continue to trouble church bodies, we do well to consider carefully whether it can be of any benefit to tackle them via the news conference.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

In April 2010, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported a rise in church raids and harassment of worshippers by Iranian authoritieIn April 2010, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported a rise in church raids and harassment of worshippers by Iranian authoritiein church raids and harassment of worshippers by Iranian authorities.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

Until there are stronger practices of friendship and community and hospitality in the church, I feel an enormous amount of anguish and frustration when I tell young gay Christians that, yes, I do think, on the authority of Scripture, that God is asking you to live without gay sex.

By the nature of the blog, and the fact that he pastor's a church, that gives in some authority in some peoples minds.

The LDS church did not grant the priesthood to blacks in the early days of the church, mainly because they were already under so much persecution, having to flee from state to state and finally into Utah territory that the additional trouble granting this authority to blacks would have caused might have sunk the early church.

5, in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, following the lead of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church, states that, «In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.&raquin the 1983 Code of Canon Law, following the lead of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church, states that, «In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.&raquin the Church, states that, «In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.&raquIn the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.»

Therefore I have no «authority» either in or out of the church.

It gets a little weird in the case of the Pope and Mormon Church leaders, who apparently claim more authority and are able to impose it.

He revealed the names of those who would form a special quorum of apostles with authority to continue performing plural marriages, no matter what happened with the LDS Church, Driggs writes in a 2005 article for a Mormon journal.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

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

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

Jos, Nigeria (CNN)- A string of bombs struck churches in five Nigerian cities Sunday, leaving dozens dead and wounded on the holiday, authorities and witnesses said.

Archbishop Moses Costa of Chittagong told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that authorities were exploiting Christians and other minorities working in dangerous conditions dismantling old ships.

Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism.