Sentences with phrase «official doctrine of the church»

The official doctrine of the Church was quite clear and unchanged, of course, and for the most part these accommodations have been tucked away in remote corners.

An official doctrine of the Church does not lose its binding authority only because some theologian expresses — whether in a book, an essay, a lecture, on the radio or in television — an opinion of which another Catholic can not understand how it is compatible with the doctrine of the Church; and mostly the theologian in question will not have tried very hard to show how it can agree with it.

Not exact matches

In fact, covering it all up is official church policy and was set down by the Pope when he was head of the Congregration of the Doctrine of the Faith.

Origen, for this and other idiosyncrasies such as his universalist doctrine of apokatastasis, 32 came to be identified not as orthodox but heterodox by the church's official leadership.

«Christendom» not only did not decline from this time, but with its famous doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio, its underlying logic received powerful, official sanction, and it has continued on in the fragmented territorial or «state churches» of the emergent European nation - states.

So the actual situation of personal faith may be the same in the Catholic Church as in Protestantism, though it is hidden behind the facade of the official doctrine (though we do not dispute that this is also of theological importance).

The «orthodox» Protestant may say that he tolerates radical heresies in his Church only for the sake of freedom of conscience and teaching, but that they are not for this reason part of the official creed of his Church, while that of the Catholic Church includes doctrines which he must reject in conscience, even if it were only the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope or perhaps a Marian dogma.

The proof of panthrotheistic was the establishment of the monotheistic religion, Jesus Christ was the God whose religion had convinced the roman emperor to decree that the Roman Empire had to adapt Christianity as it's official religion, paving the way for science to grow or proliferate and in the church era, because of the fast growth of science in the Christian world.But we are now at the crossroad of change, Christian doctrine is now in conflict with modern science, so it has to evolve to panthrotheism, the future religion

, because you have a complete lack of knowledge about the Church, all your claims are not official doctrines.

I am not aware of any elected official of follows his Church's doctrine in all votes.

The Christian must not only have the courage to represent a balanced eternal doctrine, but also to enunciate a contemporary slogan which he may, in certain circumstances, do in the name of Christianity, even though it can - not be pronounced by the official Church.

The official teaching of the Church, described by Pius XII as fides catholica (Denzinger 2327), though not, strictly speaking, an actually defined doctrine, holds that the individual spiritual souls are directly created by God.

Seems all those earlier «infallible» Popes were wrong — as they were on Adam and Eve v. evolution, heliocentricity v. geocentricity, and a host of other issues that required an amendment of official Church doctrine.

Among those that oppose the beliefs, which is part of the church's official doctrine in their «Book of Discipline», is Rev. Thomas Ogletree, the former dean of Yale Divinity School and Drew Theological School, who recently presided over the wedding of his gay son.

When Pope Leo XIII in 1879 instructed bishops and priests to «restore the golden wisdom of Thomas and to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith,» he was at once proclaiming Thomism the official doctrine of the Catholic Church and solidifying the divide between Catholics and Protestants.

Marie Hendrickz, official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that in view of the growing popularity of animal rights movements, the church needs to ask itself to what extent Christ's dictum, «Do to others whatever you would have them do to you,» can be applied to the animal world.

The catechism, the Catholic Church's book of official doctrine, condemns homosexual acts, but says gays and lesbians «must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.»

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, published during the pontificate of Pope Pius X in 1912 as a summary of official Catholic doctrine, stated that the «State monopoly of education has been considered by the Church to be nothing short of a tyrannical usurpation.»

Blasphemy, narrowly interpreted, means saying something that contradicts the doctrines of the nation's official religion, without regard to whether it is offensive - so, for example, saying that Mary the Mother of Jesus got pregnant the ordinary way, rather than having a virgin birth, would be blasphemy even if no one was offended by you saying that in a country where Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism or the Anglican Church was the official religion.

A narrow Blasphemy law offends the idea of separation of church and state because it makes the government the ultimate determiner of what the doctrines of the nation's official religion says and allows a government to have an official religion.