Sentences with phrase «official teaching of the church»

I'm quite enthusiastic about the official teachings of the church about Christ.»

There need not be truly subjective guilt either in the case of the individual or of a social group, even when the subjective conscience is confronted with the official teaching of the Church as a formally binding authority.

The official teaching of the Church is generally faithfully transmitted, and material on sexually transmitted infections is presented very well.

I can not but voice my concern at the increasing marginalisation of religion, particularly of Christianity... relegating it] to the purely private sphere... [such] that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience... and the official teaching of the Church.

This section examines the reasons for the official teachings of the church presented in the previous section.

If this divine causality is insisted upon in the official teaching of the Church in the precise case of the origin of the human soul, that does not of course mean that a divine causality of that kind is found nowhere else.

The central concern is the relation of the Catholic scientist and his / her findings to the official teaching of the 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.

It is, after all, the relation between scientific theories and the official teaching of the Church that decides the question whether a scientist has difficulties in being a Christian believer and a Catholic.

The exposition of the official teaching of the Church leaves open, of course, many questions which urgently call for an answer if the fundamental problem of the relation between a theology of Revelation and scientific theories of evolution is to be cleared up.

I've always thought that whether something is Christian can be decided objectively by comparing it with the official teaching of the church.

Many of the older members in these congregations go along with the official teaching of their churches but make no effort to transmit it to their own children and grandchildren.

In the fourteenth century John Wycliffe (c.1330 - 84), a Yorkshireman who became a don at Oxford, voiced views which challenged the official teachings of the Church.

Not exact matches

Officials from both sides have said that the conversation will be focused on topics of shared values and priorities, but prior to the visit, Vatican Radio — which, according to USA Today «is considered an official organ of communication for the church «-- released a story addressing U.S. policy issues at odds with Vatican teaching.

«This isn't Denzinger,» he said, referring to the famous German collection of official church teaching, «and it's not canon law.»

The impetus was Cardinal Bernard Law's charge that the CTSA, the largest and most prestigious association of Catholic theologians in the United States, had become little more than a «wasteland» of dissent against official Church teachings.

They've both been a part of official Church teaching since St. Ignatius of Antioch, until today!

But Vatican II is a good example of the value of official church teaching.

U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.

The proper meaning of the Church's teaching on this point becomes clearer when one sees the official Latin text, which rather than «open» says, «perse destinatus», which refers to the objective status of the act per se.

We are only concerned with the possibility that the Church's official ministry may over-estimate the scope and significance of the correct teaching which it propounds and inculcates.

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.

If we make a demand on the Church, we must always examine precisely whether it is really addressed to the hierarchy and its members as such, or to the Church, that is, to all of us Christians, and precisely in the sphere where the official Church does not teach and act authoritatively.

Some years ago Karl Rahner argued that contemporary official formulations of the church's ordinary teaching competence are unnuanced.

This hubris is in contradistinction to the clear teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church» for the Catechism, while assuming a serious dialogue among government officials, just war analysts, and the public, nonetheless teaches (at § 2309) that «the evaluation of these [just war] conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.»

Since the church teaching office appears determined to maintain its present positions, and even to discipline some of the theologians who propose other views, those interested in changing the church's official positions must first deal with the ecclesiological question.

Church authorities have taken action against some theologians who have dissented from the official teaching on matters of sexual morality.

The vast majority of Catholic theologians writing about sexual morality have challenged the basis for the church's official teaching.

The Church's official teaching, however, states, «The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the «form» of the body....

There are two points to be reiterated here: firstly that it is clear that sexual activity is normal among those who attend the Masses; secondly, and much more seriously, that though the diocese told The Telegraph that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», it has not enforced this and indeed didn't once point out to the SMPC that Church teaching should be faithfully fostered, not effectively undermined, by official celebrations of the Church's definitive offering to God the Father.

It is possible also to say that there is no official and strictly binding teaching of the Church according to which the «angels» are so «spiritual», that they are so independent of the material world in its totality, that they are in no way and to no extent also determined by it in their being and activity.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

The present position of the Church's official teaching can also perhaps be made clearer by reference to the views of theologians at the present day.

Of course it is a real leap from sex scandals and bureaucratic mismanagement to the argument that the Catholic Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a fraud.

Cardinal Cassidy said that even though ours was an informal group, not having official Church recognition, the «The Gift of Salvation» was so thoughtfully written that he would use it as a teaching paper in Rome.

The Catholic explanation called Transubstantiation comes directly from St Thomas Aquinas and was promulgated as the official Church teaching at the Council of Trent to counteract such heterodox ideas as consubstantiation and impanation.

On what grounds can official church teaching continue an absolute prohibition of all nonmarital sexual relationships?

The question that Prof. Johnson might well ask himself is this: Why should the Church's leadership, or Catholics more generally, heed a putatively Catholic theologian who declares that the Church's official teaching is laughable or blasphemous and unworthy of serious consideration?

«As long as the «individual Churches evaluate declarations of convergence in light of the official state of their teaching, the process of reception will never advance.»

In fact, this is the official teaching of the Catholic Church itself.

The passage most picked up in news reports is this: «We urge those Catholic officials who choose to depart from Church teaching on the inviolability of human life in their public life to consider the consequences for their own spiritual well being, as well as the scandal they risk by leading others into serious sin....

The seven articulate a position that the faith of the church is preserved in the magisterium (i.e., the official teaching office of the church) and that theologians should interpret that given body of truth.

The study also included an effort to determine how much agreement exists between individual members» views and the official theological positions of the church, first by interviewing theologians to determine what the official positions were, then by surveying pastors to see if these positions were taught, and finally by surveying members about their own beliefs.

Significantly» and this may point to an ecclesiological blind spot on their part» Noll and Nystrom fail to remark that the reports of such dialogues have not so far been adopted into the official teaching of either the Catholic Church or of the participating Protestant denominations.

He had become aware for the first time of how deeply Christians, and even official church teaching, especially about Jesus, had contributed to the Holocaust.

The Catholic Church assumed it as an official teaching in the Episcopal Conference of Medellin in 1968.

Many priests, over a long period of time, were taught that, the «official» teaching of the Church notwithstanding, sexual relations are inevitable and excusable, or even necessary to psychological and spiritual well - being.

Charles E. Curran reflected on how the discrepancy between official Catholic teaching and Catholic sexual practice has raised deep questions about the credibility of the church's teaching office.

For example, the Presbytery of New York City formally called attention to the opposition between the views of Senator Barry Goldwater and the official teaching of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church when Goldwater ran for president on the Republican ticket.)

Indeed, Aristotle's formulation was taken up by the Catholic Church («the unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the «form» of the body» proclaims the Catechism at § 365) as part of its official teaching on the relation between the soul and the body.