Sentences with phrase «official view of the church»

Not exact matches

But even without such a heretical solution she will realize that in view of the complicated conditions of our time in the moral sphere, too, many cases can no longer be decided directly by the official judgment of the Church, but must be left to the individual conscience guided by the great norms of the gospel which she announces.

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.

Caucuses are ways in which groups who find the official positions of the church wrong or inadequate can organize to give voice and influence to their views.

But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

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.

It was his view that the Reformation / Counter-Reformation period broke the unity of the church and the arts by making the arts subject to the written word — that is, one formal expression became normative for official religious expression.

It is significant that the following denominations have, in official statements, endorsed the view that abortion should be legally permitted in several situations: the United Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Lutheran Church in America, the Reformed Church in America.

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....

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.

Nearly all official statements on homosexuality by these churches in recent years have adopted some version of the essentialist view of homosexuality.

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.

If it ever comes up in classes or small groups, etc our only direction is to let people know the traditional view and the our church's official stance (and even in that, there is a bit of an element of this series, don't you think?).

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.

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.)

· Welcome Remarks: Ned McCormack, Director of Communications / Senior Advisor · Presentation of the Colors: Westchester County Department of Public Safety Ceremonial Unit, The Pipes and Drums of the Police Emerald Society of Westchester and Hawthorne Boy Scout Troop 1 of the Westchester Putnam Council · Pledge of Allegiance: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey · Laying of the Wreath and Remarks: County Executive Robert P. Astorino, 9/11 Family member Rosaleen O'Neill and Boy Scout Troop 1 members Robert Garan, Christian Falco and Sean Healy · Remarks: Board of Legislators Chairman Ken Jenkins · God Bless America: Luciano Lamonarca, tenor · Reading of the Names: 9/11 family members and elected officials · Benediction: Bishop W. Darin Moore, Greater Centennial A.M.E. Zion Church, Mount Vernon · Amazing Grace: Luciano Lamonarca, tenor · Viewing of The Rising and Circle of Remembrance

It's the nagging persistence of a mechanistic view of humanity that troubles Church officials.