Sentences with phrase «own teaching authority»

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.»

Such exploration should be undertaken within a community and tradition that provide necessary correctives by reference to the rule of faith (regula fidei) and teaching authority (magisterium).

The Pope has no special knowledge, insight, or teaching authority pertaining to matters of empirical fact....

It does mean beyond cavil that Michael Novak has contributed significantly to the development of Catholic social doctrine at the highest level of its teaching authority.

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

Catholics believe that this teaching authority is invested in the Magisterium, namely, the Bishop of Rome, who is the successor of Peter, and the bishops in communion with him.

Whatever may be the correct doctrine regarding the teaching authority of the bishops conference, in practical fact that authority is at stake in every statement made by the conference.

To cite but a few examples, there is no mention of distinctively Catholic moral teaching, or of bishops and communion with Peter, or of the teaching authority of the Magisterium.

And, of course, there is much dispute about the «magisterial» status of national bishops conferences, with the Holy See tending to downplay their teaching authority.

The Catholic Church is and has been the Biblical teaching authority for ALL Christians for 2000 + years and will continue to be because Jesus said all the powers of hell (including propserity organizations operating under the pretext of Christianity) would NOT prevail against it.

The council also led to a renewal of the liturgy, an affirmation of religious freedom and the primacy of conscience, a rejection of church - state unions, an openness to the truth of other religions (especially Judaism) and a renewed sense that the church's teaching authority resides in all of the faithful, not exclusively in the hierarchy.

One part of Protestantism fragmented and hardened into a series of contradictory biblicistic positions; the other continued to meander beyond the limits of Scripture and tradition and, uncontrolled by any legitimately established teaching authority, to become a dogmatic and ethical free - for - all.

It is to be the teaching authority, the ruling power, and the pastoral directive of the future church.

Integral Christian living means (i) being part of Jesus's family (i.e. being in «Communion» with the Holy Trinity, physically and spiritually), through having the actual touch of Christ in Baptism, Confirmation and Communion, and (ii) receiving his Teaching through the Church's magisterium (i.e. «teaching authority»).

Only journalists very badly instructed in theology could therefore suppose that Vatican II might cancel the doctrine defined by Vatican I regarding the papal primacy of jurisdiction and teaching authority, or out of ecumenical spirit and desire to please, might revoke the dogma of the Immaculate Conception or the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

Rather, enlightened by Christian wisdom and giving close attention to the teaching authority of the Church, let the layman take on his own distinctive role [Gaudium et spes].

Bousma noted that the teaching authority of the church was claimed by the theological faculty, leading to a division between them and the «clergy who minister to the whole body of the faithful.»

Faith does, to be sure, have an objective content in the form of the truths that God has revealed, so there have to be dogmas and there has to be a teaching authority.

This is most evident in connection with the pastoral director's Scriptural, teaching authority.

This also is a kind of teaching authority, but even more the authority of the witness.

He claims that the Revolution led to an upsurge of biblicism, but explains that only in the case of debates over colonial bishops and slavery did colonists actually draw directly upon the teaching authority of Scripture.

As a working hypothesis, «infallibility» is kept in order to affirm with the Christian tradition that the Bible as «Godbreathed» has full doctrinal and moral teaching authority.29»

Every thoughtful person has understood that the pro-life position - explicitly and consistently articulated by the Catholic Church at every level of teaching authority - is that justice requires that every unborn child be cared for andprotected in law.

Canons 752 and 753 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law use the expression «religious obedience of the intellect and will,» which has become the specific way of describing adherence to non-infallible statements of the hierarchical teaching authority.

of the will and intellect» to designate obedience toward the hierarchical teaching authority creates problems, its exclusive application in Lumen gentium 25 to non-infallible teaching authority is still not clear.

One indication of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on obedience to the hierarchical teaching authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.

In such a case, if it exists, the scientist would, of course, be compelled to withdraw his assent to the legitimate teaching authority of the Church, if it were supposed that he really considered the certainty of the scientific «result» as definitively truer and surer than the grounds which he had previously believed he possessed in justification for the claim of the Church to teach.

He then adds, «To affirm this, we need not yet commit ourselves about a mandated or appropriate location of teaching authority.»

It assumes that a university is more than a para-church organization and that ordination just is teaching authority.

The further claim being made here — that God can ask me, through my conscience, to do things that do not cohere with the teaching of the Church — fractures the bonds between God, the Church's teaching authority, and conscience in perilous ways.

There is an acknowledged difference between Catholic and evangelical participation, in that Catholic participants are bound by and determined to be faithful to the central teaching authority, or Magisterium, of the Catholic Church.

The lesson learned was that rejecting moral doctrines solemnly proclaimed by the Church's teaching authority was, essentially, penalty - free.

Schillebeeckx notes the danger of overemphasizing «our one - sidedly technological consumer society» and urges «the interplay of official teaching authority and the teaching authority of believers and their theologians (always in some tension).»

First, although the teaching authority is located exclusively in the hierarchy - a polity I think mistaken - the Catholic bishops surprisingly take more account of lay opinion than do most Protestant bodies.

The esoteric nature of such terms preserves the clergy's teaching authority — a second value held by traditionalists.

The teaching authority of the Church does not define on this issue but does grant that it is quite legitimate to enquire into the origins of the material body.

Now it is no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.»

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

It is about the teaching authority of the church.

Two years ago the book The Fatherhood of God in an Age of Emancipation (Westminster, 1983); one year ago the forthcoming Inception and Formation of the World Council of Churches; and now this manuscript about the problem of teaching authority in the church.

The principal of sola scriptura and the rejection of the Church's teaching authority in the end, he thinks, led to a «market of values» in which all certainties dissolved.

Finally, without the Christ given Teaching Authority of the Magisterium, You and I at best would have no certainty about these truths, as is evidenced by 10's of thousands of protestant denominations, all with different opinions of the same truth, and at worst we would know nothing about them at all!!»

The bishops, after all, are not executives of majority - determined positions, but claim a certain charism of apostolic teaching authority.

The authors disarmingly look for lessons that can be drawn by evangelicals from the reasons given by former evangelicals who have gone «home to Rome»: a richer worship, a greater depth in history, a religious certainty, an identifiably united Church, a firm teaching authority.

This view of the Magisterium that «descends» does not deny the real teaching authority of the Bishops as a college.

Of course there is not in evangelicalism an institution of magisterium, or teaching authority, comparable to that of the Catholic Church.

Nonetheless, a resolution should not be deemed impossible, for it is painfully obvious that the community of Christians needs the unifying strength of some form of continuing and representative teaching authority.

Except on the local level, such teaching authority is little developed in Protestantism.

Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions... take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»