Sentences with phrase «sacred theology»

The study of the sacred page is, as it were, the soul of sacred theology.

And yet the gradual separation of the social doctrine from the overall system of Thomas began to create the impression that the philosophy of practical reason was freestanding: a kind of first philosophy in its own right, connected to the metaphysical system and even sacred theology only by way of dotted lines.

His aim in writing the Institutes, Calvin said, was «to prepare and instruct candidates in sacred theology for the reading of the divine Word, in order that they may be able both to have easy access to it and to advance in it without stumbling.»

Most Likely to Help Us Find God in the Everyday: Jennifer Fulwiler with «Praying Like You're Illiterate»» I don't know how long I sat there soaking up each aspect of the icon, but when I was finished I felt as enriched as if I had read chapters of sacred theology.

Aeterni Patris insists that a sound philosophy is needed «in order that sacred theology may receive and assume the nature, form, and genius of a true science.»

Dawn Eden is the author of My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints and is completing a sacred theology licentiate at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

The division of labor in our institutions practically guarantees that only a few theologians have any reason to take responsibility for adapting natural law to sacred theology, and that even fewer philosophers are apt to worry how natural law might be integrated into a theological system.

«The Magisterium of the Church, does not forbid that in the present state of the human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussion, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to

The Reformation demanded that the Church reform its sacred theology on the basis of profane study; that is, by what competent scholars concluded the text intended to say.

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)»

''... 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.