Sentences with phrase «teaching authority»

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

Bishop Chilstrom's post-firestorm letter to the pastors of the ELCA perfectly exemplifies the collapse of teaching authority in modern Protestantism.

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.

Such a recognition would also serve to indicate the various ways in which all baptized Catholics contribute to the teaching of the church, and it would remind the hierarchical teaching authority that it has not carried out its own learning and teaching function in the most suitable way.

We know from history that unnecessary rigidity in enforcing particular decisions by teaching authorities has been combined with the corruption of ecclesial ministry by the arrogance of power.

It seems likely that the Vatican conservatives and Pope John Paul II himself are seriously out of touch with the mood of the global church on the birth - control issue, as well as on the wider question of the credibility of official church teaching authority.

Yet a gathering as large and representative as Amsterdam, under the auspices of the world's leading evangelicals, does possess real teaching authority.

There is a direct link between teaching authority and ministerial authority in a way that one does not find in other views of ordination.

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.»

Schism was the contingent outcome of the badly managed causa Lutheri, the ecclesiastical examination of Luther's orthodoxy in 1518 — 1519, and the controversy over teaching authority with which it became entangled.

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

This is at least one way of understanding the correlation between diminished teaching authority and increased politicizing of the Church's life.

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.

Roman Catholics who are canonic may find a similar integrity in the church's traditional teaching authority.

The link between ministerial authority and teaching authority also relates to an extension of the visible church beyond denominational boundaries within evangelical circles.

Claims to «faithful dissent» have always been rejected by the Church's highest teaching authority.

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.

Roman Catholic sexual ethics, with its strong natural law tradition and clearly defined ecclesiastical teaching authority, has been more inclined toward objective sexual norms than has Protestant ethics with its heavy scriptural orientation.

On abortion, above all, the media seek to replace the church's magisterium with their own teaching authority.

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.

My second observation is that the revolution in American Catholic education had been building for a long time and was much broader than the rejection of the magisterial teaching authority, which was central to the coup at CUA When I, fresh from graduate school, arrived at Georgetown in September 1957, I was surprised to find that the majority of my colleagues were unhappy with the administration for reasons that had nothing to do with theology.

The author argues that there is «a substantive case for the exercise and legitimacy of an infallible teaching authority in both the ancient and the Roman Catholic Church» (p. 67.)

By avoiding the more rigid claims to unchangeable teaching authority, we can advance the prospects for nurturing a consensus among the churches on this issue.

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.

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.

Ironically, the effort to make «truth» unitary and absolute, as a way of strengthening acquiescence to church teaching authority, has exactly the opposite effect.

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.

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).

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.

With specific reference to the subject of the present statement, we are not agreed on the exercise of teaching authority in the life of Christ's Church.

On matters of political engagement, the situation is somewhat different for the Catholic Church because of its distinctive understanding of the magisterium, or teaching authority, of the bishops.

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.

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»).

She omits the Church's call for an individual to reflect upon the formation of his or her conscience, and, although she acknowledges GS» wisdom that the laity should pay «close attention to the teaching authority of the Church,» she demeans the Church's teaching authority as a primary formative source of conscience when she takes «no one is allowed... to appropriate the Church's authority for his opinion» out of the context of Gaudium et Spes.