Sentences with phrase «teachings of the church»

The moral teachings of the churches are out of step with cultural patterns of sexual behavior of youth.

False teachings of the church are the reason why people are atheist or do not have any regard for bible standards.

The biblical teaching should be weighed together with the traditions of the church, the present - day teaching of the church, and the best contemporary expert opinions.

How can there be such a change or development in the official teaching of the church?

He has been split between loyalty to the pope, and loyalty to the magisterial teaching of the Church on marriage and the Eucharist.

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.

Although Pius XII was influenced by the fundamental changes in economic theory initiated by Keynes, it was not until Pope John XXIII in 1961 published Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) that a new methodology and the identification of the problem of «development» emerged, requiring substantial changes in the social teaching of the Church which were expressed in Pacem in Terris (Peace throughout the World) in 1963.

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

An appeal to the unchanging teaching of the Church does little justice to the Church Fathers who engaged their whole minds and souls in the defense and articulation of the truth, based on Scripture, reason, liturgy, peculiar strands of philosophy, and sundry other allies they mustered to their side.

First of all it must be said that according to the explicit teaching of the Church which is also expressed by Vatican 2.

The question lies at the heart of the anthropological vision of Saint John Paul II, a vision which has done so much to elucidate the immemorial teaching of the Church for the modern world.

Note also that the bishops «argue» this position, as though it is their rather peculiar opinion and not the magisterial teaching of the Church consistently maintained for two millennia.

One answer is that a public position of the Church should be derived directly from the clear and authoritative teaching of the Church.

Heresy: a belief that goes against the accepted teachings of the Church.

The fact is that that teaching has been severely and unjustifiably truncated by ATIA with little offered in the ATIA text to justify the full teaching of the Church on this important and controversial matter.

Being a Christian meant believing the central theological teachings of The Church.

Shouldn't there be a little more fear and trembling and reverence for the historic teaching of the church?

The primary teaching of the church on economic matters turned to alleviating the lot of the poor through charity and legislation.

In departing from the clear teaching of the Church on our sexual identity, we do injury to our personal dignity as being male or female image - bearers of God and prevent ourselves from resolving the most fundamental question each of us strives to answer: «Who am I?»

I'm hesitant to say the protection and decision of the «doctrinal teachings of the church» (even tho that's what I think it is) because the word ««doctrine» has taken on unnecessary baggage (after all, what you wrote is «doctrine» — doctrine in itself ain't bad — it's what we do with it).

According to the traditional teaching of the Church truly educated theologians have always distinguished between irreformable definitions of the magisterium and authoritative, but actually reform - able doctrinal utterances of the Church.

Therefore, any doctrine that teaches Christians to detest their sexual desires is unorthodox, contrary to the most central teachings of the Church.

The whole teaching of the Church on marriage, its unity and indissolubility, the teaching of chivalry and purity to our boys and girls, rests on this theme of nature, finding its full meaning in Christ and for Christ.

The social and moral teaching of the Church insists that just laws recognize the truth about marriage, that it is a relation that can only subsist between one man and one woman.

The Second Vatican Council wasn't about us, but about Christ's call, lovingly offered, to fulfill our potential on his terms, in and through the moral and spiritual teaching of his Church.

One is allowed conscience, but that conscience is to be formed knowing what the True teachings of the Church are, knowing the love behind them, and why it is taught the way it is.

The paragraph makes the Church's teaching seem absurd by equating teachings of the Church with their application in various times and places — in the most contentious way possible.

It is the unchanging and unchangeable teaching of the Church.

Humanae Vitae (1968) talked of the procreative and unitive meanings of the marital act as governed by «two divine laws» which were in harmony, and the relevant teaching of the Church is often presented in terms of these two equal «polarities» and their inseparability.

The preachings and teachings of the Church tend to avoid the burning concerns of the people.

Among other controversial teachings of the Church, he developed a much needed line of thought about the sacramentality of the sexes in the plan of God (more fully outlined in Sexual Order and Holy Order, Faith Pamphlets).

But I must challenge you to reconsider what you have presented here, which is in line with the common teaching of the church today, but not in line with the Scriptures.

For one thing, this is a definitive teaching of the Church.

Would you also like to orchestrate the Seraphim to respond to God in a better manner and teach them some of the Churches litany, what do you think?

In her 1992 book The God of Thinness, Mary Louise Bringle similarly denounced the Christian diet industry for «feeding off the facile conflation of fat and sin (and forgetting that the traditional teachings of the church condemn consumptive behaviors but say nothing about cosmetic matters of body shape and size).»

Archbishop Ladaria, therefore, has provided Francis's pontificate with a theological structure consistent with the prior teachings of the Church.

There is the level of the universal teaching of the Church at the level of the Papacy and the entire College of Bishops, the teaching of different conferences of Bishops, of theologians and the action of the church related groups locally and perhaps globally.

For many of us, it has been a source of irritation for some years that people who do not frequent the Sacraments, do not accept many basic teachings of the Church, and spend a great deal of time celebrating all this, should keep announcing that they are Catholics.

Matthew and Luke both witness to the earliest teachings of the Church, seeing an intrinsic link between the birth and death of the Messiah (cf. Mt 2, 11; Lk 2, 34).

Jeremy blows the typical teaching of the church out of the water.

Besides, any new mould had to be adequate to safeguard the old, and still objective and utterly divine teaching of the Church.