Sentences with phrase «traditional church authorities»

By focusing on individual conversions apart from traditional church authorities that had, even for Protestants, provided the context for the communication of biblical truth, the revivals encouraged individuals to appropriate Scripture for their own purposes.

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(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

So long as the Church was understood as primarily institutional, in terms of its parallelism to a state rather than to a cultural society, and so long as tradition meant resistance to reform, conflict between the principles of traditional and Scriptural authority was inevitable.

Yet even as Moon interrupts normal family relations and appropriates the authority of parents, church literature refers to family values, clearly referring not to the church family but to the traditional nuclear family.

And this is precisely the authoritarian foundation of traditional preaching, whether that authority be lodged in the church, the Scriptures, the ordination of the clergy, or in the exclusive ability of the clergy, by virtue of their training, to handle aright the eternal truths.

«On the one hand, fostering nearness to God, Mother Teresa sold traditional Catholic products — the sacraments, the condemnation of abortion, and reverence for Church authority.

In response, many faithful Episcopalians have jumped ship to become Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, or Evangelicals, or formed breakaway churches within the Anglican communion, sometimes under the authority of bishops in Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intact.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

In more voluminous and also widely read writings Lamennais presented a fresh apologetic for the Christian faith as against eighteenth - century rationalism, criticized Gallicanism (the traditional belittling of Papal authority in the French Church), and stood for the Papacy as a safeguard of the faith.