Sentences with phrase «traditions established his church»

Jesus outside of mans traditions established His church.

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But experiencing the self - revealing God is not simply a matter of looking at the scriptural and doctrinal boundaries laboriously established by the Church and its traditions.

Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine.

He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the living tradition of the Church».»

In regard to the actual formulation of the criterion we have attempted, it should be noted that we are still insisting on the importance of establishing a history of the tradition and of restricting ourselves to the earliest stratum of that tradition; in our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the Church.

The very signs of the difficulty the early church had with the tradition at this point establish its validity.

Since the Church's teaching that she should enjoy not only the protection but also the privilege of the laws is well established in her tradition, one must conclude that the truly Catholic understanding of religious freedom in no way abrogates it ab sent any statement on her part to the contrary.