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El Greco's depiction of Pentecost, with tongues of fire and a dove representing the Holy Spirit's descent (c. 1600). Cessationism versus continuationism involves a Christian theological dispute as to whether spiritual gifts remain available to the church, or whether their operation ceased with the apostolic age of the church (or soon thereafter).
Though explanations and excuses were provided, others believed his presence in a brothel to be a proximate occasion of sin which should have been avoided. [ 10 ] The doctrine of occasions of sin was still expanded upon by some preachers in the wake of the Second Vatican Council such as don Giuseppe Tomaselli in the 1960s [ 11 ] while to many it ...
The Catholic theology of Scripture has developed much since the Second Vatican Council of Catholic Bishops ("Vatican II", 1962-1965). This article explains the theology (or understanding) of scripture that has come to dominate in the Catholic Church today. It focuses on the Church's response to various areas of study into the original meaning ...
After several decades of harassment and re-proselytizing, and the systematic destruction of their scripture, the sect was exhausted and could find no more adepts. The last known Cathar prefect in the Languedoc, Guillaume Bélibaste, was executed in 1321. Anti-Old Testament ideas later revived by Positive Christianity in Nazi Germany. Free Spirit
The Methodist Articles omit the express provisions in the Anglican articles concerning the errors of the Church of Rome and the authority of councils, but retain Article V, which implicitly pertains to the Roman Catholic idea of papal authority as capable of defining articles of faith on matters not clearly derived from Scripture:
The Jerusalem Bible (JB or TJB) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd. As a Catholic Bible, it includes 73 books: the 39 books shared with the Hebrew Bible, along with the seven deuterocanonical books, as the Old Testament, and the 27 books shared by all Christians as the New Testament.
Accommodation was used by the Fathers of the Church and many of the sermons of St. Bernard are mosaics of scripture phrases. Typical rules for guidance in the accommodation of scripture are: Accommodated texts should never be used as arguments drawn from revelation. Accommodation should not be farfetched. Accommodations should be reverent
The Roman Catholic Church was slightly more resistant about yielding up this verse; an 1897 decision of the Holy Inquisition forbade a Catholic "to deny or even express doubt about the authenticity of" the Johannine Comma, but this was effectively reversed by a declaration of the Holy Office on June 2, 1927, which allowed scholars to express ...