church teaching
Faith's official stance
Church teaching refers to the official doctrines, moral positions, and interpretations of scripture promulgated by a religious institution—most often the Roman Catholic Church.
The phrase usually appears when distinguishing institutional positions from individual belief or secular views: Church teaching prohibits artificial contraception.
It implies authoritative pronouncement rather than personal opinion or theological debate.
- creedStatement of belief
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- sinViolation of divine law
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
stewardship · subsidiarity · Eucharist · eschatology · catechism · ten commandments · commandments · original sin · salvation · solidarity · Trinity · faith and reason · common good · grace · conscience · liturgy · baptism · incarnation
- Sunday schoolBible stories, memory verses, lesson plans, Bible verse, Sunday school curriculum
- religious educationreligious education, Bible college, Bible stories, religious instruction, Sunday school
- scriptureBible, New Testament, Old Testament, verses, passages
- Catholic sexualitycelibacy, chastity, sexual ethics, natural law
- Orthodox educationSunday schools, adult education, parish school, youth ministry, youth programs
- ApostlesAndrew, James, Bartholomew, John, Peter
church teachingscientific consensus
Prevailing expert judgment
secular humanism · worldly wisdom · civil law · academic scholarship · natural philosophy
church teachingheresy
Belief opposing official doctrine
heterodoxy · apostasy · blasphemy · dissent · Gnosticism
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