This philosophy tended to be republican, more in the original spirit of Machiavellian, but as with the Catholic authors Machiavelli's realism and encouragement of using innovation to try to control one's own fortune were more accepted than his emphasis upon war and politics.

Ultramontanism is a religious philosophy within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the Pope.

Orthodox distinctives ( shared with some of the Eastern Catholic Churches ) include the Divine Liturgy, Mysteries or Sacraments, and an emphasis on the preservation of Tradition, which it holds to be Apostolic in nature.

The rosary also represents the Roman Catholic emphasis on " participation in the life of Mary, whose focus was Christ ," and the Mariological theme " to Christ through Mary ," taught by Saint Louis de Montfort.

The theologian Romano Guardini thus defined the Roman Catholic emphasis on the rosary as " participation in the life of Mary, whose focus was Christ.

This emphasis on the path through Mary to Christ ( which was also a basis for some of Louis de Montfort's writings ) has since been a key direction in Roman Catholic Mariology, with Mariology being viewed as inherent in Christology, and the rosary paving that path.

The city is also home to St. Joseph's Parish School, a K-8 school affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie, and Shenango Valley Faith Academy, a nondenominational Christian school with heavy emphasis on individualized education.

This may usefully be contrasted with the teachings of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches that place the emphasis on Sacred Tradition and Magisterium: reason is not listed as a source of authority or teaching in these churches.

Some minorities resent the privileges granted the Catholic church as other religious groups were actively or passively discouraged His critics hold that Duplessis's inherently-corrupt patronage politics, his reactionary conservatism, his emphasis on traditional family and religious values, his anachronistic anti-union stance, rural focus and his preservation and promotion of Catholic Church institutions over the development of a secular social infrastructure akin to that underway in most of the postwar West, stunted Quebec's social and economic development by at least a decade.

Loyola's masterwork Spiritual Exercises showed the emphasis of handbooks characteristic of Catholic reformers before the Reformation, reminiscent of devotionalism.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states ( emphasis added ):

Theosis is not emphasized in Protestant theology except among Methodists and Wesleyans, whose religious tradition has always placed strong emphasis on entire sanctification, and whose doctrine of sanctification has many similarities with the Catholic / Eastern Orthodox concept of theosis or divinization.

The Institute of Theology consists of several colleges with a Christian emphasis, including St Mary's ( Catholic ), Union Theological College ( Presbyterian ), Belfast Bible College ( non-denominational ), as well as Baptist and Methodist colleges in Belfast.

As mentioned in the previous section, the Gothic period coincided with a greatly increased emphasis on the Virgin Mary, and it was in this period that the Virgin and Child became such a hallmark of Catholic art.

His lectures concerned modern history ( with the special emphasis on the war and occupation ) in the Institute of Modern History on the Humanistic Science Department of KUL ( Catholic University of Lublin ).

* Zionist Churches, a group of Christian denominations in Southern Africa that stem from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion ( see below ) with an emphasis on spiritual healing

In light of the most recent agreements between the Free State of Bavaria and the Vatican, the faculty of Catholic Theology was to cease existence as a faculty and was instead restructured as an institute which will place a greater emphasis on teacher training.

Alfonsín's opposition to the church-military alliance, conjoined with his strongly secular emphasis contravening traditional Catholic positions, incited opposition that served to curtail his agenda.

In numerous works, including an Apostolic letter written in 1988, Pope John Paul II has set forth the Roman Catholic emphasis on the role of children in family life.

The two books include references to official Roman Catholic teachings on demonology, however the main emphasis is on Amorth's experience as an exorcist.

However, Lutheran denominations put a great emphasis on the importance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and of the main branches of the Reformation Era, the Lutheran view of " Real Presence " is regarded by many theologians to be the closest in theory and practice to the Sacrament of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches .< ref >

After visits to the Catholic Church, the Jewish synagogue and every Protestant church in Red Bank, she attended Methodist Sunday School before finally settling on Christian Science at age 9, attracted in part by its emphasis on healing and her desire to overcome her epilepsy.

In the Roman Catholic Church, latitudinarianism was condemned in the 19th century document Quanta Cura, because Pope Pius IX felt that this attitude was undermining the Church, with its high emphasis on religious liberty and possibility to discard traditional Christian doctrines and dogmas.

In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is.

The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

" He further asserts that because the Roman Catholic Church does not recognise the Church of England as an apostolic church, a Roman Catholic monarch who abided by their faith's doctrine would be obliged to view Anglican and Church of Scotland archbishops, bishops, and clergy as part of the laity and therefore " lacking the ordained authority to preach and celebrate the sacraments.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, these ancient Eastern churches may use the doctrine of apostolic succession in ministry in their apologetics against Protestantism.

Roman Catholic doctrine holds that one bishop can validly ordain another male ( priest ) as a bishop.

( Baroque art was created during — and often for — the Counter-Reformation and so, ironically, BJU has been criticized by some other fundamentalists for promoting “ false Catholic doctrine ” through its art gallery.

According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus ' substitutionary death and resurrection.

Mandatory priestly celibacy is not a doctrine, or dogma, of the Church ( examples of Catholic doctrine would be the principle of the absolute respect for life or the belief in the Assumption and Immaculate Conception ) but a church rule or discipline, like the use of the vernacular ( local ) language in Mass or the ancient rule of Lenten fasting and abstinence.

By specifying Catholic doctrine on salvation, the sacraments, and the Biblical canon, the Council was answering Protestant disputes.

The Catholic Church's Rerum Novarum ( 1891 ) advocates a progressive conservative doctrine known as social Catholicism.

" This is called the doctrine of the hypostatic union, which is still held today amongst all Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians, referred to as Chalcedonian Christianity.

The Tome of Leo has been widely criticized ( surprisingly by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox scholars ) in the past 50 years as a much less than perfect orthodox theological doctrine.

The word in English can mean either " including a wide variety of things ; all-embracing " or " of the Roman Catholic faith " as " relating to the historic doctrine and practice of the Western Church.

The ancient Roman Catholic tradition overcame this idea with the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and so achieved, for the very first time, a balanced constitution for states.

However, this overlooks those parts of scripture which provide for the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and for the medieval Roman Catholic concept of the powers of kings to protect the Christian Constitution of states, to defend and extend the boundaries of Christendom by lawful means only, to protect and defend the innocent, the weak, the poor and the vulnerable, and to protect the church and the papacy with the king's own life, if necessary.

* A defence of Catholic doctrine, entitled Demonstratio critica religionis Catholicae ( Augsburg, 1751 )

The Roman Catholic Church holds this doctrine, as do most or all Eastern Orthodox theologians.

The 19th Canon of 1571 asserted the authority of the Councils in this manner: " let preachers take care that they never teach anything ... except what is agreeable to the doctrine of the Old and New Testament, and what the Catholic Fathers and ancient Bishops have collected from the same doctrine.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favour of the doctrine of predestination.