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.... Their teaching was simply that Jesus was a man who became the Messiah by virtue of fulfillment of the Law. They rejected of virgin birth and believed that

...inition by an ecumenical council, or with teachings that are infallible in virtue of being taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. ...discharge of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, and by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority...")

...to the family of God (the church) by virtue of his faith alone and not by virtue of his ethnic identity as a Jew. This shift of emphasis has caused ripples

...ar any more. So long as this monster stalks uncontrolled, where is reason, virtue, humanity? they are utterly excluded; they have no place; they are a name,

...hat he inherited sin-prone human nature from his mother, and Son of God by virtue of his miraculous conception by the power of God. Although tempted, he comm

...- as the head into the members, and the vine into the branches, - and this virtue always precedes and accompanies and follows their good works, which without

...ar any more. So long as this monster stalks uncontrolled, where is reason, virtue, humanity? they are utterly excluded; they have no place; they are a name,

...st, and the Pastor of the universal Church here on earth. Consequently, by virtue of his office, he has supreme, full, immediate and universal ordinary power

The Council, by virtue of its actions, repudiated the pluralism of the Secular Renaissance Church:

...of the Catholic Church, have recently become very excited about Aquinas's virtue ethics, notably Philippa Foot and Alasdair MacIntyre, as a way of avoiding

...le to God (not through the church, but alongside it) to protect and reward virtue, including "true religion", and to punish wrongdoers — a policy that is b

...n the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith

...ing: “Like Luther, they emphasize faith alone to the detriment of personal virtue and avoiding personal sin. They de-emphasize the need to observe the comman “From [the faith of Lazarus] follows now another virtue, namely, love to one's neighbor, so that he is willing and ready to serve e

...at Jesus was a less-than-level person. Rather, He exemplified strength and virtue. As Jewish scholar, Joseph Klausner has acknowledged,

...God for the long enjoyment of that exemplary pattern of all true piety and virtue (your deceased minister, I mean), whom (for your sins, I fear) he bath late