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magisterium

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for magisterium.

Editorial note

Just getting through the magisterium is more reading than one lifetime, let alone the other old judeo-christian 'usual suspects' faiths.

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Quick take

The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of magisterium gathered in one view.

noun

The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.

noun

An authoritative statement.

noun

(alchemy) The philosopher's stone.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for magisterium.

noun

The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.

noun

An authoritative statement.

noun

(alchemy) The philosopher's stone.

Example sentences

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Just getting through the magisterium is more reading than one lifetime, let alone the other old judeo-christian 'usual suspects' faiths.

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The Church itself reserves the interpretation of the Word of God to the magisterium, and Magisterium AI respects that boundary by limiting its corpus to those very sources.

3

The Church's social Magisterium constantly calls for the most classical forms of justice to be respected: commutative, distributive and legal justice[444].

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Do these people represent the supernatural Catholic Church, the Vatican or the magisterium?

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But in any event, popes come and go—it's the magisterium that endures.

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I don't think there's great cause to say that this is a seperate magisterium.

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Pope Leo has mentioned AI often since his election[2], so I expect we'll be hearing more from the Magisterium on it in the coming years.

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That's the infallibility of the extraordinary magisterium.

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[..] it has been infallibly taught by the ordinary magisterium of the Church that the death penalty is not intrinsically wrong.

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So, while Cardinal Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI) issued an official declaration in 1995 stating it was infallible ordinary and universal magisterium, [1] that declaration itself isn't infallible – and some (progressive-leaning) Catholic theologians have argued the declaration is mistaken.

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[2] Conversely, a minority of (conservative-leaning) Catholic theologians go beyond Ratzinger and argue Ordinatio Sacerdotalis is infallible extraordinary magisterium ( ex cathedra ).

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Many churches and certainly the big catholic one interpret the word of god for their believers (this is called magisterium), so if you are catholic, you don't believe in the bible but in the particular interpretation.

Quote examples

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And hey, wouldn't you know it, but the "orders" spelled out by the Magisterium broke exactly along the lines Aquinas laid out in the Summa.

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Different tools are necessary for each "magisterium".

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What I'm getting at, is that activities done on a computer are not in a separate magisterium where their "computerness" is their one and only property.

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I think it was in the early 1900s that the church Magisterium finally said that human souls belonged to different "orders" than plant and animal souls.

Proper noun examples

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They are just outraged that someone made the facts available beyond the pale of the progressive Magisterium.

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I suspect that the bulk of readers don't give a second thought to Wikipedia's Magisterium.

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Magisterium AI differs from generic large‑language models in several concrete ways that flow directly from the Church’s own teaching and from the way the system has been built.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use magisterium in a sentence?

Just getting through the magisterium is more reading than one lifetime, let alone the other old judeo-christian 'usual suspects' faiths.

What does magisterium mean?

The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.

What part of speech is magisterium?

magisterium is commonly used as noun.