The phrase "authoritative teaching" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a style of teaching that is confident, knowledgeable, and often considered a reliable source of information.
Example: "The professor's authoritative teaching style made complex subjects easier to understand for all students."
Alternatives: "expert instruction" or "definitive teaching".
This institutional incapacity left some conservatives pining for the authoritative teaching and discipline forsaken by their forebears nearly five centuries ago.
The theory of religious assent does permit considerable dissent from authoritative teaching, such as the dissent that greeted Paul VI's teaching against contraception in 1968.
The mistake of the Obama administration — and of almost everyone debating its decision — was to accept the bishops' claim that their position on birth control expresses an authoritative "teaching of the church".
The proper response of the Roman Catholic to authoritative teaching that is "ordinary" and does not clearly deal with faith or morals is "religious assent," a term that is extremely difficult to define.
In it, Paul was ripping into the decadent citizens of Corinth for turning away from his own authoritative teaching and falling for a bunch of second-rate false apostles.
Mounting a reasoned defense of what is known as the magisterium, the church's authoritative teaching, is a challenge, to put it lightly, especially during a period in which calls for change on many issues, from artificial birth control to the ordination of women, have been loud, frequent and heated.
My acceptance of abortion as a grave, categorical wrong is one part respectful deference to authoritative Catholic teaching and one part reasoned deduction from our scientific knowledge of genetics and the beginning of an individual life.
A concern for a church that is itself a community "at the service of the people of God" is nothing if not traditional, however neglected such an image may appear to have been in recent years, saturated as they were in pronouncements concerning Communism, scandal and authoritative church teaching.
Mr. Nevada faced a moral decision: should he capitulate and offer blandishments to the brat, or, attired in Santa's authoritative garb, teach him a lesson?
There was one guy who struck me as very authoritative and was teaching everyone some really technical things about anonymity.
On this reading, Philosophy is recognized as a clearly authoritative figure, whose teaching should not be doubted and whose success in consoling the character Boethius must be assumed to be complete.
