Sentences with phrase «as judicatory»

As judicatory funding came under close scrutiny in the late»70s and early»80s, campus ministry staff and programs were good targets for cuts: clearly, it takes less staff time to refer and network than it does to design and implement creative ministry.

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The comfort and counsel of a pastor is needed as much by clergy families as by lay families, but clergy are reluctant to consult their peers or judicatory officials whom they perceive to have power over them.

As a consequence, the mission activity of the churches is, with limited exceptions, carried out by regional or local judicatories.

Black church people receive limited guidance from their national judicatories on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, women's rights.

These various kinds of authority — church authority as institutional and communal, Scriptural authority as teaching and judicatory, personal authority as spiritual and moral — are intricately interrelated.

In some conceptions of the ministry one or the other sort may be entirely lacking, or, as in the case of judicatory authority, may be transferred by communal or institutional decision to certain ministers or companies of them or to representative bodies of clergy and laity.

One reason is that denominational and judicatory officials have shifted their attention away from such «private» issues as education and toward public policy and social change.

A minister of a mainline Protestant denomination, newly hired as a chaplain of a denominational college, met with a committee of the regional judicatory within whose bounds he would be working.

By using financial intermediaries such as revolving community loan funds, many religious orders, judicatories and local congregations can provide below - market loan capital that helps to make marginal projects viable.

And although the Diocesan Bishop controls respondent Monastery of St. Sava and is the principal officer of respondent property - holding corporations, the civil courts must accept that consequence as the incidental effect of an ecclesiastical determination that is not subject to judicial abrogation, having been reached by the final church judicatory in which authority to make the decision resides.

In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.

That, with two exceptions, and these as limited as the nature of the service will permit, to each judicatory, cognizance be taken of all sorts of causes: those included, cognizance of which are at present taken by the aggregate of the several authorities by which judicature is exercised: which courts will have to be abolished, as soon as the causes respectively pending before them, shall have been disposed of.

That, for receiving appeals from the decrees and other proceedings and conduct on the part of the above - mentioned judges immediate, there be judicatories appellate, all single seated, in such number as experience shall have shown to be necessary: if more than one, station of all of them the metropolis: that being the central spot, to which persons from all parts of the country have occasion to resort for other purposes; and at the same time that in which the best - formed and most effective public opinion has place — public opinion!