Sentences with phrase «imperial edict»
The Imperial Edict of Worms, which appeared in May, made it clear that books could be the object of legal censure: «These books contain as much poison as they have words.»
http://www.slaw.ca/
On 22 September he issued an imperial Edict at a plenary meeting.
The official text of the Imperial Edict at Augsburg only reached Luther in the spring of 1531.
It seems probable that Nero's implication of the Christians in the fire of Rome was the first occasion on which such an imperial edict was specifically applied to Christians; once issued, the edict, put into force only sporadically and in particular regions during the next century, was to menace Christians with persecution whenever they grew strong or incurred the enmity of pagan or Jewish neighbours.
In 412, the Donatist church was banned by imperial edict and driven underground, though there are hints that Donatism survived as late as the time of Gregory the Great (590 - 604).
«Well the imperial edicts coming out of City Hall have been pretty much the same.»
Not exact matches
However, he then felt free to make his own imperial will known and issued an Edict on his personal responsibilities, banning all Luther's writings, whether good or bad.
And the imperial stormtroopers who enforce their educational edicts on California's state legislature, its thousands of public school boards, and by extension, millions of parents and children, are all part of an evil empire called the California Teachers Association, or CTA.