Sentences with phrase «authority over church»

Church Point Louisiana courts have authority over Church Point Louisiana traffic schools.

Domestically, he successfully increased the influence of the crown and its authority over the church and aristocracy, thus consolidating absolute monarchy in France.

He seems to have been sincerely convinced of a monarch's divine right to absolute authority over the Church as well as the State.

(J.W.C. Ward, A History of the early Church, p. 99) In this period the Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the Church.

In its classic usage in the early twentieth century, modernism meant an approach that gave modern historical assumptions authority over church doctrine.

Not exact matches

So what were the issues wiht the women that were teachign and having authority over men in the church there?

Since the Protestant Churches have no central authority they can interpret The Bible any way they want, which is why so many erroneous versions were destroyed over the centuries.

This will be particularly significant, given that China only permits Christianity within the context of government - sanctioned churches, and the fact authorities have partly or wholly destroyed hundreds of churches and crosses and imprisoned at least dozens of Christians in the country over the last few years.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

Finally, has «The Church» completed its investigations into child abuse by priests, and turned over all evidence and probable abusers to the appropriate civic authorities?

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

This transition was particularly clear in Book Ten where Constantine grants authority over cities and regions to church leaders, giving them many buildings and constructing numerous churches.

Steve over at Stupid Church People has written an interesting post on «The Authority Prayer» which exposes the sorcery Christians can be tempted to use.

Later in the 2nd century AD, there were more manifestations of Roman authority over other churches.

Did the church then turn the proest over to authorities?

It is like Bill Gothard talking about «umbrellas of protection» to shield from harm those within your realm of authority (e.g., church / ministry leaders over flocks, fathers over wives and families and single adult daughters).

Over the next several centuries, with what Wright considers the gradual loss of the «Israel - dimension» in the church's understanding of itself and its scriptures, «the notion of scriptural authority became detached from its narrative context, and thereby isolated from both the fit and the goal of the Kingdom,» according to Wright.

It came from early church leaders who wanted to exert their power, authority, and control over other people.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

Local authorities agreed to demolish the churches over two weeks.

No such luck with church leaders at a regional level who had authority over my life.

«They want church officials to turn over files and cases to independent authorities in government and law enforcement.»

''...» or to exercise authority over a man;»» ------------- No, I read that, but Paul is talking about Elders — leaders of the church.

it's a bigger slap in the face when the church tries to hide criminals amoung it's ranks; less so then just handing them over to authorities to face a fair trial.

They explained their disagreements over faith and works, the location of church authority, the relation of scripture and tradition, and so on.

Many other saintly authorities could be quoted, but one hopes that this helps to reassure those who, in the current climate of tension, have been made nervous and perhaps over cautious about what truly belongs to the orthodox tradition of the Church.

If the Catholic church would turn every single one of these peds over to the proper authorities, things would be slightly different.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

«Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship,» the suits allege.

«We have concluded that there were catastrophic failures of leadership of Catholic Church authorities over many decades,» the report said.

In that custodial role a handful of Greek bishops continue to exercise authority over a community almost entirely Arab Orthodox in membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.»

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

The NALC officially formed in 2010 from congregations, laypeople, and clergy that broke away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (and of Canada) over issues of scriptural authority.

The power that raised Christ from the dead, that seated Christ at the right hand of God, that gave Christ supremacy over all rulers and authorities, over all powers and dominions, over ever title that can be given throughout all eternity, that placed all things under Christ and that appointed Christ as the head over everything,... this power, is for the church.

In other words, because the NALC is not in communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)-- churches they broke away from over significant theological differences regarding the nature of Scriptural authority — the LWF is rejecting the NALC's application.

So then that «commission» would be more like the «commission» to see if pedophile priests should be turned over to authorities or just moved to another church.

Jews believe in a Messiah, but don't believe it was Jesus (though the passover ceremony is all about Christ); Muslims go back to Abraham but since the prophet Mohammad don't have any recent connection to God; Catholics came from a combination of the Roman and Christian church after the death of Christ's apostles; Protestant's see misunderstandings in the Catholic church and have tried in various forms over the years to correct them without any true religious authority; Mormons believe God restored the truths of the original Christian church back on earth through modern prophets and revelation.

This belief gives men the role of authority over the wife and children, and only allows men to be church leaders.

The NRB report does not ignore the reckless and self - serving ways in which bishops escaped criminal liability by pleading guilty on behalf of their dioceses and handing important aspects of church governance over to civil authorities.

No less a mathematical authority than Alonzo Church, in his review of the second edition of volumes II and III, claims that in the whole of volume I (over 700 pages of closely argued mathematical logic introductory to the theory of cardinal numbers) and together with volumes II and III (themselves enormous tomes) one gets «cardinal numbers, relations and relation - numbers, series, well ordered series and ordinal numbers, and finally the continuum of real numbers» (BAMS34: 237).

The assembled bishops - six metropolitans and thirty conventional bishops from all over Persia - threw themselves at the feet of the reluctant Dadyeshu and vowed him allegiance in terms that unequivocally set apart the church in Asia as free in Christ under its own head the Catholicos, not opposed to the west but equal in rank and authority to any western Patriarchate.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?

In both church and state, the extent of the authority one enjoys as an officeholder is not delimited by beliefs shared with the people over whom authority is exercised.

What our churches are arguing over, therefore, is not the authority of Scripture or confessions but over those things to which reference must be made when authority is exercised, over their correct interpretation, and over their relative weight in settling disputes.

Yes, as a catholic I believe the church at local level should have hand these so - called priest over the local authorities, also, there has been a great number of people coming forward and filing lawsuits looking for money, we all know that.

It is a misfortune that in the course of controversy since the Reformation the authority of the Bible has been set over against the authority of the Church, and the Church against the Bible.

The question of whether this innovation, as well as the elevation of the bishop of Rome to jurisdictional authority over the whole church, is a genuinely catholic move remains to be resolved.

Over at Sojourners, Brian McLaren — the emerging church and religious left's foremost authority on foreign affairs, grand strategy, and defense policy — has weighed in on Afghanistan.

As the continuing debate over the last of these so well illustrates, however, the ideas generated by the Enlightenment were so innovative that they were not readily acceptable to church authorities.

I know many complementarians who, although they believe men should hold authority over women in the home, church, and society, make an exception for the marriage bed, acknowledging the Apostle Paul's teachings on mutuality in this regard (1 Corinthians 7:1 - 5).