Sentences with phrase «between ecclesiastical»

There can sometimes be discrepancies between the ecclesiastical and astronomical versions for dating Easter

James Madison understood this, saying, «Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance.

Politics: For close to a millennium, the most important political question for European political philosophers was the relationship between ecclesiastical authorities and their royal rivals, whose authority was also assumed to come from God.

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You have perfectly captured the thin line between being part of the ecclesiastical program and being just another member of the bunch that sees it in all its humanity.

An instance of Richelieu's nice distinction between the secular and ecclesiastical is that, at the same time he was gathering armies to wage war against the pope, he wrote the pope humbly asking for a dispensation from reading his daily office because of the pressing duties of military command.

Far from merely discriminating between what is religious and what is not, the Blaine Amendments discriminate against Catholic and other ecclesiastical authority and thereby carry out theologically liberal animosities.

This principle means first: In ecclesiastical decisions, measures, etc., there is always a choice between at least two, but usually between a number of possibilities.

According to quite traditional teaching they can distinguish also between principles of action that are of divine and immutable law, and positive ecclesiastical decrees which are changeable.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

For it can hardly be imagined that in the Church parties will come between the lay committees and the individual Christians which will enable the latter to form an opinion on ecclesiastical matters and to select their representatives accordingly.

Although the demise of polygamy and the political kingdom removed two of the most potent symbols of division between the RLDS group and the Utah Mormons, no ecclesiastical rapprochement has occurred.

In short, clergy were caught between the expectations of their ecclesiastical superiors and a restive lay following.

With some difficulty Lewis found an Anglican priest who would solemnize an ecclesiastical marriage between himself and a divorced woman.

Within the Protestant ecclesiastical scene in California there are not many contrasts more colorful than that between Berkeley and Orange County: the University of California and Disneyland, an adult class using Bread for the World material and one deep into the Bethel Bible Series, a Georgian church building hosting the Earl Lectures (Tillich, Niebuhr, Bennett, Marty, Lehman et al.) and a 14 - story Tower of Hope hosting preachers and teachers of «possibility thinking.»

In the struggle, so acute through the Middle Ages, between secular and ecclesiastical authorities, the former had at last won.

What Bultmann means is that the difference between the mythological language of the New Testament and ecclesiastical dogma on the one hand and his own interpretation on the other is that the former presents us with a «miraculous, supernatural event», whereas the right interpretation is one which suggests «an historical event wrought out in time and space».

And although the favor of the God, as forfeited or gained, is still an essential feature of the story, and theology plays a vital part therein, yet the acts to which this sort of religion prompts are personal not ritual acts, the individual transacts the business by himself alone, and the ecclesiastical organization, with its priests and sacraments and other go - betweens, sinks to an altogether secondary place.

When the modern missionary movement arose there was the tension between the missionary movement and the ecclesiastical establishment that resulted in a large number of missionary societies being organized outside official church bodies.

But in the case of the East Syrian (Persian) church, there came into existence some sort of ecclesiastical relationship between it and the Indian church from a very early date, though it is difficult to say when this relationship was established.

Though the ecclesiastical relation between the two churches existed at least from the end of third century, the immigration of Persian Christians to Kerala not only strengthened the existing community, but also influenced its liturgical life.

The «rapid about - face» began in the early 1960s under the impulse of the Second Vatican Council and «its willingness to address non-Catholic Christians as «brothers,» to acknowledge that blame lay on both sides for the ecclesiastical ruptures of the Reformation, to stress the unique role of Christ as mediator between God and humanity, and to urge ordinary lay Catholics to live lives of practical Christian holiness.»

The close connection between patriarchy and traditional theology and ecclesiastical practice is now apparent.

What appears to be true is that the greater discrimination is to be found not on the basis of the theological or ecclesiastical tradition from which the program comes, but from the nature of the financial relationship between the broadcaster and the television station.

The major embarrassment came from the conflict between the Spanish Crown and the emerging governments over the control of ecclesiastical appointments, especially to bishoprics.

In this situation the religious problems which were relevant to Americans centered around the relations among different ecclesiastical groups — between Protestantism and Catholicism, and between Christianity and Judaism.

Vermes examines the nature, style and content of Jesus» preaching, discusses the idea of God as King and Father in relation to Jesus» «eschatological enthusiasm» and portrays «Jesus the Religious Man» before reaching the epilogue «intended to bring into sharp relief the difference between this religion and historic, ecclesiastical Christianity.»

In the Tradition Hippolytus does not mention the teacher except in connection with the catechumens, and here he distinguishes between «lay» and «ecclesiastical» teachers, though to both he concedes the rite of laying on hands, as a sign of the catechumen's having completed the course.

In this case, Lin serves up a piping - hot Supreme with everything on it: There are classic car races; spy movie accoutrements; an ecclesiastical devotion to the ever - growing family (the fam's 10 - deep at this point, not counting Brian's new kid); the»70s fantasy of Luke Evans» Owen Shaw and his grungy, car - flipping Formula 1 racer; Letty's soap - opera return from the grave; her vicious smackdown with Gina Carano; that giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a tank; and the other giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a jumbo jet — Furious 6 doesn't stop.

Furthermore, even when «civil contract» terminology is used in statute, it can not drive a wedge between the general and the ecclesiastical law of marriage: a union authorised by law must be recognised equally as a lawful union by the officers and tribunals of the national religion (Thompson v Dibdin [1912] AC 533) except to the extent that parliament limits parishioners» rights in order to protect individual clerical consciences.

The essence of the claim between Father Hart and the Archdiocese is ecclesiastical in nature and this court has no jurisdiction over that dispute.

(c) Agreement between the Holy See and Malta on the recognition of civil effects to canonical marriages and to decisions of ecclesiastical authorities and tribunals on those marriages of 3 February 1993, including the Protocol of application of the same date, with the second Additional Protocol of 6 January 1995.