Sentences with phrase «by judicatories»

Aided by judicatory and seminary personnel to whom the congregation seems more beneficiary than source of Christian praxis, local churches usually assume that a more definitive form of church life exists somewhere else.

Not exact matches

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.

This finding is most clearly illustrated by the high degree of dissatisfaction expressed by United Methodist clergy in relation to their denomination's deployment systems and the level of support they received from judicatory officials.

There is another type of school which is legally wholly owned and operated by a church judicatory.

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

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.

The new approach called for membership by «judicatories» — the districts, presbyteries, associations, dioceses and other such denominational units.

This way of doing college and university ministry will require rethinking not only by campus ministers and their boards,, but by local congregations and judicatories, all of which need to understand that the church on campus is an extension of — not an annoyance to or a competitor with — the local church.

Its board of trustees consisted of significant numbers of ministers of the denomination (often appointed by a church judicatory).

However, much of the funding that used to be channeled to national churches through mission boards is now being spent by local churches and judicatories on their own hands - on mission projects.

There is no reason in principle why local associations should be bereft of staff executives, but such persons should not be appointed by higher judicatories at the state or national level.

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 the case of Attorney General v. Pearson, cited before, the proposition is laid down by Lord Eldon and sustained by the peers that it is the duty of the court in such cases to inquire and decide for itself not only what was the nature and power of these church judicatories, but what is the true standard of faith in the church organization and which of the contending parties before the court holds to this standard.

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.

Preparatory and definitive — by these two appellatives let them be distinguished: preparatory, where, from the judicatory in which it originated, a suit, to receive its termination, must be transferred to some other: definitive, when it is in the originating judicatory that the suit is not only begun, but continued and ended.

If, with the requisite amendments, necessitated by change of times, the system of local judicatories were restored, — each judge would, for all purposes, be provided with his own ministerial subordinates: and for all of them be would be responsible.

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.

In this they seem to have fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country; and they being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed, either by avarice or partial affections, there must follow a dissolution of justice, the chief sinew of society.

Marriage licenses are a tool by which the issuing judicatory can create and maintain «vital statistics» filings for a county, state, and federal government.