Sentences with phrase «church judicatories»

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.

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.

The failure of church judicatories to confront the unfaithfulness of a pastor — when the pastor's unfaithfulness is common knowledge in the congregation — robs members of an opportunity for healing.

The primary concern of most church judicatories is not the spiritual integrity of ministry.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

A bright, thoughtful, articulate, theologically alert person who is an ideal candidate for a, teaching position will often prefer to work in the upper judicatory levels of the church or for a council of churches.

Furthermore, Hoge and Wenger discovered a consensus among judicatory officers regarding pastors who have left local church ministry: «These pastors tended to be loners in the district or presbytery, for whatever reason not part of ministerial friendship groups or action groups.

«Two days focused on how missional judicatories, churches and individuals can facilitate church planting movements in their sphere of influence.

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.

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.

are also being set up at the judicatory level, where dioceses, presbyteries, conferences and synods are pooling resources not only for church school education but for leadership development and youth work also.

It is unrealistic to imagine that churches, at the judicatory or national level, can accomplish any significant social action without staff.

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.

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.