Sentences with word «ecclesiastical»

The constitutional evils that attend upon any «arbitrariness» exception in the sense applied by the Illinois Supreme Court to justify civil court review of ecclesiastical decisions of final church tribunals are manifest in the instant case.

He gave his approval to the invasion of England by William the Conqueror (1066), and his legates intervened in ecclesiastical affairs in many countries.

The concern with Christ and Scripture also prompts a concern with the church — identified both with ecclesiastical institutions and with emerging communities committed to the struggle for freedom.

In previous posts regarding a similar dispute elsewhere, I predicted this outcome (and think that, as a matter of ecclesiastical structure and organization within that religious community, it is rightly decided).

Karl Barth (not a Catholic theologian, of course) had a different view of the relation with ecclesiastical authority.

Many medieval and modern rulers sought — and realized — control of ecclesiastical bodies in their countries.

Copernicus knew that his conclusions were likely to meet with violent opposition from ecclesiastical authorities.

While in other ecclesiastical organizations one has greater freedom to reject the desires of one's constituency or at least to evaluate the integrity of their requests on the basis of one's own theological stance, the broadcaster's dependence on his audience income for his very survival removes that theological freedom to a large extent.

Have leaders and congregants become so programmed by ecclesiastical tradition as to be sincere yet misguided in a way that makes Christian community and worship unattractive or even repulsive and not just to people outside of the church.

Services to children or their parents are not identical in principle with grants to churches as ecclesiastical institutions.

Only bishops could ordain, confirm, and exercise discipline through ecclesiastical courts; therefore they were desperately needed in America.

I promised to say nothing of ecclesiastical systems in these lectures.

For instance, Puritan emphases on self - control and introspective examination were increasingly selected for after 1590 when hope was lost that the state could be used as a resource for imposing ecclesiastical controls on the laity.

Like the scholarly heroes of Dan Brown's novel, Lily and her policeman lover (another Tom) face a secret society determined to maintain its hold on ecclesiastical power, no matter how many commandments it has to break to do so.

By the end of the third century or early fourth century, the Indian church entered into some sort of ecclesiastical relationship with the Persian church.

Their uncertainty is not about the truth of the Catholic faith or the authority of ecclesiastical superiors but about what God is asking of the Society and each of its members today.

For it is not true that only the most stupid, narrow - minded and clerical men rise to the highest ecclesiastical offices, so that a generous, holy and idealistic people would have a wholly unworthy clergy.

The temptation among many, both those who occupy or have occupied ecclesiastical calls and also among those who are «ordinary» members of the church, is to collapse calling into call when it comes to the ministerial offices of the church.

While we need not doubt that most ecclesiastical Christians practice Christianity as a heaven - sent way of returning to innocence, why is it that even the wisest and most worldly of our theologians are mute on the subject of damnation?

Through them, as through the monastic and popular, often «heretical,» movements, and through the Papacy and other ecclesiastical organizations, Christianity was being assimilated by the Germanic peoples, and these peoples were placing on it a distinctive stamp.

Victorian brass standard oil lamp (converted to electric) of ecclesiastical form with bulbous column with Acantus leaves, Pyramid base, scroll legs and lion paw feet - The lampshade -LRB-...

The pope was the highest ecclesiastical leader, and at the same time temporal leader on earth.

I do not take credit for having called forth the vociferous and critical laity we now seem to have in every church, and perhaps especially the Catholic Church, who make so much marvelous trouble for ecclesiastical leaders.

Unlike others who sold out in their ambition for ecclesiastical power and prestige, Hans Küng would not compromise his conscience.

In 1890 all religious restrictions on Jews (or indeed on anyone of any given faith) were lifted for all offices in Britain except the monarch, The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (abolished 1922), which, as ecclesiastical positions within the Anglican church still require the office holder to be of that faith.

Heresy; deviation from the established ecclesiastical order (rébellion contre l'ordre ecclésiastique); blasphemy; drunkenness; playing prohibited games; and dancing were regarded as irreconcilable with the ministry.

The church tried again, arguing that the court didn't have jurisdiction over ecclesiastical matters like theology and customs.

Once a year there is a Time, Talent & Treasure drive to persuade people to give more to the Church; but we have been called out of the world to be equipped (theological / spiritual formation) to be sent back into the world «as sheep among wolves» — not to create an escapist ecclesiastical sub-culture.

No longer present is the old temptation to separate tradition or ecclesiastical magisterium from Scripture as autonomous sources of revelation.

Following the Imperial policy of extrapolating the influence of the state over the Church, theologians began to accept more and more government control in ecclesiastical affairs; even priest seminaries were no longer a space free from government intrusion.

Design lovers can soon overnight at the Secular Retreat, a strikingly minimal property inspired by ecclesiastical architecture and designed by Peter Zumthor.

The church asked for the case to be dismissed, reasoning that secular courts don't have jurisdiction over ecclesiastical matters like theology and customs.

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.

Never fully at ease with ecclesiastical life (which in these books seems pretty awful), they find comfort in relationships with male authority figures.

In this new study there is a danger that collegiality assumes undue dominance in analysis and argument, nudging from centre - stage John XXIII's more fundamentally spiritual ideals of renewal and the search for ecclesiastical unity at a time when the Church seemed to be exuding a renewed sense of strength and self - assurance.

For while ecumenical leaders strive to meet the challenge of the times by bringing together the living elements in their churches, they still find themselves weighed down as with chains by ecclesiastical machinery and dogmas of the past.