Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical bodies»

Another factor, akin to that at the close of the previous decline, was lassitude and corruption within the ecclesiastical bodies which bore the Christian name.

The lay element was more prominent than in Europe; it was evident in the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations and it also characterized the ecclesiastical bodies.

Akin to radical Protestantism but seldom issuing in distinct ecclesiastical bodies was Pietism.

In theory and to a certain extent in practice solidarity exists among the followers of Mohammed, but it does not show itself in ecclesiastical bodies such as are the Christian churches.

The issue has been a topic for debate in many ecclesiastical bodies.

The pastoral counseling movement's family of origin is the church — that is, the ecclesiastical bodies in the United States and Canada to which these clergy are accountable through their ordination.

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

I divide American religious groups into ecclesiastical bodies, denominations, and sects.

Besides ecclesiastical bodies, there were denominations, independent groups, sects, and other communities, typologically differing from each other in the integration of their fellowship.

Religious communities as different as the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of the Latter - Day Saints are ecclesiastical bodies.

Significant contributions have also been made by both ecclesiastical bodies and sects, as they will continue to do in the future.

Invariably the principles of the canonical law in all of these ecclesiastical bodies are derived from basic theological formulations of religious insights, and invariably there is a considerable margin for the interpretation of these principles.

I think one of the reasons for the weakness of denominations and the relative vitality of ecclesiastical bodies and sects is that history is often a denomination's most important raison d'être, while theology plays a secondary role.

Nativists and other theological liberals allowed their fear of ecclesiastical institutions to lead them into theological warfare against the Catholic Church and sometimes against all ecclesiastical bodies, and the legal results are ugly.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

Is the Church of the Latter - Day Saints a Christian ecclesiastical body?

The Christian congregations there, to begin with, were independent of one another and only in the fifth century a national ecclesiastical body was established.

In others in which summons by an ecclesiastical body is as important as an inner call the latter must be supplemented or tested by a period spent under the supervision of a bishop, a conference, a presbytery, or some other official body.

But this power did not come from any ecclesiastical body, or through control of the sacraments, or by virtue of an academic degree or training, or by a majority vote of a church assembly.

That materialism bothers Toller — «this is not the church I was called to,» he says at one point, referring not to First Reformed but to the larger ecclesiastical body — even if the peace and quiet suit him fine.

Not exact matches

If a church can not tell its flock «what to do with my body,» as the saying goes, with regard to contraception, then other uses of that body will quickly prove to be similarly off - limits to ecclesiastical authority.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

They assume not only a settled ecclesiastical system in the Church, but also an established body of orthodox beliefs against which to judge heresy and, what is most significant, a collection of Christian Scriptures.

For the author, the cult of the icon has served to create a cordon sanitaire around the Orthodox churches, allowing them to immure themselves in a gated community of obscurantist ecclesiastical politics and attempted geographical hegemony whereby Western Christians (or Eastern churches in union with Rome) can not exercise their religious rights (and rites) in the lands of traditional Orthodoxy, but the Orthodox bodies are allowed to evangelize at will in the lands of the Western Enlightenment.

Protestantism made impossible a single ecclesiastical structure for Western Europe, but even had the outward unity of the Church in Western Europe been preserved, it is hard to believe that the Popes, as the spokesmen for that comprehensive body, would have had more voice in international affairs than they actually possessed or that a more effective unity of culture would have been preserved.

Honest recognition of this, along with our admission that much pettiness and silliness sadly disfigures the ecclesiastical world, need not rule out loyalty to the mystery of the Body of Christ, although it makes it imperative that such loyalty lead to action that will purify and reform the community as we know it.

While the fragmentation of American churches poses obstacles to the kind of ecclesiastical consensus reached in Germany in the 1930s or the Philippines in the 1980s, some kind of convocation of theologically orthodox bodies could presumably join to consider the duty of Christians under the present order.

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.

[Thus] the statements of the ecclesiastical magisterium furnish us with a precise description of the extent of social justice as the general norm of the life of the entire social body.

This mundane political usage was mirrored by the Christian community which began to signify ecclesiastical dignitaries by the term, and then also all those Christians with standing in the community of the Church, and finally, all individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ.

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

Well, despite what any tradition has intentionally or incidentally passed on to us, and we shld be mindful of both the good and the bad, I'm no believer in ecclesiastical gospels.They (RCC) bear no responsibility for the state of my mind, body and soul and I'm not offering them the blame.

Only in special ecclesiastical celebrations, like some events at Easter, do the churches usually fill up and on these occasions the actual body heat of the crowds moderates the atmosphere, although this is not usual throughout the year.

By the Church Commissioners Measure 1947, the Corporation of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne was united with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in a newly established body corporate by the name of the Church Commissioners for England.

Coram Life Education has launched a new Relationships Education programme, funded by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical, for Year 1 - 6 (Key Stage 1 and 2) pupils, with age - appropriate lesson themes including healthy relationships, body ownership, consent, puberty and reproduction.