Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical controls»

One ominous result of this bureaucratization is that all sorts of decisions are being made primarily on the basis of political and institutional requirements without the theological and ecclesiastical controls that exist in other contexts.

There were no settled procedures for transferring church property to ecclesiastical control, and church educational endeavors were in an unofficial limbo.

Ideas about the sanctity of conscience and the importance of godly edification were emphasized and subtly modified by clergy as they attempted to secure popular submission to the secular authorities, regain ecclesiastical control of the laity, forge alliances with the state, and secure patronage from the aristocracy.

He further says that the East Syrian church was under the ecclesiastical control of Antioch and the whole story of Thomas's work in the East is a fabrication by Edessa to assert its independence of Antioch and also to prove its orthodoxy in faith, Hence Brown rejected the East Syrian tradition concerning the apostolic activity of Thomas in India.

There has also been a fear that ecclesiastical control might stifle Christian initiative.

He traces the development of the fundamental democratic insights to a kind of «common sense» which repudiated ecclesiastical control and the dogmas of individualism and collectivism.16 The point is not that we should make an idol of the democratic tradition in any historical form.

The professors enjoy the status of civil servants and in that sense are one step removed from direct ecclesiastical control; but their primary responsibilities are clear, and all theological work is done in a distinct confessional mold.

From the Renaissance onwards, the young sciences struggled to get to their feet, and later, with the vigor of adolescents, they broke free from theological restraint and ecclesiastical control.

We continue to affirm that a seminary in a university is not an ecclesiastical agency; therefore the problem of identity can not be resolved by ecclesiastical control or fiat.

Although the Portuguese Crown attempted to prevent any missionaries from going to areas over which it claimed ecclesiastical control unless they went with its permission and through Lisbon, the majority of the more notable missionaries to South and East Asia were not Portuguese.

After the battles over ecclesiastical control of the seminaries subsided, there was a generation of teachers whose inner lives still evidenced the marks of piety.

Not exact matches

All but two are English, and the majority - ten» write from Oxbridge, where many of the chairs are still under ecclesiastical (Anglican) control.

Furthermore, once it was no longer a sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction of such measures as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization of marriage.

Maybe it's a good idea for American Christians to take a sabbatical from traditional church for a few years and focus on how how each individual relates to the teachings and example of Jesus outdisde the influence of ecclesiastical thought control.

Those who prize the freedom of the spirit must also question the control of the marriage covenant by ecclesiastical authority, as in Israel today, and as in traditional Roman Catholic practice.

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.

It was simultaneously the product and part of the process of her own liberation from external ecclesiastical and spiritual controls.

Today, however, as the world grows smaller, as communications become swifter and more sophisticated, networks of support and interrelationships emerge which are not centered in the institution or controlled by the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

In a closed society, typified by communist and fascist countries and by states in which the agencies of government are in the hands of absolutist ecclesiastical authorities, the preservation of the social order requires that the schools be under political control, in order that the official dogmas may be taught and the will of the controlling parties may be implanted in the minds of the young.

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

In Protestantism there was less tolerance than in the Roman Catholic Church of dictation by the heads of ecclesiastical hierarchies, and the Protestant spirit found congenial the laissez faire atmosphere of the nineteenth century with its relative freedom from state control.

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.

Yet in other respects — notably our ecclesiastical diversity, the freedom of the Church from state control, and the predominance of liberalism and fundamentalism rather than the new orthodoxy as the prevailing theological climate — our situation is different, and it will sharpen the discussion to keep it within such bounds.

As discussed in the previous chapter, in reviewing the situation in the mission field, this Commission noted the fear of missionaries, and missionary societies, about the new developments in the mission field and the possibility of churches in the mission field breaking away from western ecclesiastical traditions and control.

He stood against the Tsar's control of synods, ordinations, and ecclesiastical courts.

In ecclesiastical affairs he brought more of the Eastern churches under the control of Rome than had been done before or has since been achieved.

The latter were moved partly by religious conviction and partly by the desire to control the Church in their domains and to profit from the ecclesiastical property confiscated in the transition.

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

To this end he created great ecclesiastical states in Germany, for, since their princes, being bishops and celibate, could not be hereditary, by controlling their election he could use them to support the royal authority.

Only when the great minds were liberated from the biblical accounts of creation and the controls and censures of ecclesiastical authorities were they able to make a qualitative leap in scientific progress, bringing about the un-fettered birth of modern science.

In this situation the laity, in the absence of any visible and present reminders of ecclesiastical ubiquity and power to awe or influence them, tasted and relished the possibilities of control to such an extent that later they only grudgingly could be induced to surrender a part — and among Protestants they never surrendered all of it.

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.

One line of decisions derives from contests for control of a church property or other internal ecclesiastical disputes.