Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical leaders»

Official candidates of Pentecostal churches are typically one or more of the following: men who have achieved prominence in the church as itinerant evangelists, singers, or media presenters; sons and sons - in - law of head pastors; and Pentecostal businessmen who reach accords with their ecclesiastical leaders.

They have nothing to do with regular church meetings and are in a completely separate category than Ecclesiastical leaders.

From the combined post of president and prophet to other ecclesiastical leaders, it's a male - dominated world.

During much of the 9th and 10th centuries the papacy was involved in the rivalry and prevalent corruption of the leading Roman families and of ecclesiastical leaders.

Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship in central and highly visible locations.

Furthermore, ecclesiastical leaders adopted the earth - centered view of the universe held by Ptolemy, an Egyptian - born astronomer of the second century.

As this more biblically based science expanded, ecclesiastical leaders had to admit that some long - held positions were wrong.

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

Not exact matches

Mainstream churches and educational institutions have had in the past a disproportionate share of leaders who were reared in Holiness and Pentecostal contexts but whose theological development led them into other ecclesiastical fields of service.

In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the leaders of society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every group with money for the arts.

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.

Typical factors of a psychological and sociological nature are of considerable consequence, for example, the typical make - up of the potential sectarian or of the sectarian leader, of the sectarian audience, of the urban parishioner, and of the ecclesiastical bureaucrat.

Whitehead (1947 p. 96) surmised that if the leaders of any ecclesiastical organization at present existing were transported back to the sixteenth century, and stated their full beliefs, historical and doctrinal, either in Geneva or in Spain, then Calvin or the Inquisitors would have been profoundly shocked and would have acted according to their habits in such cases.

Calvin was not as dominant an influence in the Reformed Churches as was Luther in Lutheranism, but he was the most prominent figure in shaping them and, as was true of Luther, his writings had a profound and continuing effect both within and outside the ecclesiastical circles which looked to him as their leader.

Authoritarian religious leaders, theologies, or ecclesiastical systems produce adults who are infanticized to some degree in their spiritual lives.

The greatest Christian leaders of the ancient church, John Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea, Ambrose and Augustine, were not only ecclesiastical rulers and theologians but masters of the pulpit.