Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical order»

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.

Like the Franciscan also it protests against the ecclesiastical order, a protest which appeals to the New Testament witness to Jesus Christ in judgment against the authority of the ecclesiastical tradition.

The second fundamental difference is Schweitzer's independence of ecclesiastical order, and his freedom from identification with any traditional pattern of religious life.

Missionary ardor will not be curbed until perfect ecclesiastical order has been established or assured.

Agape bids us seek justice here, not the stale justice of combat and compromise, but the justice of a search for a new economic, political, and ecclesiastical order in which sexuality can be fulfilling for each in a life which is a support and not a barrier to the love which binds all together.

Despite the sophistication of their theology and the hoary prestige of their ecclesiastical orders, the European churches have failed to market their «product.»

Not exact matches

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.

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Perhaps encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II's tireless journeys in search of a new church order, Jakovos and Demetrios have embarked on a series of visits to ecclesiastical capitals, ancient and modern.

Ecclesiastical differences have to do with the Catholic willingness and the Protestant unwillingness to submit to an institution's opinion or order even when it contradicts one's own convictions.

Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458 - 471 A.D.), would not ordain anyone who had not been diligently reciting the psalms; the second Council of Nicaea (587 A. D.) concluded that no one was to be consecrated bishop unless he knew the Psalter thoroughly; and the eighth Council of Toledo (653 A.D.) ordered that no one be promoted to any ecclesiastical position who did not know perfectly the entire collection (Ross, 27).

The ministry as a «profession» rather than a calling has encouraged the rush toward ecclesiastical preferment, with clergy jostling one another like bumper cars in order to secure the most prestigious placements.

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.

I have no specific call to order my day and night, at least no call in the sense of an ecclesiastical call to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament.

He also involved himself in political controversy (he was a supporter of Italian unification, while striving to retain a place for the temporal power of the popes), and ecclesiastical debate (it was largely his theological duels with the powerful Jesuit order which resulted in the condemnation of certain of his works and theses).

But even if it is in fact rejected in view of the historical associations of the terminology and in order to respect the ecclesiastical use of the terms, we are far from being obliged or authorized to start from the proposition that everything individual is material, in the sense that this would be at least a heuristically valid principle.

It is something other than political orders or ecclesiastical institutions.

The emphasis upon order has less to do with ecclesiastical lock step than with what has been called «representative» ministry.

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.

Each person depends upon Jesus for his salvation and union with God (reflected in the objective order of the ecclesiastical hierarchy), but must also freely give himself over to the power of grace through growth in the spiritual life (the hierarchy of the stages of the spiritual life).

Jesus continues to strengthen and sanctify his Church through his servants, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, «effected so as to achieve a proportion appropriate to sacred objectives and so as to bring all theelements together in order into a cohesive and harmonious communion.»

Dionysius responds to those who observe that the priest in fact shares in the Bishop's exclusive mission of perfecting through the celebration of the Mass: does the priest's celebration of the Mass transgress the order of the ecclesiastical hierarchy?

But if a university is liberated from external ecclesiastical authority, an internal system of discipline must be instituted in order to ensure that its teaching remains consistent with the tradition to which it belongs.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

It means that the theological work that is to be truly helpful — at least for a while — is more likely to come from worldly contexts than ecclesiastical ones, more likely to come from participation in the Negro revolution than from the work of faith and order.

The 4,000 Sisters of Mercy (who operate the second - largest hospital system in the U.S., after the Veterans Administration) were ordered, under threat of ecclesiastical penalties, to abandon their plan to permit tubal ligations in their hospitals.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

He attempted to enforce clerical celibacy, forbade pluralism, (the holding of two or more church offices and drawing the income from them), endeavored to exclude lay interference in ecclesiastical affairs, affirmed the right of Rome to review important cases under canon law and thus increased appeals to the Holy See, ordered that tithes for the support of the Church be given precedence over all other taxes, and took vigorous measures for the suppression of heresy.

He had had to pay a great fine to Rome in order to get approval of the former; a further great fine was payable again for approval of the latter: a fine of 21,000 ducats for the appointment, and one of 10,000 ducats for wrongly accumulating ecclesiastical offices.

Similarly in the church order of Hesse (first introduced in 1531 and revised in 1537,1539, and 1566), the highest ecclesiastical authority lay in the hands of the prince, but it was less bureaucratic and more representative in character.

In spite of all colonial vicissitudes the formal definition of the work of the ministry remained as stated in the Virginia laws of 1619: «duely [to] read divine service, and exercise their ministerial function according to the Ecclesiastical laws and orders of the Churche of Englande... «42 Thus the goal and the determination of the generations of dedicated ministers who served the English Church throughout this period might be expressed in the words of that early governor of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale.

They use their ritual and institutional power to manipulate people in order to perpetuate vested interests and to maintain the dominance of ecclesiastical functionaries.

Thus reformation movement was to become a political movement under Muentzer, designed to eliminate all evil particularly that of the old ecclesiastical and political order manifesting itself in clericalism and feudalism.

With a plain white stock or neckcloth this remained the distinctive costume of the Anglican cleric until the middle of the nineteenth century; Newman marked the definite renunciation of his Anglican Orders by coming to dinner at Littlemore one day in gray trousers.27 The more serious clerics of the post-Oxford Movement period revived the cassock, though it has not come to be commonly worn except in church and on ecclesiastical premises.

And on Phantom Thread he personally sourced all his character's clothes at bespoke London stores, ordered purple socks from an ecclesiastical shop in Rome and personally supervised the décor of Reynolds Woodstock's home - even down to the kind of dogs he would own.

Furthermore, even when «civil contract» terminology is used in statute, it can not drive a wedge between the general and the ecclesiastical law of marriage: a union authorised by law must be recognised equally as a lawful union by the officers and tribunals of the national religion (Thompson v Dibdin [1912] AC 533) except to the extent that parliament limits parishioners» rights in order to protect individual clerical consciences.

Provided always that no clergyman in holy orders of the Church of England shall be liable to any suit, penalty, or censure, whether civil or ecclesiastical, for anything done or omitted to be done by him in the performance of the duties of his office to which suit, penalty, or censure he would not have been liable if this Act had not been passed.