Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical positions»

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.

The Nicene Council delineated an understanding concerning some of the ecclesiastical positions.

The upward social mobility of their families has been furthered, their public status advanced, their ecclesiastical positions strengthened and their projects financed.

By the sixteenth century there was already plenty for a scientific critique of received ecclesiastical positions on the matter of authority to go to work on.

The monk Boniface, the chief missionary in the Rhine Valley, turned his back upon assured ecclesiastical position in England for the perils of a pioneer and left a profound impression of courage, selflessness, and beauty and strength of life.

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).

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

The task of maintaining prophetically critical positions over against such a society seemed much more important than ecclesiastical institution - maintenance.

They do not say this unless they think they know what God wants human beings to do — unless they can cite sacred scriptures, or the words of a guru, or the teachings of an ecclesiastical tradition, or something of the sort, in support of their own position (id.

Although some ecclesiastical systems are saturated with candidates and there is an oversupply of clergy, when positions do open up, and when the appointment officer is a strong advocate for women, women move into significant pastorates.

The other underlying assumption appears to be this: that theological positions and ecclesiastical practices which reject homosexuality can, in fact, be nonpunitive toward those persons so oriented.

For the final exhibition, Manzoni distributed hard - boiled eggs marked with his thumbprint to the audience, ironically positioning art in an ecclesiastical context of consumption and resurrection.