Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical systems»

I promised to say nothing of ecclesiastical systems in these lectures.

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

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.

This is no time for clinging rigidly to the doctrinal formulae, the ecclesiastical systems and the liturgical forms of the past.

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.

And his Gospel, though not a pattern of an ecclesiastical system nor yet a program for modern social reform, is still «social» through and through — social because religious, in the ancient biblical understanding of religion.5

Minds like Newman's (Newman's imagination so innately craved an ecclesiastical system that he can write: «From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I can not enter into the idea of any other sort of religion.»

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As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

Did he present Zacchaeus with a huge and intricate system of theological speculation and ecclesiastical practice?

The voluntaristic system of the free churches in North America, it has been said, has tended to transform their officials into merchants who offer all sorts of wares so that as many customers as possible may be attracted to their ecclesiastical emporiums.

Catholics were burdened with creating a parallel school system because of some ecclesiastical hair splitting.

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.

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.

In place of the prevailingly rural economy to which, through the parish system, the Church had adapted itself, mining and manufacturing towns were rapidly emerging and the populations of existing cities were mounting and were outgrowing or making anachronistic the ecclesiastical structures of earlier days.

A nation - wide ecclesiastical structure was rapidly erected for them and an extensive school system was created to nurture youth in the faith.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.