Sentences with phrase «edict called»

He issued an edict calling for the seizure of Donatist property, though later in 321 A.D., he asked the «catholic» bishops to show toleration towards them.

In 1817, King Frederick William III of Prussia issued an edict calling for the merger of the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

Not exact matches

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

In other words — Catholics are encouraged to make their own judgement calls when it comes to morality, but you'll still go to hell if you disagree with their edicts.

The American reformed Nazi Party USA, a.k.a. the Southern Baptist Convention, makes these edicts now and then to let you know they run the show and call the shots.

This letter has often been called the «Edict of Milan» but the term is a misnomer.

If mothers are so susceptible to the edicts of childhood «specialists», it is precisely because they feel helpless in relation to both the baby and the specialist, who dishes out his so - called «knowledge» with authority.

«If the idea is to cow our leader with calls for his arrest, then those behind the genocidal edict of «Igbos must leave the North» are even dumber than we thought.

We called it a «reprehensible and ignorant edict that smacks of Big Brother.»

However, a storm called Typhoon Vamei violated that edict in December 2001, arising just 150 kilometers north of the equator in the South China Sea, near Singapore.

A leaked draft of the encyclical — a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its 1.3 billion adherents — emphasises moral responsibilities to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and calls for changes in lifestyle and energy use to avoid the «unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem».

And the imperial stormtroopers who enforce their educational edicts on California's state legislature, its thousands of public school boards, and by extension, millions of parents and children, are all part of an evil empire called the California Teachers Association, or CTA.

The so - called «Circle F» project began in 1983, when Toyota's chairman issued the edict to «build a car better than the best in the world.»

While his reign eventually came to an end, with opinion turning against his dogmatic edicts, his ideas — which he published in the pages of the Partisan Review, the Nation, and Commentary — remain a critical touchstone for anyone trying to grasp the Abstract Expressionists, the Washington Color School painters, and others who were engaged in formalist, «non-objective» art, as abstraction was called back then.

They called for an unbiased and objective judicial review of the whole sorry process of climate science and its associated political leveraging following which they reversed all their earlier edicts and returned to the process of trying to direct policy for the enrichment of all classes of society.