Sentences with phrase «from ecclesiastical»

When the responsibility for divorce was transferred from the ecclesiastical to the civil courts, it was still regarded as a serious matter to be dealt with only by High Court judges sitting in London.

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.

For example, when Parliament enacted the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which transferred jurisdiction from the ecclesiastical courts of the CoE to the High Court, it stated that the High Court should be «conformable to the Principles and Rules on which the Ecclesiastical Courts have heretofore acted and given Relief».

With their new classical names, and their insights into history and literature, their attitudes stretched all the way from a lampooning of the gullible piety of the masses to a more philosophical agnosticism or a mysticism, which stood apart from ecclesiastical authority.

No dues should be paid to Rome, especially annates, the first year's income from an ecclesiastical benefice, which led to substantial sums leaving every European country (Henry VIII redirected these payments to the crown in England in 1532, and greatly increased them.).

Happily, today in most of the private colleges and universities teaching and research are free from ecclesiastical interference.

men who renounced the prevalent custom of drawing revenues from ecclesiastical posts whose duties they did not perform.

One son, Caesar Borgia, was made a cardinal in his teens, but when he developed political ambitions he was released from his ecclesiastical status.

The latter were moved partly by religious conviction and partly by the desire to control the Church in their domains and to profit from the ecclesiastical property confiscated in the transition.

But this power did not come from any ecclesiastical body, or through control of the sacraments, or by virtue of an academic degree or training, or by a majority vote of a church assembly.

Educators who anticipated that churchmen might use their leverage to obstruct rather than encourage their plans for academic reform withdrew their colleges and universities from ecclesiastical governance.

Apart from the ecclesiastical relationship that had been established with the Persian church, there were at least two important waves of immigration of Persian Christians to India, one in the fourth century and the other in the ninth century, which strengthened the already existing communities in India.

True academic freedom is not freedom from ecclesiastical authority, but freedom to speak the truth.

That vision all the participants would share, and to it each could add whatever other beliefs he may acquire from «faith» or from ecclesiastical authority.

Does freedom from ecclesiastical interference mean that the university is now dominated by an untrammeled search for truth?

Apart from this ecclesiastical relationship, there were at least two important waves of emigration of groups of Persian Christians to South India, one in the fourth century and the other in the ninth century, which reinforced and strengthened the existing St. Thomas Christian community.

Furthermore, once it was no longer a sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction of such measures as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization of marriage.

The Catholic Church in Spain allowed the dictator Franco to forbid the common people to own a bible because there was so much fear (not unfounded, as proven by fundamentalism) that apart from ecclesiastical it would be misinterpreted.

Not exact matches

Look at ecclesiastical history and you will figure out that the ancient bishops or pastors of single congregations were independent from each other.

An instance of Richelieu's nice distinction between the secular and ecclesiastical is that, at the same time he was gathering armies to wage war against the pope, he wrote the pope humbly asking for a dispensation from reading his daily office because of the pressing duties of military command.

Far from merely discriminating between what is religious and what is not, the Blaine Amendments discriminate against Catholic and other ecclesiastical authority and thereby carry out theologically liberal animosities.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

All but two are English, and the majority - ten» write from Oxbridge, where many of the chairs are still under ecclesiastical (Anglican) control.

Maybe it's a good idea for American Christians to take a sabbatical from traditional church for a few years and focus on how how each individual relates to the teachings and example of Jesus outdisde the influence of ecclesiastical thought control.

I am not a liturgist and, from the parochial perspective of a pastor who has studied worship much less than he has done it, I risk the tendency of many like me who probably unfairly think that liturgists are the ecclesiastical equivalent of lepidopterists.

Canon 812 states that anyone teaching Catholic theology in a Catholic institution needs some form of ecclesiastical approval, a «mandate» to teach that comes from the «competent ecclesiastical authority.»

The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

It extended as far north as the Slavic world and created its own Greco - Roman world that distinguished itself from the Latin Europe of the West by introducing variants in the liturgy and in the ecclesiastical constitution, adopting a different script, and renouncing the use of Latin as the common language.

Politics: For close to a millennium, the most important political question for European political philosophers was the relationship between ecclesiastical authorities and their royal rivals, whose authority was also assumed to come from God.

Even the celebrated divorce of King Henry VIII did not keep the English ecclesiastical law of marriage in the late sixteenth century from looking very much like the Catholic canon law of marriage of a century or two before.

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).

But «no ecclesiastical authority should be allowed by theology to hinder it from honestly pursuing its critical task....

Following the Imperial policy of extrapolating the influence of the state over the Church, theologians began to accept more and more government control in ecclesiastical affairs; even priest seminaries were no longer a space free from government intrusion.

In the Middle Ages a number of canonists teach that ecclesiastical courts should refrain from the death penalty and that civil courts should impose it only for major crimes.

What eventually emerged from the chrysalis of early Christianity was Christendom, ruled by an ecclesiastical institution which inherited the structures of imperial Rome.

It follows that the principles of change and permanence for this kind of ecclesiastical law are different from those which govern the Church's doctrine of faith.

The sources of the trinitarian doctrine is quite clear from history, and with it came beliefs in various things like transubstantiation, theosis, that Mary was a perpetual virgin free from sin, infant baptism, ecclesiastical hierarchy, bishop succession, the phoenix, that the world is made up of fire, water, earth and air, and that things formed of one element are immortal while things formed of many elements are mortal.

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

This conception has inevitably the further consequence that, apart from the priests in the ecclesiastical administration and a few others, all the clergy must be deployed in the parishes.

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Ezekiel shifts away from ethics and to an «ecclesiastical attitude» preoccupied with «ceremonial correctness.»

The real questions facing John Paul were, first, how to rekindle interest in sapiential philosophy without resorting to ecclesiastical imposition from on high, and, second, how to show its relevance to the practical problems.

It was simultaneously the product and part of the process of her own liberation from external ecclesiastical and spiritual controls.

Other factors inhibiting the church from developing a new understanding of creation are the patriarchal nature of the ecclesiastical establishment and the expectation of a millennial period in which human strife will be overcome and superseded by a reign of peace and justice.

It was built on a complex and evolving set of treaties, informal agreements, and legal fictions through which the Church conceded to Catholic sovereigns rights over many aspects of ecclesiastical life — in exchange for which those sovereigns protected the Church from schism and supplied the resources for missions across the world.

There is no direct pristine line from pastoral intention to ecclesiastical performance (as there seems, deceptively, to be in regard to preaching and pastoral care).

Accordingly, in what follows the word «church» moves freely from reference to particular local institutions to ecclesiastical life generally.)

Michael Angell, church operations director at Ecclesiastical suggests it would be a shame for vulnerable people to miss out on vital support from the Church.

Affirming a judgment in Harvey Cox's The Silencing of Leonardo Boff, Volf points to a «restless spiritual energy splashing up from the underside of society and threatening to erode traditional modes of ecclesiastical government.