Sentences with phrase «highest ecclesiastical»

The fallacy fatal to the judgment of the Illinois Supreme Court is that it rests upon an impermissible rejection of the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church upon the issues in dispute, and impermissibly substitutes its own inquiry into church polity and resolutions based thereon of those disputes.

Nevertheless the Supreme Court of Illinois substituted its interpretation of the Diocesan and Mother Church constitutions for that of the highest ecclesiastical tribunals in which church law vests authority to make that interpretation.

In short, under the guise of «minimal» review under the umbrella of «arbitrariness,» the Illinois Supreme Court has unconstitutionally undertaken the resolution of quintessentially religious controversies whose resolution the First Amendment commits exclusively to the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church.

Church's decisions that the Illinois Supreme Court deemed «arbitrary,» that court has unconstitutionally undertaken the adjudication of quintessentially religious controversies whose resolution the First Amendment commits exclusively to the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church.

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.

The pope was the highest ecclesiastical leader, and at the same time temporal leader on earth.

He dined with persons of respectable standing in local society, and he had at least one friend who moved in the highest ecclesiastical circles (he was an acquaintance of the High Priest» 12).

For it is not true that only the most stupid, narrow - minded and clerical men rise to the highest ecclesiastical offices, so that a generous, holy and idealistic people would have a wholly unworthy clergy.

Henry was a younger son of Henry VII and, like many younger sons of the aristocracy, had been slated for a high ecclesiastical post.

The Leipzig debate was preceded by long drawn out attempts by both the local Bishop and the University to prevent it occurring — neither wanted to risk trouble with high ecclesiastical authority.

He was neither patriarch nor archbishop, and it is not always easy for those who direct the affairs of assemblies involving high ecclesiastical dignitaries to estimate adequately the services of those who have been the prophets rather than the high priests of such a movement.

Not exact matches

However, they had not merely more influence than today, but they were the highest secular rulers and ecclesiastical rulers at the same time.

To a young academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

«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.»

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.

Second, there was a president determined to raise the institution to a higher cubit of excellence who saw the ecclesiastical establishment as a real or potential adversary to his project and rival to his power.

Broadly speaking, the regulation of the relation of the whole institution to its government or leadership, of its parts to the whole (the individual congregation), and of the individual to the higher sociological and ecclesiastical units may be either more democratic or more authoritarian.

It is at the point of conflict with the ruling ecclesiastical authorities who tried to silence the witness of Christians to their faith that the question of fidelity to the higher authority of God became most overt.

In the high Middle Ages, the pope was by any measure the world's most powerful figure, ecclesiastical or secular.

In general terms... the rationality of ecclesiastical hierarchies as well as of patrimonial sovereigns is substantive in character, so that their aim is not that of achieving the highest degree of formal juridical precision which would maximize the chances for the correct prediction of legal consequences....

Mormon women exercise very little ecclesiastical authority, especially at the highest levels of the Church.

By the 1850's it was a commonplace observation that in America the Episcopalians «have allowed the laity a share in ecclesiastical legislation and administration, such as the high church in England never granted» and that as a matter of fact even a bishop «maintains his authority for the most part only by his personal character and judicious counsel.

He despairingly lists some of the improper or fatuous reasons sometimes put forward in favor of such candidates, like their wealth, family connections, their being recently converted from the other side, their fashionable large - mindedness, their ecclesiastical pu11.32 But basically, the reluctance of the high - minded to be elected bishop was their own extremely high view of the office and the spiritual dangers it involved.

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.

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 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 Ecclesiastical Courts have heretofore acted and given Relief».

One wonders what ecclesiastical diet is responsible for the proposal to use a «high - powered propane canon as a sound source» for mapping caves (4 June, p 26).

CAGW has all the trappings of a formalized religion: a Pope, high priests, penance, utopian «heaven», sinners, heretics, purgatory, devine punishment, prophesy, Hell, an ecclesiastical hierarchy, a bible, misssionaries, fanatical acolytes, religious dogma, etc...

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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.

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.