Sentences with phrase «in ecclesiastical»

I'm thinking of starting a pop - up, third - wave, boutique firm specialising in ecclesiastical and sports law.

In the ecclesiastical realm, theological education for practitioners is very theoretical.

In Fraser (No 2) the land was conveyed in 1866 on trust for the education of poor persons but was additionally confined to (i) persons in the ecclesiastical district of St Philip; and (ii) education in accordance with the Church of England precepts of the National Society.

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.

The term «imprimatur» also brings to mind the burden of approval: in an ecclesiastical setting, the term refers to the Church granting permission to publish or print.

A letter causing much amusement in ecclesiastical circles has reached Feedback, thanks to a source in the hierarchy of the Church of England.

Washington Gladden, that eminent representative man of nineteenthcentury Congregationalism, while advocating a modified socialism in political and economic affairs, as ardently advocated anarchy in ecclesiastical matters.

The bulk of the population lived in the villages, and in ecclesiastical parlance belonged to vicarages.

And this did a great deal to prepare the ministers for separation by training them in dependence upon persuasion unbacked by even a possibility of coercive power, and teaching them reliance upon political sagacity and the necessity for very down - to - earth political activity at least in ecclesiastical affairs.

The prophets of Israel, if transported to the twentieth century, might have found themselves more at home in a political meeting than in an ecclesiastical council.

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.

Well, despite what any tradition has intentionally or incidentally passed on to us, and we shld be mindful of both the good and the bad, I'm no believer in ecclesiastical gospels.They (RCC) bear no responsibility for the state of my mind, body and soul and I'm not offering them the blame.

ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French heresie, based on Latin haeresis, from Greek hairesis «choice» (in ecclesiastical Greek «heretical sect»), from haireisthai «choose.»

He has been under house arrest since January 2007, after being removed from office, in violation of canon law, for repeatedly objecting to government interference in ecclesiastical affairs.

He attempted to enforce clerical celibacy, forbade pluralism, (the holding of two or more church offices and drawing the income from them), endeavored to exclude lay interference in ecclesiastical affairs, affirmed the right of Rome to review important cases under canon law and thus increased appeals to the Holy See, ordered that tithes for the support of the Church be given precedence over all other taxes, and took vigorous measures for the suppression of heresy.

In his ecclesiastical policies he was ably supported by William Laud (1573 - 1645), Bishop of London (1628 - 1633) and then Archbishop of Canterbury (1633 - 1645).

In his ecclesiastical policies Henry had the support of Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556).

Reduction in ecclesiastical power, the transformation of ritual into a «leisure» time activity, and the «privatizing in general of theology into pastoral counseling or religious «preference» all reflect this altered status.

Differences in ecclesiastical customs developed.

In ecclesiastical affairs he brought more of the Eastern churches under the control of Rome than had been done before or has since been achieved.

This trend in ecclesiastical mobility has led to a greater emphasis on a church's «image,» an essential element in attracting and retaining the circulating saints.

Fr Pereiro's book might have been improved if he had replaced this conjectural chapter with one exploring the nature and importance of the concept of ethos in the ecclesiastical culture preceding and surrounding the Oxford Movement.

In theory and to a certain extent in practice solidarity exists among the followers of Mohammed, but it does not show itself in ecclesiastical bodies such as are the Christian churches.

Few people in mainline churches want to invest time and energy in ecclesiastical infighting; this is not why they go to church.

Contemporary Catholicism wishes to be relevant to the world, and not to rest secure in an ecclesiastical ghetto.

Thus, the hierarch shares directly in the priesthood of Christ and therefore enjoys the fullness of the priesthood in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, but he is infinitely far from encompassing the totality of Christ in himself.

In his discussion of Catholic art in France, in L'Art Sacré, Père Régamey well documents the resistances to the significant new initiatives in ecclesiastical architecture and art, not only among the masses of believers but among Catholic intellectuals.

The Bible, wrenched from its matrix in ecclesiastical tradition, is thus objectified by critical scholarship.

To this growing debate on «fulfillment theology» I would add a contribution from a Reformed theological perspective: the thesis that New Testament messianic claims can be abandoned only at the cost of sacrificing crucial aspects of the church's witness to the gospel of the Kingdom, but that Christians do need to abandon a good deal of «fulfillment theology» that finds its source in ecclesiastical triumphalism.

Streams of people sped past the windows of our halted car, in transit either to the sanctuary, the Sunday school complex, or the adjacent esplanade, a porticoed promenade lined with shops and stalls offering the latest in ecclesiastical amenities.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete.

Perhaps the last public official to conduct his office in ecclesiastical language was Octavio Véjar Vásquez, minister of education in the early 1940s.

In ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of living.

But time and again he thwarted Smith's efforts to litigate in civil courts the doctrinal questions already determined in ecclesiastical councils.

Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.

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.

This principle means first: In ecclesiastical decisions, measures, etc., there is always a choice between at least two, but usually between a number of possibilities.

What we should like to emphasize is this: There is a right institutional and legal piety which rightly makes demands on us in the ecclesiastical regulations about the liturgy, fasting, Sunday Mass, etc..

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.

It goes without saying that such a conflict situation changes considerably accord - ing to the measure in which the faith itself is engaged in the ecclesiastical teaching with which the theologian is confronted.

For if an alternative in ecclesiastical matters is truly good, it is so because it accords with the permanent principles of Christianity.

There are pitifully few Catholic scientists involved in ecclesiastical institutes and this is to the detriment of the dialogue with the world which recent popes and bishops have encouraged.

The Catholic basis for denying this tension lies in the argument that Scripture must be read as interpreted in the ecclesiastical tradition.

I can't spend too much time in the ecclesiastical sub-culture without getting cultural claustrophobia.

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.

It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

Even in ecclesiastical politics, some vendettas should not be pursued.

Not exact matches

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.