Sentences with phrase «laity distinction»

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In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

A «Catholic peace tradition» was described which blurred or erased the historical (and doctrinal) distinction between the «higher» morality of the religious and the «lower» morality of the laity.

This arrangement implies a qualitative distinction between clergy and laity.

In time the laity may not care to observe the distinction between the new Christ - bearers and ordained priests, despite the Vatican's «infallible» teaching that the former are forever excluded from the ranks of the latter.

Since the majority of the Conservative laity are indifferent to matters of religious ideology and Jewish observance, the distinctions between Conservative and Reform Judaism have become increasingly irrelevant.

The institution of a separate hierarchical priesthood was thereby overcome in principle and together with it the distinction between the clergy; and the laity, between rectores and subditi (rectors and subjects).