Sentences with phrase «laws establishing churches»

This «separation,» which Baptist Goen cherishes, practically contributes to disunity, because laws establishing churches do provide coherence and impose unity.

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The suit seeks to establish federal monitoring of the military's compliance with reporting laws, after lapses were exposed following a massacre at a Texas church.

Ben Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier: «The Islamic Defenders Front, they for years have been pushing this agenda, trying to shut down churches, attack the Ahmadiyya community - who're a sect of Islam that other Muslims disagree with - and also often raided nightclubs and bars and want Sharia law to be established.

«Given the benchmarks established by international law and universal legitimacy, and in light of the support offered by the Christian Church in the Holy Land, we believe Palestinians should also have a state that they can at long last call home.

Therefore, I think it is important for churches to establish at least unwritten laws concerning the way it...

Therefore, I think it is important for churches to establish at least unwritten laws concerning the way it treats its individuals.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

The law also established a process to retroactively license hundreds of churches erected without a presidential permit.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear: «The natural law, present in the heart of each man and established by reason, is universal in its precepts and its authority extends to all men» (1956).

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

Although several states had established churches, they were not theocracies but rather had Christianity as their foundation, and their laws and civil governments were based on biblical principles.

Since the Church's teaching that she should enjoy not only the protection but also the privilege of the laws is well established in her tradition, one must conclude that the truly Catholic understanding of religious freedom in no way abrogates it ab sent any statement on her part to the contrary.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the church both invoked the law against unwarranted government interference in internal church matters and demanded that the nation reject any activity that seemed to move it closer to erecting an established church.

An ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council.

It is opposed to the Christian religion as confessed by the Church historically since apostolic times, and as established by law in our land since the Reformation.»

If he follows the latter course, he will sacrifice an established Christian meaning and morality, abandoning all those moral laws which the Christian Church has sanctioned, and perhaps even negating the possibility of an explicitly Christian moral judgment.

The Church of Wales was in communion with the Church of England and was established by law.

Within Massachusetts and Connecticut, the stronghold of the old - type Puritans, the Congregational Church was still established by law and supported by public taxation.

As a result of the combined efforts of the dissenting Churches and the mild deists such as Jefferson and Madison, full religious liberty was established by law in Virginia in 1785.

The Congregational Church was established by law in that state and was convinced that only the combined efforts of Government and Church, both supported by public laws, could produce a peaceful and godly commonwealth.

This development is most strikingly illustrated in the history of the Church of England in the colonies, which in the South was established from the beginning by the Charters, rather consistently supported by successive laws, and generally nurtured by the civil rulers.

In 1539, he argued that the church should be constituted according to the law of the New Testament and that therefore four offices should be established: preachers, elders (responsible for the administration of discipline and for the religious and moral supervision of church members), teachers and deacons (responsible for poor - relief).

The first amendment prohibits congress from passing any laws that establish an official national religion (e.g. Islam in Saudi Arabia, or the Church of England in colonial times), or from passing laws that prohibit you from getting together with those of like mind and faith.

The supreme court, in a 6 - to - 3 decision, upheld a county district judge's finding in March 1983 that a group of parents violated the state's compulsory - attendance law by sending their children to a school established by the Calvary Baptist Church in Charles City.

Your last sentence is oversimplified, to say the least; there are many civil law countries (such as the UK) that have established churches.