Sentences with phrase «merely human institution»

They find it hard to believe that the Catholic Church is a supernatural society and not merely a human institution, another «denomination» like so many others.

There, Paul unwinds a sixteen - chapter - long argument to drive home one essential point: No merely human institution — no matter how clever, pure, or sensitive to its members» «needs» — can remit a single, small sin.

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Insofar as such structures and institutions are of legal character they may, of course) be regarded as merely human and thus mutable, not necessary laws, because they did not always exist but have been — or have still to be — established.

He was one of the minority of theologians who were ultra-papalist and regarded the papacy as a divine, rather than human and merely historical, institution.