Sentences with phrase «on ecclesiastical»

Because, well, what else is going to happen when you get a group of boys hopped up on ecclesiastical jurisprudence and then issue them with sticks?

With a plain white stock or neckcloth this remained the distinctive costume of the Anglican cleric until the middle of the nineteenth century; Newman marked the definite renunciation of his Anglican Orders by coming to dinner at Littlemore one day in gray trousers.27 The more serious clerics of the post-Oxford Movement period revived the cassock, though it has not come to be commonly worn except in church and on ecclesiastical premises.

They are focused on the ecclesiastical institutions which are called churches, or, collectively, the Church.

from Persia was the beginning of East Syrian influence on the ecclesiastical and liturgical life of the church in India.

The libertarian rhetoric of Luther's reformation pamphlets, with their insistence on the freedom and dignity of every Christian and their onslaught on ecclesiastical corruption and established religious authority, certainly fueled and probably helped trigger the peasant uprising.

For it can hardly be imagined that in the Church parties will come between the lay committees and the individual Christians which will enable the latter to form an opinion on ecclesiastical matters and to select their representatives accordingly.

Not exact matches

While the book has weak points — most notably regarding Isaac Backus, the 18th - century baptist minister and author of the important treatise Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (1778)-- who appears and then disappears without much clarity on how he fits the argument — it is generally an incisive interpretation.

But other spiritualities and analytical frameworks would seem to have more influence on the ethical and even the ecclesiastical plans of the report.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Maybe it's a good idea for American Christians to take a sabbatical from traditional church for a few years and focus on how how each individual relates to the teachings and example of Jesus outdisde the influence of ecclesiastical thought control.

Wesley did not play on their turf, and their usual response was either not to notice him at all or, if they did, to place him in the category of ecclesiastical leadership rather than theologian.

Another possible improvement on the Bevilacqua proposal relates to the person designated as the competent ecclesiastical authority.

Alternatively, if bishops were included on the committee, this might be the «competent ecclesiastical authority.»

This accounts for the ecclesiastical opposition to Charles Darwin's work on evolution and to the arguments of critical Biblical scholars, which implied that not all statements in scripture were factually correct.

On this basis, Protestants could question all institutional forms of mediation as falling short of the living Word of God who called such institutions to account, whether they were ecclesiastical or political.

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

I believe that you are correct in supposing that Reformed Evangelical [Calvinism] Churches have a greater tendency to fall into authoritarian abuse; but a lot depends on the leadership and «old boy network» loyalties can trump accountability concerns in any human, not just ecclesiastical, institution.

Strictly speaking, I have no right to feel anything at all about the way the Church is going, and no right either to remember as much ecclesiastical history as I do or to buy and read paperbacks on theology.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Inhabiting the same ecclesiastical space for an hour on Sunday morning is not the same as belonging to a community where your presence truly matters to others and their presence truly matters to you.

The ecclesiastical sanctioning of this way of thought has forced generations of thinkers to expend great ingenuity on the acute rational problems that are involved.

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.

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..

Again and again German priests and monks insisted that missions among the Slays on their eastern borders must be conducted by them, and opposed the use of translations of the sacred books and the liturgy into Slavonic, presumably because it would encourage Slavic political and ecclesiastical independence of their rule.

The true renunciation of ecclesiastical privileges, a giving up of the gifts of the church to the world, therefore, corresponds to the central movement of the Gospel, the path of God to people, i.e., the saving renunciation of the Son of God on behalf of the world.12

Of course, such discussions must be carried on with tact and discretion and will rightly and inevitably be guided by the ecclesiastical authorities.

Perhaps encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II's tireless journeys in search of a new church order, Jakovos and Demetrios have embarked on a series of visits to ecclesiastical capitals, ancient and modern.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

To shift to another metaphor, and one more fitting to the ecclesiastical heritage, it may be said that the ship of the liberal church has been drifting aimlessly, calking up the leaks as best it can, and looking for some heavenly breeze to sweep it out to sea and on to the Western Isles.

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.

It was built on a complex and evolving set of treaties, informal agreements, and legal fictions through which the Church conceded to Catholic sovereigns rights over many aspects of ecclesiastical life — in exchange for which those sovereigns protected the Church from schism and supplied the resources for missions across the world.

One ominous result of this bureaucratization is that all sorts of decisions are being made primarily on the basis of political and institutional requirements without the theological and ecclesiastical controls that exist in other contexts.

Michael Angell, church operations director at Ecclesiastical suggests it would be a shame for vulnerable people to miss out on vital support from the Church.

This Court was specifically mandated to «proceed and act and give relief on principles and rules which, in the opinion of the said Court, shall be as nearly as may be conformable to the principles and rules on which the ecclesiastical courts of Ireland have heretofore acted and given relief» [and] the [Irish] Constitution has inherited and amended this former jurisprudence in matrimonial matters.

Much will depend on the workings of ecclesiastical and academic politics, but some configurations are beginning to take shape.

It is simply that, given our different views of human nature, human freedom, ecclesiastical authority, and the significance of historical events, we simply differ on what makes religious sense.

Nothing is more clear in the light of history than this: new political, economic and ecclesiastical machinery does not alone solve problems; it creates problems, and, above all, it puts a strain on moral foundations, on spiritual resources, that must successfully be met or the best - laid plans come down in ruin.

How utterly different from the way many of our churchmen come at us, putting primary emphasis on theories of inspiration, ecclesiastical regularities, forms of sacrament, creedal subscriptions, or metaphysical theories of the Trinity!

They saw themselves on a divinely appointed «errand into the wilderness» with profound personal, ecclesiastical, and world - historical meaning.

I think what we are referencing when we speak of «church» on this blog is the ecclesiastical institution.

Zaret's study is based on an extensive reexamination of sermons, lay memoirs, and historical studies of ecclesiastical debates and broader social conditions.

On the contrary, the church in «Asian Asia» in the early period was proudly Asian and did not depend upon Antioch for its origin or ecclesiastical life.

The Puritans were never more than a tenth or so of the English population, after all, and many «Puritans» were so designated owing to their views on parliamentary and ecclesiastical government and not to the depth or vigor of their religious sentiments.

The study of the influence of social stratification upon religious grouping and on the structure and constitution of religious communities could now supplement the efforts of the church historians and ecclesiastical legalists.

Let us ask, for example, whether the word «place» in the 1961 New Delhi statement about «all in each place...» is a purely geographical term mandating one ecclesiastical organization at each set of coordinates on the map.

Overall, I think Douthat's version of the conservative story pays too much attention to popes and bishops and ecclesiastical politics, and too little to the hows and whys and results of the collapse of the institutions and processes by which the faith had been passed on from one generation to the next.

Despite the pain that the churches in Ukraine have inflicted on each other, they must avoid the temptations of zero - sum - game ecclesiastical competition.

The traditional ecumenical goal, «organic unity» among the churches, has fallen on bad days, largely because it is thought to call for a needless suppression of diversity achieved through a generation or more of ecclesiastical self - preoccupation.

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.