Sentences with phrase «other ecclesiastical authority»

Far from merely discriminating between what is religious and what is not, the Blaine Amendments discriminate against Catholic and other ecclesiastical authority and thereby carry out theologically liberal animosities.

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As a consequence, ecclesiastical authorities felt an even stronger need to call yen Jews and others.

If a church can not tell its flock «what to do with my body,» as the saying goes, with regard to contraception, then other uses of that body will quickly prove to be similarly off - limits to ecclesiastical authority.

It should be made clear to the reader of these pages that the Disciples had no ecclesiastical structure above the local church by which this or any other issue could be settled by authority.

Unless the preacher and text alike first become vulnerable to the other while holding at bay outside authorities that include ecclesiastical doctrines and traditions, there can be little hope that preacher or text will inspire anyone else.

All are in the same situation and no authority — not scriptural status, liturgical longevity, or ecclesiastical fiat — can decree that some types of language, or some images, refer literally to God while others do not.

That vision all the participants would share, and to it each could add whatever other beliefs he may acquire from «faith» or from ecclesiastical authority.

He got the Pope to issue a letter encouraging ecclesiastical authorities, bishops, abbots and others to hand over relics to his safe - keeping.

Perhaps other religious authorities might take note and in future consider referring their centuries - old, persistent and difficult ecclesiastical disputes to the British Columbia Supreme Court for resolution.