Sentences with phrase «secular ruler»

Technically speaking, the pope IS a secular ruler of a country that holds an observer status at the UN, and as far as I'm aware, has a standing military (Swiss guard mercenaries).

At the age of eighteen he was both Pope and the secular ruler of Rome.

A secular ruler should aim to establish secular justice.

If his declaration precluded the enthusiastic patriotism of the old Prussian «union of throne and altar» or the mindless nationalism of the pro-Nazi «German Christians,» it was nonetheless susceptible to interpretation along classical Lutheran lines, in which the secular ruler is entitled to obedience in everything except matters of faith, which may be interpreted in such a way that they take up very little space indeed.

However, they had not merely more influence than today, but they were the highest secular rulers and ecclesiastical rulers at the same time.

Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.

Indeed, it was more extreme than certain modern expressions of the theory, for it did not leave the secular rulers as a sort of subdepartment under the princes of organized religion, but instead the hierarchy gathered into itself the functions of both.

Israel had been governed by secular rulers chosen, such was orthodox dogma, by the Lord himself and commissioned to «shepherd his people Israel.»

Perhaps he knows that most popes who have locked horns with secular rulers have ended up losing way too much?

He contrasts the tolerance of Poland's secular rulers with the anti-Semitism of the Catholic Church.

And as I look at the current turmoil in Iraq and remember my conversations with Muslim scholars, I have a better understanding of the popular appeal of theocracy in Muslim - majority countries that have been ruled by brutal and repressive secular rulers.

Secular rulers also established schools for the sons of the nobility.

Here was a precedent for the Papal claim to remove and appoint secular rulers.

Secular rulers would decide the religion of their people.

Not exact matches

During some of its flourishing periods, the Sufis were counted by the millions all over the Muslim Empire and in some countries their influence was so great that the heads of their orders were the practical rulers, with supreme authority in every major problem concerning the religious or secular institutions.

The result, according to Lewis, is that religious extremism has become the most effective way to express dissatisfaction and discontent, not only against the West but also against secular Arab rulers.

Those rulers were all of a piece: ruthless, corrupt, and secular, Al - Jumuah's trinity defining Middle East dictators.

Rulers may have gone to war for their own secular purposes, but Islam has never justified a war except for defense of the faith.

They are therefore very critical of the lifestyle and secular policies of some Muslim rulers, often thought to be in the pay of the West.

So in her conclusion she highlights some of the accomplishments of Byzantine civilization: an imperial government built on a trained civilian administration and tax system; a legal structure based on Roman law; a curriculum of secular education that preserved classical learning; theological thought, artistic expression, and spiritual traditions that are still alive in the Orthodox churches; and coronation and court rituals that were adopted by other rulers.

Politics no longer has anything to do with the idea of «the good,» what we have now is a secular system in which we consent to have rulers to protect our own interests, however noble or terrible they may be, because without that framework we'd just live like animals, fighting absolutely everything else in the worl

Politics no longer has anything to do with the idea of «the good,» what we have now is a secular system in which we consent to have rulers to protect our own interests, however noble or terrible they may be, because without that framework we'd just live like animals, fighting absolutely everything else in the world for resources.

Artists became employed by rulers who utilized their talents to promote their image and secular claims.