Sentences with phrase «traditional ecclesiastical authority»

But the new technologies might be subverting traditional ecclesiastical authority and empowering only selected dissenters within religious institutions.

Not exact matches

Those who prize the freedom of the spirit must also question the control of the marriage covenant by ecclesiastical authority, as in Israel today, and as in traditional Roman Catholic practice.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.