Sentences with phrase «with ecclesiastical»

By the Church Commissioners Measure 1947, the Corporation of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne was united with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in a newly established body corporate by the name of the Church Commissioners for England.

The original Gospel of Jesus, in Hamack's view, had little in common with the ecclesiastical statutes and doctrines of orthodoxy.

Official candidates of Pentecostal churches are typically one or more of the following: men who have achieved prominence in the church as itinerant evangelists, singers, or media presenters; sons and sons - in - law of head pastors; and Pentecostal businessmen who reach accords with their ecclesiastical leaders.

The life of the Friary, University and town experienced only a generalised sense of unease, the endemic irritation with ecclesiastical authority, common to so much of Europe.

This world of theological and biblical study by - passed the Pope, busy with ecclesiastical business, family affairs, and pleasure.

Regardless of his formal affiliation with any ecclesiastical institution or adherence to a faith, he is never free from commitments on various issues, partly because of his upbringing and partly because of his fundamental decisions about life.

In addition to this type of mutuality, perhaps with some ecclesiastical commitment, more and more there are independent dialogues, or encounters where the spirit is not persuasive but inquiring, where members of two faiths or groups of members meet simply to learn.

It has nothing to do with ecclesiastical organization.

Here, it will seem, was a Catholic intelligentsia obsessed with ecclesiastical arrangements, with structures and patterns and plans of every kind — papal, conciliar, episcopal, parochial; priestly and laical, liturgical, canonical, inter-denominational, cultural, social, political.

The «Reformed» phase of Protestantism, with an ecclesiastical structure which, although having many variations, was Presbyterian, arose almost simultaneously with Lutheranism.

Those who are acquainted with the ecclesiastical nomenclature will neither be surprised at the revelations nor at the battle now raging.

The reverse side of this picture is that the interests of the eternal world, in so far as they are identifiable with ecclesiastical practice and rule, have been steadily retreating.

The concern with Christ and Scripture also prompts a concern with the church — identified both with ecclesiastical institutions and with emerging communities committed to the struggle for freedom.

While modernity and democracy sometimes met with ecclesiastical resistance, they were generally inspired by religious conviction.

It is not difficult to follow the writer in his rejection of the understanding opaque and authoritarian» understanding of revelation associated with ecclesiastical authority and theological dogmatism.58 Such understandings lead to the mistaken idea that there are propositions which count as «revealed truths.»

As he himself said, he never did win with the ecclesiastical establishment!

Granted that a few Jesuits have been in difficulty with ecclesiastical authorities, the same can be said of diocesan clergy, Dominicans, Franciscans and lay persons.

More significant today than the church's activity in connection with the ecclesiastical arts is the deeper motivation which is revolutionizing the church's whole attitude to symbolic expression.

When the secular intelligentsia falls prey to the same kind of credulity and intellectual flaccidity more frequently associated with the ecclesiastical community, the intelligentsia and its media arm pause for a minute, then move on.

The audacity of Leonardo Boff (b. 1938), a Brazilian Franciscan, in writing Church: Charism and Power (1981), got him in trouble with ecclesiastical authorities.

The emphasis upon order has less to do with ecclesiastical lock step than with what has been called «representative» ministry.

Never fully at ease with ecclesiastical life (which in these books seems pretty awful), they find comfort in relationships with male authority figures.

Karl Barth (not a Catholic theologian, of course) had a different view of the relation with ecclesiastical authority.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

Not exact matches

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

According to Orthodox canonical tradition, the proper response to an incursion into universally defined ecclesiastical territory is a break in communion — a step that Antioch took after trying to work things out with Jerusalem for about a year.

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.

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.

For the best part of a millennium, the Inquisition was an ecclesiastical tribunal, with specially - appointed judges, answerable to the bishop and the Pope to combat heresy and schism.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

There follows a profile of an ecclesiastical figure who exemplifies the subject under discussion, and the chapter concludes with a Personal or Group Spiritual Exercise.

Pastor Silleck thinks I have done some quite terrible things» abandon reason, adopt an «unholy posture,» embrace a «neo «gnostic myth,» and «strike a deal with the devil»» because I believe it highly unlikely, in any foreseeable future, that Lutherans and Catholics will achieve ecclesiastical unity.

During the twentieth century, as denominationalism has lost its vitality, religious tribalism has taken the form of animosity and unco - operativeness among the conservative, liberal and radical wings of the ecclesiastical organizations, with the conservative wing being particularly militant.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

There are pitifully few Catholic scientists involved in ecclesiastical institutes and this is to the detriment of the dialogue with the world which recent popes and bishops have encouraged.

They met with hugs and kisses, these old, white - bearded men representing two of the oldest ecclesiastical sees in Christendom.

For if an alternative in ecclesiastical matters is truly good, it is so because it accords with the permanent principles of Christianity.

It goes without saying that such a conflict situation changes considerably accord - ing to the measure in which the faith itself is engaged in the ecclesiastical teaching with which the theologian is confronted.

At this level the question has to be answered primarily in terms of revelation, as it comes to us through Scripture and tradition, interpreted with the guidance of the ecclesiastical magisterium.

The sources of the trinitarian doctrine is quite clear from history, and with it came beliefs in various things like transubstantiation, theosis, that Mary was a perpetual virgin free from sin, infant baptism, ecclesiastical hierarchy, bishop succession, the phoenix, that the world is made up of fire, water, earth and air, and that things formed of one element are immortal while things formed of many elements are mortal.

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

In short, the Palestine of Jesus» day was a mildly stratified, largely rural, society in which are to be discerned all the familiar social forces of political and ecclesiastical dominance, religious formalism, extremes of poverty and wealth, economic insecurity, racial cleavage, an acceptance of the status quo with mixed reactions of acquiescence and revolt.

Ezekiel shifts away from ethics and to an «ecclesiastical attitude» preoccupied with «ceremonial correctness.»

Throughout his 39 - year editorship, Morrison wrestled with theological and ecclesiastical questions.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

By means of ecclesiastical history it is possible to prove that there was always a Christian Church with a certain clearly defined doctrine.

The growth rate, the meaningful statistic in making future plans, is down now to slightly less than per cent per year, and it seems likely that the RLDS church will continue as a modest but important ecclesiastical establishment, providing Latter Day Saints with an alternative to Utah Mormonism.

The RCC wanted to connect ecclesiastical leadership with temporal leadership.

If so, religion must be a large experience in which we grow in knowledge as we grow in humility and courage, in which we deal with life and not abstractions, and with God as the environment in which we live and move and have our being and not as an ecclesiastical formula....

Ecclesiastical stated: «When presented with a list of services offered by churches around the country such as food banks, elderly support groups, parish nursing and dementia support, the research found that more than half (54 per cent) of those surveyed were unaware of the services their own local church provided.»