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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Ecclesiastical authority"”.
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Literary Activity and Ecclesiastical Authority in Medieval Iceland: The Old Norse Reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his Exemplary Role in Bishops’ Sagas
… an instrument to promote Gregorian ideals of ecclesiastical independence against secular chieftains from the late twelfth century to the early fourteenth century. As a case study, I focus on the reception of St Ambrose of Milan (374–97), a fundamental theologian in Western Christianity and a …
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'The quiet of mankind': authority, spirit, and enthusiasm in England, 1660-1714
… applying a framework consisting of three parts - authority, spirit, enthusiasm - and suggest that, between 1660 and 1714, one part cannot be understood without reference to the other two. As a study of ideas traced in printed literature and manuscripts, it will proceed by elucidating the various …
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The céli Dé and ecclesiastical government in Ireland in the eighth and ninth centuries
… of the church. Particular developments in ecclesiastical organisation during the period under study are discussed and the extent of the role of individual céli Dé in these are examined, but will conclude that it should not be assumed that these developments, or concern for their …
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… and enforce God’s laws across both the civil and ecclesiastical spheres. In the English context, this ecclesiology was harboured in the Tudor royal ecclesiastical supremacy, which by means of parliamentary statute, exalted the English monarch over the church hierarchy. In his celebrated Apologia …
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“The Scientist is Wrong”: Joseph Fielding Smith, George McCready Price, and the Ascent of Creationist Thought among Latter-day Saints in the Twentieth Century
… Satanic falsehood of evolution.</p> <p>Smith’s ecclesiastical peers did not share his assumptions or his positions, and so Smith recruited the authority of science. An early adopter of the arguments of Seventh-day Adventist George McCready Price, Smith contended that <em>true</em> science had to …
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The judicial penal procedure for the dismissal of a diocesan priest from the clerical state according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law
… penalties (c. 1341). The right of a competent ecclesiastical authority to impose penalty presupposes proper understanding of delicts and penalties prescribed in the Code. By and large, penal laws operate in the juridical not moral sphere; that is to say, while all delicts are sinful, not all …
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An Irish apostle: articulating and actualising apostolicity in the early Irish church
… and Armagh had to their patron saints and their authority. It examines the importance of this connection for concepts of ecclesiastical organisation, teaching authority and episcopal succession against the backdrop of the seventh-century Easter question in the Insular Church. This will show that …