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The Principle of Subsidiarity and Catholic Ecclesiology: Implications for the Laity
… attention is given to the status and role of the laity, and the implications of subsidiarity with regard to lay authority and decision-making in the church. Chapter One outlines some problems with ecclesial governance today, discusses the current status and role of the laity, and proposes an …
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Laity and Clergy in the Catholic Renewal of Dublin C.1750 1830
The culture of Dublin’s Catholic community experienced many changes during the period 1750-1830. This evolution existed in many forms. Some, such as the renewal of chapels and erection of schools and seminaries, were physical. Others, such as the reorganisation of the parish system, were spatial …
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Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context
… the interactions between medieval clergy and laity, which were complex, and its findings trouble dominant models for understanding the relationships between official and popular religions. In the context of an examination of these interactions in the Humber Region Lowlands during the …
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Lay Ecclesial Ministry as Vocation: A Particular Call To Mission for Laity in the Roman Catholic Church
… the underlying issues of the definition of the laity, the understanding of the secular character of the laity, the relationship between the ordained and laity in ministry, the basis of "call" to ministry, and the relationship between lay ecclesial ministers and the laity in general. It is …
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Everyman and the Angels: representations of celestial beings in the arts available to the laity in the Middle Ages
… little has been written about how members of the laity would learn about angels and what they would be taught about them. Recent publications have analysed and commented on these writings by learned theologians, but again, the study of how angels were presented to the laity and how this could …
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An Investigation of the Perceptions of Clergy and Laity on Race-Based Organizational Segregation in the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
<p>Problem</p> <p>The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States maintains a racially segregated organization in a society that has intentionally dismantled segregation in most of its organizations. The church needs to evaluate its current conference organization in light of this reality. …
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Examining Relational Communication: Exploring the Minister/Sick Person Relationship
… that exists between ministers and sick laity during a sick visitation, using the relational communication approach. The minister/sick person dyad was chosen for this study as it represents a new context in which to explore the relational dimension of control. Quantitative and qualitative …
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The Experience of Listening to Sermons in Late Medieval England
… sermons has approached them as delivered to the laity, rather than as experienced by them. In the well-trodden field of sermon studies, there has been an underlying assumption that the success or popularity of a sermon was chiefly determined by the rhetorical skill of their author and/or the …
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Civil Reformations: Religion in Dundee and Haddington C.1520-1565
… little resistance or dissent from the Scottish laity. A study of burgh records demonstrates that the nature of urban religion was crucial to the success of the Reformation among the laity. The municipal governments of Dundee and Haddington exercised significant control over religious worship in …
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Praying the Passion: Laypeople's Participation in Medieval Liturgy and Devotion
… This thesis re-examines the role of the laity in medieval devotions and argues that careful attention to manuscripts reveals multi-layered levels of understanding and approaches to doctrine and the liturgy across lay and religious communities. It investigates the inter-relationship of …
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An Exploration of the Context and Ecclesiastical Investigations of the Virgin's Reported Appearance in Knock, Ireland in 1879
… in the third chapter suggests that the laity interpreted the Knock apparition as a sign of comfort from the Virgin Mary after experiencing much suffering during the Great Famine and the Land War. In contrast, the local bishops were more reserved in making a definitive judgment about the …
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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
… natural philosophical discourse to the laity. By comparing the similarities of discourse evident between the institutional and lay texts and the textual approaches the Middle English writers employed to incorporate this discourse, these works demonstrate that the spheres of institutional …
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"Common Plowmen's Children": The Frontiers of Ulster Catholicism, c.1680-c.1830
The dissertation argues that Ulster Catholic laity inhabited a social and cultural "frontier" through the early modern period. This mentality shaped how Ulster Catholics perceived and conceived their place and community in the rapidly changing religious, socio-economic and political situation in …
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Planning a Needs-Assessment-Based Approach to Continuing Education Programs for Seventh-day Adventist Clergy in the Eastern Africa Division
… from the SDA clergy and a selected group of laity in the EAD. The data were gathered through a two-part questionnaire. The first part sought the demographic profiles of respondents. The second part was designed to enable the respondents to rank each one of the thirty items for preparation and …
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Financing the Faith: Scottish Catholicism 1772- c.1890
… time, the Church turned to the<br/>Catholic laity for financial support. This represented a significant cultural shift for a community which was unaccustomed to providing such support. But recognising the Church’s financial needs, the laity responded generously to this appeal and in many …
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Journeys to holiness : lay sanctity in the Central Middle Ages, c.970-c.1120
… and voluntary exile at a time when the laity were increasingly exploiting the benefits of spiritual travel. The first part of the dissertation consists of a series of local and individual studies, the most detailed of which pertain to southern France and northern Italy. These …
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