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PRESENTATION, eccl. law. The act of a patron offering his clerk to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted in a church or benefice.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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However, despite M.'s best efforts to explain why Theodore felt constrained to adopt the approach he did, one may still conclude that the christological teaching of this innovative and independent Antiochene thinker is seriously deficient and is inadequate to account for the presentation of Christ given in the Gospels.
The Roles of Christ's Humanity in Salvation: Insights from Theodore of Mopsuestia
Michelangelo, however, adopted a frontal presentation of Christ's body, and depicted it as being withdrawn from the worshiper into space.
Michelangelo and the Reform of Art. (Reviews)
In 1998, during the Synod for Asia in Rome, the Japanese bishops were among the harshest critics of Vatican insistence on an "abstract" and dogmatic presentation of Christ as the lone savior of humanity, to the exclusion of saving figures in other religious traditions.
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