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ECCLESIASTICAL. Belonging to, or set apart for the church; as, distinguished from civil or secular. Vide Church.

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Ecclesiastically they are or were a chapelry of Rochdale in the way that Honley was once a chapelry of Almondbury.

If the former approach risked its own fantasies about heresy, the latter exchanges courageous, creative rebels for empty, ecclesiastically tailored costumes.

So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc

We see then that the use of the category casus or status confessionis permitted Lutheranism to oppose, ecclesiastically and ethically, Roman Catholic medieval absolutism, Nazi fascism and the racist policies of South Africa.

Confessing the Triune God in a globalized era

That the Baptist rejection of infant baptism does not grow out of a pretension to possess the only ecclesiastically valid baptism is made apparent by the reference: "When Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches baptize adults after they have made their confession of faith, this baptism is recognized by Baptist congregations as biblically legitimate and valid.

The dialogues between the European Baptist Federation and the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe

This is obvious in the full title of the book Leviathan: The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastically and Civil.

Catholic social thought and modern liberal democracy

Clearly conceived as a fitting international spiritual gateway at Britain's most important seaport, the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, conceived in 1928, would have welcomed the faithful symbolically and ecclesiastically.

The cathedral that never was; The original design for Liverpool's Catholic cathedral is under the spotlight with a restoration of its architect's model. Peter Elson reports' The team, led by Chris Moseley, second left on front row, who put the model of Lutyens's Cathedral together, are reunited after 13 years

Indeed, it is the ability to provide content that is ecclesiastically authoritative, theologically informative, socially relevant, and spiritually nurturing that describes what is most characteristic of good inculturated preaching by and for Latinos.

Preaching the Teaching: Hispanics, Homiletics, and Catholic Social Justice Doctrine

This subordination is relatively less evident in Berman's first volume because it is focused on a revolution the nature and scope of which was religiously or ecclesiastically defined (i.

Law, revolution, and religion: Harold Berman's interpretation of the English revolution

The horizons of nineteenth-century Protestant German historians of Christianity were limited ecclesiastically, geographically, and chronologically.

Kenneth Scott Latourette. Kenneth Scott Latourette was not a historian of Baptists but rather a Baptist who was a historian of Christianity; he achieved wide recognition by virtue of the range of his work and the new perspectives that he offered

Authorities may ensure that the waters of Lourdes flow only in ecclesiastically approved faucets, but the Lady is not so easily channeled.

HAIL MARY

All looks modern today but King Offa of Mercia features in the history and it is still ecclesiastically known as Nuthurst cum Hockley Heath.

Rambling: Idyllic canal-side ramble gives walkers taste of a bygone era; Richard Shurey retraces the footsteps of King Offa

As a later scholar, Laurence Shook, put it, "This event was an astounding one both politically and ecclesiastically.