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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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Ideas of universality pervaded his thought and inspired his performance pedagogically, academically, and ecclesiastically. The music of Bruckner, which was ecclesiastical music par excellence, emerged from the composer's personal piety and church commitment; Bruckner essentially translated church-based activity into musical terms.
The legacy of Olav Guttorm Myklebust
In Bourgeois's estimation the intentions of proponents of the institutional church were "in part charitable and in part socially and ecclesiastically conservative" (72).
All Things Human: Henry Codman Potter and the Social Gospel in the Episcopal Church
His "Report on Ecclesiastically Independent Theological Education," released by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1976, was also a notable contribution.
Paris, Rome, Jerusalem: an ecumenical journey
There are even some theological voices in Orthodoxy which attribute an ecclesiological relevance to the WCC in addition to its ecclesiastically neutral or merely "serving" function--or precisely for that reason.
Orthodox participation in the WCC: a brief history
Yet by 1700, when the settlement had grown into a fair-sized town of perhaps 14,000 people, the situation had not altered, ecclesiastically speaking.
Midlands Archive: Let us not pay dear father; Chris Upton looks at the history of St Philip's in Birmingham, while below
Yours in sympathy for the ecclesiastically ambitious,
Rev. Dr. J. Paddyngton Bayer has decided -- once more -- to submit to the will of the people and offer himself to the demands of greatness
"World" was even more pretentious, but ecclesiastically more modest.
Brian Stanley, The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910
A major transition was underway, from ecclesiastically delegated and controlled apostolates of caring for Catholics in large Catholic institutions attached to monastic-style convents to more individualized ministries in situations of need regardless of the denominational affiliation or lack thereof, ability to pay, or respectability of the recipients.
The past and future of ministerial religious life: these women follow a form of discipleship that reaches back to Jesus
Joon-Sik Park's essay on Anabaptist John Howard Yoder is a reminder that even "the least of these," ecclesiastically speaking, brings gifts of inestimable value to the larger world church.
Just what is the Gospel?
Then in 1968, in the wake of turbulent student strikes and civil disobedience in Germany and France, Ratzinger underwent an intellectual conversion that drew him politically and ecclesiastically to conservative positions.
Blessings on Pope Benedict XVI from the editor's desk
(63) In fact, in the late middle Byzantine period, at a time when female deacons had presumably devolved to a nonordained monastic order, Balsamon summed up their duties in just this way in a letter to Patriarch Mark III of Alexandria: "they ecclesiastically manage the gynaeceum." (64)
Female deacons in the Byzantine Church (1)
This unity, however, is not a matter of compromise, nor is it a matter of fait-accompli, or imposition of decisions through methods that are morally and ecclesiastically unacceptable.
International Academic Symposium "Orthodox Theology and Ecumenical Dialogue": opening address

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