Sentence examples for and the decrees of from inspiring English sources

During his reign, the Inquisition was successful in eliminating Protestantism in Italy, and the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545 63) were put into effect.

Cranmer accepted a commission to write a propaganda treatise in the king's interest, stating the course he proposed and defending it by arguments from Scripture, the Fathers, and the decrees of general councils.

It is divided into two parts that discuss (1) the doctrines that Christians are to believe concerning the nature of God and the decrees of God and their executions, and (2) the duties that Christians are to perform in regard to the moral law and in regard to the gospel.

In great measure this doctrine is identical with that confessed by orthodox Christians of every label and consists of the Bible, the dogmatic heritage of the ancient church as laid down in the historic creeds and in the decrees of the ecumenical councils, and the theological work of the great doctors of the faith in the East and West.

Citizens in the south were opposed to a centralised government, and to the decrees of its rule, which resulted in rebellion.

Thus regulation in the sector of maintenance evolves and the decree of the 1st July law of health safety is going to modify the biomedical environment.

A third notion was set forth in other writings of St. Augustine and Luther, in the decrees of the second Council of Orange (529), and in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.

To this end he held more than a dozen councils in Italy, France, Germany, and Sicily, which reenacted the decrees of earlier councils and popes and initiated practical measures to eliminate the worst excesses from which Christian society suffered.

Moreover, our calculation was based on the real costs accounted for in our hospital and stated by the Decrees of the Czech Ministry of Health.

Convoked by the patriarch Tarasius, the council was attended by delegates of Pope Adrian I, and the pope confirmed the decrees of the council.

He was often consulted on theological questions by the Eastern bishops and participated in formulating the decrees of the Council of Ephesus (431) against the Nestorian heresy (an emphasis on the independence of the divine and human natures of Christ).