City councils often disputed royal, noble or churchly power.
Such Church Fathers as Tertullian, Augustine, and Jerome renewed, in churchly guise, the Platonic argument against poetry.
The session cares for all the religious or strictly churchly matters.
They repudiated "human creeds" and traditions as requirements for Christian fellowship, understood baptism as the immersion of believers only, and recognized no churchly authority beyond the congregation.
The new generation of Disciples could no longer deny the churchly character of the institutions that had been developed.
The writings that form it are believed by Christians to have been divinely inspired, whether the mode of inspiration was that of dictation or of a more complex mediation through the human writers' minds, experiences, and churchly location.
Then he says, "Roll call!" And, with the music rising bit by churchly bit, he introduces the core of the band: "Professor Roy Bittan is in the house.... Charlie Giordano is in the house...."...
For many poor, young, urban blacks, King was too middle-class and genteel, too Southern, too churchly and high-flown; Malcolm had lived as they had.
He could reduce his teaching virtually to an aphorism: God's Gospel ruled in the churchly realm and his law ruled in the civil society.
Downstairs, there's a forensic, churchly atmosphere.
When pressed, Sam reluctantly says he sees Jesus as a mythical figure exploited for profit by churchly corporations.
