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The idea that the court ruled on it comes from a headnote by the court reporter, which reflected a colloquy between the chief justice and counsel prior to the oral argument, but which is not part of the decision.Thomas Schneider Retired administrative law judge Menlo Park, CaliforniaSIR – If companies have the same rights as people then they should also be able to go to jail.
Luther also attacked the "enthusiasts" among the would-be reformers; at the colloquy of Marburg (1529), rejecting the teachings of Huldrych Zwingli, he proclaimed the existence of the real presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper with a literal est ("This is my body").
At the end of the colloquy , Zwingli and Bucer proffered their hands in fellowship to Luther, who refused their offering.
He accordingly called for a colloquy between Catholics and Protestants at Regensburg in 1541.
There is a colloquy between the Lord of the Yellow River and the God of the Eastern Ocean, in which the complacent self-satisfaction of the lesser spirit is shaken by his unexpected meeting with inconceivable vastness.
Luther used the confession as the basis for the Articles of Marburg (October 1529) drafted in conjunction with the colloquy there.
Since the Lutherans insisted on a common confession as the basis of confederation, Philip called the colloquy to settle the controversy concerning the Eucharist, which had been dividing the Reformers since 1524.
Luther and Zwingli believed that their differences could not be worked out, but Bucer, a member of the delegation from Strassburg, who spoke at the end of the colloquy , believed that they could possibly be reconciled.
The first 14 articles stated the usually accepted common doctrines of the German and Swiss South German Reformations, which had not been discussed at the colloquy.
When Philip first entertained the notion of a colloquy between Zwingli, Luther, and a number of other reformers, he was prompted by his desire to create the basis of a Protestant political alliance.
As the French philosopher-critic Jean-Paul Sartre observed, the critic may announce that French thought is a perpetual colloquy between Pascal and Montaigne not in order to make those thinkers more alive but to make thinkers of his own time more dead.
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The noun "colloquy" primarily functions to denote a formal conversation or dialogue , often within academic, legal, or ecclesiastical settings. Ludwig's examples demonstrate its use in describing structured discussions and exchanges of ideas.
Expression frequency: Very common
