Sentence examples for ecclesiastical calling from inspiring English sources

In addition to his ecclesiastical calling, Strang served one full term and part of a second as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, and assisted in the organization of Manitou County.

The second principle covered the special status of the ecclesiastical states, called the ecclesiastical reservation, or reservatum ecclesiasticum.

The ivory hooked top of an ecclesiastical staff called the St .Nicholas Crozier, made in England around 1150-70, has tiny humans and animals swarming all over it.

Philip Larkin, an English poet of decidedly secular leanings, disdained ecclesiastical liturgy, once calling it "that vast moth-eaten musical brocade".

From the political right, the bishops have also heard from Catholic groups calling for ecclesiastical sanctions on pro-choice Democrats.

Church mode, also called ecclesiastical mode, in music, any one of eight scalar arrangements of whole and half tones, derived by medieval theorists, most likely from early Christian vocal convention.

I tried a looser organization, what I would call ecclesiastical gnostics, trying to reinvent the whole thing.

In 1848, the influential Gothic Revival architect G. E. Street co-wrote a book called Ecclesiastical Embroidery.

The ecclesiastical provinces were called eparchies and were headed by archbishops or metropolitans who supervised their subordinate bishops or episkopoi.

The 17th-century ecclesiastical historian Tillemont called the edict "insignificant"; likewise, the late 20th-century historian Timothy Barnes cautioned that the "novelty or importance of [Galerius'] measure should not be overestimated".

I am not calling for a kind of ecclesiastical dialogue in which each side expects the other to convert at some point.