Sentence examples for ecclesiastical community from inspiring English sources

Its religious traditions began in the 6th century, when St. Kenneth is believed to have formed a Celtic ecclesiastical community.

The underlying sacramental theology of the Orthodox church is based, however, on the notion that the ecclesiastical community is the unique mystērion, of which the various sacraments are the normal expressions.

The church interprets each sacramental act as a prayer of the entire ecclesiastical community, led by the bishop or his representative, and as God's response, based upon Christ's promise to send the Holy Spirit upon the church.

The biggest step has been to develop ecclesiastical communities that have provided the church with a huge grassroots base.

Select early medieval period (400 1100 CE) Irish people pursued lifestyles of ascetic devotion leading to the establishment of ecclesiastical communities on small islands along Ireland's western coastline.

Modernity brought a decline in the direct institutional role of the churches in society, but the rise of democracy encouraged church leaders to assume an advisory capacity in the shaping of public policy, seeking to guide not only the members of their own ecclesiastical communities but also the whole body politic.

Precious books, carved gems, and objects of fine metalwork are likewise attested as gifts exchanged between members of aristocratic families as well as potentates and ecclesiastical communities to serve as tokens of allegiance or familial bonds, pious votives, or exquisite offerings that aimed to secure a person or a family's earthly memory and heavenly afterlife.

While many historians have focused on the role of the city's bankers and merchants in achieving these rapid transformations, in Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante, George W. Dameron emphasizes the place of ecclesiastical institutions, communities, and religious traditions.

Their ritual sacrifice excluded them from certain parts of the Christian community (ecclesiastical writers tended to ignore them, for example ) but these people nonetheless believed themselves to be Christian and were recognized by others as Christians.

As a writer and teacher he led his fellow citizens from the confines of feudal and ecclesiastical authority into a community founded on shared awareness and individual initiative.

By the early 7th century, the typical Byzantine city, viewed from without, actually or potentially resembled a fortress; viewed from within, it was essentially a religious community under ecclesiastical leadership.