Sentence examples for ecclesiastical concept from inspiring English sources

As an heir to Byzantium with its special spirituality Russia has been viewed within an ecclesiastical concept.

Through their emphases upon the divine legal character of Presbyterian polity, the Presbyterian churches have represented a Protestant polity that counters the Roman Catholic concept of the church in the area of ecclesiastical polity.

Gregory linked the battle against simony and for clerical celibacy chief characteristics of 11th-century ecclesiastical reform with a marked emphasis on the papal primacy, a concept based on the primacy of the Roman church, which at the time of Leo IX in 1054 led to the break in diplomatic relations between Rome and Constantinople.

The new religion followed the Buddhist cycle of reincarnation, drew upon the ethical precepts of Confucianism, had an ecclesiastical hierarchy similar to that of the Roman Catholic church and yet preached the Taoist concept of yin-yang, of two balancing forces, good and bad.

In the second half of the 18th century Febronianism demanded a replacement of papal centralism with a national church episcopal system; in Austria a state-church concept was established under Josephinism (after Joseph II [reigned 1765 90]) through the dismantling of numerous ecclesiastical privileges.

Meyer's concept of power sharing between the pope and bishops implied, to some priests, a similar leveling of their ecclesiastical playing field — an idea anathema to Cody, who received his cardinal's red hat two years after becoming archbishop.

It's the ecclesiastical Oscars.

There were also ecclesiastical schools.

What are Archbishop Nichols' ecclesiastical qualifications?

Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.

He certainly held ecclesiastical benefices.