Their differences had been manifested in ecclesiastical conflicts, such as the Photian Schism.
As an editor and expositor of classical texts and the writings of the Church Fathers, as a commentator on the ecclesiastical conflicts of his time, and as a scholar, wit, and satirist, he was unsurpassed by any humanist in northern Europe.
Holst, anxious to protect his students from being embroiled in ecclesiastical conflict, moved the Whitsun Festival to Dulwich, though he himself continued to help with the Thaxted choir and to play the church organ on occasion.
But, then, you also insist that they conform to a centuries-old ecclesiastical system that may conflict with equally venerable ideas that they inherited from their families or social standing in the world.
4.15), He was never troubled, as a mediaeval schoolman might be, by a conflict between ecclesiastical dogma and the best thought of the ancients, because the Word who taught the ancients from afar is, for him, the daily shepherd of the Church.
The iconoclasts, on the other hand, explain, in terms of ancient Antiochene Christology, that the image conflicts with the ecclesiastical dogma of the Person of the Redeemer.
Conflicts between his ecclesiastical duties and his government duties made him the target of criticism from both sides.
The process of definition and extension of papal control over ecclesiastical matters inevitably led to conflict with secular rulers.
Violence resulted from such diverse factors as the conflicting interests of ecclesiastical institutions, the complex ties of loyalty that bound men to one another and to the institutions of their society, and shifts in the distribution of power.
Conflict between royal and ecclesiastical power was a possibility he never faced: under Charles I both could be exalted simultaneously.
If he accepted lay authority in church government as exerted through the council, his personal influence averted both the subservient Erastianism (the supremacy of lay authority in ecclesiastical matters) of Lutheranism and exhausting conflict, as at Geneva.
