Sentence examples for ecclesiastical establishments from inspiring English sources

It is the practice of many institutions, such as universities, professional and commercial organizations, and ecclesiastical establishments, to set up their own archive departments.

Hōnen established his headquarters in the midst of the city of Kyōto, away from ecclesiastical establishments, and gathered together devoted disciples, including Shinran, who was to become the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land sect).

He attacked the literary, philosophical, and ecclesiastical establishments of his day for misrepresenting the highest task of human existence namely, becoming oneself in an ethical and religious sense as something so easy that it could seem already accomplished even when it had not even been undertaken.

New configurations of political power were beginning to force the church into a subordinate role, a process that involved a fundamental reallocation of authority and resources from the ecclesiastical establishment to the monarch.

A second reason for the character of Muscovite cultural development in the 17th century was the preponderant role of the church and, later, of the state, which took over at last the assets, liabilities, and responsibilities of the ecclesiastical establishment.

If you buy the argument in James Madison's famous "Memorial and Remonstrance" (1785) that forcing a citizen to "contribute three pence" in taxes to a religious organisation will grease a slippery slope toward full ecclesiastical establishment and the decimation of religious freedom, you'll side with the ACLU.

The idea that the ecclesiastical establishment before Jocelin was simply a small church with a larger Gaelic or British monastic establishment has been discredited by scholars.

For other kingdoms than his native Northumbria, such as Wessex and Kent, Bede had an informant within the ecclesiastical establishment who supplied him with additional information.

In medieval Italy those rejuvenators of thought had to be very careful because the ecclesiastical establishment of that time barbarously condemned them as heretics, which happened to the Italian monk Giordano Bruno.

But if the line marking the distinction is drawn by the state, the state is setting itself up as the arbiter of ecclesiastical organization and thus falling afoul of the establishment clause.

Malcolm himself gained no reputation for piety; with the notable exception of Dunfermline Abbey he is not definitely associated with major religious establishments or ecclesiastical reforms.