Sentence examples for ecclesiastical questions from inspiring English sources

The individual polities of modern Orthodox churches (e.g., Greek or Russian) are distinguished according to the amount of state participation in the settlement of ecclesiastical questions.

His harsh treatment of all (whether Puritan or Roman Catholic) who differed with him on ecclesiastical questions caused him to be attacked in the anti-episcopal Marprelate Tracts (1588 89) and to be characterized as "Morrell," the bad shepherd, in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579).

The estates saw it as a means of promoting ecclesiastical reform; on questions of faith, they were willing to compromise.

These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question.

He had to face the intrigues of a hostile party at court, and he clashed with Christina on foreign and ecclesiastical policy, on the question of the succession, and on her proposal to abdicate.

On the question of ecclesiastical power, of course, Marchia was also in disagreement with Pope John XXII (Lambertini 2000, IX).

In the Thirty Years' War (1618 48) confessional antitheses were intermingled with politics, and the credibility of the feuding ecclesiastical parties was thereby called into question.

A leading role devolved upon the bishop of Rome in questions of discipline, doctrine, and ecclesiastical and worship order.

During the 8th century, two issues alienated Rome from Constantinople: Iconoclasm and quarrels stemming from the question of who should enjoy ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Illyricum and over Calabria in southern Italy.

Although no major ecclesiastical schisms have taken place directly over these questions, shifts in worldview fostered by the rise of the sciences may underlie some of the doctrinal tensions in modern Christianity.

Again, however, speaking on a personal level and by no means on any ecclesiastical or official level, I have to ask myself some questions.