Sentence examples for ecclesiastical rules from inspiring English sources

There are ecclesiastical rules and precepts that were once effective, but now they have lost value or meaning.

Harris's Conclave and West's The Clowns of God (1980) both turn, as did Holy Father, a play I wrote for BBC Radio 4 last year, on ways in which the ecclesiastical rules of sexuality might be tested without sin.

They are eager to believe in the miraculous but also much more willing to bend ecclesiastical rules," says Dias in her piece.

The first half of the legend describes how the king and the bishop ruled Sweden like 'two great lights' with feelings of 'internal love' toward each other, emphasizing the peaceful coexistence of the secular and ecclesiastical rule during a happy era when 'predatory wolves' could not hit their 'poisonous teeth against the innocent'.

What remained of the city was comprehended in this manorial order, and the distinction between town and country was largely obscured when secular and ecclesiastical lords ruled over the surrounding counties often as the vassals of barbarian kings (see manorialism).

Recently, the church authorities barred her from practising in ecclesiastical tribunals, which rules over marriage annulments.

An ecclesiastical court has ruled that a marble block sculptured by Henry Moore is a suitable church altar.

Exercising both ecclesiastical and political rule in Russia, Philaret reformed church administration, instituted a program to establish a divinity college in each diocese, and established libraries to upgrade theological scholarship.

A thousand years later, the medieval church adopted a two-thirds supermajority rule for ecclesiastical elections, including the election of a pope (a rule that is still in place despite Pope John Paul II's effort to change it in 1996).

As a way of cutting Serbia down to size, the party bosses agreed in 1967 that it would be a good idea if the republic of Macedonia had its own Orthodox church, instead of being part of the Serbian one.Under Orthodox rules, new ecclesiastical bodies normally gain independence not through communist fiat but by the consent of their mother church, and of the other Orthodox churches round the world.

Initially, there was disagreement concerning the nature of the government to be established, and some held that the holy city should be ruled under ecclesiastical authority.