Sentence examples for general councils from inspiring English sources

Protestant churches have not claimed to hold general councils or to promulgate dogmas.

First, certain decisions made by general councils have not been accepted by all sides in dispute at the time.

In general, councils do not provide social care for someone who can "self-care" but who is not eating.

Cranmer accepted a commission to write a propaganda treatise in the king's interest, stating the course he proposed and defending it by arguments from Scripture, the Fathers, and the decrees of general councils.

To his colleagues at the council he dedicated De concordantia catholica (1433; "On Catholic Concordance"), in which he expressed support for the supremacy of the general councils of the church over the authority of the papacy.

Moved by concern over a divided Christendom and influenced by 18th-century rationalism, Hontheim urged the limitation of papal power and its subjection to the bishops (the pope's equals, among whom he is first) and to general councils.

"Wind power has already generated -- no pun intended -- controversy," said Warren P. Reiss, general council at Scenic Hudson Inc., an environmental group.

Gill was on the TUC general council for 18 years.

Council of Basel, a general council of the Roman Catholic church held in Basel, Switz.

It was governed by a general council and an executive committee.

Late in 1244 the Pope called a general council to meet in Lyon the following summer.