Sentence examples for temporal punishment from inspiring English sources

Missing from the forgiveness mantra is its reconciliation corollary: "temporal punishment due to sin".

Some of the cardinals and bishops should suffer that temporal punishment.

The use of indulgences i.e., the remission of temporal punishment due for sin and dispensations from vows was restricted, and the whole system of penance was reformed.

Truly contrite sinners do not desire relief through an indulgence (which is a remission of the penance, or temporal punishment, that the sinner would otherwise owe following absolution); they crave penance.

On Nov. 9, 1518, Leo X issued the bull Cum postquam ("When After"), which defined the doctrine of indulgences and addressed the issue of the authority of the church to absolve the faithful from temporal punishment.

Catholics were now faced with an impossible choice: they could either be Catholics or English, it seemed; "either obey their Queen and consign their souls to damnation", as Childs says, "or obey the pope and surrender their bodies to temporal punishment".

Given that God had endowed the human mind with freedom, said Thomas Jefferson, "all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness".So it is sad to find that according to most people who study the subject, the cause of religious liberty is treading water at best, retreating at worst.

We provide the first systematic comparison of the temporal dynamics of punishment- versus relief-memory.

The speed at which the police arrest protesters is mirrored by the slowness of the state to drop charges: bail is used as a temporal weapon to continue punishment when protests are over.

There were plenty of songs nominated that referred to this practice in a historical context, recounting stories of crime and punishment with the advantage of distance, either temporal or cultural, that allow these songs to observe the dreadful act without feeling, necessarily that it has much to do with us.

Thus, the temporal pattern of decay for relief-memories differs from both punishment- and reward-memories.