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ecclesiastical

of or relating to the Christian Church

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The old episcopal city of Regensburg has an impressive history of ecclesiastical architecture.

Seeing the light: in the best Baroque tradition, light is used to create spatial and atmospheric illusions in this new church

Microhistories of women and men of different social classes take the reader across the capital cities and the provincial towns of central and northern Italy and into the courtrooms of ecclesiastical trials covering a chronological span that goes from the fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries.

Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni, eds. Matrimoni in dubbio: Unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo

On the Protestant side, the conflict between the ecclesiastical and the secular views is thereby defused.

Marriage as a religious and a legal concept

Indeed, the minimal ecclesiological presupposition is confirmed not only by the long-lasting procedures for determining the constitutional principles of the WCC's foundation, but also by the ecclesiastical character of the decisions of the Christian churches and confessions to accept the constitutional principles that govern their participation in the institutional expressions of the ecumenical movement.

Baptism and ecclesiology

Waddams is the first scholar to do a detailed analysis of the records of defamation cases in the ecclesiastical courts in the nineteenth century.

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855. (Reviews: modern Britain)

Richardson said: "I can confirm that the sale of Ecclesiastical has taken place via Anthony Stroud on behalf of a client in Hong Kong.

Fanshawe 9-1 Mile fancy will miss race; Ecclesiastical sold to Hong Kong

Thus, at the very moment the French government was trying the highest-ranking Vichy official ever accused of complicity in crimes against humanity, the French bishops were, in effect, delivering a verdict on self-imposed charges that ecclesiastical docility (their word) in the face of catastrophe had caused the church not just to be complicit in these crimes but, in so doing, to have violated divine laws and to have failed in its divinely ordained mission.

A Survey of Jewish Reaction to the Vatican Statement on the Holocaust

"A lot of wine from ecclesiastical suppliers is poor quality.

Praise the L'ordinaire

Just as this country pioneered separation of powers as a way to help prevent excessive concentrations of power, so too has church-state separation operated to help block the coalescence of political and ecclesiastical power.

Desecularization

Several of the texts represent ecclesiastical attempts to regulate women and marriage in Anglo-Saxon society.

Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing A Common Fate

Release date- 20082019 - Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc ('Ecclesiastical'), the specialist financial services group, today announces its 2019 interim results.

Ecclesiastical-2019 INTERIM RESULTS

The Movement For Good is run by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical, which invited members of the public to nominate causes close to their hearts.