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He felt that the Anglican Church was in the unique position to harness the natural moral impulse that stemmed from society itself, as long as the Church replaced theology with science, abandoned supernatural beliefs, expanded its bible to include a cross-cultural selection of ethical literature and reinterpreted its creeds and liturgy in light of modern ethics and psychology.
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" A decade later, the 1836 Marriage Act, which introduced civil marriage, was contemptuously referred to as the ‘ Broomstick Marriage Act ’ by those who felt that a marriage outside the Anglican church did not deserve legal recognition.
Peel felt compelled to resign his seat as MP representing the graduates of Oxford University ( many of whom were Anglican clergymen ), as he had stood on a platform of opposition to Catholic Emancipation ( in 1815 he had, in fact, challenged to a duel the man most associated with emancipation, Daniel O ' Connell ).
Many Anglican bishops ( amongst them the Archbishop of York and most of his suffragans ) felt so doubtful as to the wisdom of such an assembly that they refused to attend it, and Dean Stanley declined to allow Westminster Abbey to be used for the closing service, giving as his reasons the partial character of the assembly, uncertainty as to the effect of its measures and " the presence of prelates not belonging to our Church ".
In 1978 the bishops spouses were accommodated at the nearby St Edmund's School ( an Anglican private school ); this separation of spouses was not felt helpful, indeed, the wife of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was famously observed climbing in through the window of her husband's room to visit him.
Her father was an Anglican minister in London, with strong Puritan leanings, who felt strongly that the clergy should be well educated, and he clashed with his superiors on this issue.
Victorious after a generation of struggle, the Anglican gentry felt the need to re-entrench the re-Anglicanised Church of England as one of the most important elements of the Restoration Settlement through a renewed and strengthened alliance between Throne and Altar, or Church and State.
The Baptist congregation at Ilston, Gower, felt compelled to move to Swansea, Massachusetts, but after the restoration of Anglican worship in 1662 several " gathered " churches survived belonging to the Baptist, Independent and Presbyterian denominations.
He felt that the rise of bishops, strongly advocated by the likes of Francis Asbury, would approximate the powers of the recently-disestablished Anglican church and thus unduly control the ministry, particularly through the practice of itinerancy.
This was the only way, in those days, of making the document swiftly and generally known, which was James's straightforward object ; the Anglican Clergy, however, felt it a challenge to themselves, for many of them were opposed to the toleration of Roman Catholics and Nonconformists, as were very many of the population of England at that time.
Many of the Anglican clergy felt legally bound by their previous oaths of allegiance to James II and, though they could accept William as Regent, they could not accept him as king.
Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, a high church Anglican whose sympathies were for separation of church and state, felt disgusted that the liturgy was made, as he saw it, " a parliamentary football.
He fell in love with the poet Christina Rossetti but she felt unable to marry him because he was an agnostic ( she was a High Church Anglican ).
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By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.
It is clear from Bede's own comments that he felt his job was to explain to his students and readers the theology and thoughts of the Church Fathers.
Many of Charles's subjects felt this brought the Church of England too close to the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.
Moderate Catholics felt that he had been a leading figure in attempts to reform the Church, while Protestants recognized his initial support for Luther's ideas and the groundwork he laid for the future Reformation.
In the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but she decided against converting to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England because she had felt it was " too restricting ".
In spite of his friendliness towards the Roman Church, Adrian never felt able to honour Manuel with the title of " Augustus ".
Puritans by definition felt that the English Reformation had not gone deep enough, and that the Church of England was tolerant of practices which they associated with the Catholic Church.
Puritans who felt that the Reformation of the Church of England was not to their satisfaction but who remained within the Church of England advocating further reforms are known as non-separating Puritans.
Those who felt that the Church of England was so corrupt that true Christians should separate from it altogether are known as separating Puritans or simply as Separatists.
After outrage from Birmingham residents ( who felt that the word ' Blast ' may have been misconstrued as a reference to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, as well as Eric Rudolph's 1998 bombing of a local abortion clinic ), the XFL changed the name of the Birmingham team to the more benign " Birmingham Thunderbolts ".
Many in the government felt that Townsend would be an unsuitable husband for the Queen's 22-year-old sister, and the Church of England refused to countenance the marriage to a divorced man.
After a time, Williams felt disappointed that the Plymouth church was not sufficiently separated from the Church of England, and his study of the Native Americans had caused him to doubt the validity of the colonial charters.
Like other religious reformers of the time, they felt that the Catholic Church needed radical cleansing of its impurities, and that the Pope ruled the Church as if it was a worldly kingdom, which sat in mocking tyranny over the things of God, and was ultimately doomed.
In 1653, following the Coonen Cross Oath the Malankara Church felt the need to have an indigenous bishop.
Church authorities cracked down hard on those they felt were part of the Popish conspiracy, contrary to Royal decrees.
In February 2009, Pelosi met with her bishop, Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, and with Pope Benedict XVI as a result of comments made by Pelosi to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that many observers felt inaccurately portrayed Church teaching on the subject of abortion and the beginning of life.
Gervase of Canterbury felt that he was too impetuous, probably because of Theobald's treatment of his priors at Christ Church.
Wilkins felt the Presbyterians could be brought within the Church of England, while the Independent separatists were left outside.
" A Miami Herald article wrote that ex-Scientologists joined the Free Zone because they felt that Church of Scientology leadership had: ".. strayed from Hubbard's original teachings.
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It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.
For over a hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them.
and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.
The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.
Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.
Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.
Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.
William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
So, because he had received less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should receive the few hundred dollars that remained.
It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.
After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
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