it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.

Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??

By analogy, the church also has been regarded as entirely independent of the `` world '' in the sense of requiring nothing from it in order to be the church.

Although they have also been concerned to stand squarely within the tradition of the apostolic church, they have exhibited no willingness whatever to sacrifice their modernity to their Christianity.

Presumably those who did not have a formal church connexion had also felt the influence of Christianity to a greater or lesser extent.

This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

As a result of the new covenant, God's chosen people are now the corporate body of Christ, the church ( sometimes called spiritual Israel – see also Covenant theology ).

The establishment of the church as an institution recognized by worldly rulers is also visible in legal history.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

In the 1960s, the ACLU continued its decades-long effort to enforce separation of church and state, and it also defended several anti-war activists during the Vietnam War who burnt draft cards or wore armbands.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.

In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church.

A cappella ( Italian for " in the manner of the church " or " in the manner of the chapel ", also see gospel music and choir ) music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

She had constantly devoted herself to the service of the church and peace, and to the empire as guardian of both ; she also interested herself in the conversion of the Slavs.

The church also has a modern electrical, two-manual and pedal board pipe organ, that is still used in services.

It could also be that he became more active in the church under his wife's guidance.

The archbishops of Riga were also the secular rulers of Riga until 1561 when during the reformation the territory converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism and all church territories were secularized.

There is also a memorial to Disraeli in the chancel in the church, erected in his honour by Queen Victoria.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

The gap between the ecumenical perspective and the parish perspective appears most starkly in a church in any of our comfortable suburbs.

Barnabas appears mainly in Acts, a Christian history of the early Christian church.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

It is notable that, in the gospel, the community still appears to define itself primarily against Judaism, rather than as part of a wider Christian church.

John paid some of the compensation money he had promised the church, but he ceased making payments in late 1214, leaving two-thirds of the sum unpaid ; Innocent appears to have conveniently forgotten this debt for the good of the wider relationship.

The reported expulsion of Ionan monks and clergy by Nechtan in 717 may have been related to the controversy over the dating of Easter, and the manner of tonsure, where Nechtan appears to have supported the Roman usages, but may equally have been intended to increase royal power over the church.

It appears that these are associated with Pictish kings, which argues for a considerable degree of royal patronage and control of the church.

No language corresponding to the last sentence about " two stout monks " appears in the Rule, though it is a popular myth that it does, with several reputable publications ( and more than one church, and at least one Benedictine organization ) repeating and propagating the error.

or ) is the act of paying for sacraments and consequently for holy offices or for positions in the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the Acts of the Apostles 8: 9-24.

Unlike most composers of his time, he appears never to have sought a post at either a church or noble court, but then he was a man of independent means and had the option to compose music independently.

A somewhat obscure chain of events followed ( the so-called " Moechian controversy ," from the Greek moichos, " adulterer "), in which Theodore initiated a protest against the marriage from the Sakkudion Monastery, and appears to have demanded the excommunication, not only of the priest Joseph, but also of all who had received communion from him, which, as Joseph was a priest of the imperial church, included implicitly the emperor and his court.

It appears his designs would have made the church a good deal gloomier than the final design, with massive piers all the way down the nave, " like an alley " according to a critical posthumous analysis by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.

In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave.

* Jansenism Resources: Primary texts and discussions relating to the theology and history of Jansenism: context of Augustine of Hippo, Jesuit Order, liturgy, universalism and Second Vatican Council This site is maintained by a very conservative movement that challenges much of what the modern Roman Catholic church teaches and appears to be sympathetic to some Jansenist ideas.

While so-called ' pitched ' brick vaulting, which could be constructed without centering, may date back in the Ancient Near East to the 2nd millennium BC, the earliest evidence of the pointed masonry arch appears in late Roman and Sassanian architecture, mostly evidenced in early church building in Syria and Mesopotamia, but occasionally also in secular structures like the Karamagara Bridge.

Following extensive and ongoing restoration of the interior decorations, the mission church interior now largely appears in its original state, with brilliant colors and complex design.

Having made his reputation as a sculptor he appears to have turned his attention to architecture, and to have studied at Rome, though the precise date is uncertain ; but at the beginning of the sixteenth century he was engaged with the architect Simone del Pollaiolo in restoring the Palazzo Vecchio, and in 1506 he was commissioned to complete the drum of the cupola of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Moreover, he appears bitter about the tall Episcopal church across the street, wanting to build a larger steeple and, when mentioning the other church, placing the emphasis on " pis ".

Nelson's father also appears briefly in the sixth-season episode " Bart's Girlfriend "; depicted capturing Nelson with a leash as the children run through the cornfields in an attempt to avoid attending church.

The commemoration of the massacre of these " Holy Innocents " — considered by some Christians as the first martyrs for Christ — first appears as a feast of the western church in the Leonine Sacramentary, dating from about 485.

The pretty stair projection found in the west side of the church is not medieval as it appears.

The reign of John II was taken up with almost constant warfare and, unlike his father who delighted in active participation in theological and doctrinal disputes, John appears to have been content to leave ecclesiastical matters to the Patriarch and the church hierarchy.

The area appears to have been of some importance in the early Christian period, as evidenced by the Pictish stone carvings found during the restoration of St Vigeans church, and now housed in the small museum there.

The current cathedral dates from the fourteenth century, although it appears to be based on an earlier medieval building, which drawings show was about the same size as the present church.