What Luther says of the rights of the State authorities in Church affairs reveals how little his heart was in this abandonment of ecclesiastical authority to the secular arm.
It dispensed with the oath of bishops to the king, and formally abolished (see articles fifteen and sixteen) the exequatur, as it is called, authorizing the publication and execution of all notable acts of ecclesiastical authority.
Even so late as the beginning of the fourth century the practice of displaying paintings in places of worship was prohibited by ecclesiastical authority.
Ecclesiastical authority succeeded in repressing them in the sixteenth century, but they never altogether disappeared.
The doctrine declared to be orthodox by ecclesiastical authority is overthrown by the unquestionable discoveries of modern science.
It protested against "a man being placed on the throne of God," against a vice-God of any kind, nor would it yield its scientific convictions to ecclesiastical authority.
The essential spirit of the religious revolution which in the 16th century shook Europe and its thrones, was resistance to ecclesiastical authority.
Ecclesiastical authority, not argument, is the supreme rule and the appropriate guide for Catholics in matters of religion.
France into dioceses and parishes shall be substituted by a new repartition, decreed without the advice of ecclesiastical authority, and without the approbation of the head of Christianity (tit.
Treaties made with heretics, and promises given to them must not be kept, because sinful promises do not bind, and no agreement is lawful which may injure religion or ecclesiastical authority.
Rome, the Centre of the Formation of Ecclesiastical Authority 73 Fourth Conference.
Ecclesiastical authority (as distinguished from that of the State).
Causes of his opposition to ecclesiastical authority, i.
She ridiculed, too, the prevalent dogmatic philosophy and science, which having been embraced by the Schoolmen, and sanctioned by ecclesiastical authority, had become a part of the scholastic system.
Their children might intermarry, the difference in wealth being countervailed by a difference in ecclesiastical authority.
Referring to the interest evinced by the elders of other religious societies on this occasion, he disclaimed on their behalf any pretensions to ecclesiastical authority.
It consigned to prison all, above sixteen years of age, who should forbear for a month to go to church, or who should deny the queen’s ecclesiastical authority.
Edward’s advisers loosened the reins of ecclesiastical authority: they were unconscious that no mortal should have ever held them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecclesiastical authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
