If the Professor thus strenuously opposed sacerdotalism on the one hand, he had as little sympathy with Broad Churchism on the other.
The combination of this idea with that of clerical sacerdotalismcompleted the Catholic theory of the Church and the clergy.
If one in ten among the official priests of the historic Churches had possessed these supreme gifts, the world would have accepted the most extravagant sacerdotalism without a murmur.
These principles are perfectly general, and are not confined to what is usually known as sacerdotalism and ritualism.
The church with its sacraments and its sacerdotalism is the disease of Christianity.
It is sad to think that the decline of sacerdotalism is associated with the growth of infidelity and religious indifference, showing how few worship God in spirit and in truth even in Christian countries.
Sacerdotalism entered into Christianity when it became corrupted by the lust of dominion and power, and with great force ruled the Christian world in times of ignorance and superstition.
In one respect, indeed, sacerdotalism in the Anglican Church is a worse thing than in the Roman Church, for it is undisciplined and unregulated.
The Judaical sacerdotalismwhich was beginning to extend in the Christian Church found no support in Iona.
Exeter seemed determined to make itself the champion of sacerdotalism in England.
Both were sacerdotal and ritualistic; but the sacerdotalism and ritualism of Dionysius were radically opposed in spirit to those of the more modern system.
During the interval between the fifth and the fifteenth century, sacerdotalism had had time to turn almost literally upside-down, and ritualism with it.
That this theory is Sacerdotalism in a sense may be admitted.
The true sacerdotalism means that Christianity is the life of an organised society, in which a graduated body of ordained ministers is made the instrument of unity.
No doubt the outcry against sacerdotalism was often perverted to disingenuous uses.
But Sacerdotalismcertainly attained a formidable height among some of the High Churchmen of the period, both Jurors and Nonjurors.
Sacerdotalism and sacrifice are prominent and showy priestly garments are regarded as requisite.
The mark of this tendency to sink all differences between Sacerdotalism and Prophetism is impressed on the Book of Deuteronomy, which appeared at that time.
Anti-sacerdotalism led Wycliffe later on to attack a doctrine to which the clergy owed much of their hold upon the popular mind, whence largely came the peculiar veneration in which they were held--the doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Corruption in the Church was, then, one of the contributory causes of mediaeval heresy, and anti-sacerdotalism was one of its features.
In fact, anti-sacerdotalism is still the real sum and substance of the teaching.
The first was reform, the weeding out of those abuses which gave anti-sacerdotalism its case and its opportunity, reform whereby all might be enabled to recognize incontestably that Christ was plainly revealed in the life of His Church.
In making the means of salvation extraneous to the individual, Sacerdotalism has defrauded man of his Saviour, making the first and personal coming of Christ of none effect.
This Brahmana period was marked by the intense and overbearing sacerdotalism of the Brahmans, and by an extreme development of the doctrine of caste.
Sacerdotalism first destroyed the Christian brotherhood by absorbing in the official ministry the functions of the individual believer.
Indolence in the laity fosterssacerdotalism in the clergy.
By far the smallest group of all were the freethinkers, men of their type being as often repelled by the zealotry of the Puritans as by the sacerdotalism of the State clergy.
At the close of his treatise on religion, after all his anxious accommodations, he becomes almost violent in his repudiations of sacerdotalism and sectarian self-esteem.
Opposition of early Buddhism to sacerdotalism and ceremonialism.
It is true he was a determined opponent of all Brahmanical sacerdotalism and ceremonialism, and of all theories about the supernatural character of the Vedas (see p.
THE claim of sacerdotalism is substantially as follows: Adam was the first man and the sole progenitor of the entire human race.
But we must not let these perversions of sacerdotalism rob us of good words.
I well know how difficult it is to explode a delusion that is nearly twenty centuries old, and that is supported by a sacerdotalism of vast wealth and learning, and whose votaries by "this craft have their wealth.
I first combat the policy of suppression and deception, and insist that the whole truth shall be published, and have shown that sacerdotalism is responsible for the fact that it has not been done.
But, though he was so single-minded a follower of Christ and His teachings, he was no Pharisee of the New Dispensation; the sacerdotalism of the Christian Churches was as hateful to him as the sacerdotalism of the Jews was to Christ.
If Gregory of Heimburg embodies the revolt of the ruling classes against Rome, Hans of Niklaushausen shows us the restless spirit of opposition to sacerdotalism which was spreading among the lower strata of society.
The whole structure of sacerdotalism would be undermined and the whole body of canon law would be disregarded if so monstrous a proposition should be conceded.
What has been said ofsacerdotalism holds true, to a still greater degree, of that thin, shadowy form of sacerdotalism, clericalism.
We properly apply the term sacerdotalism to any system the spirit of which seeks to place a human being in any intermediate character between God and man.
The sale of indulgences illustrates effectively the sacerdotalism which formed the distinguishing feature of mediæval religion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacerdotalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
