The abolition of the tribunal of the Holy Office, the institution of a Council of State, lay education, and the secularisation of the administration were among the measures recommended.
In this complete disregard of early Christian prophecy, and in his exclusive reliance on literary documents, we see in Marcion a process of despiritualising, that is, a form of secularisation peculiar to himself.
The eschatological view is certainly very severely repressed, but it always breaks out here and there, and still guards the spiritual from the secularisationwhich threatens it.
The sanction given to the secularisation of church property was a cruel disappointment to the clergy, who cared little for Rome, but cared much for wealth and power.
The liberation and secularisation of Italy were completed in 1870 by the expulsion from Rome of the French garrison.
And in fact the Ambrosian chant was in danger during the 6th century through increasing secularisation of losing its ecclesiastical character.
Chrysostom had to declaim against the secularisation of Church music.
He was quite aware that he had dealt the Church a blow, but he thought that the process of secularisation which he had unduly stimulated had been one of simplification rather than of destruction.
He gave me an exact translation of the letter of secularisationsent by Pius VII.
The religion of the Scripture is no longer the original form; it is the mediated, scientific one to be constructed by a learned process; it is, on its part, the strongest symptom of the secularisation that has begun.
But the danger of secularisation lies in the cramped conception of Irenæus, who sets up authorities which have nothing to do with the Gospel, and creates facts of salvation which have a no less deadening effect though in a different way.
But this is not the case; for in the first place very strong proofs can be adduced, and besides, as is shown by the development in the second century, very different kinds of secularisation were possible.
For the danger of secularisation is evident, since apostasy from the Gospel would be completely accomplished as soon as the ideal of the self-sufficient Greek sage came to supplant the feeling that man lives by the grace of God.
The epithet "[Greek: katholikos]" does not of itself imply any secularisation of the idea of the Church.
The Church with her priests, her holy books, and gifts of grace, that is, the moderatesecularisation of Christendom corrected by the means of grace, was absolutely needed in order to prevent a complete lapse into immorality.
A compromise was also arrived at with regard to the secularisationof ecclesiastical property within the jurisdiction of secular Princes.
None of the princes of Germany had made greater use of the cry for secularisation of ecclesiastical property than these Saxon princes, and this had led to fresh disagreements between the two cousins.
After the first spoliation, in the month of August, these consequences became clear to all, and the secularisation of Church property was a foregone conclusion.
After the breach with the clergy and the secularisation of Church property, the prelates went into exile, and were followed by their friends.
If the proposedsecularisation took place, there would be a large Protestant majority in the Electoral College, and the next Emperor would be a Protestant.
The proposed secularisation of the ecclesiastical Electorates made Charles see that he dared not wait for the conclusion of this truce.
Abelard, assailed the Pope's temporal power, attacked the wealth of the clergy, urged the secularisation of ecclesiastical property, and led a popular revolt in Rome for a republic.
What effect this secularisation had upon the high ideals may be easily seen.
The secularisation and materialisation of the Church was so noticeable as to cause complaint as early as the third century.
The distinction of religious and secular is a variable one; every formation of a religious community is a step towards the secularisation of religion; the religion of the heart alone remains an inward thing.
For under the last-named the secularisation of the hierocracy no longer presented any attractive aspects; it was wholly repellent.
There was as strong a demand for the secularisation of Church property on the part of the lay peers and gentry; and Wycliffe himself had anticipated the cardinal point of the later movement by appealing to the State to reform the Church.
When he lauded the reforms effected by the German princes he was thinking of their secularisation of ecclesiastical revenues.
Fisher and More seeking to stem the secularisation of the Church, are like those who would save men's lives from the avalanche by preaching to the mountain on the text of the sixth commandment.
Now a secularisation of science has taken place by which all these departments of human knowledge are withdrawn from the ecclesiastical, theological, and Biblical authority.
By all this process of secularisation the Bible has been drawn back from general civilisation and restricted to its own proper domain, religion.
The secularisation of contemporary life means this, and more than this.
The secularisation of the marriage courts appears as a very characteristic subject amongst the questions of jurisdiction arising between State and Church, side by side with the secularisation of Church property.
Secularisation of church property in the Saxon Electorate.
By his principles and his writings he materially contributed to the secularisation of society and the State.
This was nothing less than the secularisation of the Order-lands into a hereditary duchy, dependent on the Polish crown; Albrecht, needless to say, being the proposed Duke thereof.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secularisation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
