Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity...

An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. The...

this time, Hooker began to write his major work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a critique of the Puritans and their attacks on the Church of England...

Congregational polity, or congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church...

Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders...

churches have emphasized simplicity in worship. Several forms of ecclesiastical polity are exercised by Reformed churches, including presbyterian, congregational...

supremacy over the State Ecclesiastical polity, the government of a Christian denomination Hierarchy of the Catholic Church Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, jurisdiction...

British publisher of academic textbooks Ecclesiastical polity, any system of church governance Student Polity Association, defunct student governing body...

connectionalism, is the theological understanding and foundation of Methodist ecclesiastical polity, as practised in the Methodist Church in Britain, Ireland, Caribbean...

difficulty to access the main parish church. In the wider picture of ecclesiastical polity, a parish comprises a division of a diocese or see. Parishes within...

different types of polity. It was during this period that Richard Hooker wrote Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity to defend the polity of the Church of...

for their arguments in debate, in particular with the king. His Ecclesiastical Polity supplied arguments on justification, less individualistic than the...

Tacitus, used to express the exploitation of religion by State or ecclesiastical polity as a means of controlling the masses, or in particular to achieve...

intelligence Instrumentum regni – Exploitation of religion by State or ecclesiastical polity as a means of controlling the masses List of Latin phrases Panem...

The question of the properties and finances of the Church of England has been publicly raised in the twenty-first century because the corruption allegations...

of Canterbury, or less formally the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of England. The other is the Province...

sinful and that marriage is between one man and one woman. Regarding ecclesiastical polity, Driscoll favors an elder-led approach. Driscoll formerly adhered...

The annual meeting of parishioners (also referred to as the annual vestry meeting) is held yearly in every parish of the Church of England to elect churchwardens...

apologetical writings.[citation needed] Stuart G Hall (formerly Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London) describes the subsequent process...

A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally...

Scotland, a form of Protestantism with a Presbyterian system of ecclesiastical polity, is the third most numerous on the island with around 2.1 million...

Timeline History of Christianity Template:History of Christianity Ecclesiastical polity Trinitarianism Nontrinitarianism Christology Paterology Pneumatology...

A parochial church council (PCC) is the executive committee of a Church of England parish and consists of clergy and churchwardens of the parish, together...

Living Christ Church. The governing polity has risen out of practical necessities and not from any existing ecclesiastical model. The nature of the church...

Lists of office-holders Ecclesiastical polity (church governance) Congregationalist polity Episcopal polity Presbyterian polity All Catholic bishops, archbishops...

Reformation, the new denominations generally adopted systems of ecclesiastical polity that did not entail benefices and the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)...

Roman Catholic Church. Such association or unity is a church's ecclesiastical polity. The Greek word ekklēsia, literally "called out" or "called forth"...

Chapter Clerk is the title usually given to the officer responsible for the administrative support to the Chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church in...

indeed long known that Marcionite readings found their way into the ecclesiastical text of the Pauline Epistles, but now for seven years we have known...

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