ecclesiasticism

The Puritans advocated the demotion of clergy and ecclesiasticism.

Ecclesiasticism was widely evident in the arts.

A new and fervent sect declared that the true spirit of the musical religion had been stifled by ecclesiasticism.

Ecclesiasticism crushed this fair flower with fire and with sword, and threw back the progress of the world for centuries.

Sphere sovereignty is an alternative to the worldviews of ecclesiasticism and secularism (especially in its Statist form).

The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and by all branches of organised ecclesiasticism.

Long prayers, ecclesiasticism, and creeds, have clipped the divine pinions of Love, and clad religion in human robes.

Abelard struck a blow for free thought which led to the eventual emancipation of Christendom from the bondage of Ecclesiasticism.

These conditions at first continued in the subsequently established Germanic kingdoms under the Burgundians and Franks, for ecclesiasticism took root slowly.

He gives us this contradiction that human thought is at once the grandeur and destruction of life--an opinion imbued with ecclesiasticism, confusing thought with passion.

While Protestantism maintained a full-orbed or holistically religious view of life as distinguished from an ecclesiasticism, the later secular Enlightenment sought to rid society of religion entirely.

The subjection of the Church to the power of the State led to a governmental ecclesiasticism, causing friction with Roman Catholic Church, which had remained relatively independent.

This book described Christ's mission to be to establish social equality, and contrasted primitive Christianity with the ecclesiasticism of Cabet's time to the disparagement of the latter.

Buttlar rejected ecclesiasticism and any religious restriction made by Philadelphian groups and the contempt of worship and sacrament made by separatist groups.

According to Schwegler, the puteal originally indicated that the place had been struck by lightning, and the story is a reminiscence of the early struggle between the state and ecclesiasticism.

The chief priest of Kabul immediately proclaimed Habibullah to be the successor of Mohamed, whereupon the Emir of Afghanistan delivered an address inspired by an "intolerant ecclesiasticism".

"Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically."

He has clarified his understanding of West, stating that it includes "[a]ll countries that have based their economic, social, and political system upon a European civilization that had inherited Greek philosophy, Roman statecraft, and Christian ecclesiasticism."

The political and ecclesiastical liberals decried him as a dangerous reactionist, the unionists hated his strict Lutheranism, the representatives of pietistic subjectivism were offended by his ecclesiasticism, and popular sentiment disliked his hierarchical tendencies.

"We must fight alienism and selfish ecclesiasticism.... The parents, the pastors and the church have entered into a conspiracy to darken the understanding of the children, who are denied by cupidity and bigotry the privilege of even the free schools of the state."

He was in the fullness of his powers, his studies had fed his natural aversion to the principles of authority and ecclesiasticism, and at a moment when the revived activity of the Jesuits caused some real and more pretended alarm he was appointed to the chair of history at the Collège de France.