penitential system

They specialized in developing the mechanisms of the penitential system.

Through the Middle Ages the private penitential system became an increasingly elaborate and ritualized institution.

He opposed the Roman bishops who softened the penitential system to accommodate the large number of new pagan converts.

By spreading the Irish penitential system, Columban laid the foundation for the practice of private confession.

Thus the penitential system was quite quickly transformed into a means whereby the wealth of the sinful rich could be diverted into ecclesiastical endowments.

That the law concerning usury was partly inspired by the need to protect crusaders reminds us that the crusade was related to the penitential system.

The expansion of the penitential system has already been sketched, and it has been seen how much it affected even so stubborn a group as the businessmen.

Pacian is particularly known for his works De baptismo ("On baptism") and Libellus exhortatorius ad poenitentium, about the penitential system.

A uniquely Irish penitential system was eventually adopted as a universal practice of the Church by the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

The monks and parish clergy combined to enhance the role of sacerdotal authority by glorifying the miracle of the mass and by expanding the penitential system.

Control of the penitential system developed partly out of the crusades and the papal monopoly of plenary indulgences, which were first granted in connection with the crusade.

In every field of human activity, the expansion of the penitential system and of the jurisdiction of canon law testified to the capacity of the clergy to regulate and harmonize the life of man on earth.

It took away from religion the requirement of works, whether corporal or spiritual, of the need for penances, belief in purgatory, indeed the whole medieval penitential system; and it did so by emphasizing the finality of Christ's work.

The main plank of his thinking, justification by faith alone rather than by good works, threatened the whole basis of the Roman Catholic penitential system with its endowed masses and prayers for the dead as well as its doctrine of purgatory.

The practice of confession in the Church of England practically dates from his two sermons on The Entire Absolution of the Penitent, in 1846, which both revived high sacramental doctrine and advocated revival of the penitential system which medieval theologians had appended to it.