Search results for "Laity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A commission composed of bishops, theologians and laity had been established by John XXIII for the purpose of reviewing the teaching on birth ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 01:36, 23 November 2022
- was a way to direct the military energies of the laity so that this served the Church's purposes. One answer presented itself in the shape of ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- these movements gained some support among the laity (including members of the Spanish aristocracy), they were repudiated by Charlemagne and Pope Hadrian ...19 KB (2,965 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- decades, however, a minority of Reform rabbis and laity have come to affirm beliefs including pantheism and deism. ===Jewish law === ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- Evening Sun Reprinted by Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) / Westchester. Retrieved October 14, 2013. A second strain of the criticism of Columbus ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- Saints as a distinct class of believers from the laity. In the Belgian province of East-Flanders (Aalst) and the west part of West Flanders (Ypres ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed (twenty-first session) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- In modern Orthodox Judaism, the laity immerse themselves on the day prior to the day of Yom Kippur and often do so before the three pilgrimage ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- consent of the pope, the increased role of the laity for holiness, and a generalized call for all humans to belong to the Church. Even before ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- explained his views in such a way that the laity could understand it. He wrote ... jewel of the clergy has become the toy of the laity." ...43 KB (7,057 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point. He viewed religious independence as not ...22 KB (3,185 words) - 06:41, 20 July 2023
- consists of representative bishops, clergy, and laity chosen by the thirty-eight provinces. The body has a permanent secretariat, the Anglican Communion ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- or Kalendaries, a brotherhood of clergy and laity who were attached to the Church of All-Hallowen or All Saints. Records show that in 1464, provisions ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- which were enacted nightly by the priests and laity, were thought to help ensure the victory of Ra in his life-and-death struggle with darkness. A ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- temple was progressively more exclusive, with the laity being admitted only to the lowest level. Glaize p. 62. Unlike most Khmer temples, Angkor ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- intended just for ordained monks, but for the laity too. The Japanese Vajrayana teacher Kūkai expressed a view that appears contrary to the Tibetan ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- there, consisting of both priests and laity; many of his lay believers came from among the samurai class. === First Remonstration and Early Years ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non-injury" (literally: the avoidance of himsa: violence). The principle ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- ascetic tendency while encouraging marriage for the laity. The plot brings a much-resistant Thomas to India, where his first act is to inspire ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
