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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • intended just for ordained monks, but for the laity too. The Japanese Vajrayana teacher Kūkai expressed a view that appears contrary to the Tibetan ...
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  • The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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
  • along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially military, professed the Arian faith. They attempted to turn over two churches in Milan ...
    27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
  • do so and often discipline, or try to, upstart laity who attempt this. He considered the Qur’an as Muslim possess this today to be identical with ...
    26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
  • Most modern Christians, whether laity, clergy, or theologians, still consider Judas a traitor. Indeed the term Judas has entered many languages ...
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  • members and carried out by all priesthood and laity. In most congregations the pastor(s) and other elected and appointed leadership positions are unpaid ...
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  • with clerical literacy that preaching to the laity in churches was hampered. Therefore, the field was somewhat clear for peripatetic evangelism of ...
    32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Fordham University ...
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  • avoid negative ones). In this context, the laity (whether at home or in temples ... is provide various services for the laity. They include presiding at ...
    58 KB (8,657 words) - 22:14, 25 January 2024
  • and the question of other groups such as elites or laity within "orthodox" Catholic practice. James Arthur asserts that the little scroll ...
    32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
  • the most popular understanding of prayer among the laity in any of these faiths. In all three of these faiths today, a significant minority of people ...
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  • was not preaching properly and that this put the laity in serious danger. Further, the Theses contradicted the decree of Pope Clement VI, in 1343, that ...
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  • hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity divisions, interpreting them as illegitimate additions to the original church's teachings.Jolene ...
    37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
  • life and a greater stress upon the role of the laity in the church. Linked with this was a movement for church “renewal” both by laity and the ...
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  • was not restricted to members of the laity; bishops and abbots, for example, were also capable of acting as lords. There were, thus, different ...
    38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
  • a set of precepts, some of which also apply to laity. In addition, the Buddha gave a detailed "rule" for the sangha, contained in the Vinaya ...
    39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
  • possess women in an attempt to seduce holy men (or devout laity), Indeed, any "non-passive" female sexuality was seen (in patriarchal ...
    37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
  • society activists have been Protestant clergy and laity. As physician assisted dying has obtained greater legal support, some liberal Protestant denominations ...
    39 KB (6,081 words) - 04:44, 23 March 2024
  • Bernard Lewis states that the Muslim laity and Islamic authorities have always had great difficulty in accommodating post-Islamic monotheistic ...
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  • in the mountains, far away from the Court and the laity in the capital. The irregular topography of these sites forced Japanese architects to rethink ...
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  • the evangelistic efforts of its ministers and laity, along with the guidance of Ellen G. White, the church quickly grew during the late 1800s and ...
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  • women's roles, and the role of the laity. On February 2, 2006, Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, informed members of the Society of Jesus, that ...
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  • texts, which often generalize monastic norms to laity, require this of lay people as well. Peter Harvey (ed.), Buddhism (Bloomsbury Academic, ...
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  • Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle ...
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