Although such an outlook entailed anti-sacerdotalism this was rather a by-product of what was essentially. From Wordnik.com. [HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES] Reference
In other words, sacerdotalism was at an end; and it was Calvin rather than Luther who broke the power of priests. From Wordnik.com. [CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY] Reference
All such personal relationship, we again repeat, is incompatible with pantheism, and almost equally so with the popular sacerdotalism. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
This Brahmana period was marked by the intense and overbearing sacerdotalism of the Brahmans, and by an extreme development of the doctrine of caste. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference
From the approbation his Lordship has bestowed upon persistent law-breakers, we cannot feel any confidence that he will exercise his authority to stem the tide of unreasoning sacerdotalism. From Wordnik.com. [Bishop of the Poor: Edward King reinvented the role of diocesan bishop] Reference
We look in vain for anything to be compared with this in the Vedic literature, still less in that of the period of Brahmanical sacerdotalism, or in the still later speculations of the philosophic schools. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Sacramentarianism and sacerdotalism had not then begun to afflict the. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
The majority of these men have wholly lost the flavour of sacerdotalism. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
But if sacerdotalism was triumphant in Connecticut, a very different view was taken in New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
And that is noteworthy just because of the profound sacerdotalism of the whole context of the Epistle. From Wordnik.com. [Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
Sects opposed to sacerdotalism appeared; mysticism tended to make the soul independent in its progress towards. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Massachusetts became the hot-bed of rebellion because of this unwonted alliance between liberality and sacerdotalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipation of Massachusetts] Reference
Their work was a calculated campaign to transform the principles and the spirit of governments and to destroy sacerdotalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
St. Paul would then be teaching moral responsibility, as opposed to sacerdotalism; or that to obey is better than sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference
The populace respect him, and sacerdotalism conserves him, that same crafty, priestly power, which already at the close of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
Some call this sacerdotalism, and are afraid to allow that the sacraments have any influence or use, except as a testimony from us to. From Wordnik.com. [Bertha and Her Baptism] Reference
In fact, it is to the stupendous temples and a colossal sacerdotalism, that, we are indebted for nine-tenths of the relics and records which we possess of them. From Wordnik.com. [The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars] Reference
The national development turned, however, from sacerdotalism to legalism -- the later religious leaders were not priests but doctors of law (Scribes and Pharisees). From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
It belongs anthropologically with totemism, sacerdotalism, neo-ritualism, and every other remnant of the terrible shackles of use and wont which chained early man to his past. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
The system came to be attended by many superstitions and abuses, frequently it was exploited in the interests of a corrupt sacerdotalism, sometimes it was associated with a degrading casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Reality] Reference
By reason of formality and ceremonial and sacerdotalism and a lazy kind of expectation that, somehow or other, the benefits of Christ's love can come to men apart from their own personal faith in Him, the. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
'sacerdotalism.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
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