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Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either.
My point is why make the claim for a developed canon in the first place, especially when it is based on conjectural attributions and dates.
Something that had initially caught my eye was the herbed canon of lamb, or the chargrilled fillet steak.
According to canon law, the powers of the bishops' conference, except in matters liturgical, are almost entirely advisory.
They looked at canon law and Church bureaucracy and argued that it bred inefficiency, graft, injustice, worldliness and immorality.
It acquires the status of canon law in a series of three church councils in the sixth and seventh centuries.
When he returned to his native land, Copernicus was again granted leave from his official duties as a canon in the Ermland Chapter at Frauenburg.
The plans are being led by the church's vicar, Canon Derek Jackson, a former canon pastor of Bradford Cathedral.
Alan Jones is Dean of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco and an honorary canon of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres.
She is being made an honorary canon in recognition of her hospital work and will take over as rural dean of South Craven in February.
Do you accept the presider's invitation to join him in the sanctuary for the canon of the Mass?
A loose analogy with T. S. Eliot's notion of how a new classic affects the canon of a literature might be drawn here.
Ruth is one of only two books in the Hebrew canon that bears the name of a woman.
We do not, therefore, believe that the Church can now be an organ of revelation, since the canon of Scripture has been completed.
To create a canon of sacred writings is to create a collection which will be in some sense normative for the community for which it is intended.
It is more than just another book on this puzzling book of the biblical canon.
In 771 he presented a petition to the throne asking that 77 scriptures in 101 scrolls that he had translated be added to the canon of scriptures.
Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.
General readers wishing for fresh insight into the hermeneutical significance of the biblical canon are advised to look elsewhere.
Fragments of every book of the Hebrew canon have been discovered except for the book of Esther.
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