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How to use church in a sentence

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All sounds of life die out upon the earth, the last notes of the sleepy birds have sunk away, the Angelus of the church hard by has rung the close of day.
The bride and groom rode in a limousine from the church to the reception hall.
James left the church in Scotland divided at his death, a source of future problems for his son.
Certain Greek and Hebrew words were to be translated in a manner that reflected the traditional usage of the church.
Thomas was ordered by the church court to do public penance, which would have caused much shame and embarrassment for the Shakespeare family.
After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
Or consider the fad du jour in the faith markets, Godcasting. Godcasting is downloading sermons or church messages to the faithful via iPods.
Rowland at the garden gate was giving his hostess Godspeed on her way to church.
The church there was built by wrecking the Frances Clayton, a goodsome schooner.
Alone and gut-shot, Eddie staggers to a church, seeking sanctuary and salvation, but collapses on the steps.
I was speaking today with an unclothed Hindu religious, a parama-hamsa, on the steps of a Portuguese church, a true gymnosophist.
Traces of medieval Birmingham can be seen in the oldest churches, notably the original parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring.
Thus the peasants got their land free, and also no longer paid the tithe to the church.
It nationalised all church lands, as well as lands belonging to royalist enemies who went into exile.
It did not restore the vast church lands and endowments that had been seized during the revolution and sold off.
The power of church courts and religious authority was sharply reduced and equality under the law was proclaimed for all men.
Scenes of celebration erupted across the country, balls and victory feasts were held and church bells were rung.
A Tearfund survey in 2007 showed only one in ten Britons actually attend church weekly.
The church is a magnificent specimen of baroque architecture.
Since 1689 it has had a Presbyterian system of church government, and enjoys independence from the state.
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An early festivity was Mabsant, when local parishes would celebrate the patron saint of their local church.
Introduced in Scotland by clergyman John Knox, it has the status of national church in Scotland.
He was cremated in America and his ashes were flown to England where they were placed in a memorial in a church in Cranwell.
Full participation in the sacramental life of each church is available to all communicant Anglicans.
Many of the church dignitaries are distinguishable by peculiarities of dress, as the shovel hat and kirtle.
For three years before that they had been attending its associated church, St Mary Abbots, near the Cameron family home in North Kensington.
The parish deacon was always pushing to get new kneelers for the church, probably because he was old and his knees were sensitive.
Thus they formed their own dioceses and national church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in a mostly amicable separation.
And Lord God, what herying is it to bilden thee a church of dead stones, and robben thy quicke churches of their bodilich liuelood?
Since the 19th century, the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts has narrowed principally to matters of church property and errant clergy.
During the Tudor period the Reformation produced a gradual shift to Protestantism, and much of London passed from church to private ownership.
Many countries have experienced falling church attendance and membership in recent years.
It possesses strong existing regional partnerships including universities, voluntary and church associations.
The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.
Besides the schism, the western church was riven by theological controversies, some of which turned into heresies.
The Hussite church, although the target of a crusade, survived beyond the Middle Ages.
Later the church replaced the manor court as the rural administrative centre, and levied a local tax on produce known as a tithe.
Civil parish councils should not be confused with Parochial church councils which administer parishes of the Church of England.
Her remains were moved into the chancel of the current church in the 12th century.
In the Norman period the Scottish church underwent a series of changes that led to new monastic orders and organisation.
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It is quite possible that there was an earlier church here dating from Saxon times.
This older church would have been one of several churches along the River Tyne dedicated to St Andrew, including the Priory church at Hexham.
The building contains more old stonework than any other church in Newcastle.
The church tower received a battering during the Siege of Newcastle by the Scots who finally breached the Town Wall and forced surrender.
In 1835 John Ashley was on the shore at Clevedon with his son who asked him how the people on Flat Holm could go to church.
This section comprises the present Exmoor Parish, whose parish church is situated in Simonsbath.
The church holds an annual Church Clipping service, which claims to be the longest uninterrupted clipping service in the country.
In the Norman period, the Scottish church underwent a series of reforms and transformations.
By 1560, a relatively small group of Protestants were in a position to impose reform on the Scottish church.
It is a common misconception that the term 'cathedral' may be applied to any particularly large or grand church.
Such a church is grand because it is a cathedral, rather than it being designated a cathedral because of its grandeur.
Until 1561 the church had a central tower which either collapsed or was removed, and has been replaced with the current tower over the west door.
In 937 Athelstan, then King of England, granted the privilege of sanctuary to Ripon, for a mile around the church.
Ripon is thought to have shrunk to a small community around the church following the suppression.
The old parish church of Truro was St Mary's, incorporated into the cathedral in the later 19th century.
The old church is reflected in the glass exterior of the skyscraper.
The Baptist church building occupies the site of the former Lake's pottery, one of the oldest in Cornwall.
He became chaplain to Charles I and was the last English cleric to hold both church and secular high office.
Originally built as a chapel of ease to Kirkham, it eventually became a parish church with its own vicar.
It's almost like a Home Depot model for a church. You go in, get what you need, and leave.
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These were usually attached to cathedrals or a collegiate church and were most common in the developing burghs.
The church is linked with a Lutheran church in Timmerlah in the Diocese of Braunschweig in Northern Germany.
Holla back when you get outta church. just got ya message, i saw it when it popped up.
As opposed to the later church, the church of the early Middle Ages consisted primarily of the monasteries.
An official memorial to the church pioneers may be found in the Japanese Garden in Avenham Park.
The church hierarchy faced resistance to some of their decisions.
It is also the largest parish church to have been built in England since World War Two.
The chapel was rebuilt and developed into the parish church and then Anglican cathedral.
After the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in 1914, large receptions were held inside the church.
Bede also mentions an Abbot Esi as a source for the affairs of the East Anglian church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey.
Some of the content contained in Newton's papers could have been considered heretical by the church.
Bede's primary intention in writing the Historia Ecclesiastica was to show the growth of the united church throughout England.
As a result, the elders of his home church, the Independent Upper Chapel of Heckmondwike, refused him admission as a full member.
Priestley attended Lindsey's church regularly in the 1770s and occasionally preached there.
The butt-woman was just setting forth the need of money for church repairs but she interrupted herself when she found me studying monuments.
He is an active member of that church, to which he adheres because he perceives it as a tolerant and liberal belief.
By December 1977, Jane had met organist Jonathan Hellyer Jones when singing in a church choir.
When just two years old, he wrote numbers up to millions, and when taken to church he amused himself by factorising the numbers of the hymns.
This church levy, called Peter's Pence, is extant in Ireland as a voluntary donation.
In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
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Thomas Newcomen was a lay preacher and a teaching elder in the local Baptist church.
No other early sees are documented, and the material remains of early church structures are far to seek.
This morning church bells were ringing too. Aclang all over the city and not to summon the faithful.
Later expansion of the church, over his grave, means that his tomb is now buried inside the church.
The first wooden minster church was built in York for the baptism of Edwin in 627, according to the Venerable Bede.
Ringway, after which the airport was named, is a village with a few buildings and church at the southern edge of the airport.
There are more than 360 churches in Malta, Gozo and Comino, or one church for every 1,000 residents.
His wife is very active in the church, but he's not religious himself.
The first stone minster church was badly damaged by fire in the uprising, and the Normans built a minster on a new site.
The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.
In 317 Constantine issued an edict to confiscate Donatist church property and to send Donatist clergy into exile.
Schooling was not free, but the tax support kept fees low, and the church and charity funded poorer students.
It is also used in ceremonial events such as weddings, graduations and church masses.
Borrowing from Latin continued after the fall of the Roman Empire during Christianization, mediated by the church and monasteries.
As such there is no evidence that heterodox baptism figured into the practice of the Irish church.
There, in a church his mother built in honor of Lucian the Apostle, he prayed, and there he realized that he was dying.
The church teaches that through consecration by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ.
The church teaches that all duly consecrated bishops have a lineal succession from the apostles of Christ, known as apostolic succession.
According to church doctrine, the sacraments of the church require the proper form, matter, and intent to be validly celebrated.
At Pentecost, the Apostles are believed to have received the Holy Spirit, preparing them for their mission in leading the church.
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According to this legend, Constantine was soon baptized, and began the construction of a church in the Lateran Palace.
They offer communion to those who are already united in that denomination or sometimes individual church.
The church also entered into a long period of missionary activity and expansion among the various tribes.
One such was Christ Church, Canterbury, which became Augustine's cathedral church.
Another possible site is Lullingstone, in Kent, where a religious site dating to 300 was found underneath an abandoned church.
Rice showered down on the newlyweds as they left the church.
Augustine built a church at his foundation of Sts Peter and Paul Abbey at Canterbury, later renamed St Augustine's Abbey.
This church was destroyed after the Norman Conquest to make way for a new abbey church.
Other church buildings were erected by the missionaries in London, York, and possibly Lincoln, although none of them survive.
They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.
Later tradition has his body moved to the church of San Giovanni della Pigna, near the pantheon.
As they actively get involved in ministry, lay ministry becomes vigorous, and new believers will settle in church with more ease.
As Saint Patrick was the founding bishop of the Irish church, the symbol may have become associated with him.
The church was now 'tributary', her sons had 'embraced dung' and the nobility had lost their authority to govern.
If you ever deceive yourself into believing your children are angels, take them to a small church. Or a mosque. Or any place angelly.
Pastors complained that they were not allowed enough authority in church, with women exercising too much informal control.
Honorius III., in 1220, built or rebuilt a monastery attiguous to the church, of which no trace now remains.
Nobody was killed, but a guy from the rival gang was supposed to have had his eyes popped out with a church key.
When he reached Steyning he saw a vision and stopped there to build a church.
Complex attractional approaches tend to have a contraceptive effect on the reproductive capacities of the church.
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Soon after the dissolution of the abbey in 1539, during the reign of Henry VIII, the church was demolished, leaving the graves intact.
In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited.
The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.
These persons are recruited from a list of several, active adults in the church that is submitted by each confirmand.
His embalmed body was returned to Denmark for burial in the church he had built himself.
Since German bishops were an integral part of the secular state, Sweyn's preference for the English church may have been a political move.
It was these skalds who first referred to his greatness with emphasis on his generosity to the church and military achievements.
Many remain in the church to participate in the community and practices such as baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial rites.
Separation of church and state happened significantly later in Norway than in most of Europe and is not yet complete.
The members of the Royal family are required to be members of the Lutheran church.
Controversial events associated with the black metal movement in the early 1990s included several church burnings and two prominent murder cases.
He was too weak to attend the dedication of his new church at Westminster, which was then still incomplete, on 28 December.
The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity.
A frequent cougher in a church sets nearly the whole congregation to coughing.
By the time of his marriage, William was able to arrange the appointments of his supporters as bishops and abbots in the Norman church.
When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
The legates and the king then proceeded to hold a series of ecclesiastical councils dedicated to reforming and reorganising the English church.
You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
The church was utilised by the dukes as a unifying force for their disparate duchy.
Henry and Becket had repeated disputes over issues such as church tenures, the marriage of Henry's brother, and taxation.
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When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theobald of Bec, died in 1161 Henry saw an opportunity to reassert his rights over the church in England.
One of the boys runs into a bitesome boxer dog, then tracks down its owner in church and demands that justice be done for his torn trouser leg.
What I called blood libel was the charge that Pope Pius XII, and my church, were moral accessories to mass murder.
That particular day, walking along the streambed by the church, they came to a fresh cutbank where the earth had caved.
The Norman and Angevin kings had traditionally exercised a great deal of power over the church within their territories.
Box of fluffies. I better go and round the boys up before they set fire to the church. Old Wal gets a bit match-happy now and again, you know?
As King John was an enemy of the church, Pope Innocent III gave his blessing to Llywelyn's revolt.
The church filed an in rem petition with the court, requesting that the book be declared obscene.
How do you like my hat? That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky.
In return the church required support for religious orthodoxy against heresy.
In 1549, Edward ordered the publication of the Book of Common Prayer, containing the forms of worship for daily and Sunday church services.
The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
After two days, the corpse was interred in a plain tomb, within the church of the Greyfriars.
The church was demolished following the friary's dissolution in 1538, and the location of Richard's tomb was long uncertain.
Richard and his wife Anne endowed King's College and Queens' College at Cambridge University, and made grants to the church.
Katherine's burial place was located in the London parish church of St James Garlickhithe, between Skinner's Lane and Upper Thames Street.
The Latin language, for instance, had evolved greatly from the classical period and was still a living language used in the church and elsewhere.
He was baptised by Richard Fox, the Bishop of Exeter, at a church of the Observant Franciscans close to the palace.
To promote the public support for the reformation of the church, Henry had numerous pamphlets and lectures prepared.
A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.
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Other acts included the Supplication against the Ordinaries and the Submission of the Clergy, which recognised Royal Supremacy over the church.
He appointed himself and his successors as the supreme rulers of the English church.
The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion.
And thus the wars they beginne, Whereof the holy church is taxed, That in the point, as it is axed, The disme go'th to the battaile.
She was brought up in a very religious household, but broke away from the church in her teens.
The governing structure of the church is based on dioceses, each presided over by a bishop.
The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy and laity.
The exact nature of the relationship between church and state would be a source of continued friction into the next century.
However, Richard Hooker's appeal to scripture, church tradition, and reason as sources of authority continue to inform Anglican identity.
Some consider it essential, while others feel it is needed for the proper ordering of the church.
Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.
The church had decided in 2013 that gay clergy in civil partnerships could become bishops.
Since 2000, the church has allowed priests to undergo gender transition and remain in office.
Canons require Royal Licence and Royal Assent, but form the law of the church, rather than the law of the land.
Although an established church, the Church of England does not receive any direct government support.
The structure and theology of the church was a matter of fierce dispute for generations.
Bridehood will encompass all the previous moves of God, as well as the restoration of the fivefold ministry in each local church.
Outwardly, the destruction and removals for sale had changed the church forever.
There were many disputes between the government and parishes over church property.
Chiefly she supported her father's idea of reforming the church but made some minor adjustments.
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In this way, Elizabeth and her advisors aimed at a church that included most opinions.
Those who believed the form of the church was just what it should be included leaders like John Jewel and Richard Hooker.
Parliament was summoned in 1559 to consider the Reformation Bill and to create a new church.
Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
The church, which is situated near the centre of the town, exteriorly resembles a huge Dutch barn.
Philip persuaded Parliament to repeal Henry's religious laws, thus returning the English church to Roman jurisdiction.
One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor.
Elizabeth established an English church that helped shape a national identity and remains in place today.
Hire from the farm league. I constantly counsel church leaders to hire from within.
The term was kept when the church became international because all Anglicans used to share in its use around the world.
After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.
Even intradenominationally, each church community develops its own ideal mode of ritual enactments.
Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
In proof of this I can assert my success in extinguishing a youthful bubbler near Reykholt church.
A dean is a priest who is the principal cleric of a cathedral or other collegiate church and the head of the chapter of canons.
If the cathedral or collegiate church has its own parish, the dean is usually also rector of the parish.
In most industrialised countries, church attendance has decreased since the 19th century.
Many ex-gayers are encouraged to bond with an older straight man from their church.
Rapid social change in the industrialised world during the 20th century compelled the church to examine issues of gender, sexuality and marriage.
That is precisely where so many of us are-trapped in our own cisterns, stuck in a gloryless life and a gloryless church.
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The composers were commissioned by church and Court, and deployed two main styles, madrigal and ayre.
Of course, Arnold had the Anglican church to contend with and ironicise, as did his detractor TS Eliot after him.
For the most part, leisure and festivities took place on a public church holy day.
During the rebuilding, heraldic stained glass installed in the north transept in 1638 was transferred to a window in the north aisle of the new church.
It's about time for the wedding to start, let's run to the church.
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the word and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.
The moment Dr. Reid amened, we rushed straight out of the church off home.
The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.
Grim and gloomy Protestantism has never been exactly a bundle of laughs but lately humour in the church, particularly the evangelical wing, seems to be undergoing a revival.
William cultivated close relations with the church in his duchy.
A parish church dedicated to Saint Paul was built in the 12th century.
He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
Many young people find their only role models of family life in church.
Rusty, LaClaire and I had many memories growing up in this church, not the least of which was getting the church giggles more times than we could count.
After being at your beck and call all these years, he wants a woman, not the consummate teen-ager pretending she's a grownup wrapping her flesh in the cloth of her church.
You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station.
The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.
In the parish church at Matlock six exceptionally well-preserved garlands, known locally as crantses, hang in a glass-fronted cupboard in the south-west porch.
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We believe and are thoroughly convinced that God's blessings come to his church in a cross-handed way, entirely different, in many instances, from the way we expect them.
I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
On the Sabbath Day he lies abed till nine, indulges in the luxury of a hot bath, degustates a leisurely breakfast, and takes his wife and family to church.
Disenchantment with the religion led to a sharp fall in church attendance.
The use of dry brushing was certainly widespread in Italian rural church decoration by the nineteenth century, where it was employed mainly for reasons of economy.
I was raised an Episcopalian but no longer belong to a church.
From the later Middle Ages onwards a figure-caster discovered plying his trade among the people could expect to be brought before a church court for correction.
The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof.
In Scotland, the Church of Scotland is recognised as the national church.
The Calvinism of the reformers led by Knox resulted in a settlement that adopted a Presbyterian system and rejected most of the elaborate trappings of the Medieval church.
Abandoning the official church, many of the people here began to attend illegal field assemblies led by excluded ministers, known as conventicles.
Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a history of the church in England.
Saint Lebuin, an Englishman who between 745 and 770 preached to the Saxons, mainly in the eastern Netherlands, built a church and made many friends among the nobility.
As we passed through the quadrangle the church was glowing more brightly than a pearl, like a lily in strong sunlight, in spite of all the scaffolding and hugger-mugger.
The existence of a church in the forum courtyard of Lincoln and the martyrium of Saint Alban on the outskirts of Roman Verulamium are exceptional.
Edwin ordered the small wooden church be rebuilt in stone but was killed in 633 and the task of completing the stone minster fell to his successor Oswald.
The Middle Ages brought about major changes within the church.
The wealth of the church increased dramatically, immense resources both public and private being used for ecclesiastical construction and support of the religious life.
It is not clear if Bede meant that Augustine rebuilt the church or that Augustine merely reconsecrated a building that had been used for pagan worship.
There were, however, deep differences between Augustine and the British church that perhaps played a more significant role in preventing an agreement.
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Some historians believe that Augustine had no real understanding of the history and traditions of the British church, damaging his relations with their bishops.
In 681 AD Saint Wilfrid, the exiled Bishop of York, landed at Selsey and is credited with evangelising the local population and founding the church in Sussex.
The church built at Steyning was one of around 50 minster churches across Sussex and these churches supplied itinerant clergy to surrounding districts.
These later came into the possession of the vicar of nearby St Bartholomew's Church, who reburied them in an unmarked grave in the church graveyard.
Nicholas Brooks sees the role of the bishops as marking an important stage in the increasing involvement of the church in the making and enforcement of law.
The first asserts the importance of paying tithes to the church.
As the Church of Norway is the state church, its clergy are state employees, and the central and regional church administrations are part of the state administration.
Edward's Norman sympathies are most clearly seen in the major building project of his reign, Westminster Abbey, the first Norman Romanesque church in England.
Edward displayed a worldly attitude in his church appointments.
He took part in church councils and made several appointments to the Norman episcopate, including the appointment of Maurilius as Archbishop of Rouen.
The corpse was too large for the space, and when attendants forced the body into the tomb it burst, spreading a disgusting odour throughout the church.
Louis seized on the case, and, despite efforts by the Norman church to prevent the French church from taking action, a new interdict was announced on Henry's possessions.
Henry's timing was influenced by several factors, including encouragement from Pope Alexander, who saw the opportunity to establish papal authority over the Irish church.
He was criticised by clergy chroniclers for having taxed the clergy both for the Crusade and for his ransom, whereas the church and the clergy were usually exempt from taxes.
After the 1140s, these principles had been largely accepted within the English church, even if accompanied by an element of concern about centralising authority in Rome.
However, his reliance on the church was both personal and political.
In Cornwall at the time, many of the people could only speak the Cornish language, so the uniform English Bibles and church services were not understood by many.
Although he further augmented his royal treasury through the seizure of church lands, Henry's heavy spending and long periods of mismanagement damaged the economy.
In the 17th century, political and religious disputes raised the Puritan and Presbyterian faction to control of the church, but this ended with the Restoration.
The church includes both liberal and conservative clergy and members.
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The low church party is more Protestant in both ceremony and theology.
In 1550 stone altars were replaced by wooden communion tables, a very public break with the past, as it changed the look and focus of church interiors.
The Act of Uniformity 1558, which forced people to attend Sunday service in an Anglican church with a new version of the Book of Common Prayer, passed by only three votes.
For example, the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services, such as the use of Thomas Cranmer's new Book of Common Prayer.
As a noun, an Anglican is a member of a church in the Anglican Communion.
From these early splits, many more splits occurred intradenominationally and continue to occur as of 2004 with the splitting of the Grace Apostles from their parent church.
The effort was to create a national church in legal continuity with its traditions, but inclusive of certain doctrinal and liturgical beliefs of the Reformers.
Throughout the work, Hooker makes clear that theology involves prayer and is concerned with ultimate issues and that theology is relevant to the social mission of the church.
Morning Prayer, for instance, is often used instead of the Holy Eucharist for Sunday worship services, although this is not necessarily true of all low church parishes.
According to tradition, business was initially transacted at the Nags Head Inn, opposite St Botolph's church in Bishopsgate, before moving to India House in Leadenhall Street.
Moreover, the Church authorities revived the statutes passed in the time of Elizabeth I about church attendance and fined Puritans for not attending Anglican church services.
In practice, Presbyterianism meant that committees of lay elders had a substantial voice in church government, as opposed to merely being subjects to a ruling hierarchy.
He supported high church ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War.
In 1584, he introduced bishops, but met vigorous opposition and had to concede that the General Assembly running the church should continue to do so.
Mainly on the insistence of the Army, many independent churches were tolerated, although everyone still had to pay tithes to the established church.
Tories generally advocate monarchism, are usually of a high church Anglican religious heritage, and are opposed to the liberalism of the Whig faction.
Society was still ruled by the aristocracy and the gentry, who controlled high government offices, both houses of Parliament, the church, and the military.
Next on the agenda was the matter of church rates, which were local taxes at the parish level for the support of the parish church building in England and Wales.
Only buildings of the established church received the tax money.
Burial of the dead was a more troubling problem, for urban chapels had no graveyards, and sought to use the traditional graveyards controlled by the established church.
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This state of affairs led some Chartists to question the very idea of a state sponsored church, leading them to call for an absolute separation of church and state.
They would have married in a church, but he kicks with the other foot.
The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills.
I was a Cub Scout. I went to church with my family, and taught Sunday school when I was in my teens. I played knothole baseball and rooted for the Reds.
Charlemagne sponsored changes in church liturgy, imposing the Roman form of church service on his domains, as well as the Gregorian chant in liturgical music for the churches.
Other new features of religious architecture include the crossing tower and a monumental entrance to the church, usually at the west end of the building.
Simultaneous with the development in church architecture, the distinctive European form of the castle was developed, and became crucial to politics and warfare.
These relics are still housed in the church close to where they were discovered in the north wall of the chancel flanked by a pair of small brass candlesticks.
Although church leaders argue they're trying to help the most vulnerable in society, some, including parishioners, argue they're helping the most lawbreaking.
Mary's is considered the mother church of the city and civic services are held here, including the welcome to the new Lord Mayor of Nottingham each year.
The oldest church in Truro is at Kenwyn, on the northern side of the city.
As it was William Shaw, who died in 1720, and who donated the land for the old church to be built on, it is possible that the initials are those of some of his ancestors.
A selection of celebratory events took place for the 125th Anniversary of the church, over the weekend of 25 and 26 June 2011, including an organ recital.
Built in 1826 for the Calvinistic Methodists of Lady Huntington, the Carey Baptist church, on Pole Street, was formerly known as St Paul's Chapel.
The church survives today and remains very active in the community.
A little to the east of the Roman sites the first Saxon camp was made in a clearing in the woods where the church, manor house and the first village were later built.
In 1852 the whole church except the 1710 tower was demolished and replaced with a new Gothic Revival building in 13th century style designed by Joseph Clarke.
They met through their families at the Sandemanian church, and he confessed his faith to the Sandemanian congregation the month after they were married.
There is a commemorative plaque inside the adjoining church.
Rick's scam to palm her off on Huey went over like a fart in church, just like Huey had predicted. She had indignantly scolded him when he brought it up.

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