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... to nothing. Before these calamities they had yielded up a large portion of their dignity and autonomy to the overreaching see of the eastern capital, the rank of which, above that of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/allies/the_formation_of_christendom_volume_vi/chapter_v_st_gregory_the.htm
... commercial interests of Lydia, satisfied at the same time the passion of the Greek cities for autonomy. Croesus, encouraged by his first success, could not rest contented with such a compromise ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_ithe_iranian_conquest.htm
... and Eshdol. The foreign peoples of the Shephelah and the Canaanite cities almost all preserved their autonomy; the Israelites had no chance against them wherever they had sufficient space to put into the ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_6/chapter_iiithe_hebrews_and_the.htm
... .* Syria received it submissively, and the twenty-two kings who still possessed a shadow of autonomy in the country sent assurances of their devotion to the new monarch: even Yakinlu, King ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_8/chapter_iithe_power_of_assyria_2.htm
... mistress of churches." The concluding section of this letter is decisive as to the absolute autonomy of the Alexandrian dioecese. [2486] To all the other churches Alexander merely communicates his ...
https://biblehub.com/library/alexander/epistles_on_the_arian_heresy_and_the_deposition_of_arius/elucidations.htm
... . Footnotes: [4980] sustema patridos. [A very notable passage as to the autonomy of the primitive Churches in their divers nations.] ...
https://biblehub.com/library/origen/origen_against_celsus/chapter_lxxv_celsus_also_urges.htm
... , the Catholic and Apostolic system as defined in the constitutions of Nicæa and Constantinople, the autonomy of national Churches, the independence of the African Church (illustrated by the personal history of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/augustine/exposition_on_the_book_of_psalms/editors_preface.htm
... other hand, to pass from a condition in which the various Christian communities existed in isolated autonomy to some form of organization whereby the spiritual unity of the Church might become visible and better ...
https://biblehub.com/library/ayer/a_source_book_for_ancient_church_history/period_iii_the_critical_period_.htm
... and benefactor. He recognizes their rights as a separate State and appears anxious to protect their autonomy. He makes a formal covenant with them (Dan.9:27) and their peace and ...
https://biblehub.com/library/pink/the_antichrist/5_the_bloody_and_deceitful.htm
... should be admitted by the particular churches, these would always remain, on account of their autonomy, judges of the fitness or non-suitability of the practical application of these decisions. 2. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/schaff/the_seven_ecumenical_councils/introductory_note.htm
... we set up our own will in opposition to His. See, then, what such autonomy involves. (a ) The basest ingratitude, for who can deny that we owe all ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/horton/sin_and_its_wages.htm
... is a "heritage of woe." Sooner or later they must find that their passionate autonomy means "rebellion" before God and in their own consciousness. And peace cannot be where ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/johnson/the_separation_of_the_soul_from_god.htm
... and responsibility of the individual soul and the right of private judgment. We hold to the autonomy of the local church and its independence of all ecclesiastical control. We cherish the fellowship of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/schaff/the_creeds_of_the_evangelical_protestant_churches/american_congregational_declarations_of_faith.htm
... was one of the earliest efforts, if not the earliest, for church union and separate autonomy on heathen soil. It was a new departure. But the battle was really won. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/fagg/forty_years_in_south_china/ix_church_union_continued.htm
... control over its local units to make it acceptable to a people who were accustomed to the autonomy and stability of a church both episcopal and national in character. In order to appreciate the ...
https://biblehub.com/library/greene/the_development_of_religious_liberty_in_connecticut/chapter_i_the_evolution_of.htm
... the time of Christ a small tract of country scarcely larger than Massachusetts, deprived of national autonomy, being but a second-class province of the Roman Empire, nevertheless presumed to hold all other ...
https://biblehub.com/library/brittain/women_of_early_christianity/i_the_women_of_the.htm
... " the Church owes to the powers that are ordained of God; her complete independence and autonomy "in things purely spiritual"; and the great fact that by no political changes was ...
https://biblehub.com/library/various/the_sermons_and_addresses_at_the_seabury_centenary/centenary_commemoration_of_the_consecration.htm
... settled regions into definite parishes, each with its church and its learned minister. The democratic autonomy of each church was jealously guarded, and yet they were all knit together by terms of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/bacon/a_history_of_american_christianity/chapter_x_the_american_church.htm
... man's relation to God, to be subject to, and receive from, God. All autonomy of the human spirit reverses man's relation to God. Woman-like receptivity towards God constitutes faith. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/re_12_1-17_vision_of_the.htm
... councils. From this twofold development during a period of sixty years, there arose the rigid autonomy of the later Saybrook system of church-government, wherein the civil authority surrendered to ecclesiastical courts its ...
https://biblehub.com/library/greene/the_development_of_religious_liberty_in_connecticut/chapter_iv_the_cambridge_platform.htm
... very idea of revelation, in this form, does violence to his fundamental principle of the autonomy of the human reason and will. At many points in his reflection it is transparently clear ...
https://biblehub.com/library/moore/an_outline_of_the_history_of_christian_thought_since_kant/chapter_ii_idealistic_philosophy.htm
... to become split up into numerous rival communities, of which even the pettiest will aim at autonomy, keeping up a perpetual frontier war for the sake of becoming possessed of or of retaining ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_4/chapter_ithe_first_chaldaean_empire.htm
... ecclesiastical machinery which, at first, brought peace and order, soon developed into a barren autonomy and gave rise to rigid formalism in religion, with its consequent baneful results upon the spiritual ...
https://biblehub.com/library/greene/the_development_of_religious_liberty_in_connecticut/chapter_vi_the_saybrook_platform.htm
... over Majuma, the seaport which had its own episcopate, and desired to retain its ecclesiastical autonomy, after it had lost its civil independence, Sozomen speaks of as happening in his day ...
https://biblehub.com/library/sozomen/the_ecclesiastical_history_of_sozomenus/part_i_the_life.htm
... between the Asiatic Greeks and those of the islands. Each city joining it preserved a complete autonomy as far as its internal affairs were concerned, but pledged itself to abide by the advice ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_iithe_last_days_of_2.htm
