priesthood. Indeed, two of its most far-reaching provisions were the requirement that everydioceseprovide for the proper education of its future clergy in seminaries under churchauspicesand the requirement that the clergy, and especially thebishops, give more attention to the task of preaching. ...
Jerusalem: Western Wall, Temple MountThe Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, all that remains of the retaining wall surrounding the Temple Mount. religion Written by Moshe Greenberg Professor of Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author ofThe Hab/piruand others; editor and translator...
n.Bible A member of the lineage of Jews who were of the tribe of Levi but not descended from Aaron, and whose men historically served as assistants to the Temple priests. [Middle English, from Late LatinLēvītēs, Lēvīta, from GreekLeuītēs, fromLeui,Levi, from HebrewLēwî.] ...
... monasteries and of the priesthood generally, had brought it down from a region of sublime and self-abnegating faith, to a commodity for raising money, and a cloak to hide profligacy. Martin Luther was still in the womb of the future; and so were Shakespeare, Bacon, Galileo, Descartes...
... Indies to send a royal army to their relief; he saved them even from the violence of the officers, who despoiled them of their goods through avarice, and set bounds to the unjust exactions of those griping ministers, by threatening to complain of them both to King John the Third,...
An anomalous mass of men; of whom the whole world has already a dim understanding that it can understand nothing. They were once a Priesthood, interpreters of Wisdom, revealers of the Holy that is in Man: a true Clerus (orInheritanceof God on Earth): but now?—They pass silently, with...
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1.A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers. ...
“pilgrim,” describes his decision to acquire as good aneducationas the circumstances permitted. He probably could have reached the priesthood in a few years. He chose to defer this goal for more than 12 years and to undergo the drudgery of the classroom at an age when most men have long...
That morality should be invested with all the mystery and power ofdivineorigin is not surprising. Nothing else could provide such strong reasons for accepting the moral law. By attributing a divine origin to morality, the priesthood became its interpreter and guardian and thereby secured for itself...