This Church has the inherent right, free from interference by civil authority, but under the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to frame or adopt its subordinate standards, to declare the sense in which it... The Quarterly Review - Page 217edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
| Philip Schaff - Church history - 1919 - 990 pages
...proceedings or judgments of the Church within the sphere of its spiritual government and jurisdiction. V. This Church has the inherent right, free from interference...Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein, or to formulate other doctrinal statements, and to define the relation thereto of its office-bearers... | |
| Great Britain - Session laws - 1922 - 606 pages
...proceedings or judgments of the Church wit.hin the sphere of its spiritual government and jurisdiction. V. This Church has the inherent right, free from interference...Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein, or to formulate other doctrinal statements, and to define the relation thereto of its office-bearers... | |
| George Adam Smith - 1926 - 28 pages
...Fifth Article details the inherent right of the Church, without interference by the civil authorities, but under the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church herself, to frame or adopt her subordinate standards, to determine the sense in which she understands... | |
| Henry Bettenson - Religion - 1963 - 372 pages
...proceedings or judgements of the Church within the sphere of irs spiritual government and jurisdiction. V. This Church has the inherent right, free from interference...legislation provided by the Church itself, to frame and adopt irs subordinate standards, to declare the sense in which it understands its Confession of... | |
| J. F. Maclear - Church and state - 1995 - 534 pages
...proceedings or judgments of the Church within the sphere of its spiritual government and jurisdiction. V. This Church has the inherent right, free from interference...Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein, or to formulate other doctrinal statements, and to define the relation thereto of its office-bearers... | |
| Hildegard Warnink - Canon law - 2001 - 290 pages
...proceedings or judgements of the Church within the sphere of its spiritual government and jurisdiction. V. This Church has the inherent right, free from interference...Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein, or to formulate other doctrinal statements, and to define the relation thereto of its office-bearers... | |
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