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Church Government

2017
Chapter 5 focuses on English debates on church government and its connections with both civil government and theology. Grotius overtly praised English episcopacy and its consistency with a monarchical form of government, and he saw it compatible with non-iure divino Presbyterianism (more convenient to countries like the United Provinces, ruled by ...
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Church government and religious participation

Rationality and Society, 2013
In this article religion is viewed as a collectively produced good. Religious groups must, therefore, overcome collective action problems, namely, coordination. This problem is usually alleviated by entering into an agency relationship with an organizer whose job is to ensure efficient production of religious goods.
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Government of the Church‐State

1999
Abstract Examines authority in the interdependent church state conditioned by the customary arrangements described previously. Professionalization of government carried out by ‘new monarchy’ (1650–1750) moved from the Reformation custodianship towards modern state sovereignty.
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The Church and the Government

1990
The election of the Conservative government in 1979 commited to radical policies, particularly in relation to economic liberalisation, the freeing of markets, the diminution of the role of government and a more limited role for the welfare state occasioned major controversies with mainstream British churches which continue unabated.
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France's New Government and the Church

Blackfriars, 1924
Writing some months ago in this review on the probable attitude of the new French Government towards the Catholic Church, I ventured to anticipate that the first action of the new government would be to declare its hostility to the Church at the outset by undertaking to abolish the recently re-established Embassy at the Vatican. The Embassy has not yet
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Church Government and Social Control

2007
Abstract This chapter documents Irish Cromwellian debates about church government. Quakers and Seekers denied any locus of authority beyond the “inner light.” Baptists and Independents argued that the proper basis of authority lay within the leadership of the local congregation.
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State Governance of the Church

2019
This chapter looks at how the modern state of Oman relates to the Christian Church today and looks at the particular mechanisms in play, especially the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs. It also looks at the influence of the Sultan and the personal interplay between the monarch and the church.
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Local Church Government among the iKalahan

Practical Anthropology, 1972
Traditionally, decisions among the iKalahan (North Luzon, Philippines) are made by the entire community in open conference. Elders, chosen for maturity, civic-mindedness, activity, memory, good public relations, cooperativeness, and dependability, formulate community decisions and assist in settling disputes.
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Wessel Gansfort's Theology of Church Government

Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis / Dutch Review of Church History, 1975
The details of Wessel Gansfort's life can be briefly summarized.1 He was born about 1419 in Groningen and attended one of the two parish schools there before proceeding to the town school at Zwolle at the age of twelve or thirteen in 1432 or 1433, financed by Oda Jargis.
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church government, n.

2023
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