Église et scandales : Trollope ou la condamnation de l’excès by Hervé Picton

“…The most blatant abuses were addressed—with mixed results—by the Ecclesiastical Commission created in 1835 to reform the Church. …”
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Le pouvoir laïque est-il profane ? Classement distinctif et spiritualisation seigneuriale en Haute-Allemagne à la fin du Moyen Âge by Joseph Morsel, Camille Noûs

“…Initially reserved for clerics and founders of ecclesiastical establishments, this practice became more widespread from the 12th century onwards. …”
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RUSSIAN EMBASSY CHURCHES AND PRIEST DURING THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I by E. P. Koudryavtseva

“…Special attention should be paid to the Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in China that also served as a diplomatic mission there. …”
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Russian Foreign Ministry and the Reorganization of Russian Orthodox Churches Abroad in 1860-s by V. O. Pechatnov, V. V. Pechatnov

“…Accordingly, the Russian Foreign Ministry became responsible for their operation and financing while in ecclesiastical matters they were to answer to the Holy Synod. …”
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Knowledge and Discernment: Reflections on the Integration of Biblical Studies and Spirituality by Leslie T. Hardin

“…In the introduction to <i>The Violence of the Lamb: Martyrs as Agents of Divine Judgment in the Book of Revelation</i>, Paul Middleton recounts that at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, he was asked about the possible connections between John’s letters to the seven churches of Asia and modern ecclesiastical practice [...]…”
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Roland Scriptoris ou de Lisbonne: un médecin, un professeur et un clerc portugais au XVe siècle by Mário Farelo

“…Based on known and unpublished facts, it proposes a perspective into his public life, shared between the University, the service of the Great and the ecclesiastical environment, thus constituting a case of institutional and geographical mobility of a physician at the end of the Middle Ages.…”
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Languages of Written and Oral Communication between Russian Emperors and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, 1725–1799 by M. A. Petrova

“…This article, based on unpublished materials from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, represents the first historiographical analysis of the languages used in official correspondence—such as letters of credence, recall, and notifications—between the secular and ecclesiastical electors of the Holy Roman Empire and Russian emperors during the eighteenth century. …”
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The Establishment and Development of Muftiates in Tsarist Russia by Alper Alp

“…Factors which influenced foundation process of Orenburg Ecclesiastical Assembly, Crimean Muftiate, Southern Caucasia Sunnite and Shiite Muftiates, their duties and authorities were put forward. …”
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Monges e mosteiros galegos em Portugal (séculos XII-XV) by Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez

“…The policy of Portuguese monarchs regarding such property is also analysed while paying particular attention to political relations between Portuguese and Spanish kings. The ecclesiastical relations between Galician monasteries and the neighbouring kingdom are also subject of study: basically, the existing data at the archbishop's see of Braga –metropolitan see up to the Western Schism – and the pontifical authorization granted to Galician abbots to intervene in Portuguese affairs. …”
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L’incontinence de la chair by Julien Théry

“…The norms of Christian life and clerical authority were imposed in depth in Western societies from the thirteenth century onward, a time of a pastoral revolution, whose development was conditioned by the establishment of unprecedented papal control over members of the high ecclesiastical hierarchy. The exercise of this control notably took the singular form of frequent investigative procedures against prelates who were accused of various « excesses » or « enormities », among which breaches of chastity, grouped under the name « incontinence of the flesh », were very frequently associated with faults in spiritual and temporal government. …”
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Teologiese aantekeninge by die Jubileum van "Ons Theologische Seminarium" op Stellenbosch by R. M. Britz

“…A careful assessment of the contemporary Dutch Reformed theological and ecclesiastical journals reveals theintroduction of the critical theological views of what Bebbington described as the “Liberal Evangelicals.” …”
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Gemeentediakonaat as plaasvervanger vir staatsondersteunde sinodale barmhartigheidsdiens in die Ned. Geref. Kerk by André Oosthuizen, Piet Strauss

“…Various people and synods reflected on the deformation phenomenon in the ecclesiastical deaconate and propagated a "deaconal reformation". …”
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"In saeculo et ex saeculo". Characteristics of the secular institutes by Andrea  Michl

“…For this reason, there are also only a few canonical and ecclesiastical documents. Since the characteristics of secular institutes, in contrast to traditional monastic communities, are rather unknown, this article aims to contribute to making them somewhat better known and to present the regulations on various elements, such as spirituality, community life, governance and asset management. …”
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Umori preriformistici in un umanista meridionale: Antonio Galateo by Domenico Defilippis

“…In the production of Anthonio De Ferrariis Galateo, academic pontaniano, is possible to individualize a precise position of the author towards the religion and the ecclesiastical apparatuses. In the exposure of the Pater noster, in the Hermit, in the De situ Iapygiae and in the epistolario, the most known humanist in Puglia shows to slant for a religiousness that he am respectful extremely of the dictated evangelical and he openly condemns the behaviors of the tall hierarchies of the Church, since they seem disattendere the message of the Christ. …”
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Dans la solitude des autres : pour une histoire sociale et politique du concept de solitudo au Moyen Âge by Gabriel Castanho

“…The following step of our research will propose a comparison between the meanings used in various types of documents, what will reveal a process of monopolization and ecclesiastical regulation of isolation. Finally, two major conclusions will be imperative : 1) the medieval solitude aims at balancing, between utopia and ideology, the antisocial tensions around the religious desire of abandonment of the world ; 2) the importance of the concept of solitude for the political history itself.…”
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Faire connaissance avec une mulier religiosa dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…Identifying the canvas allows indeed to better understand their place and role among their contemporaries, or at least those that the ecclesiastical reformers would see them assume. Thus, behind the topoi of the reputation of holiness and the divine intercession exerted through them, a range of social practices and of specific relationship emerge as a watermark of these scenes.…”
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THE GENEVAN PSALMS (1562) IN THE HUNGARIAN CHORAL LITERATURE by Éva PÉTER

“… At the middle of the 20th century in a time of the upturn of the general musical culture Hungarian composers having experience with ecclesiastical music created adaptations of various levels of difficulty for the tunes of the Genevan psalms. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…The historical nature of ecclesiastical chronicles fluctuated between furnishing exact information and omitting specific facts while displaying certain narrative strategies that served the ultimate goal of the Dominican friars. …”
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Pavel Aleksadrovic Florenskij's method of discerning spiritual truth by C. Camilleri

“…It presents the Russian polymath’s method within his socio-political and ecclesiastical contexts and two of his works, namely his magnum opus entitled The pillar and ground of truth, and his lecture Reason and dialectics, both of which are significant for interpreting Florenskij’s thought. …”
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TO UNITE OR NOT TO UNITE? A CASE STUDY OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1897-1923 by G A Duncan

“…This article investigates the issues at stake in the attempts to establish one Presbyterian denomination from the disparate Scottish ecclesiastical bodies, using primary and secondary sources and focusing mainly on the issue of racism. …”
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