Dean Farrar’s “Divine Crusade” and Victoria’s “Little Wars” by Stéphanie Prévost

“…Frederick William Farrar, better known as Dean Farrar (1831–1903), appears as a fascinating character, when considering his career: he almost occupied every single imaginable ecclesiastical top position, that of archbishop excluded. …”
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RECONCILIATION AS A MISSIONAL PARADIGM FOR POST-1994 SOUTH AFRICA

“…Why does or is the ecclesiastical Christian life not informing and impacting on life and experience in South Africa? …”
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L’écriture du monde (II). by Nicolas Perreaux

“…At European level, the analyzes also show a gradual standardization of the lexicon between 1150 and 1350, which we compare to the formation of Europe itself – because it does not prevent regionalization, promoting instead the reconciliation of a universal Church (Ecclesia) and local churches. This « ecclesiastical paradox » and the written word are then approached in a semantic analysis, through the lemmas aqua and terra. …”
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„Uprzejmie donoszę” — metody pracy tajnych informatorów wobec kleru katolickiego w okresie Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej na terenie Dolnego Śląska by Edyta Włodarczyk-Czech

“…The aim of this article is to present one of the forms of surveillance of the Catholic Church as an institution and of specific ecclesiastical or monastic establishments, as well as specific individuals. …”
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NEW WORLD OUTLOOK IN THE LIGHT OF THE WESTERNIZATION OF PETER I by T. V. Chernikova

“…It removed all barriers to direct communication between Russians and foreigners, discredited the old ecclesiastical postulate that all Western Christians were “heretics”, paved the way for the beginning of internal modernization as well as for the tragic fate of the socio-cultural split in Russia between the upper educated social strata and the bulk of the Russian population that remained in the Middle Ages.…”
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Modernity and interreligious dialogue. Difficulties posed by the ideological translation of religious categories by María A. Corpas-Aguirre

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Images et société au début du xie siècle : le décor sculpté de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire et Saint-Germain-des-Prés by Barbara Franzé

“…The analysis of the carved decorations of these two buildings, among the first known works of the Romanesque age, confirms the close links between the two protagonists, the ecclesiastical sponsors and the sovereign : they give to see and put forward a certain ideology, relative to the society and its organization. …”
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Parish revival in Southern Russia in the context of revolutionary upheavals and the Civil War by Yu. A. Biryukova

“…One can trace the process of the parish revival and the acceptance of the sobor solution to the parish problem by the ecclesiastical community of Southern Russia. Church revival was connected to a revival of the parish on the basis of sobor-canonical principles, with the first Christian community serving as its ideal. …”
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Patrons and clients. The specificity of female clientelism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of the seventeenth century. Research postulates. by Bożena Popiołek

“…Some of them perceive clientelism as a religiously conditioned phenomenon (for example, ecclesiastical foundations), at the same time highlighted by cultural patronage and attempts to build the power of families based on a prestige policy. …”
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Music Drama as a Christian Parable: Mozart’s <i>Idomeneo</i> by Nils Holger Petersen

“…In modern times, ecclesiastical boundaries and religious doctrines often seem to matter little in the music and theater culture of the Western world; classical opera is often staged more in order to respond to contemporary political or social issues than to communicate the original intentions of its creators (the so-called <i>Regieoper</i>). …”
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Issues of International and Interchurch Relations in the Work of Holy Council 1917–1918 of the Orthodox Russian Church by A. I. Mramornov

“…For the first time in the history of Russian Church the official ecclesiastical forum was attended by official elected delegates who served abroad and who could bring the opinion of the foreign part of the Russian Church to its «maternal» part and to provide the mutually beneficial exchange of practices and opinions. …”
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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Therefore, first of all we need to go into the iconography of medieval coins, which can be divided up into two groups – the ecclesiastical and the secular, which in many cases obviously overlap and supplement one another (F. …”
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Isaac Jaquelot on the preeminence of physico-theology by Adam Drozdek

“… Isaac Jaquelot was a seventeenth-century ecclesiastic concerned about the rising tide of deism and atheism. …”
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Exemplum virtuose vivendi. Zamyšlení nad vzorem svatosti Kateřiny ze Sieny a nad jeho proměnami v běhu dějin by Kateřina Čadková

“…First of all the problem of interaction between the saint (male or female) and its social background (confessors, regular order, friends and relatives, social and ecclesiastic hierarchy) has to be faced, as well as the historical context, which the sources were originating from. …”
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THE RENAISSANCE FRENCH PSALTER. (THE ROMANIAN VERSIFICATION OF THE PSALMS WITH HUGUENOT MELODIES. ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATING THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FRENCH PSALTER,... by Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN

“… The Renaissance French Psalter published by the Romanian Academy, addresses the ecclesiastic community as well as the academic one, by restoring a Christian heritage of great cultural and spiritual value. …”
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„Horlivost jejich v kázání slova Božího…“ Církevní řády a rekatolizace by Ivana Čornejová

“… The process of counter-reformation in the Czech lands after the Bílá hora battle (1620) was made more difficult not only for the resistance of non-catholics, but also for the lack of priests in the ecclesiastic administration. It was caused by the religious situation in the times of the Hussite revolution and then during the process of reformation in 16th century. …”
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The Architect, the Planner and the Bishop: the Shapers of ‘Ordinary’ Dublin, 1940–60 by Ellen Rowley

“…Vast structures of ecclesiastic authority, Catholic (determinedly revivalist) church building and the suite of Catholic (tentatively modernist) schools were presented as support structures for mass housing, thereby completing the image and experience of Dublin’s new mid-twentieth-century suburbs. …”
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Tanto malvagio da essere d’esempio. I clerici anglo-normanni e la descrizione di Guglielmo II Rufo, disgraziatamente re d’Inghilterra by Fabrizio De Falco

“…His memorial image was created by ecclesiasticals that well remembered and abhorred his behavior towards the Church. …”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…This legacy was eventually challenged by an intellectual movement initiated by John the Scott and William of Ockham that caused the breaking apart of the former ecclesiastically unified culture. The alternative development within the Islam world is sketched before the spirit of modernity is explained as a secularization of biblical Christianity.  …”
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Old believers in the 20th century of Lithuania by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…The Congress agreed upon the official name of Old Believers – Pomortsy – Eastern Old Belief Church without ecclesiastic hierarchy. The organization of the Church and the internal statute was resolved. …”
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