They specialize in certain knowledge areas such as philosophy, sacerdotalism, medicine and practical community or individual counselors.

The church with its sacraments and its sacerdotalism is the disease of Christianity.

He ascribes the ills of Ireland mainly to a single cause, that is sacerdotalism.

The Anti-reformists proceeded with a programme of bringing the Church back to sacerdotalism.

It is much more free from sacramentalism, from vestiges of the ancient blood sacrifice, and its associated sacerdotalism, than Christianity.

In 1875 he published a blockbuster on disputes within his church entitled "Lawlessness, Sacerdotalism and Ritualism".

Protestant denominations reject sacerdotalism.

Lutherans reject the Roman Catholic understanding of holy orders because they do not think sacerdotalism is supported by the Bible.

The Catholic belief of sacerdotalism expresses the belief that only when led by those with true apostolic succession can sacraments be validly performed.

You make me hate Christianity, or mysticism, or Sacerdotalism, or whatever it may be called, if it's that which has caused this deterioration in you.

The term sacerdotalism comes from the Latin sacerdos, priest, literally one who presents sacred offerings (from sacer, 'the sacred', and dare, 'to give').

This passion helps to explain his very public disagreement with Martyn Lloyd-Jones' plea in 1966 for a wider Evangelical unity over against liberalism and sacerdotalism.

Among the heretics, the larger sects seem to have evolved toward hierarchy and sacerdotalism, and would certainly have gone further in that direction had they been able to grow freely.

This principle rejects "sacerdotalism," which is the belief that there are no sacraments in the church without the services of priests ordained by apostolic succession under the authority of the pope.

In letters to Huxley, Hooker was forthright about his dislike of theological dogmatism, sacerdotalism and ceremony, but nevertheless remained a church-going Anglican and agreed to act as godfather for Huxley's son.

Bazard, a man of stolid temperament, could no longer work in harmony with Enfantin, who desired to establish an arrogant and fantastic sacerdotalism with lax notions as to marriage and the relations between the sexes.

The movement toward hierarchy and sacerdotalism was, however, slowed by the enthusiasts' belief that they had a way of living or a way of knowing that made them, as individuals or as a sect, superior to others.

We find that sacerdotalism or priestcraft has frequently been the curse of Christianity, and the ruin of true religion. 3. We refuse to admit that Christ's Sacraments convey grace ex opere operato.

His theology challenged the authority of the papacy by adducing the Bible as the only infallible source of Christian doctrine and countering "sacerdotalism" in the doctrine that all baptized Christians are a universal priesthood.

His theology challenged the authority and office of the Pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge from God and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood.

Some grew with single or dual stems that burgeoned forth into hydra heads, and some were frilled and festooned with leaves that suggested the wings of flying lizards, the pennants of faery lances, the phylacteries of a strange sacerdotalism.

Such adherence to the letter was considered necessary in an environment in which conservatives such as John Kensit had been leading demonstrations, interruptions of services and legal battles against practices of Ritualism and sacerdotalism, both of which they saw as "popery".

According to the Roman Catholic documents of the Second Vatican Council, sacerdotalism is the teaching that "through the ministry of priests, the spiritual sacrifice of the faithful is made perfect in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the sole Mediator."

Concerning the role of the clergy, Jewel on the one hand rails against the Roman Catholic practices of sacerdotalism and refutes the pope's claim to be the "vicar general of Christ," but on the other hand maintains a need for specially called clergy.

Poupinel, who wrote republican hymns, urged: 'Let us use civic pomp to make people forget the old displays of superstition; in a word, provide more striking and attractive alternatives to the ceremonies that for so long have deceived the people, and the skeleton of sacerdotalism will disintegrate of its own accord.'