Older members of the church have skills, wisdom, and experience to share in exercising the universal priesthood of the baptized.

It is also an attempt to carry out in everyday practice the Reformation principle of the universal priesthood of believers.

One of the distinctive features of the Rite is its advocacy of a free and universal priesthood.

She explained the Protestant concepts of universal priesthood and divine grace, which Sally readily embraced.

By 1935, Kowalski had introduced a "universal priesthood" that extended the priestly office to selected members of the laity.

Universal priesthood (doctrine)

Fueled by and fueling the Protestant Reformation, with its universal priesthood of man, skepticism's challenge to received wisdom spread into all quarters.

Luther's doctrine of the universal priesthood of all believers gave laypersons and the clergy equal rights and responsibilities.

The universal priesthood was for Melanchthon as for Luther no principle of an ecclesiastical constitution, but a purely religious principle.

Pietism - A stream of Lutheranism placing renewed emphasis on the Bible and a universal priesthood of all believers.

Since all the baptised are part of the universal priesthood, whenever they engage in their vocation to evangelize the world and to help those in need, they are ministers.

Ministry in Christ Alive Community Church Our church affirms the Universal Priesthood of all Believers (I Peter 2 : 5 - 10).

A Free and Universal Priesthood - As all are seen as clergy, all are also free to receive ordinations up to and including the priesthood, if they so desire.

They had to explain their faith before a panel of three clergymen, including issues which were then debated within the Church, such as the universal priesthood, the gospel in the vulgar tongue, and the issue of voluntary poverty.

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.

The universal priesthood of believers implies the right and duty of the Christian laity not only to read the Bible in the vernacular, but also to take part in the government and all the public affairs of the Church.

The universal priesthood or the priesthood of all believers is a Protestant Christian doctrine stating that ordinary Christians share a common priesthood in that they have direct access to God through their prayers without requiring a human mediator.

They based their message on the religious belief that "Christ has come to teach his people himself", stressing the importance of a direct relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and a direct religious belief in the universal priesthood of all believers.

This is generally the preferred title of Calvinist ministers, because they have worked for the extensive de-clericalisation of the church and it is felt to refute any claim or suggestion that the pastor has a more elevated status than the rest of the congregation, in accordance with the doctrine of universal priesthood.