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  John Wesley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was not until about forty years later that he ordained by the laying on of hands, and even then only for those who would serve outside of England.
When he had waited long enough, and the Bishop of London had refused to ordain a minister for the American Methodists who were without the ordinances, Wesley ordained preachers for Scotland and England and America, with power to administer the sacraments in 1784.
Though already a presbyter in the Church of England, Wesley consecrated, by laying on of hands, Dr. Thomas Coke to be superintendent in America.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tertullian
Rather it would seem that when the Montanist prophecies were finally disapproved at Rome, the Church of Carthage excommunicated at least the more violent among their adherents.
Besides that sacrament he mentions, with an expression of unwillingness, a "last hope", a second plank of salvation, after which there is no other.
Of the lost works of Tertullian the most important was the defence of the Montanist manner of prophesying, "De ecstasi", in six books, with a seventh book against Apollonius.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14520c.htm   (5386 words)

  
 ZWINGLI, HULDREICH (14... - Online Information article about ZWINGLI, HULDREICH (14...
He heard from this same teacher bold criticisms of Romish teaching concerning the sacraments, monastic vows and papal indulgences, and unconsciously he was thus trained for the See also:
attempt made at SchmaIkalden in 153o to form a comprehensive league of defence against all foes of the Reformation was frustrated.
His main idea was that the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not the repetition of the sacrifice of Christ, but the faithful remembrance that that sacrifice had been made once for all; and his deeper idea of faith, which included in the See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /YAK_ZYM/ZWINGLI_HULDREICH_14841531_.html   (4551 words)

  
 Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Aquinas
John the Teutonic, fourth master general of the order, took the young student to Paris and, according to the majority of the saint's biographers, to Cologne, where he arrived in 1244 or 1245, and was placed under Albertus Magnus, the most renowned professor of the order (on chronology of this period see Prümmer, op.
He exhorts the bishops to "restore the golden wisdom of Thomas and to spread it far and wide for the defence and beauty of the Catholic Faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences".
The career of St. Thomas would in itself have justified Leo XIII in assuring men of the nineteenth century that the Catholic Church was not opposed to the right use of reason.
www2.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/stthomas.htm   (10211 words)

  
 U.S. Catholic Bishops - Office for the Catechism
These latter works spread widely and made use of the original method of comparing or contrasting seven parts: the seven requests of the Our Father, in relation to the seven Beatitudes and to the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Or else, the seven principal virtues contrasted to the seven capital vices.
It was then a difficult moment, when the need for a self-reform and the defence of the faith in front of the Protestant division was felt.
www.usccb.org /catechism/general/dossier.htm   (4736 words)

  
 Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church
Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.
The power of the Pope, the Clergy, and the Church were omnipotent; nothing could restrain their frenzy, nothing could control the cruelty of their fanaticism; with mad enthusiasm they set on foot the most bloody and terrific crusades, the object of which was to recover the Holy Land.
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the two first expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several millions were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.
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 Martin Luther Books Sale at SWRB
It is well known that Luther earnestly defended Christ's corporeal presence in the sacraments; but it is said that he was of a contrary sentiment a little before his death, and owned it.
By the defence and propagation of this doctrine especially, the priestly office of Christ was vindicated against the dogmas of penance, indulgence and supererogation, inculcated by the "Man of Sin;" and by consequence, one of the bulwarks of mystical Babylon effectually demolished.
The doctrines of election, of effectual calling, regeneration, and repentance, of adoption, of prayer, of the church, the ministry, and the sacraments, have all to be interpreted and understood in light of justification by faith.
www.swrb.com /Puritan/martin-luther-books.htm   (9621 words)

  
 Henry VIII of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1521, he dedicated his Defence of the Seven Sacraments, which earned him the title of "Defender of the Faith".
Although Queen Catherine had been pregnant at least seven times (for the last time in 1518), only one child, the Princess Mary, had survived beyond infancy.
Henry was almost certainly the inspiration for the title of the popular song "''I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" (1911), recorded by Harry Champion and later by Herman's Hermits; the actual song, however, is about a man named Henry whose wife has been married to seven different individuals, all named Henry.
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