An Ecclesiastical Republic

An Ecclesiastical Republic by D. J. W. McKay Download PDF EPUB FB2

ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: pages ; 23 cm. Contents: Introduction --Historical background --Outline of the life of Gillespie The Jewish background to church government --The unity of the Testaments --Gillespie's general approach --Church and state formally distinct --Distinct ecclesiastical and civil governments --Ecclesiastical excommunication.

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by the Venerable Bede in about ADis a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic was originally composed in Latin, and is considered one of the most important.

Notes. Source: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, translator not clearly indicated (But it seems to be L.C. Jane's Temple Classics translation), introduction by Vida D. Scudder, (London: J.M.

Dent; New York E.P. Dutton, ) Book II, prepared for the Internet Medieval Sourcebook by. Alexander Pyle, [email protected] Etymology. The word theocracy originates from the Greek θεοκρατία meaning "the rule of God". This in turn derives from θεός (theos), meaning "god", and κρατέω (krateo), meaning "to rule".Thus the meaning of the word in Greek was "rule by god(s)" or human incarnation(s) of god(s).

The term was initially coined by Flavius Josephus in the first century A.D. to describe the. Introduction. There are, it has been estimated, in England and on the Continent, in all about manuscripts of the “Ecclesiastical History.” Of these, four date from the eighth century: the Moore MS.

(Cambridge), so called, because, after being sold by auction in the reign of William III, it came into the possession of Bishop Moore, who bequeathed it to the University of Cambridge Author: Bede.

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