The juxtaposition of Mormon elders preaching in a court house and adjudicating in the temple illustrates the fluidity of the boundaries between law and religion in nineteenth-century America. During the colonial period and the nineteenth century, numerous religious groups sought to opt out of the secular legal system, moving civil litigation between co-religionists into the hands of the church. No group was entirely successful in doing so, but some were able to forge ecclesiastical courts that proved remarkably robust over long periods of time. Their stories have been told as paeans to alternative dispute resolution. The story of the rise and fall of the jurisdiction of Mormon courts over ordinary civil disputes provides people with a number of insights into the interaction between law ...
... its discipline.48 The so-called Halfway Covenant, a form of partial church membership, eventually r...He also set up a slew of independent councils that were to receive revelation and direct affairs... stated that he was "to be a judge in Israel .. to sit in judgment upon transgressors upon test... to proclaim Joseph Smith's message of restoration or to found distant settlements as part of establi...
...? What were the respective roles of ecclesiastical authority, community usage, and simple happenstanc... doctrinal statement of the Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum, which presented a most positive and s... and the religious tradition emanating from Israel and from the early Christian community." This resu... between the people of God of the Old Covenant, which has never been abrogated by God (see Rom 11... recurring patterns of infidelity and restoration. With Jeremiah, and in a similar fashion in Ezekie...
...In the words of the Second Vatican Council, "No creature could ever be counted as equal to th...Mary is the long-awaited daughter of Israel, in fulfillment of biblical prophecy. She stands sstrikingly between the Old Covenant and the New, her child being recognized by Simeon ...'s Magnificat announces the divine restoration of creation in parallel with Jesus' own proclamati... not guarantee the infallibility of ecclesiastical pronouncements. Jesus did promise instead that the...
... on "advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment; especi...(264) In the former, the parish council is spending its own money; in the latter it is spe...In the 1970s Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs Alva Myrdal, "a famous leftist and nonbeli...Rather, from Old Testament Israel to contemporary Iran, religious uniformity has arr... Environmental Ethics in Biblical Law and Covenant, 13 J.L. & RELIG. 127, 186-87 (1996-1999) ("[C]ont...
... in church; and later, in 1563, the Council of Trent ordered that marriages must be solemnized... was significant since the ecclesiastical courts of the established Church of England had ef... of easy divorce has sparked the idea of "covenant marriage," by which a marrying couple committing t...L. REV. 541, 551 (2006) (calling for restoration of common-law marriage); Stuart J. Stein, Common L.... (174.) See Culliton v. Beth Israel Deaconness Med. Ctr., 756 N.E.2d 1133, 1138 (Mass....
... of the Red Sea, Moses Reading the Covenant, and the Tabernacle - reveals that the miniatures ... the upper third portrays the male Israelites murmuring against Moses and Aaron as the women and... Eucharist.(45) The fourth canon of the Council of Macon of 585 describes the ceremony: . Wherefor... wearing veils further indicates an ecclesiastical setting.(50) The open-handed gestures of the two m... the Second and Third Century Church," Restoration Quarterly, XXVI, 1983, 1-17; and M. Haykin, "'In T...
... were based not on conventional ecclesiastical symbolism but on his own private fantasies. When C..., according to Stephens, conjoins "the Israelitish and Gentile breast-plates." Later, Stephens would ..., yet are they as confident in their restoration as that tomorrows [sic] sun will rise. . Then sudd... sea and land--the symbol of God's covenant of mercy above the most memorable scene of his wra... Theology after Auschwitz (London: Council of Christians and Jews, 1976); and Gersham Gorenbe...
...Woolley,(23) John Y. Barlow,(24) Israel Barlow Jr., (25) Joseph Leslie Broadbent, (26) and...A kind of written ecclesiastical loyalty oath was introduced to identify Fundamenta... was also a member of the Priesthood Council formed in 1929 by Lorin C. Woolley and a dedicated... Declaration" in the Doctrine and Covenants, one of four volumes Mormons recognize as scriptur...Shields, Divergent Paths of the Restoration, 3rd ed. (Bountiful, Utah: Restoration Research, 1...
...) the combat between the two, with Israelite and Philistine soldiers as spectators, and the low... with the patriarch Sergius by the covenant of Jonathan with David (her reading of the arming ... of Christ, a doctrine formulated at the Council of Chalcedon in the mid-fifth century and still of... in a domestic rather than an ecclesiastical context. Thus, both the Kaiseraugst Achilles Plate..., "Early Christian Sculpture: Its Restoration and Its Modern Manufacture," Art Bulletin 9 (1926)...
Genuine peace in the disputed areas of West Bank and Gaza in the Middle East will result not merely from treaties or agreements, but only when the Arabs have reviewed their conceptions of Israel's legitimacy. The problems related to Israel's legitimacy form the basis of the conflict. The legal and ethical weapons that Arabs have historically used against Judaism and Israel will have to be considered in the on-going Arab-Israeli discussions, if the conflict is to be resolved.
...Diplomacy to facilitate the restoration of Jews to Zion had been attempted by Jewish leade...Eminent academic, ecclesiastical, cultural, and social figures wrote books and gave... in Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant, which says that territorial conquests should be a... be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold ...
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