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9 Dec 2016, 3:46 pm
Replacing those priests with fools and buffoons chosen by lot, and having them "perform" the priestly functions as untrained as they were would have been seen by Jews in Jerusalem as being on a par with Antiochus' "abomination of desolation. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 5:20 am
Like every young faith system, the emerging fields in law yearn for the structures of orthodoxy for the most practical of all reasons: (1) legitimacy, (2) discipline; (3) predictability; (4) unity; (5) an exogenous basis for the operation of a priestly caste (experts and knowledge insiders: e.g., lawyers, courts, NGOs, etc.); and (6) the identification of "the enemy" or the taboo. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright, 2021). [read post]
6 May 2011, 8:08 am
Div. 1978), or their Catholic or Episcopalian priestly garb, People v. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 3:37 pm
And also, the facts of priestly sexual abuse may be so dreadful, that starting out as a fan or not of the RC church would not make much a difference in the end. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 9:21 pm
Furthermore, the deceased did not want to go back to Victor unless he was able to function and perform his priestly duties and that the Bishop had made the decision that he could not get any housekeeper to stay in the rectory to look after him. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 8:18 am
(From Ontological Modeling of Geographical Relationships for Map Generalization)In The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Alfred W. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 12:37 pm
Nor, by the way, can a mere private actor give priestly counseling or consolation to a believer. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 6:57 am
Several participants expressed wonder at how a priestly class could maintain the secret of the ordeal without the laity figuring it out, to which Professor Leeson suggested that ordeals may have been used more often with the lower class for that very reason. [read post]
18 May 2014, 9:01 pm
For example, in 1860, when a rabbi delivered a prayer in the House of Representatives, he appeared “in full rabbinic dress, ‘piously bedecked in a white tallit and a large velvet skullcap,’ ” and his prayer “invoked several uniquely Jewish themes and repeated the Biblical priestly blessing in Hebrew. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 1:13 am
Thus Malcolm Brown, Director of Public Affairs for the Church of England, in a special issue of Ecclesiastical Law Journal in 2019, argues that the Coronation is ‘not just a bit of invented pomp’ but a ‘solemn religious rite in which the Church of England, in its priestly role representing God who was incarnate on earth in Christ, confers upon the monarch her temporal and spiritual authority’.[4] Similarly, Adrian Hastings asserts that Establishment… [read post]
15 May 2013, 9:01 pm
But, as in the priestly universe, the good ones must take a stand against the bad ones in order to avoid becoming negatively labeled, or, worse, legally liable, themselves. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 6:02 am
But in a society dedicated to the rule of law, judges are not a priestly class of elite rulers. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 9:00 am
We are giving the benediction, if you will, the priestly benediction. [read post]
17 May 2020, 8:14 am
The first was the transfer of authority for morals from the religious to the political sphere, and from the religious priest to the priestly politician (and their administrator apparatus). [read post]
23 May 2015, 10:32 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) With this post Flora Sapio and I (and friends from time to time) continue an experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 11:13 am
The Goldberg Fileby Jonah Goldberg Dear Reader (including those of you Donald Trump didn’t call “truly odious”),True story. [read post]
4 May 2020, 9:48 am
. * ** And these are useful gods indeed--even better than the gods of law and theory; for these gods are less intelligible; they are immanent within the algebraic formulations of mathematically driven reductionist relations, and they may be only interpreted, constructed and applied by a priestly class whose power is now assured. [read post]
2 Jan 2016, 7:45 pm
The Letter serves the state (and the community of believers) the way all priestly interventions are meant to--advice, connection with the divine, and authoritative means of conveying the appropriate forms of responding to events. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 3:50 pm
With the extremely disturbing news about the long-standing cover-up that went on over sexual abuse of young men by an assistant coach at Penn State University, it is very instructive to compare the reaction of the University after the story came out to that of the House of Bishops concerning the revelations, on numerous blogs (Catholic and Episcopalian), concerning the Presiding Bishop's own cover-up of her actions while serving as the Bishop of Nevada.Let me be perfectly clear: the two… [read post]
