simony
IPA: sˈaɪmʌni
noun
- The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
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Examples of "simony" in Sentences
- There was a battle against simony.
- The Reformation is linked to simony in a way.
- On this embassy he committed new acts of simony.
- Simony is not defined, per se, in the new testament.
- There needs to be a wider view presentation of Simony here.
- The letter of this council against simony is still preserved J.
- Measures had been taken against simony by the Council of Chalcedon.
- Here, the Church dealt with issues of simony, concubinage of the clergy.
- During this regency, Elegius launched a campaign against simony in the church.
- During this regency, Eligius launched a campaign against simony in the church.
- She supported synods that reformed abuses that were so prevalent at the time, such as simony and usury.
- The term simony comes from a sorcerer named Simon Magus, who tried to bribe the Apostles into selling him their power (Acts 8: 18-20).
- (Acts 8: 9-24) The memory of his peculiar guilt has been perpetuated in the word simony, as applied to all traffic in spiritual offices.
- V with regard to episcopal elections, and passed several disciplinary decrees directed against existing abuses, such as simony and concubinage among the clergy.
- For this kind of simony places on a par things supernatural and things natural, things eternal and things temporal, and constitutes a sacrilegious depreciation of Divine treasures.
- Divine laws the term simony is applicable only to the exchange of supernatural treasures for temporal advantages, its meaning has been further extended through ecclesiastical legislation.
- One such sin, so subtle, so dangerous, and so constantly recurring in Christian history, having taken the name of its first author and being called "simony," has been handed down from generation to generation.
- They followed no definite ecclesiastico-political programme, but directed their attacks principally against individual offences such as simony, marriage of the clergy, and the uncanonical marriage of the laity.
- Preeminent among Luther's complaints were the practice of selling of indulgences (essentially, the selling of forgiveness for sin), the practice of "simony" (selling church positions), and the Church's policy on purgatory.
- It had been told him that his admission into the Order had been connected with the bestowal of temporal goods, and from this comes the sin called simony, which consists in the purchase of something spiritual with something temporal.
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