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Перевод: laity

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светские люди; миряне ; непрофессионалы ; профаны

Тезаурус:

1. George Bernard Shaw was altogether more worldly-wise, observing that "all professions are conspiracies against the laity," and while they affected contempt for the medieval craft guilds, with their closed shops, the professions were in reality based upon very similar principles.
2. Trusting the Laity
3. When placed alongside the house of laity in the synod of the Church of Ireland, the power of the laity in church decision-making, including statements on political ethics and positions on public local issues, is quite considerable.
4. It is likely that the inner core of local church laity, such as select vestry members of the Church of Ireland and presbyterian elders, provided and still provide one of the links between the material and spiritual interests of the groups in the alliance, as these laity were and are active in the business and commercial fields also.
5. But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book, the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries, the atrium before it - though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica, where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist - is of the early twelfth.
6. An editorial in the Catholic Herald and Standard on 25 May - it is distributed in Ireland as The Standard - criticized the Irish bishops' apparently low esteem of their laity's ability to remain constant in their marriages.
7. Parish representatives were then asked to examine (a) baptismal preparation in their parish, (b) to consider the advantages of baptismal programmes and (c) to decide the way in which the laity could be encouraged and equipped to share in the leadership of such programmes.
8. There are three "Houses", Bishops, Clergy and Laity (the latter two consisting of elected representatives who serve four years, (the life of the Synod being that of a Parliament).
9. The very existence of the catholic state in all but name, the realization, if only in part, of the territory of Ireland as both catholic and nationalist, had a significant and continuing impact on both the clergy's practical theology and the laity's day-to-day perceptions of social reality.
10. In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich, even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call "vin ordinaire"; and even communion wine (which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries, until communion in one kind became the rule.
11. The gathering momentum of clericalism under the Carolingians can be seen from the fact that while Alcuin still addressed his learning in many ways to the laity, his pupil Hrabanus Maurus, abbot of Fulda, wrote the De Institutione Clericorum , a compendium of theology and law exclusively for the clergy.
12. But final approval in 1991 will require a two-thirds majority in all three houses - bishops, clergy and laity.
13. Laity participate mainly through traditional organizations and the call now is for a new strategy based on small Christian communities.