Definitions

1. Polity is closely related to Ecclesiology, the study of doctrine and theology relating to church organization.
2. Polity is one of the world's leading publishers in globalization, politics and international relations. (Web site)
3. The polity is congregational, but in a complex form in which congregations yield some authority to synods on regional and national levels. (Web site)
4. This polity was termed the ducatus Cenomannicus, or Duchy of Maine, and this was an alternative name for the regnum of Neustria well into the ninth century.
5. Episcopal polity is the predominant pattern in Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglican churches. (Web site)

Single Polity

1. In Catholicism the church is viewed as a single polity headed by the pope. (Web site)

Chinese History Records

1. In the Chinese history records, the polity was called Wa and its five kings were recorded. (Web site)

Habsburg Polity

1. Nationalist historians tended to view the Habsburg polity as despotic and obsolete.

Scotland

1. The Church of Scotland is a Reformed church, with a Presbyterian system of ecclesiastical polity.

Changes

1. In total, the changes threatened to destabilize the polity, fragment support for the status quo, and place further pressure on the monarchy. (Web site)

United

1. Muhammad began preaching Islam at Mecca before migrating to Medina, from where he united the tribes of Arabia into a singular Arab Muslim religious polity. (Web site)

Kingdoms

1. The Frankish realm was ruled as one polity subdivided into several regna (kingdoms or subkingdoms).

Name

1. The name was changed to disassociate the church from the polity of Syria.

System

1. He also thought that there was a good and a bad variant of each system (he considered democracy to be the degenerate counterpart to polity). (Web site)
2. Most libertarian socialists agree that some sort of polity or system of self-government is necessary in society. (Web site)

Sufficient

1. The polity must supply its needs from its available stock of labor, and thus must have sufficient capital available to allow that labor to be sufficient.

Expansion

1. Military leaders had a dominant role in the Ottoman state, a polity geared to war and expansion. (Web site)

Religion

1. At various times, nations have been defined in terms of culture, language, religion, territory, and polity, to list the most obvious factors.

Clans

1. Many of the clans and local chieftains that made up the Yamato polity claimed descent from the imperial family or other tribal Gods.

Rome

1. Polity: Constantinople should have the place of honor after Rome.

Japan

1. The polity, suppressing the clans and acquiring agricultural lands, maintained a strong influence in the western part of Japan. (Web site)
2. In the Chinese history records, the polity was called Wa Wa (Japan) Japanese, is the oldest recorded name of Japan. (Web site)

Rule

1. While venturing out to rule the Mediterranean world, Rome also defined its own civilization and polity. (Web site)
2. Under Suhungmung the Ahom Kingdom acquired a vision of an extended polity and consolidated rule. (Web site)
3. Expansion Under Suhungmung the Ahom Kingdom acquired a vision of an extended polity and consolidated rule.

State

1. From the social anarchist point of view, the state is only one type of polity or governance system. (Web site)

Politics

1. He contrasts the polity of republican government with democracy and oligarchy in book 3, chapter 6 of Politics.

Matters

1. The sphere of supreme civil power within a given polity: matters of state.
2. As divines and in matters of polity, the Cambridge Platonists argued for moderation.

Authority

1. Topics for discussion included authority in the church, polity, ministry and ordination and the question of what is essential and necessary for the church. (Web site)

Economy

1. In short, inclusive democracy is a form of social organisation which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. (Web site)
2. In China's history, the Tang Dynasty was a period when the polity and economy were highly developed and the culture and art were thriving. (Web site)
3. Thus the task of defining an urban area must be a reflection of geography, society, economy and polity; and each definition results in a unique character.

Centrally

1. Political economy is centrally focused on the development of the polity.

Country

1. In its current form the country exists as a divided polity: Kabul has no significant influence over what takes place in a majority of the provinces.

Book Written

1. This text is The Polity Governed by Islamic Law (al-Siyasa al-Shari`ah), a book written by 13th century Islamic jurist Taqi ibn Taymiyyah.

Capital

1. A polity which has a surplus is then able to buy assets or capital from abroad, or increase investment or consumption.
2. Before the Polish state existed, Kraków was the capital of the tribe of the Vistulians, probably linked to the larger polity of Greater Moravia. (Web site)
3. Yucu Dzaa (Tututepec) was the capital of the most powerful polity in Late Postclassic (A.D. 1100-1522) Oaxaca, México.

Palestinian State

1. No Palestinian state: Dayton proudly calls the U.S.-trained forces "founders of a Palestinian state," a polity he expects to come into existence by 2011. (Web site)

Denomination

1. Though each church or denomination has its own characteristic structure, there are three general types of polity. (Web site)

Theology

1. The ecclesiastical polity of the Church is Wesleyan and its theology is Arminian: there is no hard-and-fast rule about baptism. (Web site)

Doctrine

1. Congregationalist church governance gives autonomy to individual local churches in areas of policy, polity and doctrine. (Web site)

Reformed Churches

1. The Reformed churches as a rule follow the polity of Presbyterianism. (Web site)

Lutheran Churches

1. Otherwise, forms of polity are not mandated in the Lutheran churches, as it is not regarded as having doctrinal significance. (Web site)
2. The polity of the Lutheran churches varies from country to country. (Web site)

Episcopal Church

1. But culture now trumps the gospel in The Episcopal Church, as does geography when it claims that its polity (way of ordering the church) is sacrosanct. (Web site)

United Methodist Church

1. The United Methodist Church, by polity and practice, supports the full inclusion of women in every aspect of church life.
2. Many Methodist churches (see The United Methodist Church, a allotment of others) absorb the anatomy and action of apostolic polity.

Anglican Churches

1. The polity of the Church of Ireland is Episcopalian church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches.
2. The polity of the Church of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is Episcopalian church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches.
3. The Polity of the Episcopal church is Episcopalian church governance, which is the same as the Roman Catholic Church and other Anglican churches.

Congregational

1. Congregational polity is sometimes called "Baptist polity", as it is the characteristic polity of Baptist churches.
2. Ours is a congregational based polity, so the hierarchy would not act exactly as you describe.

Word Games

1. Definition of polity from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.

Important Document

1. Kautilya's work on polity is an important document of India's mastery on this subject. (Web site)

People

1. The focus on liberty as an essential right of people within the polity has been repeatedly asserted throughout history.
2. Here were people whose churches had a congregational polity and frowned on distant hierarchs. (Web site)

Sacraments

1. So, any Baptized Christian is welcomed to membership in this church and invited to full participation in the sacraments, ministry, and polity of the church.
2. A group in the Anglican Church that minimizes the episcopacy, priesthood, and sacraments and favors evangelical doctrines, polity, and usages. (Web site)

Methodist

1. Methodist: Richard Allen accepted the doctrines and polity of the Methodist Church as appropriate for his people.

Methodists

1. Methodists often use the term connectionalism or connectional polity in addition to "episcopal".
2. Methodists are not one the world over in their ecclesiastical polity: some are episcopal, some presbyterial, and some congre- gational. (Web site)

Part

1. The modern territory of Ghana was however never part of the previous polity. (Web site)
2. Historians in the early part of the century tended to view the Habsburg polity as despotic and obsolete.

Wallachia

1. Around 1247 a polity emerged in Oltenia under the rule of Litovoi, which would later merge with Muntenia to form the mediaeval state of Wallachia.

Congregationalist

1. Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local congregation is independent. (Web site)
2. Congregationalist polity dispenses with elders or bishops as a requirement of church structure. (Web site)
3. The polity of the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church is episcopal rather than congregationalist, and follows the model of the Roman Catholic Church. (Web site)

Congregationalists

1. Congregationalists are those who practice this form of polity while also maintaining the practice of infant baptism.

Presbyterian

1. Elements of presbyterian polity are also found in other churches.
2. Some Lutheran churches practice congregational polity or a form of presbyterian polity. (Web site)
3. Since both the minister and ruling elders are elected by the congregation, the Presbyterian polity is ultimately determined by the people. (Web site)

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