9 sentences with 'clergy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clergy and other words derived from it.
• « Also, despite problems of corruption and ignorance among the clergy, scholarship continued and even flourished within the church during the late Middle Ages. »
• « The professors were all members of the clergy, "professing" religion, hence the term "professor". »
• « This situation was soon described as a new Babylonian captivity by clergy and laity alike (especially in Italy), comparing the papacy's presence in France to the enslavement of the ancient Jews in Babylon. »
• « Despite the return to the near-anarchic conditions of tribal rule, the one area in which the Safavids were successful was in supporting the growth of the Shia ulama, or Muslim clergy, supporting pilgrimages to Shia holy sites, funding madrasas and mosques, and encouraging the spread of Shia Islam at the expense of the remaining Sunnis. »
• « Strangely, from a present-day perspective, however, there is no new technology to speak of, and the political and social order remains intact: a king, nobility, clergy and commoners occupy their respective places in society - they simply interact more "rationally". »
• « The First Estates, made up of the clergy, ran not only the churches, but also education, huge tracts of land in the hands of the church and monasteries, orders such as the Jesuits and Benedictines, and great influence in royal government. »
• « In Protestant lands there was the equivalent in the form of the official Lutheran or Anglican churches, although the political power of the clergy in Protestant countries was generally weaker than that of the Roman Church in Catholic countries. »
• « The Estates General were a meeting of representatives of the three estates - clergy, nobility and all others - at which the French king could ask for tax revenues in exchange for various negotiations and promises (often a promise not to ask for more taxes in the future). This had not happened for more than 150 years, and therefore no living Frenchman had any experience of what to expect. »