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Ecclesiastical History At: ROBERTSON, James Craigie, Scottish clergyman : b. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1813 ; d. Canterbury, England, July 9, 1882. He was graduated from Cambridge in 1834, and took orders in the Anglican Church in 1836. He was made canon of Canterbury in 1859, and from 1867-1874 was professor of ecclesiastical history at King's College, London. He published How Shall We Conform to the Liturgy (1843) ; Church History (1852-1873) ; Plain Lectures on the Growth of Papal Power (1876) ; edited Heylyn's History of the Reformation (1849) ; Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket (1875-1882), etc.Luther's marriage also alienated some of his followers who did not believe that monastic vows ought to be broken. Efforts were made repeatedly at the German diets to come to some agreement but in vain. Feeling between Catholics and Lutherans became more bitter till war broke out between them, which was settled by the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 by which it was agreed that each prince should have it in his power to decide the religion of his people. The principle was expressed in the words cujus regio ejus religio. Another part of the agreement was the Ecclesiastical Reservation, according to which if an ecclesiastical prince changed his religion he must resign his benefices. This settled the ecclesiastical question in Germany for nearly a hundred years, but was unsatisfactory because it gave no room for the growing numbers of Christians outside of the Catholic and Lutheran bodies.
The term "city" has various meanings, depending on whether it is defined by demographers, politicians, economists, sociologists, or historians. To the student of Greek and Roman history it means not only the walled town such as Athens or Rome but the territory surrounding it, the inhabitants of which enjoyed the privileges of citizenship — in other words, a city-state. In England, the term sometimes is used to designate a borough that is also a bishop's see, a carry-over from an archaic ecclesiastical terminology. |
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