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Wulfstan’s canon law collection, eds J.E. Cross and A. Hamer, Anglo-Saxon texts 1 (Cambridge, 1999). A Wulfstan manuscript, containing institutes, laws and homilies (British Museum Cotton Nero A.I) , ed. H.R. Loyn, Early English manuscripts in facsimile 17 (Copenhagen, 1971).
In the BaháΚΌí Faith, a dispensation is a period of progressive revelation relating to the major religions of humanity, [1] usually with a prophet accompanying it. The faith's founder Bahá'u'lláh advanced the concept that dispensations tend to be millennial, mentioning in the Kitáb-i-Íqán that God will renew the "City of God" about every thousand years, [2] and specifically mentioned ...
The head of the Apostolic Penitentiary is one of the few Vatican officials who retain his positions sede vacante. [1] If the Major Penitentiary is a cardinal elector he is one of only three persons in the conclave allowed to communicate with those outside the conclave, so that he can continue to fulfill his duties (the other two being the ...
The Holy See has at times granted dispensations from the celibacy requirement for former Anglican priests and former Lutheran ministers. [9] Papal dispensation is a reserved right of the pope that allows for individuals to be exempted from a specific Canon law. Dispensations are divided into two categories: general, and matrimonial.
Manifestation of conscience is a practice, in religious orders, of making one's superior, such as an abbot or prior, aware of the state of one's conscience. This is so the superior may know them intimately, and thus further their spiritual progress.
Dispensation is not a permanent power or a special right as in privilege. [20] If the reason for the dispensation ceases entirely, then the dispensation also ceases entirely. [22] [23] [24] If the immediate basis for the right is withdrawn, then the right ceases. [22] In canonical jurisprudence, the dispensing power is the corollary of the ...
The number of dispensations may vary from three to eight, but the typical seven-dispensation scheme is as follows: [7]: 51–57 Innocence – Adam under probation prior to the Fall of Man. Ends with expulsion from the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3. Some refer to this period as the Adamic period or the dispensation of the Adamic covenant or Adamic ...
"Thus licences to teach or to practise law or medicine, for example," [2] were "legal privileges, since they confer[red] upon recipients the right to perform certain functions for pay, which the rest of the population [was] not [permitted to exercise.]" [3] Privileges differed from dispensations in that dispensations were for one time, while a ...