| Dhira B. Mahoney - 2000 - 622 pages
...portion of the Anglican Visitation of the Sick; and though the 32nd Article says that "Bishops, priests, and deacons, are not commanded by God's law either to vow the state of single life or to abstain from marriage," and "therefore it is lawful for them to marry,"... | |
| Jaroslav Pelikan - 2005 - 678 pages
...renowned councils." 122 According to The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, "bishops, priests, and deacons are not commanded by God's law either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage."123 Therefore the requirement of celibacy is, The... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2004 - 306 pages
...class.34 By 1563, Anglicans had arrived at a different understanding of God's law: "Bishops, priests, and deacons are not commanded by God's law either to vow the estate of a single life, or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other... | |
| John Henry Newman - 2008 - 532 pages
...portion of the Anglican Visitation of the Sick; and though the 3±nd Article says that "Bishops, priests, and deacons, are not commanded by God's law either to vow the state of single life or to abstain from marriage," and "therefore it is lawful for them to marry,"... | |
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