Discipline ecclesiastical

In the beginning, the ecclesiastical discipline is the whole of the disciplinary questions concerning to the clerks. With the the Middle Ages, the term is abundantly used within the framework of the Gregorian Réforme to denounce the abuses the clergy: Nicolaïsme (problem of the marriage of the clerks), Simony (traffic of spiritual goods), nomination of the clerks by the laic ones, etc

In the Protestant Churches

In a restricted direction, the ecclesiastical discipline is the equivalent protesting of the canonical Droit in the Roman Catholic church.

This name comes from what the first of these texts in the reformed tradition were primarily disciplinary, with the direction running of the mot. It acted, with the first third of the 16th century, “to draw up” true Churches, with trained and devoted ministers, and faithful the… faithful ones!

Very quickly, the statutory concerns took place more and more. Nowadays, the Discipline of the Church reformed of France is almost only “organic”, regulating the work of the institution, though the part devoted to the ministers, in particular the Pasteur S, is always most important.

External bond

the Discipline of the reformed Church of France

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