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The Ordnung is a set of rules for Amish, Old Order Mennonite and Conservative Mennonite living. Ordnung ( pronounced [ˈɔʁdnʊŋ] ⓘ) is the German word for order, discipline, rule, arrangement, organization, or system. Because the Amish have no central church government, each assembly is autonomous and is its own governing authority.
e. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission ( ERLC) is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States. Brent Leatherwood has served as the ERLC president since September 13, 2022. [1] The commission is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in ...
Religious law. Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Different religious systems hold sacred law in a greater or lesser degree of importance to their belief systems, with some being explicitly antinomian whereas others are nomistic or "legalistic" in nature.
Jewish business ethics is a form of applied Jewish ethics that examines ethical issues that arise in a business environment. It is noted [ 1] that in the Torah, there are over 100 Mitzvot concerning the kashrut (fitness) of one's money, many more, in fact, than concerning the kashrut of food. The subject thus receives an extensive treatment in ...
v. t. e. The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum[ 1]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [ 2] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct ...
In the Catholic Church, an association of the Christian faithful or simply association of the faithful ( Latin: consociationes christifidelium [1] ), sometimes called a public association of the faithful, [2] is a group of baptized persons, clerics or laity or both together, who, according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law, jointly foster a more ...
t. e. An association of churches is primarily a term used in U.S. tax law to describe a cooperative endeavor among churches that is entitled to tax status similar or identical to the tax status of the churches themselves. Under U.S. law, an association of churches is usually exempt from taxes. It is normally treated as a public charitable ...
Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler ') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church ...