eldership

Twenty year later, my notions of eldership keep maturing as I do.

And indeed, having women and young people in many of these churches giving testimony and even leading worship is quite a departure from the formalised structures of eldership, rank, and male authority prevalent within Fijian Methodism (4) (cf Brison 2007a:51).

Yet, a more nuanced understanding of eldership in this context--its link with history, language, culture and country--is clearly warranted.

See also Kedroff v Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America, 344 US 94 (1952); Kreshik v Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America, 363 US 190 (1959); Maryland and Virginia Eldership of the Churches of God v Church of God at Sharpsburg, 396 US 367, 368 (1970); Jones v Wolf, 443 US 595, 602-3 (1979).

Daniel Rathbun, a relative of Valentine, left the Hancock, Massachusetts, Shakers in 1796 after he was passed over for promotion to eldership. See Brewer, Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives, 56-57.

In Africa, the governing system used were chiefdoms, eldership and kingship along separate tribal groupings

What they have written down includes their rich life experiences, their conversations with their eldership, teachers or friends, or what they had seen and heard during their officialdom, or their reports and notes from research, etc.

Concerning this movement, Schnabel suggests the development of a leadership by elders at Jerusalem that "It is probable that 'eldership' was first developed in the very Jewish environment of the Jerusalem Church, based on the model of the Sanhedrin." (83)

The way he spoke about his efforts made it clear that he felt he was taking better care of the neighborhood than the municipal authorities: "this is all my work <...> I don't need the eldership. It's better if they don't interfere, if they don't get in my way.

Duchy (Eldership) of Samogitia (marked in red) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1654)

Focusing on the revival of spiritual eldership (starchestvo) and monasticism and the veneration of saints' relics in imperial Russia, as well as the survival of these forms of religious life during the Soviet era, they provide valuable insight into the nature of spiritual authority among the Orthodox faithful during the 19th and 20th centuries, the responsiveness of Orthodox institutions to modernizing change, and the influence of shared religious experience on personal and collective identities.

Brennan attempted to address this confusion in his concurrence in Maryland and Virginia Eldership of Churches of God v.