“The priesthood plays a crucial role in guiding and ministering to the spiritual needs of the community.”
“The priesthood is an essential aspect of religious practice, where individuals are ordained to carry out sacred rituals and provide spiritual guidance.”
“At the same time Dan had begun receiving instructions in preparation to receive the Mormon version of the Aaronic priesthood.”
“Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either.”
“But Mr. Paine was the inveterate enemy to priestcraft as well as kingcraft.”
“As Part Two evinced, Paine was much more than a talented popularizer of advanced ideas, a megaphone for the enlightenment project against kingcraft, lordcraft and priestcraft.”
“The priesthoods of public religion were held by members of the elite classes.”
“A libertinus was not entitled to hold public office or the highest state priesthoods, but he could play a priestly role in the cult of the emperor.”
“The priesthoods of the state religion were filled from the same social pool of men who held public office, and in the Imperial era, the Pontifex Maximus was the emperor.”