| However, the ecclesiastical courts could order a husband to pay alimony to a wife seeking a separation from him. |
| Alongside the secular model of marriage, an ecclesiastical model is beginning to take shape and definition. |
| The ecclesiastical fission has led to some tiny island villages being split religiously among as many as five different bodies. |
| Sensitive to the alleged and often real rebuffs of friends, but also to the demands of ecclesiastical authority, he was often at its mercy. |
| Thus papal absolutism and Spanish absolutism, secular and ecclesiastical power, grew ever more complementary and interdependent. |
| Ultimately questions of grace inform matters of polity, both civil and ecclesiastical. |
