Here below is a list of motions passed at previous summits. Those which required a Greater Majority to pass have been noted as such, along with the reason they needed it. These represent the Curate's attempts to summarize the motions for distribution, and importantly are not the exact words written on each motion. The historic motions can be read at leisure in the office of the Church.
Motions Passed
Recognition of Foundation Documents - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: Formally adopted a number of Artebazzani documents for review by the Church so that they could serve as the basis for our own Foundational Documents
Tenets: Removal of Artebazzan - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: Removal of references to Artebazzan and replacement with Concordian labels on all Foundational Documents
Tenets: The Church - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: Changes to the Tenets of the Church as follows:
- The responsibility of the church is to spread the teachings of the Spheres, not to be unquestioned
- Priests are no longer immune to prosecution by secular authorities, save for in the case of religious crimes
- The church may no longer elect to raise aspects of common life to be above contention by priests and aspirants of Anarch
- The church and state are no longer exempt from the teachings against hoarding coin, but are charged to avoid hoarding or amassing wealth unnecessarily
Tenets: Lumos Instructs - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: The subheading ‘The Spheres Instruct’ for Lumos will now read:
“Lumos calls us to listen to others to find the things we believe in, to hold true to those beliefs once they are ours, to defend our faiths in order to inspire hope, and to share our personal truths with others”
Tenets: Stallia Instructs - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: The subheading ‘The Spheres Instruct’ for Stallia will now read:
“Stallia calls us to seek out the Truth with persistence and tenacity, to question our world so that we may determine what is true, to protect knowledge from those who would distort or destroy it, and to use that knowledge to our benefit wherever life leads us.”
Tenets: On Graces - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: The prohibitions surrounding the execution or righteous killing of Graces are now removed
Strictures: Anarch Blasphemy - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: The following Stricture is added - “The deconstruction of a physical or societal structure without taking appropriate measures to replace the structure is a blasphemy against the Sphere of Anarch”
Strictures: Cervitas - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: The Stricture referring to the blasphemy of Cervitas is amended to read the following:
“The breaking of oaths blessed and signed by a Cervitas priest - in either the spirit of the oath, or its letter - is a blasphemy against the Sphere, in addition to any civil crimes which may arise from the act”
Strictures: Lumos - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: The Stricture referring to the blasphemy of Lumos is amended to read the following: “Aspirants of Lumos who are shown to have had the opportunity to responsibly assist someone in need, and actively chosen not to without reasonable justification are guilty of blasphemy against the Sphere and are liable for the harm that comes to those they did not protect.”
All Drafts: Minor Changes - Doctrine Review Committee
Summary: A number of minor wording changes and additions, including importantly that ‘judging’ a grace is meant only to infer the formal judgement of them, rather than judging one socially in passing; additionally, the Commoner’s Creed is renamed as the Congregation’s Creed.
The Documents of Foundation - Doctrine Review Committee
Greater Majority Required (Doctrine)
Summary: The Church adopts the amended documents of the Artebazzani Church as the legal basis of our faith, creating a set of living documents intended to best reflect what the Heralds have taught us.
Penance for Louisoix - Morose the Fool
Summary: It is requested by the church that before the Winter of 224 that Louisoix travel with a congregation to the remaining members of House Avalon to preach to and reassure them.
Name Halig of the Iron Valley as Paragon - Jacques d’Zisseau
Summary: Jacques it to be appointed Investigator in an effort to gather information which will be passed up to the Council of Six for their decision on whether to proclaim Halig a Paragon at this time.
Declaration in Regard to the Revolution in Lerona Mere - Macron Dupont
Summary: The current revolutionary fervor of Lerona Mere is declared to not be Of Anarch. It is declared that further destruction of the city could be seen as Blasphemy. Anarch priests instructed to push their followers toward democracy rather than revolution.
Circulation of Resources - Frances
Summary: The church’s stockpile and any income of Suns Iron and Forge Steel should be made available on the exchange, with the profits gathered from it sequestered in order to pay off debts as judged worthy by the High Priest of Panoply
Motions Failed
Appointment of Treasurer - Frances
Greater Majority Required (Title)
Summary: A motion to create the position of Church Treasurer.
Failed due to Greater Majority voting requirements