单词 | church polity |
释义 | > as lemmaschurch polity church polity n. ΚΠ 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. i. 133 Church-politie..is a forme of ordering the publique spirituall affayres of the Church of God. 1760 H. Stebbing Serm. Pract. Christianity II. xiii. 247 There are not now those warm Contentions about..Forms of Church Polity and Discipline, that there have been formerly. 1876 New Englander Oct. 638 The natural antagonism of a democratic church polity to the practical operation of slavery. 2005 R. Haight Christian Community in Hist. II. i. ii. 132 Church polity and ordinance did not bind Christian conscience. < as lemmas |
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