单词 | churchism |
释义 | churchismn. Belief in or adherence to the doctrine, practice, or polity of the Church or of a church, esp. the Church of England.See also Broad-Churchism n. at Broad Church n. Derivatives, Free Churchism n. at free church n. Derivatives, High Churchism n. at High Church n. and adj. Derivatives, Low-Churchism n. at Low Church n. and adj. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > excessive devotion to churchism1741 churchianity1770 ecclesiolatry1847 ecclesiasticism1862 triumphalism1964 1741 T. Morgan Physico-Theol. vi. §7. 254 Every Man, in this Way or Scheme of Churchism,..is to repent daily. 1768 C. Chauncy Let. to Friend 61 The appellant's idea of religion, essentially different from churchism. 1835 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Mar. 206/2 She did not carry her Churchism so far as he who said to his bookseller, ‘I never read Dissenting divinity.’ a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 43 Some of that queer narrowness of English churchism. 1922 Relig. Educ. May 151 The training in good habits, in churchism,..in authoritative knowledge, all have failed adequately to develop folks as real agents in the developing relations. 1953 C. C. Morrison Unfinished Reformation iv. 76 When the walls of our denominational churchism have crumbled and the united church appears, we may expect to experience nothing less than a new birth of freedom. 1991 Church Times 11 Jan. 10/3 Forget all about churchism, forget all about positions at the altar, forget all about party labels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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