单词 | cowper-temple |
释义 | Cowper-Templen. Now Historical. Used attributively to designate the clause which Cowper-Temple introduced into the Education Act of 1870, or the religious teaching of an undenominational character in public elementary schools as provided for by this clause. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [adjective] > undenominational Cowper-Temple1902 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 661/1 Clause 14 of that Act [sc. Education Act of 1870], generally known as the Cowper-Temple Clause, enacts that ‘in any school provided by a School Board, no religious catechism, or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination, shall be taught’. 1908 Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 5/7 In all these schools there may be Cowper-Temple religious teaching. 1932 R. A. Knox Broadcast Minds i. 9 Since the time of the ill-fated Cowper-Temple clause we have given up trying to solve ecclesiastical disputes on the principle of the Highest Common Factor. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 800/1 By means of the Cowper-Temple clause this act also effected a compromise on the question of religious instruction, which was not superseded until 1944. Derivatives Cowper-ˈTempleism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > at school > undenominational Cowper-Templeism1906 1906 Daily Chron. 24 May 7/7 Rather than secularism, Mr. Balfour would prefer universal Cowper-Templeism ‘with all its illogicality and its unfairness’. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 25 June 3/1 Our attitude towards the Bible has changed since the invention of Cowper-Templeism. That compromise is impossible and unreasonable to-day. Cowper-ˈTempleite n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > at school > undenominational > follower of Cowper-Templeite1908 1908 Daily Chron. 21 Apr. 1/4 Denominational colleges can be legally raided by Cowper-Templeites on the highwayman principle of first come first served. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1902 |
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