单词 | new catholic |
释义 | New Catholicn.adj. Now historical. A. n. A member of a religious group in Germany that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1844; = German Catholic n.The group separated from the Roman Catholic Church following the excommunication of Johannes Ronge, who became one of its founding members. The New Catholics (also and later chiefly called the German Catholics) had a simple doctrine focusing on the authority of the Bible, rejecting the authority of the Pope, and acknowledging only two sacraments: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. By 1860, many of the New Catholic congregations had dissolved, and the majority of New Catholics joined Protestant churches. The movement was largely superseded by the Old Catholic Church (see Old Catholic n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > Roman Catholic sects and groups > [noun] > German German Catholic1845 New Catholic1845 Old Catholic1864 1845 Ipswich Jrnl. 22 Mar. The New Catholics of Berlin held a meeting on the 12 inst. 1853 Hereford Times 18 June 3/4 The Lutheran Government at Hamburg have forcibly suppressed a school founded by some followers of Ronge (‘German or New Catholics’). 2013 J. Bush ‘Papists’ & Prejudice iv. 120 Growing frustrated with the corruption of the Church, Ronge set up his own organization, the New Catholics. B. adj. Of or relating to a religious party in Germany that separated from Roman Catholic Church in 1844; of or relating to the New Catholics (see sense A.). ΚΠ 1845 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 11 Sept. Among the schismatic sects, one of them is called the New Catholic Church. 1845 N. Wales Chron. 7 Oct. New Catholic communities are springing up with a miraculous rapidity under ‘Johannes Ronge, the Champion of Light and Truth’. 1990 M. S. Shatz tr. M. Bakunin Statism & Anarchy vi. 143 Ronge wrote an open letter..to the bishop of Trier... That is how the New Catholic heresy began. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < |
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