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Definition of churchly in English: churchlyadjective ˈtʃəːtʃliˈCHərCHlē Relating to the Christian Church; ecclesiastical. views about biblical and churchly authority an exquisite album of churchly, ambient songs Example sentencesExamples - Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
- He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
- His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council.
- That fact alone should arouse our interest: when have any of us found the names of theologians or other such churchly types in a tourist brochure?
- At a time when most Christian music was staid and churchly, they started a Christian rock band that soon was being tapped for a national record deal.
- One of the most interesting puzzles in the sociology of religion is why Americans are so much more religious as well as more churchly than Europeans.
- Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
- Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
- His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms.
- The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
- Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
- Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
- Once I do get to leave the day job, I usually head to the church job, or do churchly duties at home.
- Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
- He has wanted to lead theology out of what he perceived as its post-World War II isolationist occupation with purely churchly questions.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral
Origin Old English circlic, cyrclic, from church. Definition of churchly in US English: churchlyadjectiveˈCHərCHlē Relating to the Christian Church; ecclesiastical. views about biblical and churchly authority an exquisite album of churchly, ambient songs Example sentencesExamples - He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
- Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
- Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
- Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
- His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council.
- Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
- The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
- He has wanted to lead theology out of what he perceived as its post-World War II isolationist occupation with purely churchly questions.
- Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
- One of the most interesting puzzles in the sociology of religion is why Americans are so much more religious as well as more churchly than Europeans.
- Once I do get to leave the day job, I usually head to the church job, or do churchly duties at home.
- At a time when most Christian music was staid and churchly, they started a Christian rock band that soon was being tapped for a national record deal.
- Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
- That fact alone should arouse our interest: when have any of us found the names of theologians or other such churchly types in a tourist brochure?
- His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral
Origin Old English circlic, cyrclic, from church. |