(a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
(a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.
(n.) A member of the Church of England.
(n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
Example Sentences:
(1) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(2) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(3) He helped her cope when her mother and then her father, who had been an Anglican cleric, died in quick succession in 1981.
(4) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(5) Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the “truth [of the Gospel] continues to be called into question in the Anglican communion” and warned against “the global ambitions of a secular culture”.
(6) He is an Anglican bishop who has shown his moral strength to the world better than anybody.
(7) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
(8) The Anglican communion was given substance only by the British empire and next week’s meeting will be one of the final moments in the dismantling of the empire, or of the further process of forgetting that it ever mattered.
(9) She said therapies endorsed by Anglican Mainstream and Core Issues were not coercive and were appropriate for people who wanted to change their sexual attractions, for example if they were married and worried about the impact of a "gay lifestyle" on their children.
(10) I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the church of England and the Anglican communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
(11) During his time at Westcott House theological college in Cambridge, he turned away from the theology of the faculty and from the more catholic Anglicanism of Sir Edwin Hoskyns and later Michael Ramsey.
(12) On the other hand, there is no doubt that the schism in the Anglican Communion would have happened much more slowly and perhaps not at all without the help of the internet.
(13) About 1.6 million Canadians identify themselves as Anglican, according to Statistics Canada.
(14) Over the past year, facilitated by the steering group of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network we were invited through email, personal study, and virtual conferencing, to begin considering how we might live out, with urgency and in hope, the Fifth Mark of Mission “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.” Our reflections entered a new depth when, in February 2015, ACEN chair Archbishop Thabo Makgoba graciously hosted a face to face meeting in South Africa.
(15) Williams's departure comes after a turbulent decade in which he has fought to maintain unity within the Anglican communion amid rows over Church teaching on homosexuality and gay marriage.
(16) Jayne Ozanne, a prominent campaigner for LGBT equality within the Anglican church, said: “Jeffrey is already a bishop in many of our eyes – he has been the ‘chief pastor’ to those of us who have felt discriminated against and vilified for the sake of our sexuality.
(17) Although South Africa legalised same-sex marriage in 2006, the Anglican church in the country teaches that marriage is a union of a man and woman.
(18) However, Thabo Makgoba, the archbishop of Cape Town, has said: “We overcame deep differences over the imposition of sanctions against apartheid and over the ordination of women, and we can do the same over human sexuality.” The global Anglican communion has threatened to split over the issue.
(19) Polling shows that a great majority of the Anglican laity are in favour of Lord Falconer's assisted dying bill, and even some of the bishops I have spoken to here, although they are bitter about what they feel is the unfairness of the argument, are resigned to losing in the long term.
(20) Even among Muslims and Baptists, there are majorities for this kind of live-and-let-live liberalism – certainly among Catholics (85%) and Anglicans (92%); but among nones it is absolute.
Unitarian
Definition:
(n.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
(n.) One who rejects the principle of dualism.
(n.) A monotheist.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(2) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(3) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(4) Burton and Taylor were married in March 1964 by a Unitarian minister at the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal.
(5) The Unitarians and United Church of Christ are also reportedly divesting.
(6) "As the Japan manager is a devout Unitarian I wondered if religious beliefs influence tatics," writes Ian Copestake.
(7) Human colorectal epithelium is composed mainly of columnar, mucous and endocrine cells; origin of these cell lineages from a multi-potential stem cell at the base of the crypt (the Unitarian hypothesis) has been proposed but not yet demonstrated.
(8) The author speaks of physiatrization of rehabilitation and draws attention to the multidimensional approach, whereby he also pays attention to the unitarian aspect of the concept of disease.
(9) My first foster home was with a Unitarian minister and his wife.
(10) The Federation has a unitarian character in Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Switzerland whereas there are several Federations in France and Belgium.
(11) A small number of churches – the Unitarians, Quakers, and Jewish liberals – would like to administer same-sex marriages.
(12) This simple review advises caution when composing historical positions to a unitarian concept of positive and negative psychoses.
(13) The idea that Shedden lost because she didn’t make a chocolate mosque would only hold water had she been in competition with other cakes that had also been baked into the shape of culturally, socially or politically significant icons, saturated with meanings designed to appeal to the liberally biased judges of Platell’s fecund imagination; ie a sponge Unitarian chapel, a meringue women’s refuge, a fudge abortion clinic, or an icing sugar Tom Daley.
(14) Contrary to the unitarian concept of acrokeratosis verruciformis and Darier's disease, a comparative familial, clinical and histopathological analysis of six cases each of these two diseases has suggested that they are separate entities.
(15) An unitarian conception of the ovulatory mechanisms, based on the fact that coital-induced ovulation and estrogen-induced ovulation could occur in spontaneous and reflex ovulators respectively, has been proposed.
(16) Religious groups that wish to opt in to holding same-sex ceremonies include the Unitarian and Quaker churches, but Miller said individual church ministers in such churches would be free to opt out.
(17) The present study supports the unitarian theory that neuroendocrine cells in the gastrointestinal mucosa are of endodermal origin.
(18) This unitarian heuristic concept of the monoaminergic psychoses would be in better agreement with the classic clinical data concerning this disease (typology intermediate syndromes and crossed heredity).
(19) As interleukin 1 is produced by various cells, it is hypothesized that this molecule may be the "unitarian angiogenic factor."
(20) Such institutions teach hardline unitarian dogmas which, even if they are theoretically non-violent, are certainly intolerant.