(n.) Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.
(n.) The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.
(n.) Attachment to England or English institutions.
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.
Protestantism
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam all get both barrels.
(2) This new protestantism drained followers even from Candomblé, the African religion brought by the slaves.
(3) Since 1990, the number of people identifying with no religion in particular has almost doubled to 46 million, largely at the expense of Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism.
(4) He cited the loss of empire and the dilution of Protestantism as a unionist ideology and the primacy of European markets over English and imperial ones.
(5) This could be a part of efforts against the penetration of western hostile forces.” While the Communist party considers itself an atheist organisation, authorities recognise five “official” religions: Buddhism , Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, and Taoism.
(6) He later remembered this environment as a "very austere one with a philosophy of life, a rigid Protestantism, from which one cannot escape easily".
(7) But as active Protestantism and the sectarian Orange Order waned in strength after the 1950s, the base of Scottish Toryism was chipped away.
(8) The explosive growth of Protestantism and Catholicism came as a surprise to Chinese society,” the Beijing-controlled newspaper claimed, adding that many non-Christians did not feel comfortable about the “exaggerated” crosses placed on some churches.
(9) Most branches of Protestantism are represented, with Methodists, Baptists, Adventists and so on.
(10) Having become too close to Protestantism, he is taken by God and replaced by the more orthodox Peter II, a designation that no real occupant of the post has ever been arrogant enough to adopt.
(11) The video, which features the same high production values common in the group’s media releases and computer generated scenes of old Islamic battles, begins with a recounting of the early history of Christianity and an outline of the schisms that led to the creation of the Coptic, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, as well as the development of Protestantism.
(12) In Korea, adherents of Protestantism grew from little more than 2% of the population in 1950 to 20% today.
(13) And as was once the case in Liverpool, working-class Toryism was inextricably linked with Protestantism and anti-Catholic sentiments.
(14) Likewise, the infertility of Charles II's wife, Catherine of Braganza, led to the succession of James II, a practicing Roman Catholic, whose attempts to undermine the Church of England led to the Glorious Revolution of 1788 and the preservation of English Protestantism.
(15) The first was a common Protestantism, whether in the established or dissenting churches.
(16) The demand for Islamic Reformation is just another brand of Islamophobia | Jason Wilson Read more I know it was some time ago that you were in the seminary, but surely you remember that the Reformation created Protestantism.
(17) It is the fantasy unity of Catholicism, Protestantism and Romanticism.
(18) The second was the continued threat of a Catholic power, France, which had demonstrated its own intolerance for Protestantism in the flood of Huguenot refugees who enriched this country.
(19) For while its attachment to Islam leaves it set apart in a land founded by pilgrims and among a racial group devoted largely to Protestantism, its belief in racial separatism left it with few allies in the Islamic or white world.
(20) In later life, FitzGerald often spoke of his desire to bring together the southern Catholic tradition of his father with the northern Protestantism of his mother, Mabel.