What's the difference between church and presbyterianism?
Church
Definition:
(n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The collective body of Christians.
(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
(9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(12) 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.
(13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
(14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
(18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
(20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.
Presbyterianism
Definition:
(n.) That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Duncan, a Liberian national, was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital even though his fever spiked on his first visit to the emergency room on 26 September, according to his medical records obtained by the Associated Press.
(2) Clinical, haematological and biochemical aspects of a new family with heterozygous haemoglobin Presbyterian [beta 108 (G 10) Asn----Lys] are described.
(3) Texas Health Presbyterian hospital is reviewing how the situation would have been handled if all staff had been aware of Duncan’s circumstances.
(4) A review of 15 cases of pancreas transplantation at the Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh showed that all of the neurologic complications occurred outside of the pancreas transplantation surgery itself.
(5) In a letter to assembly men and women the Presbyterian church said it was "not merely an issue of conscience for Christian people and churches, but a very significant one for the whole of society".
(6) Seeing this legislation come out of a state I know and love has been painful.” Standing next to him, Linda Whitworth-Reed, a Presbyterian reverend in Little Rock, agreed.
(7) The Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center began a pre-employment drug testing program for housestaff physicians in 1987.
(8) He was admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas on Sunday.
(9) Analysis of operative results by a modification of the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's lumbar spine analysis system demonstrated that 88 of the patients attained excellent or good results and 12 attained poor or fair results.
(10) Sixteen of 80 patients less than age 21 years with idiopathic dystonia seen by the Movement Disorder Group at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York were treated with baclofen.
(11) A pilot clinical trial on radiotherapy of glioblastoma with and without hyperbaric oxygen was performed at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
(12) To reassess the epidemiology and treatment of listeriosis in the United States, we reviewed greater than 120 cases of listeriosis from four medical centers in three geographically separated cities: Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center (LAC-USCMC); Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago; the University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago; and Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee.
(13) He joked that the enemy the US is confronting “is not radical Presbyterian terrorism”.
(14) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(15) Two days later he went to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital.
(16) This is one reason why the great majority of Chinese Christians are Protestants of one sort or another, most deriving ultimately from Presbyterian missions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
(17) In a 12-year retrospective review, we identified 187 patients with Down's syndrome admitted to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
(18) As every other major denomination – Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian – rapidly shrunk, these congregations almost doubled in size.
(19) DNA haplotype constellations of the beta-globin gene cluster have been analyzed in German families with hemoglobinopathies (Hb Freiburg, Hb Köln, Hb Presbyterian) and beta-thalassemias.
(20) Ninety-four children ranging from 3 months to 19 years of age underwent cardiac valve replacement at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center from 1965 to 1985.