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单词 Low Church
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Definition of Low Church in English:

Low Church

noun
  • treated as singular or plural A tradition within the Anglican Church (and some other denominations) that is Protestant in outlook and gives relatively little emphasis to ritual, sacraments, and the authority of the clergy.

    低教会派的(该派遵守英国国教传统,持新教观点,但不大注重宗教仪式、圣礼和神职人员权威)。比较HIGH CHURCH ,B ROAD C HURCH

    Compare with High Church, Broad Church
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They want to continue their Low Church practices in peace.
    • He became Low Church in order to marry his rich wife who, now dead, has left him with one daughter, Dorothy.
    • Ryle, for example, pointedly contrasts High and Low Church approaches to religion.
    • The 65% figure given above is based on the totally arbitrary assumption that half the Anglicans are High Church, near Catholics, and half are Low Church, near Protestants.
adjective
  • Denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the Low Church.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The brothers ' father was also an Anglican bishop of Low Church or Evangelical faith.
    • They didn't like the Catholics, they didn't like the High Church or the Low Church Anglicans, and they didn't go along with Calvinism.
    • So whilst the High Church people were reaching down, the Low Church people in a musical sense anyway, were reaching up to feed their traditions.
    • The ' Authorized Version ' arose out of a conference at Hampton Court, convened by James I in 1604, between the High Church and Low Church parties.
    • It would be like talking about Christianity as embracing the Ku Klux Klan and Low Church Anglicans in Melbourne.
    • Yes, to church they all go, not caring much, perhaps, whether the vicar preached Calvinism or Arminianism, was doctrinal or practical, logical or rhetorical, High Church or Low Church.
    • The party was noted for its devotion to free trade, unfettered capitalism and the Low Church Protestant God (not necessarily in that order.)
    • Well the Oxford Movement generated great hymns, but then so did its opposition Evangelical or Low Church movement.
    • He combined a Catholic devotion to the sacraments of the Church with a Pentecostal welcoming of healings, ecstasies and Low Church spontaneity.

Derivatives

  • Low Churchman

  • nounPlural Low Churchmen
    • High Church clergy and laity were often termed "high and dry", in reference to their traditional "high" attitude with regard to political position of the Church in England, and "dry" faith, which was accompanied by an austere but decorous mode of worship, as reflective of their idea of an orderly and dignified churchmanship against the rantings of the low churchmen that their Cavalier ancestors had defeated.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Naturally the Low Churchmen resented an appellation with which this suggestion of unworthy motives was associated.

Definition of Low Church in US English:

Low Church

nounˈloʊ ˈˌtʃərtʃˈlō ˈˌCHərCH
  • treated as singular or plural A tradition within the Anglican Church (and some other denominations) that is Protestant in outlook and gives relatively little emphasis to ritual, sacraments, and the authority of the clergy.

    低教会派的(该派遵守英国国教传统,持新教观点,但不大注重宗教仪式、圣礼和神职人员权威)。比较HIGH CHURCH ,B ROAD C HURCH

    Compare with High Church, Broad Church
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The 65% figure given above is based on the totally arbitrary assumption that half the Anglicans are High Church, near Catholics, and half are Low Church, near Protestants.
    • He became Low Church in order to marry his rich wife who, now dead, has left him with one daughter, Dorothy.
    • They want to continue their Low Church practices in peace.
    • Ryle, for example, pointedly contrasts High and Low Church approaches to religion.
adjectiveˈloʊ ˈˌtʃərtʃˈlō ˈˌCHərCH
  • Denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the Low Church.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They didn't like the Catholics, they didn't like the High Church or the Low Church Anglicans, and they didn't go along with Calvinism.
    • He combined a Catholic devotion to the sacraments of the Church with a Pentecostal welcoming of healings, ecstasies and Low Church spontaneity.
    • Yes, to church they all go, not caring much, perhaps, whether the vicar preached Calvinism or Arminianism, was doctrinal or practical, logical or rhetorical, High Church or Low Church.
    • So whilst the High Church people were reaching down, the Low Church people in a musical sense anyway, were reaching up to feed their traditions.
    • The ' Authorized Version ' arose out of a conference at Hampton Court, convened by James I in 1604, between the High Church and Low Church parties.
    • It would be like talking about Christianity as embracing the Ku Klux Klan and Low Church Anglicans in Melbourne.
    • The brothers ' father was also an Anglican bishop of Low Church or Evangelical faith.
    • The party was noted for its devotion to free trade, unfettered capitalism and the Low Church Protestant God (not necessarily in that order.)
    • Well the Oxford Movement generated great hymns, but then so did its opposition Evangelical or Low Church movement.
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