Sentence examples for church term from inspiring English sources
It is more pejorative than "conventional wisdom," a 1958 coinage of the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, bottomed on "received wisdom," in turn rooted in "received custom," a 1382 church term for the teaching of tradition.
"They probably have declared me a suppressive person," she said, referring to an official church term (" SP") for a person who endangers members by being "suppressive".
He pointed to a policy called Disconnection, which pressures Church members to sever ties with anyone declared a Suppressive Person, a Church term for an enemy of Scientology or its principles.
(These days, some priests in rural France must cope with as many as 30 churches).Since the start of the year Abbé Francis has been at war with the region's bishop in church terms, a liberal who has been trying to close the parish and move him to other duties.
He conflated the dogma of infallibility, a baby doctrine in church terms — it dates from 1870 and has only been invoked once, to confirm the assumption of the Virgin — with the papal "teachings" that went through his office, and left a billion Catholics to accept them or to risk their souls dissenting.
In a video posted to YouTube this week, Westboro member Steven Drain delivers the group's inflammatory and surprising claim that Christians are to blame for what the controversial Church terms "fag marriage".
There are also growing Orthodox, Evangelical and Pentecostal churches, with Pentecostal churches in England now third after the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in terms of church attendance.
Slim in terms of the number of people involved, the documentary movement was nonetheless a broad church in terms of style and subject matter.
It is an iconic church in terms of its contribution to American history".
The more recent definition is an attempt to describe the church in terms of its inner and spiritual reality.
He mocks the Catholic church in terms that recall the Vatican fashion show in Fellini's Roma.
