Churchly Synonyms

chûrchlē
Of or relating to a church or to an established religion
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. church
  2. ecclesiastical
  3. religious
  4. spiritual
  5. cathedral-like
  6. cathedralesque
  7. churchlike
  8. pantheonic
  9. synagogal
  10. synagogical
  11. tabernacular
  12. templelike

Churchly Sentence Examples

  • The same doctrines were preached with more of churchly fervour by Maximus the Confessor (580-622).

  • Eckhart was a distinguished son of the Church; E but in reading his works we feel at once that we have passed into quite a different sphere of thought from that of the churchly mystics; we seem to leave the cloister behind and to breathe a freer atmosphere.

  • But the link that connects him with churchly realism, as well as with the NeoPlatonic mysticism, is the conviction that complete and certain knowledge rests wholly on divine revelation, i.e.

  • Scholasticism opens with a discussion of certain points in the Aristotelian logic; it speedily begins to apply its logical distinctions to the doctrines of the church; and when it attains its full stature in St Thomas it has, with the exception of certain mysteries, rationalized or Aristotelianized the whole churchly system.

  • But dogma is not yet technical for what is Christian or churchly.

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