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Home Dictionary Name: low churchBroad Church
A portion of the Church of England consisting of persons who claim to hold a position in respect to doctrine and fellowship intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church or evangelical party The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship...
Low church
Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms applied especially to Episcopalians and opposed to high church See High Church under High...
Low churchism
The principles of the low church party...
Low churchman
One who holds low church principles...
Church
Church, includes any chapel or other building generally used for public Christian worship. (Christian Marriage Act, 1872, s. 3)--The Church of England is a distinct branch of Christ's Church, and is also an institution of the State (see the first clause of Magna Carta), of which the sovereign is the supreme head by Act of Parliament (1 Eliz. c. 1), but in what sense is not agreed. According to Sir Wiliam Anson, the sovereign is head of the Church, 'not for the purpose of discharging and spiritual function, but because the Church is the National Church, and as such is built into the fabric of the State' (Law and Custom of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of the law of the Church into that of the realm, as a branch of the general law of the realm, though limited as to the causes to which, and the persons to whom it applies; in the public recognition of its Courts and Judges, as having proper legal j...
Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
Russian Church
The established church of the Russian empire up to the revolution of 1917 at which time the ruling Communist party tried to suppress all religious worship The czar was the nominal head of the church but he never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma It still forms a portion by far the largest of the Orthodox Eastern Church and is governed by the Patriarch and the Holy Synod In 1988 the church with official approval celebrated the 1000 year anniversary of the baptism of Russia After breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Russian Church began to regain some its old influence in Russian life and the government turned over some of the confiscated churches back to church control The Russian Church was recognized anew as the official church of Russia with special priveleges by an act of the Russian Duma in 1997 The Metropolitan of Moscow as Patriarch of the church is regarded as the first among equals in order of deference among bishops of the church...
Church of Scotland
Church of Scotland. The authority and jurisdiction of the Pope were abolished in 1567, and since then, except for some intervals of first, Presbytery has been the form of Church Government in Scotland. The Church has independent power to legislate and to adjudicate finally in all matters of doctrine, worship, government, and discipline within itself. Its Supreme Court is the General Assembly, which consists of ministers and elders elected by the Presbyteries, Universities, and the Royal Burghs and by the Church in India. Its sittings are attended by a Lord High Commissioner, representing the King, and it is presided over by a Moderator, who is nominated each year by a selection committee. The tenure of ecclesiastical property and endowments was reorganized by the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 33), the general effect of which was to transfer all ecclesiastical property and endowments, as well as the responsibility, for their maintenance and c...
Church-rates
Church-rates, tributes by which the expenses of the church are to be defrayed; made by the parishioners at large, that is, by the majority of those present at a vestry summoned for that purpose by the church-wardens, formerly recoverable in the Ecclesiastical Court or, if the arrears did not exceed 10l. and no questions were raised as to the legal liability, before two justices of the peace.Compulsory church-rates were abolished by the Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 109), except so far as partly applicable to any secular purpose.The Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1), gave to Parochial Church Councils power to levy a voluntary church-rate....
Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921
Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (English) (11 & 12 Geo. 5 (No. 1)), a measure passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England to amend the law relating to parochial organization of the Church of England. It lays down that the primary duty of Parochial Church Councils is to cooperate with incumbents in the initiation, conduct, and development of church work, both within the parish and outside. Certain powers, duties, and liabilities of the vestry and of the churchwardens are transferred to the Parochial Church Council....
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