Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Laying little stress on church authority and usage; evangelical: used specifically of those in the Anglican Church who are known as Low-churchmen, and of their principles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to
high-church . See High Church, underhigh .
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Examples
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This inner conflict led him to reject what he considered the puritanical and "thwarted views on Sex" that governed the low-church communities in which he had grown up.
The Great Dissenter William Anthony Hay 2011
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And usually the side that was low-church rather than high-church.
Paula Gordon: Make a Joyful Noise Paula Gordon 2011
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Aside from actual direct Divine Intervention, which I do not completely rule out, several circumstances functioned synergistically: The Great Awakening, about the time that many of the Founders were born, was an outbreak of the bourgeois version of Christianity, low-church Protestantism.
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Suddenly, during the sermon, my minister, a low-church convert from heaven knows where, started chanting Abortion is murder.
TEXAS FAITH: Do religions oppress women? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Rev, you must have been in a very low-church denomination.
"Wipe that f-----g s--t off your face." Ann Althouse 2009
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Part of the Disciples of Christ (Christian Church), its nonritualistic, low-church worship resembles the UCC's.
Where Will the Obamas Worship? Mark Tooley 2009
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Church and government officials with low-church, evangelical inclinations would push for strictures on Sunday conduct (no tavern-going, no fun or games); others, of a high-church disposition, would lobby for a laissez-faire tolerance of convivial pursuits, believing that good Christians could enjoy their holy day (or holiday) while also dutifully observing it.
The Day of Restlessness Jay Tolson 2008
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For low-church Protestants like Clinton and Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, confession usually comes after you get caught, is noisily public, and is so bound up with high-profile damage control that its sincerity cannot be assumed.
Hullabaloo 2008
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The other day I heard someone say (tongue-in-cheek) that downtown at St Andrew's (our traditional low-church parish) they won't elevate the host, but they sure will elevate the cash.
Archive 2007-05-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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The other day I heard someone say (tongue-in-cheek) that downtown at St Andrew's (our traditional low-church parish) they won't elevate the host, but they sure will elevate the cash.
To elevate or not to elevate Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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