Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The faith, doctrine, system, and practice of the Anglican Church.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The principles of the Anglican Church or of Anglicans.
Wiktionary
- n. The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church
- n. dated Attachment to England or English institutions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.
- n. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.
- n. Attachment to England or English institutions.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church
Etymologies
- Anglican + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Theresa had serious doubts as to what she termed Anglicanism, reckoning against it every laxity in doctrine or in discipline that came to her knowledge, and admiring everything in other branches of the Church.”
“His kind of Anglicanism is benign and pretty harmless.”
Richard Dawkins: Muslim parents import creationism into schools
“Conservatism in Anglicanism seems to be mostly concerned with a right wing political and social agenda and makes efforts to ape the worst of Protestant fundamentalism, oddly calling it “orthodox” Anglicanism.”
Selected heresies from the Diocese of Niagara « Anglican Samizdat
“The report, prepared for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, calls Canada a post-Christian society in which Anglicanism is declining faster than any other denomination.”
Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction « Anglican Samizdat
“For almost 500 years within Anglicanism, and 2000 years in Christianity, the elevation of a man to the Episcopate was not done by a vote of the laity and a vote of the clergy.”
Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat
“Almost anything regarding Anglicanism is hilarious.”
“I am an Anglican, but I can state as a neutral matter of fact that Anglicanism is a heresy of Catholicism.”
“The slow suicide of Anglicanism is displayed and described in minutest detail, and even those who want to preserve the Chuch, like the saintly Peter Akinola of Nigeria, are allowed to present their arguments in their own words.”
“Nigerian Anglicanism is at its core intensely Bible-centered.”
“The irony in Anglicanism’s devotion to its new substitute god, inclusivity, is that the only thing those who are not excluded have in common is that they are with a bunch of other people who are also not excluded.”
Diocese of Toronto: a Good Friday exclusive « Anglican Samizdat
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