Definitions
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- noun pejorative Any practices of
Christianity that are viewed as placing a larger emphasis on thehabits of church life or theinstitutional traditions of thechurch than ontheology andspiritual teachings; The quality of being toochurch -focused .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once again, Hitchens presents us with a cacophony of insults happy-clappy Sunday “Churchianity”; weirdos and creeps etc. rather than the rationality of which he claims to be a champion.
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Pure foolishness has been our food both politically and spiritually, as even our so called teachers in Churchianity have helped lead the masses into discontent unknowingly, and from these mussings we will be brought to the ground, returned from where we came.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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“Churchianity” is practiced amoungst some of the white soldiers.
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The incursions of barbarian tribes from the North and East, and later of Moors and Arabs from the South, familiarized the European peoples with the ideas of bloodshed and violence; gross and material conceptions of life were in the ascendant; and a romantic and aspiring Christianity gave place to a worldly and vulgar Churchianity.
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Churchianity can only be disintegrated by the slow process of erosion.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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Christianity gave place to a worldly and vulgar Churchianity.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886
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Churchianity can only be disintegrated by the slow process of erosion.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Churchianity - Symptoms of an Out of Order Church - Part 2 of 2
WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops 2010
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Churchianity - Symptoms of an Out of Order Church - Part 1 of 2
WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops 2010
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Churchianity - Symptoms of an Out of Order Church - Part 1 of 2
WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops 2010
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