The high church are the beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, [and] sacraments"...
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High church Lutheranism is a movement that began in 20th-century Europe and emphasizes worship practices and doctrines that are similar to those found...
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used in a liturgical sense, denoting a Protestant emphasis, whereas "high church" denotes an emphasis on ritual, often Anglo-Catholic. The term was initially...
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The Episcopal Church (TEC), also officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide...
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strands: the main traditions are known as Anglo-Catholic, high church, central church, and low church, the latter producing a growing evangelical wing. Tensions...
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St Giles' Cathedral (redirect from The High Church of St Giles)
(Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Giles), or the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Old Town of Edinburgh. The current...
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of its high church pre-Reformation liturgical traditions. The 1849 Constitution of Denmark designated the church "the Danish people's church" and mandates...
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Oriental Protestant Christian church based in Kerala, India. While continuing many of the Syriac high church practices, the church is Protestant in its theology...
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Trinity's congregation is said to be "high church", its activities based on the traditions of the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion...
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Methodism (redirect from Methodist Church)
movement has a wide variety of forms of worship, ranging from high church to low church in liturgical usage, in addition to tent revivals and camp meetings...
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in the high Victorian era.[citation needed] For over four centuries Christ Church admitted men only; the first female students at Christ Church matriculated...
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"high church", having retained priests, vestments, and the Mass during the Swedish Reformation. In common with other Evangelical Lutheran churches (particularly...
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St Peter's Collegiate Church is located in central Wolverhampton, England. For many centuries it was a chapel royal and from 1480 a royal peculiar, independent...
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Anglicanism (redirect from Anglican Church)
Anglo-Catholics and many high church and some broad-church Anglicans, but merely as "sacramental rites" by other broad-church and low-church Anglicans, especially...
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particularly in the years between 1874 and 1934. After the terms high church and low church came to distinguish the tendency toward Anglo-Catholicism on the...
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Fancy Dutch (redirect from Church Dutch)
so-called sectarians (Anabaptist Plain people), along the lines of a high church/low church distinction. The adjectives Fancy and Gay similarly denoted contrast...
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The Stornoway High Church is a place of worship of the Church of Scotland in Stornoway. The church celebrated its centenary in 2009. There is an English...
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of life. A "High Tory" must have an appreciation of religion and high culture. Before the 19th century, High Tories tended to be high church Anglicans and...
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Lutheranism (redirect from Lutheran Church)
reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation in 1517. Lutheranism subsequently became the state...
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over this topic was also associated with struggles between the High Church and Low Church movements. In Anglicanism, the term ritualist is often used to...
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Moravian Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church. Various Lutheran church bodies...
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Evangelicalism (redirect from Evangelical church)
people to support evangelical revival. High-Church Anglicanism also exerted influence on early Evangelicalism. High Churchmen were distinguished by their...
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based in Norway, of high church Lutheran patrimony. The church is a member of the Union of Scranton. The Nordic Catholic Church was founded in 1999 by...
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A church bell is a bell in a church building designed to be heard outside the building. It can be a single bell, or part of a set of bells. Their main...
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terms for "church" (Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ [crĭky], Bulgarian църква [carkva], Russian церковь [cerkov'], Slovenian cerkev) are via the Old High German...
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A house church or home church is a label used to describe a group of Christians who regularly gather for worship in private homes. The group may be part...
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Baptists (redirect from Baptist church)
believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency (the responsibility...
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level of ritual and formality, variously referred to as High and Low Church. As of 2013, the Church of Ireland ranked "second in the State in terms of the...
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The Scottish Episcopal Church (Scots: Scots Episcopal Kirk; Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba) is a Christian denomination in Scotland. Scotland's...
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