उपशास्त्रीय रूपों और गतिविधियों के अत्यधिक अनुपालन

Noun:

पादरीपन, धर्मोपदेशकत्व,

ecclesiasticism's Usage Examples:

This ecclesiasticism violates every principle of morality, and hardens the conscience that has to do with it.

According to Schwegler, the puteal originally indicated that the place had been struck by lightning, and the story is a reminiscence of the early struggle between the state and ecclesiasticism.

He was in the fullness of his powers, his studies had fed his natural aversion to the principles of authority and ecclesiasticism, and at a moment when the revived activity of the Jesuits caused some real and more pretended alarm he was appointed to the chair of history at the College de France.

Instead of the simplicity of Luther's earlier writings, a dogmatic theology was formed, and a Protestant ecclesiasticism established, indistinguishable from the Roman Church in principle.

It was the age when the papacy was growing out of the ruins of the old Roman Empire, and the best talents were devoted to the organization of ecclesiasticism rather than to the preaching of the Word.

To this we may add a fantastic and absurd allegorization, the indiscriminate laudation of saints and martyrs, polemical strife, the hardening of the doctrine into dogma, the development of a narrow ecclesiasticism, and the failure of the missionary spirit in the orthodox section of the Eastern Church (as contrasted with the marvellous evangelistic activity of the Nestorians.

van Espen, Jus ecclesiasticism universum (Louvain, 1720), De recursu ad Principem, observationes in Concilium Lateranense iv.; L.

ecclesiasticism's Meaning':

excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities

Synonyms:

adhesion, adherence, attachment,

Antonyms:

apophatism, atheism, doctrine of analogy, cataphatism,