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Anglo-Catholicism

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An´glo-Ca`thol´i`cism
n.1.The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant; a doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition.
Anglo-Catholicism
the praetiees in the Anglican communion that hold that Catholicism is inherent in a church whose episcopate is able to traee its line of descent from the apostles and whose faith Catholics agree to be revealed truth. — AngloCatholic, n., adj.
See also: Catholicism
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Noun1.Anglo-Catholicism - a doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition
High Anglicanism
Anglicanism - the faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church
Translations
Anglo-Catholicism [ˈæŋgləʊkəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm] N → anglocatolicismo m


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A distinguished architect and ecclesiological scholar, John Ninian Comper (1864-1960) was a major influence on the liturgical revival when the Anglican Church was still imbued with a vital Anglo-Catholicism, now largely dissipated.
UNITY BY INCLUSION by Curl, James Stevens / The Architectural Review
But there is no lack of complication in the portrait of Wordsworth moving increasingly toward Anglo-Catholicism, revising his poems under the influence of an Oxford Movement disciple, to project an overtly Christian message--even as he campaigned against the Catholic emancipation act.
Odd fellow by Wheeler, Edward T. / Commonweal
Where Gladstone differed with Newman was in seeing self-deception not in Anglo-Catholicism, which Newman came to see as a "mere theory and illusion, a paper theology that facts contradict," but in Roman Catholicism, about which Gladstone gave out that "no one can become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom.
The Grand Old Man; What Gladstone thought about church, state, and ... by Short, Edward / The Weekly Standard
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