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Broad Church
adjective
- pertaining or belonging to a party in the Anglican Church emphasizing a liberal interpretation of ritual.
Broad Church
noun
- See Low Church, High Churcha party within the Church of England which favours a broad and liberal interpretation of Anglican formularies and rubrics and objects to positive definition in theology Compare High Church Low Church
- usually not capitals a group or movement which embraces a wide and varied number of views, approaches, and opinions
adjective
- of or relating to this party in the Church of England
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- Broad Churchman noun
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Example Sentences
Meanwhile broad church opinions were gaining ground to some extent owing to a reaction from the Oxford movement.
Among the clergy the broad church party was comparatively small, but it included some men of mark.
Gas of northern metaphysics to blow up Broad Church bishops like balloons.
It will be understood that the Broad Church notion is only a theory and rests entirely on its reasonableness.
Such as these must hold even the Broad Church to be a mythology, beautiful and innocent, but still a mythology.
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