Low Churchism

Low Churchism

the principle that the Church of England is really little different from the Protestant Nonconformist churches in England and thus that the authority of the Episcopate and the priesthood, as well as the sacraments, are of comparatively minor importance. — Low Churchman, n.
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She told Ellen Nussey |I consider Methodism, Dissenterism, Quakerism and the extremes of High and Low Churchism foolish but Roman Catholicism beats them all'.