Christian denominations which emphasize ritual and form
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The term high church refers to beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, [and] sacraments".[1] Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term originated in and has been principally associated with the Anglican tradition, where it describes churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the popular mind with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The opposite tradition is low church. Contemporary media discussing Anglican churches often prefer the terms evangelical to low church and Anglo-Catholic to high church, even though their meanings do not exactly correspond. Other contemporary denominations that contain high church wings include some Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches.
The term highchurch refers to beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, [and]...
Highchurch Lutheranism is a movement that began in 20th-century Europe and emphasizes worship practices and doctrines that are similar to those found...
used in a liturgical sense, denoting a Protestant emphasis, whereas "highchurch" denotes an emphasis on ritual, often Anglo-Catholic. The term was initially...
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the...
Oriental Protestant Christian church based in Kerala, India. While continuing many of the Syriac highchurch practices, the church is Protestant in its theology...
of its highchurch pre-Reformation liturgical traditions. The 1849 Constitution of Denmark designated the church "the Danish people's church" and mandates...
movement has a wide variety of forms of worship, ranging from highchurch to low church in liturgical usage, in addition to tent revivals and camp meetings...
"highchurch", having retained priests, vestments, and the Mass during the Swedish Reformation. In common with other Evangelical Lutheran churches (particularly...
formality, variously referred to as High and Low Church. The Church of Ireland sees itself as that 'part of the Irish Church which was influenced by the Reformation...
Anglo-Catholics and many highchurch and some broad-church Anglicans, but merely as "sacramental rites" by other broad-church and low-church Anglicans, especially...
The German Evangelical Church (German: Deutsche Evangelische Kirche) was a successor to the German Protestant Church Confederation from 1933 until 1945...
in Norway, of highchurch Lutheran patrimony. The Nordic Catholic Church is a member of the Union of Scranton. The Nordic Catholic Church was founded in...
people to support evangelical revival. High-Church Anglicanism also exerted influence on early Evangelicalism. High Churchmen were distinguished by their...
and parishes surrounding three churches: the High Kirk (now formally Oakshaw Trinity Church, but still retaining the High Kirk name), the Middle Kirk and...
that they encompass a broad range of opinion. After the terms highchurch and low church came to distinguish the tendency toward ritualism and Anglo-Catholicism...
life. A "High Tory" must have an appreciation of religion and high culture. Before the nineteenth century, High Tories tended to be highchurch Anglicans...
Episcopal Church, Moravian Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church. Historically...
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...
reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation. The split between the Lutherans and...
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...
A free church is any Christian denomination that is intrinsically separate from government (as opposed to a state church). A free church neither defines...
terms for "church" (Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ [crĭky], Bulgarian църква [carkva], Russian церковь [cerkov'], Slovenian cerkev) are via the Old High German...
sacramentalism similar to that in orthodox Lutheranism, especially in the highchurch movement. The Book of Concord states, contrary to "Enthusiast" belief...
figures have included John Stott and J. I. Packer. In contrast to the high-church party, evangelicals emphasize experiential religion of the heart over...
Catholicism and Protestantism; Arminianism and Calvinism; and highchurch and low church. In the 1700s and 1800s, revival movements contributed to the...
so-called sectarians (Anabaptist Plain people), along the lines of a highchurch/low church distinction. The adjectives Fancy and Gay similarly denoted contrast...
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