Broad Church
Americanadjective
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a 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
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(usually not capitals) a group or movement which embraces a wide and varied number of views, approaches, and opinions
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Coming from the Sonic Cathedral stable, it's perhaps no shock to learn that Broad Church delves a little deeper into its mother club night's extended record box.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2010
When the congregation of Central North Broad Church announced it would follow Dr. Machen, Central North Broad was promptly locked up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, Sir Thomas Inskit, leader of the "Low" or "Broad Church" party, issued a manifesto hotly attacking the Anglo-Catholics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such as these must hold even the Broad Church to be a mythology, beautiful and innocent, but still a mythology.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad Church, by its friends: Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
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