Anglo-Catholicism
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the tradition or form of worship in the Anglican Church that emphasizes Catholicity, the apostolic succession, and the continuity of all churches within the communion with pre-Reformation Christianity as well as the importance of liturgy and ritual.
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the religion of the Church of England, as distinguished from that of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, or Russian Orthodox churches.
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The Church of England's communicants run a gamut from High-Church Anglo-Catholicism, flickering with votive lights and aromatic with incense, to a Quaker-plain Low-Churchmanship that might make a Methodist uneasy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A devout convert to Anglo-Catholicism, Eliot consciously designed The Cocktail Party as a spiritual parable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wilfred deserted his father's Evangelical plainness for High Church Anglo-Catholicism with its in cense, vestments and Roman-style ritual.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the 17th century, the Church of England has been divided between High Church Anglo-Catholicism and Low Church Evangelicals.
From Time Magazine Archive
The consolations of Anglo-Catholicism, then, were insufficient for the spiritual needs of this scion of the Low Church.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
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