irenicon

/ aɪˈriːnɪˌkɒn /

noun

1. a variant spelling of eirenicon

Example Sentences

The accordance of a resting-place to Darwin’s remains among England’s illustrious dead in that Valhalla, was an irenicon from Theology to one whose theories, pushed to their logical issues, have done more than any other to undermine the supernatural assumptions on which it is built.

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Last week in Evanston, Ill., ten bishops and 40 ministers and laymen agreed upon an irenicon which they publicly hoped would result in a merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church which split off in 1828 because of doctrine and administration, and the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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I let the archbishop know that I had composed an irenicon, wherein I prove the necessity of an ecclesiastical power over consciences in matters of religion, which utterly silences their arguments who plead so hard for toleration.

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Then, training up a band of disciples, he sent them forth proclaiming the new irenicon.

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Associated words: ecclesiastical, ecclesiology, ecclesiolatry, ecclesiasticism, parish, hierarch, hierarchy, hierocracy, hierolatry, hierology, hierarchism, irenics, curé, evangelical, verger, beadle, chancel, clearstory, nave, transept, vestry, presbytery, prebend, prebendary, lectern, apse, irenicon, living, benefice, sinecure, glebe, see, prelacy, convocation, synod, conference, conclave, consistory, crypt, schism, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, unchurch, sacristan, sacristy, Dorcastry, Sarum use. church and state.

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