Word: ecclesiasticism
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Langley was educated for the church, and lived his whole life as an inferior ecclesiastic. He was extremely poor, extremely proud, and exceedingly wroth at the wickedness of the world. His one work, "Piers the Ploughman" is a keen and daring satire on the state of society and religion in...
No ecclesiastic order has ever bound man to God so much as family prayer.
"Love is Duty, and God is Hope; all religion is summed up in these two words" said Dr. Abbott yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel. From Moses to Micah, he continued, we find the prophets preaching the simple religion of Love and Hope, which the priests endeavor to cover with elaborate...
The study of history in some form, biblical or classical, may have been introduced into the curriculum of Yale College in its earliest years; but the first formal recognition of the subject was "the appointment of President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership...
"Oxford is always a strangely fascinating city. Why is it so much further removed from present-day life than its rival university town-Cambridge? It is needless to enter upon an analysis of the fact, but so it is. Oxford belongs to the middle ages. Its spirit is both academic...