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/pɹɪsbaɪtˈiəɹɪnˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- the doctrines and practices of the Presbyterian Church: based in Calvinism
How To Use Presbyterianism In A Sentence
- Throughout his life he held devoutly to the Presbyterianism in which he was raised.
- But a spurious Presbyterianism had been invented, and “the outcasting of the locust "had been the “inbringing of the caterpillar.” The Life of John Milton
- And after the trauma of so many admonitory sermons on the sins of his late father, he never thereafter regarded Scottish Presbyterianism as a fit religion for a gentleman.
- Princeton theologians Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge believed that their theology faithfully reflected Reformed beliefs and should be central in American Presbyterianism.
- Most accepted, but minorities existed, some still adhering to Rome, others, though not yet schismatic, to Presbyterianism or more extreme Protestant views.
- Presbyterianism was brought to America primarily by the Scots and the Scots-Irish, who emigrated not to New England but to the mid-Atlantic and the South, and westward into the piedmont of the Appalachian mountains.
- Not surprisingly, four of the five women were associated at some point with the Society of Friends; Presbyterianism and Unitarianism were also represented among the religious affiliations of the women.
- I was brought up in a manse as a Presbyterian and I find Presbyterianism a comfortable jacket.
- But a spurious Presbyterianism had been invented, and "the outcasting of the locust" had been the "inbringing of the caterpillar. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649