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How to use churchly in a sentence

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Lyrically poetic and understated, this album has a churchly feel that makes for perfect nighttime chillout music.
He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council.
Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms.
The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
Once I do get to leave the day job, I usually head to the church job, or do churchly duties at home.
Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
He has wanted to lead theology out of what he perceived as its post-World War II isolationist occupation with purely churchly questions.
Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
The new generation of Disciples could no longer deny the churchly character of the institutions that had been developed.
Raising his own goblet, Father Oppius blessed the congregation and the meal with a great rolling of churchly phrases ending in a cordial Benedicite.
Is it a reaction against sacramentalist modes that hinders us from developing a fully churchly life with both preaching and sacraments?
One of the most interesting puzzles in the sociology of religion is why Americans are so much more religious as well as more churchly than Europeans.
Such Church Fathers as Tertullian, Augustine, and Jerome renewed, in churchly guise, the Platonic argument against poetry.
For one it was the godly society, mandated by Christ, organized and now managed by the churchly hierarchy centered in Rome.
With its center in Holland, the religious movement Devotio Moderna stressed individual meditation over churchly ceremony.
All these phenomena reflect a crisis within the Anglican Church as lived by its officials in conducting their regular churchly duties.
Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
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Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma.
Between his attendance to churchly duties and that of the Honorable Heman Atkins there was a great gulf fixed.
And this, mark you, though I was still unshriven, and he had never named the churchly rite to me.
The emergence of the churchly play into the open was effected through the agency of ecclesiastic ceremonial.
His sermons are models of churchly commonplace and full of the stock phrases of a formal religion.
And Cally Heth stood alone in the more than churchly stillness.
It filled the churchly heart with anguish and bitter disappointment.
The tone of the whole work is fervent, elevated, and churchly.
That he grew to perceive the childishness of churchly dogma, we know.
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