Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income. |
His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council. |
His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms. |
Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians. |
Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma. |
Such Church Fathers as Tertullian, Augustine, and Jerome renewed, in churchly guise, the Platonic argument against poetry. |