churchly

The tone of the whole work is fervent, elevated, and churchly.

It filled the churchly heart with anguish and bitter disappointment.

But dogma is not yet technical for what is Christian or churchly.

That he grew to perceive the childishness of churchly dogma, we know.

And Cally Heth stood alone in the more than churchly stillness.

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.

Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma.