| 单词 | minister of holy church |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminister of holy church Until the mid 16th cent. used principally in phrases such as minister of the church (originally †minister of holy church), minister of the gospel, minister of the word (also minister of God's word), and the scriptural phrases minister of God, minister of Jesus Christ, minister of the sanctuary. Later (after the example of foreign Protestant, esp. Calvinistic, use) also employed on its own, often in deliberate preference to priest, to imply that officiating at the commemoration of the Lord's Supper did not constitute the offering of a sacrifice. So, although priest and minister are used interchangeably in some passages of the 1549 Bk. Common Prayer and its 1552 and 1662 revisions, by the 19th cent. the use of minister as the designation of an Anglican clergyman came to be increasingly associated with Low Church views. The term has also become standard for referring to the clergy of Protestant churches, and from the 19th cent. onwards is frequently used with a preceding word specifying a denomination. In formal contexts, and sometimes for emphasis, the phrase minister of religion is used of a member of the clergy of any denomination.extracted from ministern.< as lemmas |
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