| 单词 | bridge church |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbridge church bridge church n. [after German Brückenkirche (1927 or earlier)] a Christian denomination intermediate in doctrine and practice between two other disparate traditions, esp. (in the ecumenical movement) one regarded as able to promote reconciliation between them. ΚΠ 1927 Church Times 2 Sept. 266/1 Dr. Gore accepts for it [sc. the Anglican Church] its description by a Lutheran as a brücke Kirche [sic]—a bridge Church between Catholicism and Protestantism. 1996 J. Borelli & J. H. Erickson Quest for Unity iv. 161 If..the Orthodox Churches themselves are truly ‘sister churches’, already nearly at the point of full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, why were these ‘bridge churches’ needed? 2016 Church Times 29 Apr. 15/2 Talk about Anglicanism's vocation as the ‘bridge church’—not just passively standing between two ecclesiastical thought-worlds (the older language of via media), but actively connecting them—has a long history. < as lemmas |
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