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Catholicity

NOUN
  1. the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church

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  • A man who really reads a book and reads it well, reads it for moral muscle, spiritual skill, for far-sightedness, for catholicity -- above all for a kind of limberness and suppleness, a swift sure strength through his whole being. The Lost Art of Reading
  • It surpasses any limited point of view, it expands to reality as a whole, universitas means universal, all encompassing, turning or opening to all directions, katolitos… In the sense that Sri Aurobindo used the word "catholicity" of thought, meaning seeing all points of view at the same time. An Exploration into an Integral Approach to Knowledge
  • Moreover, in England and elsewhere, Anglicans more than others in the West have maintained the appurtenances of catholicity in liturgy, ceremony, nomenclature, and ecclesial structures.
  • One might apply to him the word catholicity if it were not far too big and dignified an epithet. Among Famous Books
  • I think it would be more correct to argue that Lewis was a fine scholar who avoided the pitfalls of academic narrow-mindedness because of a combination of things: his great love of truth, the "catholicity" of his perspective even though he had a certain dislike for Rome, and his desire to reach a broad, popular audience without compromising essentials. Colson: Lewis successful because he wasn't an evangelical
  • Well, this Bishop Westcott spoke once enthusiastically of "_the noble catholicity which is the glory of the English Church_. The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series
  • Hence Ignatius 'original appeal to Christ as the inbreaking foundation of catholicity that supersedes any immanent claims to authority ... claims made either by Protestants who wish to exclude Roman Catholics from catholicity, or Catholics who wish to exclude Protestants from catholicity. "Protestantism is dangerous. ..."
  • By her negative attitude to so many points of Catholic doctrine she has paltered with the truth, She has by God's Providence retained the bare essentials of Catholicity and preserved the canonical succession of her bishops. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • As we are quick to tout the southward expansion of Anglicanism as evidence of its catholicity, we cannot reasonably expect that Africans and Asians will always march in lockstep with traditional Western theology.
  • Bangalore seemed to suit him better, with its catholicity of social life and its absence of puritan guardians of moral behaviour.
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