Crossword clues for churchman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Churchman \Church"man\, n.; pl. Churchmen.
An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England. ``A zealous churchman.''
--Macaulay.One was is attached to, or attends, church.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A person (originally a man) of authority in a religious organization; a cleric.
WordNet
n. a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, divine, ecclesiastic]
Wikipedia
Churchman typically refers to a member of the clergy. It may also refer to:
- English Churchman, a family Protestant newspaper founded in 1843
- Churchman (journal), theological journal, formerly known as The Churchman
- The Churchman (magazine), New York weekly representing the Low Church wing of the Episcopal Church
- Churchman (surname)
- W.A. & A.C. Churchman, a former British cigarette manufacturer
Churchman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles West Churchman (1913–2004), American philosopher
- David Churchman (born 1938), a California State University professor
- Ricky Churchman (born 1958), American football player
- William Churchman (1863–1947), an English tobacco manufacturer
- Ysanne Churchman (born 1925), British actress
Churchman is an evangelical Anglican academic journal published by the Church Society. It was formerly known as The Churchman and started in 1880 as a monthly periodical before moving to quarterly publication in 1920. The name change to "Churchman" came in 1977. The editor-in-chief is Gerald Bray.
Early editors included Walter Purton (1880–92), William McDonald Sinclair (1892–1901), Augustus Robert Buckland (1901–02), Henry Wace (1902–05), William Griffith Thomas (1905–10) and Guy Warman, jointly, from 1910 to 1914.
Contributors to Churchman have included: J. C. Ryle, J. Stafford Wright, C. Sydney Carter, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, Arthur Pollard, J. I. Packer, Alan Stibbs, John Stott, Roger Beckwith and J. A. Motyer.
Among contributors have been Mary Strong, who in her introduction to "Letter of the Scattered Brotherhood" state she submitted and were published in The Churchman across a span of 14 years letters and writings from anonymous writings of genuine religious experience. These were later published in a collection: "Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood", 1948, New York, Harper & Row and subsq. The copyright continues.
Usage examples of "churchman".
Norwich drill field, a wrinkled, white-haired and -bearded old man wearing the garb of a high-ranking churchman sat in converse with an olive-skinned man of middle years in a candle-lit chamber of the archepiscopal palace, Yorkminster.
The skip in which she had been found contained mailbags from the Canterbury area--had a fanatical religious order seized the children, perhaps a group of deranged high churchmen opposed to the liberal archepiscopal establishment?
So, too, in Church questions, though he was an anti-Tractarian, he had a great reverence for the Athanasian Creed and in general was a High Churchman.
That Hugh, an educated churchman, did not recognize the athar, the spectacle that shone now so brightly in the Dragon that it cast as much light as the quarter moon, appalled her.
A pious churchman might, who hoped to see them become deacons and fraters in their turn who could minister to their countryfolk and thus bring their heathen relatives into the Light.
He was a churchman, but in addition he sat mounted on a fine horse, and carried a sword.
First Admiral Lantu glanced at Fleet Chaplain Manak as he spoke, and the churchman shrugged.
Admiral Lantu glanced at Fleet Chaplain Manak as he spoke, and the churchman shrugged.
And when old Pope Simplicius had died in 483, the ruler of the miraculously reunified Empire had let it be known that in his opinion the churchmen and citizenry of Rome could make no better choice for their new bishop than his old friend and supporter, that noted prelate and man of letters Bishop Sidonius of Clermont.
Partly under the influence of his brother and of Khomyakov, from a follower of Schelling he became a Slavophil and an Orthodox churchman.
What hypocrites, Dain thought angrily, to forbid the upland Mandrians to utilize proper magical safeguards against Nonkind raids, while the churchmen did as they pleased here safely south of the Charva River.
She found herself in a vast hall where churchmen ornamented by scarlet cloaks and clerics robed in wine or forest-green silk hurried about on their errands.
The state can add nothing more to her power or her security in her moral and spiritual warfare with sectarianism, and any attempt to give her more would only weaken her as against the sects, place her in a false light, partially justify their hostility to her, render effective their declamations against her, mix her up unnecessarily with political changes, interests, and passions, and distract the attention of her ministers from their proper work as churchmen, and impose on them the duties of politicians and statesmen.
He could use his fellow Inquisitors in every part of Spain to collect letters from such men, letters that would be passed to the imprisoned Spanish King and assure him that a peace with France would be acceptable to enough nobles, churchmen, officers, and merchants to make the Treaty possible.
Moors and the Spaniards, that this current di York is a preternaturally old man, is based, I feel, on nothing more uncanny or unnatural than a family dynasty of brilliant, multitalented royal physicians and churchmen plus a few easily understandable errors on the parts of a few clerk-copyists.