It follows that the Primacy of Peter, and the authority inherent in it to effect unity, is that principle which Christ selected, that the Church which He had set up might be Catholic, and bear the note of Catholicity on its brow.
Catholicity has two parts, one material and one formal 236 The material part, amplitude and extension.
The foregoing eulogy from the pen of an adverse critic gives eloquent testimony to Cardan's industry and the catholicity of his knowledge.
His catholicity of spirit fraternized with all who profess to call themselves Christians, and who prove their title to the name by their lives.
It was precisely this catholicity of spirit that was the most characteristic feature of early American Unitarianism, and not the rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity.
In a letter addressed to the delegates to the Evangelical Alliance, at its session held in New York in 1873, he expressed the catholicity and the humanitarian spirit of his religion.
The eighteenth century had allowed the Third Estate to gain a firm foothold in the domain of dignified letters; the catholicity of the nineteenth admitted the laborer and the proletarian.
In this catholicity I cannot help thinking that the library as an educational institution is a step ahead of the school.
As they broaden out into catholicity they necessarily lose in efficiency.
Talk of catholicity being one of the marks of the true Church of Christ, as our Catholic friends sometimes do, they shall find here in the Church of Christ a catholicity equal at least to their own claims.
A notable advance in true catholicity of communion is reported from among the churches and scattered missions in Maine.
He added: "When I see how largely Catholicity is represented among our hoodlum element, I feel in no spread-eagle mood.
But in the next group of epistles, written out of that captivity at Rome the record of which closes the Acts of the Apostles, the same doctrine of the catholicity of the Church is developed from a different point of view.
I have spoken of St. Paul's great arguments for the catholicity of the Gospel as two.
But it must also be remembered that St. Paul had seen a great conflict fought out and won for the catholicity of Christianity, and that now for the first time there was a pause and freedom to take advantage of it.
Christ or the catholicity of the Church, which had been committed to him by the 'revelation' which followed his conversion to Christ[8].
The particular truth of the catholicity of the Church had been in quite a special sense entrusted to him, Paul, personally, as apostle of the Gentiles.
The practical meaning of catholicityis brotherhood.
But it is made intelligible when we realize that Christianity is really a catholic religion, and that only in proportion as its catholicity becomes a reality is its true power and richness exhibited.
In this instance, the state was declared to be in peril; but Gallitzin lost no time in confounding the slanderers of Catholicity by the publication of his "Defense of Catholic Principles," which appeared in Pittsburgh in the year 1816.
Still the agitation of this question has been productive of great good to Catholicity in Germany, for it has inspired all of us with redoubled zeal and energy.
If some one were to do for Germany what Cardinal Wiseman did for England in 1863, when he set forth in clear and forcible language the state of Catholicity in that country, he would deserve the everlasting gratitude of the Romanic races.
In the one as in the other, Catholicity is only a borrowed vestment, momentarily worn by Leibnitz to disguise his uniform of a negotiator.
Lord Barclay exhibited a summary, in which he lamented the spread of Catholicity in a country in which he said that in the year 1790 there was not even a bishop.
He was a great favorite with the followers of John Wesley, not alone because of his friendship with their leader, but on account of his saintly life, his evangelistic zeal, and his rare catholicity of spirit.
So delighted was Fuller with the devout thoughtfulness and Christian catholicity of Carey's discourse, that he met the preacher as he came down from the pulpit and thanked him in the warmest manner.
This was aimed at such prelates of doubtfulcatholicity as Saint Romain, Archbishop of Aix, or the Cardinal Bishop of Beauvais, Odet de Châtillon.
More than any of these, more than all put together, is Catholicity in the United States subjected to the most ceaseless and penetrating surveillance.
The fact is, we are a little impatient when we hear Protestants expressing in grave tones and with a serious face their apprehensions that the spread of Catholicity will tend to the destruction of American liberty.
This is not so much the fault of the author perhaps as of his Protestantism, which, since it rejects catholicity and has nothing universal, is essentially illogical, and can deal only in particulars or with individual things.
The Positivist rejects the church, of course, but he respects Catholicity as a logical system, consistent with itself, coherent in all its parts, and for him there is no via media between it and positivism.
Catholicity alone offered any solid basis for the state or for authority, order, or liberty.
Stensen eventually went back to Northern Europe as a bishop, in the hope of being able to convert to Catholicity those among the Teutonic nations who had been led away during the religious revolt.
Since their time most of the distinguished medical scientists have been quite as faithful in their Catholicity as these two great medical colleagues of the Renaissance period.
For Catholicity and its "superstitions" I had always entertained too profound a contempt to seek to acquire a further knowledge of its doctrines than any intelligent American can learn from the well-read (?
On the contrary, among the wonders and beauties of Catholicity there is the wonder and the beauty of her myri-multiform adaptability to the holy wants of all dispositions, tastes, and nationalities.
The poet's genius could not fail to perceive that on Catholic ground alone is real romance to be found; and, as the result of deep and accurate study, his poem is a splendid proof of the Catholicity of the ancient British church.
His letters are the most conclusive proof possible that the bogus Catholicity of unionists is fit only to complicate instead of solving the controversies among Christians.
It remains for us to consider the respective relations of Protestantism and Catholicity to religious liberty, or the freedom of conscience.
These verses quoted by the Abbe Gerbet, and which he had, I think, composed himself for that occasion, express with a rare felicity this unique character of Christian Rome, which is the harmonious fusion of Catholicity with unity.
France was succeeding to the rank of Spain, and Poland was regarded as the barrier of Catholicity against the North and the East, while England was weakened by revolution at home.
For what is Catholicity but a unity which expands and is diffusive?
This alleged connection of Protestantism and liberty, and of Catholicity and despotism, the Abbe Martin maintains, is what gives to Protestant missions in old Catholic nations the principal part of their success in unmaking Catholics.
Yet we rarely find now in these pages any statement of specific reasons for and against Catholicity such as were plentiful during the period preceding his acquaintance with Mr. Haight, Dr.
He soon became the foremost exponent of Catholicity on the public platform in the United States.
To have it demonstrated that Catholicity was not a gigantic effort to combine all available human forces to maintain a central religious despotism in the hands of a hierarchy, was a surprise to multitudes of Protestants.
To the average looker-on Catholicity is what Catholics are, and Catholics in America viewed from a standpoint of morality were then and still are a very mixed population.
Catholicity finds its support in these and employs them in all her developments.
On the other hand, the treasures of Catholicity for the inner life were hidden from him.
He thought it was to that class, or, rather, to the multitude to whom they were prophets, that the exponent of Catholicity should first address himself.
He was heard to say in after years that, had he not found Catholicity true, he would have been thrown back into a scepticism so painful as to suggest suicide as a relief.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent, to which Father Hecker so often refers, was the very best book he could have had for learning just what Catholicity is in doctrine and practice.
Unlike the English converts of the Oxford school, he had reached Catholicity by way of liberal Protestantism, which he had renounced because it could not satisfy the religious aspirations of his nature.
And she evinced in her writings on this great subject an acuteness of observation, a good sense, a breadth and catholicity of judgment, a richness of experience, and a high moral tone which have never been surpassed.
It failed ofcatholicity when it refused to accept as its Christ the man who had risen above its national limitations, and who considered Roman tax-gatherers and Samaritans as already prepared to enter the kingdom of the Messiah.
Judaism also was in reality an ethnic religion, though it aimed at catholicity and expected it, and made proselytes.
Christianity, while preaching the doctrines of Jesus and the New Testament, has been able to carry also the weight of the Old Testament, and to give a certain catholicity to Judaism.
The catholicity of the Gospel was born out of its fluent and full life.
And as he passed by the Mission House on his upward voyage, with true catholicity "Dr.
The character of this catholicity is already seen.
Rome was the place in which the grand idea of Catholicity was conceived.
Such was not the condition of the Church in the times of real catholicity,--the catholicity of the primitive ages.
Oh that our Church might take the lead in this catholicity of spirit--instead of falling back in the opposite direction--that no one may take her crown!
He intended it to provide 'philosophical defences of Catholicity and Revelation, and create a Catholic literature.
Anglo-Catholicism has its theoretical basis in a definition ofCatholicity which is repudiated by all other Catholics; its traditions are largely legendary.
If you leave college without catholicityof taste, something is wrong either with the college or with you.
These, while posing as the champions of Catholicity in opposing Lord John Russell's bill, were simply working for their own base ends, and were afterwards known and execrated as the Sadlier-Keogh gang.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catholicity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
