He wrote in the Revue Independante, Revue des Deux Mondes and Liberte de Penser; for writing against clericalism in the last he was deprived of his chair.
Of his novels we mention Gloria, which has been translated into English, and La Familia de Leon Roch, 1878, in which he stoutly attacksclericalism and religious intolerance.
His book is neither a panegyric on clericalismnor a libel on it.
Neither seems to have had much influence on concrete religious opinion outside the universities; [1934] and when Schelling in old age turned Catholic obscurantist, the gain to clericalism was not great.
In his posthumous Pensées his anti-clericalism is sufficiently emphatic.
But the spectacle of such a temperament forced into antagonism with the Church on moral and social grounds could not but stimulate anti-clericalism in France, whatever his philosophy may have done to promote rational thinking.
Its directness and simplicity of appeal to what passed for theistic common-sense were indeed fitted to give it the widest audience yet won by any deist; and its anti-clericalism would carry it far among his fellow Whigs to begin with.
It was the most stringent censure of supernaturalism that had thus far appeared in any modern language; and its preface is an even more mordant attack on popular religion and clericalism than the main body of the work.
After his death clericalism again raised her head, and the Jesuits expelled from Guatemala swarmed over the land.
Under the Buffet ministry of 1875 the influence of clericalism was unabated.
For his anti-clericalism he was deprived of his professorship in A.
One will cry that the old world was the home of clericalism and obscurantism; and another will say in his bitterness that the new world is the abode of two other evil spirits--nationalism and commercialism.
For the latter has never known clericalism as it exists in a Roman Catholic country where the Church is wholly unrestrained by the civil power.
This was the core of Egyptian Paganism, and is the very genius of Clericalism to-day--the domination of the Individual Will, through superstition and fear.
Red, white, and black make a very effective national colour, but whether red Socialism, a colourless Liberalism, and black Clericalism can make up an effective Cabinet seemed more than dubious.
It was indeed in a difficult position; for the policy that Scheidemann's socialism stood for was one of compromise with political clericalism and provincial particularism.
His anti-clericalism breathed the spirit of persecution, as much as did the intrigues of the clergy during the early days of the Republic.
Nor did he need Paul Bert to tell him, after the terrible struggle of 1877, thatClericalism was the enemy.
If one finds Man's chief requirement in piety, there arises religious clericalism; if one sees it in morality, then moral clericalism raises its head.
The stiff head of the worldly man opposes this, but for centuries has always been worsted at least so far as to have to bend the unruly neck and "honor the higher power"; clericalismpressed it down.
The summus episcopus of the evangelical religion becomes the protector of clericalism in Germany.
The way in which the garb and badges of clericalism are disappearing in America is symbolical of the disappearance of the idea.
And as pre-eminently practical, clericalism will die out of it.
Internally the condition of Bolivia has in the main been quiet since the Chilean war, and the contest between clericalism and radicalism has lost much of its bitterness.
It was in full accord with them, and as a battle-cry in their interest, that Gambetta uttered his famous declaration that "Clericalism is the enemy!
Clericalism blocks the ministry of the church, because it tends to make lay members second-class citizens who feel incompetent on matters of religion.
It is the business of the church to help these members find their ministry, but clericalism never allows them to make the discovery.
Thus, clericalism is a condition contributed to by both the ordained and the lay members of the church, and it tragically diminishes the power of the church.
Still another and related ill effect ofclericalism is that it keeps laymen from discovering the religious significance of their work.
But though his movement perished, anti-clericalism did not; and heretical sects of some kind persisted here and there, in despite of the Church, till the age of the Reformation.
Yet within a few years the Commons were proposing to confiscate the revenues of the higher clergy: [1622] so far was anti-clericalism from implying heterodoxy.
But the Lucretian view of things among men of the world naturally remained a matter of private discussion, not of propaganda; and it was on the less rationalistic but more organized anti-clericalism that there came the doom of martyrdom.
The archbishop was not the man to approve of the strict clericalism of Abbé Frère.
I could have secured an immense amount of popularity if I had gone in for a crescendo of anti-clericalism after the Vie de Jésus.
La Gentile Firenze has of late years become very markedly the home of clericalism of a high and aggressive type.
But clericalism in its more aggressive aspects was not in the ascendant either bureaucratically or socially.
The anti-clericalism of the Latin countries is not unintelligible, the anti-ecclesiasticism of the Teutonic not without a cause.
There was for many minds no alternative between clericalismand atheism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clericalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
