low-church
Plain worship style
Low-church describes a tradition within Anglicanism and other Protestant denominations that emphasizes simplicity in worship, downplays ritual and ceremony, and stresses personal faith over sacraments.
Low-church services tend toward plainness—less incense, fewer vestments, simpler liturgy.
The term contrasts with high-church, which favors elaborate ritual and Catholic-leaning practices.
He grew up in a low-church parish where the sermon mattered more than the Eucharist.
Rejects prevailing social standards
- dissentingExpressing disagreement formally
- puritanExcessively morally strict person
- reformedImproved after abandoning wrongdoing
- congregationalistSupporter of autonomous parishes
baptist · pietist · separatist · independency · chapel · meeting-house · conventicle · dissent
Zealously advocating beliefs
- latitudinarianOne accepting doctrinal diversity
- episcopalRelating to bishops
- parochialNarrow in perspective
- diocesanOf a bishop's district
Clergy's worship address
Unadorned, straightforward quality
- simplicityLack of complexity
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
- austereSeverely simple and unadorned
- unpretentiousLacking false superiority
informal · extemporaneous · spontaneous · unscripted · unceremoniousness · vernacular · directness
nonconformist
Rejects prevailing social standards
- dissentingExpressing disagreement formally
- puritanExcessively morally strict person
- reformedImproved after abandoning wrongdoing
congregationalist · baptist · pietist · separatist · independency · chapel · meeting-house · conventicle · dissent
evangelical
Zealously advocating beliefs
- latitudinarianOne accepting doctrinal diversity
- episcopalRelating to bishops
- parochialNarrow in perspective
diocesan · synodical · ecclesiology · reformation · comprehension
sermon
Clergy's worship address
hymns · temperance · fellowship · testimony
plainness
Unadorned, straightforward quality
- simplicityLack of complexity
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
- austereSeverely simple and unadorned
unpretentious · informal · extemporaneous · spontaneous · unscripted · unceremoniousness · vernacular · directness
laity
Non-ordained church members
- churchwardenLay parish administrator
- vestryChurch robing chamber
- parishLocal church community
rector · vicar · curate · incumbent · benefice · living · patronage · simony · tithe · glebe
surplice
White ecclesiastical overgarment
incense · candles · genuflection · procession · ceremony · rubric · ornament · altar · ritualism
low-churchhigh-church
Ritualistic Anglican tradition
Anglo-Catholic · high church · ritualist · high · liturgical
low-churchAnglo-Catholic
Anglican emphasizing Catholic tradition
high-church · catholic · sacerdotal · apostolic · traditionalist
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