anti-ecclesiasticism

Updated: July 8, 2026

It has become non-ecclesiastical, if not actually hostile to the Church. It has permeated the world in unexpected fashion and does the deeds of Christianity, though rather eager to avoid the name. The anti-clericalism of the Latin countries is not unintelligible, the anti-ecclesiasticism of the Teutonic not without a cause.

Edward Caldwell Moore - An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant