churchlessness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From churchless + -ness.
Noun
[edit]churchlessness (uncountable)
- Absence of churches.
- Failure to attend a church.
- 1963, Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ, the Sacrament of the Encounter with God, page 201:
- Among the several causes of churchlessness, he finds, the most important is the lack of a true familiarity in the Church's approach to us in its liturgy, in its sacraments, in the whole form in which it manifests itself on earth.
- 2011, Douglas Jacobsen, The World's Christians, page 126:
- Whatever the reason for their churchlessness, there are many Indians who consider themselves followers of Jesus but feel no need to demonstrate that commitment through the act of joining a church.