Meaning of restorationist in English:
restorationist
noun & adjective
See restorationism
‘We know so much, we long for that which we don't know - hence the desire for ‘mystery’ among many young, conservative, restorationist Catholics who hunger for a past idyllic church.’
- ‘How is the restorationist movement affecting liturgical renewal?’
- ‘As Komonchak has observed, it is wrong to regard Ratzinger as a restorationist in the sense of one who desires to return the church to its preconciliar, neoscholastic days.’
- ‘The first theme or norm that emerges from restorationist authors is ‘continuity.’’
- ‘One was the restorationist impulse, the impulse to order contemporary church life as closely as possible to the life of New Testament churches.’
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