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layman noun amateur, civilian, laic, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, one who has no specialized training, unnkilled practitioner, untrained person Associated concepts: lay witness See also: amateur LAYMAN, eccl. law. One who is not an ecclesiastic nor a clergyman. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We see the work the laywomen are doing in the parish; we see the work married people are doing in our faith. Many of the first 15 residents, comprising four clergy couples, two widows of clergy, and five laywomen, all Congregationalists, were not Grinnellians. I've explored this tradition primarily through the writings of Day, Maisie Ward, and Caryll Houselander, three laywomen who, despite different attitudes toward pacifism, shared the understanding that war is the consequence of sin. |
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