Sectish

Quick meaning: Sectish is an adjective meaning (especially in Mennonitism) Sectarian; adherent to a sect, often to the degree of being dogmatic, insular and non-ecumenical.

Meaning

(especially in Mennonitism) Sectarian; adherent to a sect, often to the degree of being dogmatic, insular and non-ecumenical.

Example Sentences

One reason there are sects is that it is easy to be sectish. It is easier to be than not to be. This applies to everybody. To believe in one true church does not of itself insure one against a party spirit.

The 'sectish' Marxism expounded by Hyndman and the SDF, and later by Morris and the Socialist League, was too narrow and dogmatic to allow the development of a workable strategy of engagement with the working class.

If Menno, D. Philip and the many servants and congregations had pure teachings in their times, you, who carry the name Old Mennonites, certainly have a sectish teaching which devours like gnawing cancer, and all true children of God are[…]

The only sect among Christians that is spoken of in terms— the Nicolaitan — is severely condemned. There are indications of sectish belief, against which John is supposed to labor in the first chapter of his Gospel, and Paul withstood in the Judaizing tendencies, even in a brother Apostle.

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