noun
definition
An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
Examples of doxology in a Sentence
This doxology is also used in the Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal churches of America, as indeed in most Protestant churches at the eucharist.
Opinions, indeed, vary on the doxology.
And here we have first to observe that in the Hebrew text the Psalter is divided into five books, each of which closes with a doxology.
In these and other early liturgies the Greater Doxology occurs immediately after the beginning of the service; in the English prayer-book it introduced at the close of the communion office, but it does not occur in either the morning or evening service.
Then follows the Lord's Prayer, almost exactly as in St Matthew, with a brief doxology - "for Thine is the power and the glory for ever."
Your theology must have doxology if it is going to be a help to yourself and to others.
The exilarch then delivered a discourse, and in the benediction or doxology (Qaddish) his name was inserted.
The germ of both is to be found in the Gospels; the first words of the Greater Doxology, or Gloria in Excelsis, being taken from Luke ii.
The Lesser Doxology, or Gloria Patri, combines the character of a creed with that of a hymn.
The doxology would then be shifted from after xiv.