The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Unusual words 20 Orotund

I think we'll make this the last of the series. It comes up in William Guest's biography of P P Bliss.
"The orotund is not your natural voice" (p 85)
It can be defined as
pompous and bombastic or full in sound; sonorous.
It also appears in J R Watson's Ancient or modern, Ancient and Modern: the Victorian hymn and the nineteenth century.
"Williams and Chandler were entering this field in different ways. Williams by stealth, printing translations that no one could sing; Chandler more boldly. In his orotund preface to Hymns of the Primitive Church he addressed himself to the Church of England with a kind of heavy playfulness ..."

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