parlous state

C. G. Jungの "Modern Man in Search of a Soul" を読んでいます。
第11章 'Psychotherapists or the Clergy' から引用します。

I have found that modern man has an ineradicable aversion for traditional opinions and inherited truths. He is a Bolshevist for whom all the spiritual standards and forms of the past have lost their validity, and who therefore wants to experiment in the world of the spirit as the Bolshevist experiments with economics. When confronted with this modern attitude, every ecclesiastical system is in a parlous state, be it Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist or Confucian.

"parlous state" が分かりません。"parlous" を辞書で調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: Full of danger or uncertainty; precarious.: ‘the parlous state of the economy’
・Collins Dictionary: If something is in a parlous state, it is in a bad or dangerous condition.: Frankly, it's this lazy thinking that has got us into the current parlous policy position.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: very bad, dangerous, or uncertain: Relations between the two countries have been in a parlous state for some time.

"parlous" の項目で見たのですが、多くの例文が "parlous" の後に "state" を伴っていました。