Tylerite

(Christianity) A supporter of the Reformed theology of Bennet Tyler.


Auld Kirker

(Christianity) A member of the Established Church in Scotland.


gracism

(Christianity) A Christian alternative to secular models of affirmative action or colorblindness that seeks to extend God's grace to people of all backgrounds, regardless of colour, class, or culture.


gracist

(Christianity) One who espouses gracism.


Paschal Triduum

Learned borrowing from Latin Trīduum Paschāle.

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The Triduum was seen more as a preparation for Easter than as embracing Easter, more as a Triduum of the Passion than as the Paschal Triduum

1995, Roger Greenacre, Jeremy Haselock, The Sacrament of Easter, Gracewing, page 105:

The high point of the entire liturgical year is the Paschal Triduum, which begins on Holy Thursday evening and lasts until Easter Sunday evening. The Paschal Triduum celebrates the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ, who dying has destroyed our death, and by rising restored our life.

2015, Mark G. Boyer, The Liturgical Environment, 3rd edition, Liturgical Press, page 262:

2020, Christopher Carstens, Principles of Sacred Liturgy, Liturgy Training Publications (Hillenbrand Books), page 202,
The three-day Paschal Triduum is its own season and is the center of the sacramental year. The Easter season follows the Paschal Triduum and concludes with Pentecost.

(Roman Catholicism) A period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday.


Exclusive Brother

en-noun

Exclusive Brother (plural Exclusive Brethren)

(Christianity, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Exclusive Brethren, a Christian evangelical movement whose members separate themselves from the rest of society.


Recordite

(Christianity, historical) A member of an evangelical faction in the Church of England, associated with Alexander Haldane's campaigning newspaper The Record (founded in 1828).


altar carpet

(Christianity) A carpet covering the sanctuary and steps of the high altar.


excardinate

en-verb

excardinate (third-person singular simple present excardinates, present participle excardinating, simple past and past participle excardinated)

excardinates (present singular third-person)
excardinating (participle present)
excardinated (participle past)
excardinated (past)

When a see is vacant , whoever governs the diocese ad interim until the designation of a diocesan administrator is not competent to incardinate or excardinate a cleric ( cann . 419 , 428 ) . Can . 272 adds that the diocesan[…]

2002, Michael J. Mullaney, Incardination and the Universal Dimension of the Priestly Ministry: A Comparison Between CIC 17 and CIC 83, Gregorian Biblical BookShop, →ISBN, page 187:

In order to be able to excardinate this cleric the bishop of diocese B must be his proper bishop ; for only a cleric's proper bishop can excardinate a cleric . " It cannot be denied that the bishop of diocese B is competent to[…]

1935, John Michael Moeder, The Proper Bishop for Ordination and Dimissorial Letters: An Historical Synopsis and Commentary:

The proper canonical process was to excardinate Widera from the Milwaukee Archdiocese and to incardinate him into the Orange Diocese . Once a diocesan priest becomes incardinated in a new diocese , his relationships , obligations , and[…]

2003, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:

(Christianity, transitive) To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop.


magisteriology

These studies have not pointed out these errors and inadequacies in order to discredit the hierarchical magisterium but rather to make possible a realistic magisteriology that will properly reflect the true nature of the teaching and witnessing of the Church.

1970, Charles E. Curran, Robert E. Hunt, Dissent in and for the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae, page 66:

It is also a necessary corrective today for the absolute tutiorism [rigorism] implicit in much of the oracular magisteriology which still abides at every level of the church.

1980, Daniel C. Maguire, “The Encyclopedia of Bioethics”, in Theological Studies, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, page 757:

Here was the clearest statement yet of the “Magisteriology” of the dissenting theologians: the teaching of Humanae Vitae was not in fact morally binding, and it was the great task of theologians to help ordinary laypeople to understand this.

2015, Peter M. Mitchell, The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education, →ISBN:

(Roman Catholicism, rare) Theology of the magisterium, i.e. the teaching authority of the church. More precisely the study of how to interpret the teachings of the church.


exorcistate

Borrowed from Medieval Latin exorcistātus.

(Catholicism) The minor order of exorcists.


ostiariate

From ostiary + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group of people performing it).

af

(Catholicism) The minor order of ostiaries, or porters.


Edwardsianism

(Christianity, historical) A school of theology that grew up among the Congregationalists of New England, originating in the year 1732, when Jonathan Edwards began his constructive theological work, culminating a little before the American Civil War, declining afterwards, and rapidly disappearing after the year 1880.


Lord's table

(Christianity) The table used for preparation of Holy Communion.


Blessed Virgin Mary

“Rust” has elements of Tara Westover’s “Educated,” but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme. She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun.

2020 March 3, Mary Norris, “Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill”, in The New York Times:

(Christianity) Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).


Lamb-god

Many people think that the association of the Lamb-god with the Cross arose from the fact that the constellation Aries at that time was on the heavenly cross (the crossways of the Ecliptic and Equator.)

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 46:


providentialism

en-noun

providentialism (usually uncountable, plural providentialisms)

(chiefly Christianity) The belief that all events are predetermined by God or fate.


trump of doom

The shed blew with a sound like the Trump of Doom.

1981, No-Frills Book: Western, page viii. 55:

(Christianity) A trumpet signal indicating the moment of God's final judgement on Earth.


idol shepherd

(Christianity) A false leader, one who does not lead the people correctly.


Capuchiness

(Catholicism) A member of the Capuchin Poor Clares, a Catholic religious order for women.


solemn vow

(Christianity) A deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good, taken by an individual during or after novitiate in a Catholic religious institute.


monepiscopacy

Coined by English bishop and theologian Charles Gore in 1889, from mon(o)- + episcopacy.

coined

(Christianity) Leadership by a single bishop (in a diocese or regional church).


hindering impediment

en-noun

hindering impediment (plural hindering impediments)

(Christianity, law) An impediment to marriage that is impedient, i.e. serves to make the marriage illicit but valid.


Evangelion

/ɪvənˈd͡ʒɛlɪən/

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion).


Friend of God

(Christianity, historical) A member of a medieval mystical group of ecclesiastical and lay persons within the Catholic Church.


original depravity

(Christianity, dated) Synonym of original sin.


words of institution

en-proper noun

the words of institution pl (plural only)

the words of institution (canonical plural)
Words of Institution (alternative)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin verba īnstitūtiōnis, i.e. the words by which Jesus instituted, or established, the sacrament.

calque

(Christianity) The pronouncements “This is my body” and “This is my blood”, said by the celebrants at the climax of most eucharistic liturgies and held by many churches to be essential to the performance of the rite.


philosophical sin

en-noun

philosophical sin (countable and uncountable, plural philosophical sins)

Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin peccātum philosophicum, coined around 1600.

der

Coordinate term: theological sin

For, as incompletely wrong acts, such as philosophical sins, or even theological venial sins,—say, of irreligion or disobedience to God,—render one liable to be punished, but not with the eternal loss of the last end; so it may be that there is a sufficient reward for imperfectly good acts, which, whether it is eternal or only temporary, is something different from the eternal enjoyment of the Infinite Good.

1910, Walter McDonald, The Principles of Moral Science, page 145:

(Christianity, dated) Sin that is said to contravene the natural moral order rather than offending God directly, for example because the sinner is ignorant of divine law or does not think of God in the act.


offensive to pious ears

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.

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And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as “containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears.”

1910, William John Sparrow-Simpson, Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility, page 121:

It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”

1969, Harry J. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong? An Ecumenical-Theological Study of Luther’s Major Work, The Bondage of the Will, page 252:

An investigatory commission in Oxford in 1378 declared that some of Wycliffe’s criticism were not incorrect in se but could be offensive to pious ears.

2009, Christopher M. Bellitto, “The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism”, in Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), →ISBN, page 317:

(Roman Catholicism) Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.


menologium

en-noun

menologium (plural menologiums or menologia)

menologiums (plural)
menologia (plural)
Menologium (alternative)

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.

ménologe

a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts

menology

chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact

A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and

(Roman Catholicism, often capitalized) A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.

(Roman Catholicism, uncommon, often capitalized) Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.


biritual

(Christianity) Alternative form of bi-ritual


pewdom

[…] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]

1879, Authorised Report of the Church Congress, page 113:

[…] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise.

1886, The Parliamentary Debates, page 939:

(Christianity, historical) The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.


se-baptism

(Christianity) Baptism carried out by and for oneself.


father confessor

en-noun

father confessor (plural father confessors)

(Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.


Memorare

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin memorāre (“remember”, imperative), from the opening of the prayer in Latin, “Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria …”.

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With this in mind, the second part of the Memorare is the prayer of one who is aware of his or her sin and unworthiness and humbly seeks the mother’s mercy, prayers, and intercession.

2002, María Ruiz Scaperlanda, The Seeker’s Guide to Mary, →ISBN, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”


idiorrhythmism

(Christianity) An idiorrhythmic lifestyle.


continuist

(Christianity) One who believes in continuationism.


JMJ

(Christianity) Initialism of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.


Advent candle

(Christianity) A candle marked with the days of December up to Christmas Eve.


replacement theology

en-noun

replacement theology (plural replacement theologies)

(Christianity) Synonym of supersessionism


Church Age

The New Testament Church is a parenthetical institution designed to fill the gap between the ancient kingdom of Israel and a more glorious future kingdom of the same order.¹⁰ The primary mission of the Church is not to evangelize the world, but simply to take out from among the Gentiles a limited number of people for Christs name.¹¹ When this number has been reached, the church age will come to a sudden close, and national Israel will come back into view as God’s representative and evangelistic people.¹²

1957, Jesse Wilson Hodges, “A General View of Dispensationalism”, in Christ's Kingdom and Coming with an Analysis of Dispensationalism (Religion), Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 35:

Unlike their antebellum predecessors, the new premillennialists were dispensationalists. They offered a systemic view of history in which biblical prophecies were thought to refer to real historical events.[…]They regarded the present era—the Church age—as a sort of parentheses and insisted, contra the liberals and postmillennialists, that Christ's kingdom was wholly in the future, supernatural in origin, and discontinuous with the history of the present.

2000, Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word: Literalism in America From the Pulpit to the Bench, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-29:

Each weeknight, Camping would transmit his own biblical interpretations in a quivery monotone, clutching a worn Bible as he took listeners’ calls. He first predicted the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994 and when it did not, Camping said it was off because of a mathematical error. Followers later said he was referring to the end of “the church age,” a time when human beings in Christian churches could be saved.

2013 December 17, “US doomsday minister Harold Camping dead at 92”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

Meade said in an email to the Independent Mail that it would take a book, or a supercomputer, or God, to explain his astronomical cryptography calculations but they build on the eclipse that happened in August along with certain numbers that appear in the Bible.
He cautioned that Sept. 23 is the end of the "Church Age" and is a spiritual sign but that later events in October would escalate with Oct. 21 being "the final date."

2017 September 19, Mike Ellis, “It's not the end of the world this weekend”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

Church Age The time period beginning on the day of Pentecost A.D. 30 and ending with the Rapture (John 14—17, Acts—Jude; Rev. 2—3). Synonyms: Age of the Royal Family; Dispensation of the Church. This is the dispensation initiated by God to form Christ’s royal family on earth, to glorify the physically absent King of kings, and to prepare a generation of spiritual nobility to rule with Christ during the future Millennium (Eph. 1:5–6, 22–23; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 2:26; 3:21; 19:16).[…]
With the Church Age ended, the time of tribulation on earth will begin.

2022, R. B. Thieme, Jr., “Church Age”, in Thieme's Bible Doctrine Dictionary, First edition (Religion), Houston, TX: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2023-01-14, pages 37, 38:

But I think the key is that for someone like Darby who believed in seven dispensations, which is the most common number, we currently live in the sixth dispensation, or the dispensation of grace or sometimes called the Church Age, which is a pretty unique dispensation. Among the seven dispensations, the other six are God really working through the people of Israel to redeem the world, to make right what was put wrong. But in the Church Age, He is working with the church, with the mystery of the Old Testament. And so a lot of the rules that sort of govern God's relationship with humanity during those other ages have a slightly different play in the Church Age.

2023 August 23, Daniel Hummel, 18:55 from the start, in ‘The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism’ — A Conversation with Daniel Hummel, Albert Mohler, archived from the original on 2023-08-26:

Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles

(Christianity, under dispensationalism) The current period or dispensation of human history that begins with events in the Acts of the Apostles and ends at the future Tribulation.


New Israel

new religious movement
new religious movement

(Christianity) A new religious movement that grew in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Transitus

From Latin trānsitus (“passage, crossing”).

(Christianity) The time of passage through death to eternal life.


Alphonsian

Four characteristics of nineteenth-century European moral theology stand out—the dominance of the manualist tradition, the general acceptance of the Alphonsian approach, a growing ultramontanism stressing the primacy and central role of the papacy in the Church, […]

2008, Charles E. Curran, “The Nineteenth Century”, in Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

(Catholicism) Of or relating to Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Italian Catholic bishop, writer, and theologian.


communionism

(Christianity) The practice of observing Holy Communion.


heteroousianism

(Christianity) The belief that the first and second persons of the Trinity have different essence or substance.


lake of fire

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These thousand years are followed by the last times of the world, the letting loose of Satan, who gathers together Gog and Magog, and is thrown to the beast and false prophet in the lake of fire. Now Satan's accusing the saints in heaven, his rage on earth, his imprisonment in the abyss, his seducing Gog and Magog, and being cast into the lake of fire, evidently succeed each other.

1755, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 12th edition (Religion), New York: Carlton & Porter, published 1856, →OCLC, page 722:

The Garlands and the other missionaries have been teaching Ataiba about Papaguatsu -- God, the Great Father; about a place called God's camp, where the believers go when they die; about the other place -- the eternal lake of fire.[…]
"I'm not scared of anyone, just the Lord," Ataiba says afterward. "If I don't obey Him, He'll punish me. This they have shown me from the Bible." He looks up, squinting hard, pondering this new world view. "In the jungle, I was bad. No one had shown me the Bible, so I shot at people with arrows. Now, the Son of the Chief has pardoned me. I want God to take me to the sky. I don't want to suffer in the lake of fire."

1992 February 23, Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero, “Accidents of History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25, Section 6, page 38:

"My concern here is the temptation to make hell a state of mind, to psychologize hell," said Mohler. "As attractive as that may be to the modern mind, that is not the hell of the Bible. Jesus himself spoke of hell as a lake of fire, where the worms would not die and the fire would not be quenched. It's all very graphic."

1999 August 17, Hanna Rosin, quoting R. Albert Mohler Jr., “Pope's Vision of Heaven, Hell Riles Evangelicals”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

The reality which is expected is the justice of God judging unbeliever reversionists, both Jews and Gentiles, and sending them to the Lake of Fire.

2012, D.A. Miller, A Theological Study of The Book of Romans, →ISBN, page 86:

She raised eyebrows by not taking major issue with comments by some of her candidates, including one who said gay people would be subjected to a lake of fire on judgment day and another who said that he would be able to speak more effectively to all ethnic groups because he is Caucasian.

2012 April 23, Jeffrey Jones, Scott Haggett, “UPDATE 2-Alberta Conservatives defy polls, win another vote”, in Eric Walsh, David Brunnstrom, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-16, INTEGRATED OIL & GAS:

Those who reject God, and Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, will face eternal damnation in hell and the lake of fire. Repent, or face judgment.

2018 September 24, Manuel Ybarra Jr., “Letter: America lost its love for God”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-26, Opinion:

(Christianity) A place where evildoers are sent in the afterlife; hell.


Millennial Dawnist

Millennial Dawnist (plural Millennial Dawnists)

From Millennial Dawn (1886), a six-volume Bible textbook series associated with the movement, + -ist.

(Christianity) A member of the Bible Student movement.


pacifical letters

(Christianity, historical) Documents recommending the bearer as one in peace and fellowship with the church.


Dutch Reformed Church

(Christianity, historical) The largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.


Mercersburg theology

(Christianity) A German-American theological movement that began in the mid-19th century, focusing on the incarnation of Christ.


inner mission

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(religion, chiefly Christianity) Missionary work directed at members of one's own religious group, intended to alleviate hardship and raise the level of religious observance.


Glory Be

From the first two words in the English version of this doxology.

I said, ‘Hail Mary, full of grace’ and a whole string of Glory Bes to try and concentrate my mind, but life kept intruding.

1997, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues, London: Black Swan, →ISBN, page 86:

(Catholicism) A doxology to the Trinity, commonly prayed as part of the rosary.


book-bearer

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(Christianity) A person who carries a religious book to the priest, or to and from the altar, during a religious procession.


bread and wine

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(Christianity, dated) The two elements used during the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist, regarded as Christ’s body and blood.


breadness

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(Christianity, dated) The essence or quality of consisting of bread, referring to the sacramental bread in the Eucharist.


bread of wheat

(Christianity, obsolete) An oath or solemnness referring to the sacramental bread of the Eucharist.


Old Michaelmas Day

(religion, Christianity) An older observance of Michaelmas celebrated on October 11, or October 10 according to some sources.


twelvemonth's mind

twelvemonth's mind (plural twelvemonths' minds)

twelvemonths' minds (plural)
twelvemonth mind (alternative)

(Christianity, obsolete) Synonym of year's mind


year's mind

years' minds (plural)
year mind (alternative)

Variant of earlier Old English ġēarġemynd, from ġēar (“year”) + ġemynd (“memory”).

(Christianity) A requiem mass or other commemoration of a dead person held one year after death or burial.


house church

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(Christianity) A group of Christians independent of traditional denominations who regularly gather for worship in private homes.


plain people

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(Christianity) Christian groups characterized by separation from the world, simple living, and wearing modest clothing, including head-coverings for women.


Oxford Grouper

(Christianity, historical) A member of the Oxford Group, a Christian organization founded by the American Lutheran minister Frank Buchman in 1921.


phantomism

(Christianity, archaic, derogatory) The belief that Christ's corporeal body was an illusion.


full immersion

(Christianity) A method of baptism in which the person baptized is immersed in holy water completely.

affusion

baptism in which holy water is poured on the person's head

aspersion

baptism in which holy water is sprinkled on the person


dispensation of the fulness of times

dispensation of the fulness of times (uncountable)

(Christianity) A world order or administration in which the heavens and the earth are under the political or spiritual government of Jesus.


IFB

(Christianity) Initialism of Independent Fundamental Baptist.


Easter basket

(Christianity) A basket containing foods that are traditionally forbidden during Lent (meat, eggs, and dairy products), blessed by a priest for breaking the Lenten fast.


Old Covenant

Coordinate term: New Covenant

(Christianity) Synonym of Mosaic covenant


Mosaic covenant

Coordinate term: New Covenant

(Christianity, Judaism) A covenant between the Israelite tribes and God, including the entirety of the laws brought by Moses.


Bogus Ordo

(Roman Catholicism, slang, derogatory) Synonym of Novus Ordo.


OOW

(Christianity, informal) Initialism of ordination of women.


Independent Catholicism

(Christianity) A denomination of Catholicism that affirms both its belonging to the Catholic tradition as well as its independence from Rome.


Independent Catholic

Independent Catholic (plural Independent Catholics)

Independent Catholicism
Independent Catholicism

(Christianity) An adherent of Independent Catholicism.


Peniel

a Peniel missionary

(Christianity, historical, attributive) The Peniel Mission, an interdenominational holiness rescue mission founded in Los Angeles in 1886 and dissolved in 1949.


Intercession of the Theotokos

Protection of the Theotokos (alternative)
Veil of Our Lady (alternative)
Protecting Veil of the Theotokos (alternative)
Feast of the Intercession (alternative)
Feast of the Holy Protection (alternative)

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism) Christian feast of the Mother of God


Rorate Sunday

(Christianity) The fourth Sunday in Advent, on which "Rorate caeli" is used as an introit.


Christification

(Christianity) The process of becoming Christlike.


altar call

The New York Times notes that, where his rallies were once "improvised and volatile," their finales now feel more planned, solemn, and infused with religion. The closing fifteen minutes "evokes an evangelical altar call" filled with references to God.

2024 April 8, “The Rapid Secularization of America”, in Fareed Zakaria GPS, spoken by Fareed Zakaria:

(Christianity) A tradition, typically held at the end of an evangelical address, in which those who wish to make a new spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ are invited to come forward publicly. The supplicants gather at the altar located at the front of the church building.


neo-Christian

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to neo-Christianity.


neo-Christian

neo-Christians (plural)
Neo-Christian (alternative)

Before the banishment of Jews from Spain took effect, Antonio di Moro, a Jewish peddler of Cordova, flourished as the last of Spanish troubadours, and Rodrigo da Cota, a neo-Christian of Seville, as the first of Spanish dramatists, the supposed author of Celestina, one of the most celebrated of old Spanish dramatic compositions.

1895, Gustav Karpeles, Jewish Literature, and Other Essays, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, page 97:

(Christianity, history) Synonym of New Christian


redeem the time

en-verb

redeem the time (third-person singular simple present redeems the time, present participle redeeming the time, simple past and past participle redeemed the time)

redeems the time (present singular third-person)
redeeming the time (participle present)
redeemed the time (participle past)
redeemed the time (past)

(Christianity, theology) To spend one's time in wisdom and in submission to God.


holy year

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of jubilee (“special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”)


Montanize

Montanize (third-person singular simple present Montanizes, present participle Montanizing, simple past and past participle Montanized)

Montanizes (present singular third-person)
Montanizing (participle present)
Montanized (participle past)
Montanized (past)

(Christianity, intransitive) To hold the doctrines of Montanism.


en-noun

Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist (plural Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists)

(Christianity) A member of a conservative Baptist group opposing missionary work and believing in the serpent seed doctrine.


serpent seed

(Christianity) A controversial and fringe Christian religious belief that explains the biblical account of the fall of man by stating that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the offspring of their union was Cain. This event resulted in the creation of two races of people: the wicked descendants of the Serpent who were destined for damnation, and the righteous descendants of Adam who were destined to have eternal life.


undern-song

(chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, dated, obsolete) Synonym of terce (“the service appointed for the third hour of daylight”)


restitutionism

(Christianity) Synonym of restorationism


star-cover

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of asterisk (“An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos”).


broad and shallow

(derogatory, idiomatic, Christianity) Associated with the Broad Church; latitudinarian.


transverberation

(Christianity) A form of religious ecstasy characterized by a piercing sensation.


nepsis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νῆψις (nêpsis)

lbor

(Christianity, theology) Wakefulness and watchfulness; a state of sobriety following a period of catharsis.


people's warden

en-noun

people's warden (countable and uncountable, plural people's wardens)

(UK, Christianity) A type of churchwarden elected annually by the congregation as a whole.


kyrkmaster

kyrkmasters (plural)
kirkmaster (alternative)

From Middle English kirkmaster, kyrkmaster, equivalent to kyrk + master. Piecewise doublet of churchmaster.

Item to the makyng of the stepell of Tykhill cˢ., a cart with iiij hors. Item to the kyrkmasters a nobill. Item to Kateryn, the doghter of Robert his son, a caldron, a pot, and a littell posnet. […] [6 Sep. 1429.]

1835, “CCCIV. Testamentum Johannis Sandford de Tikhill. [M. f. 563-b]”, in Testamenta Eboracensia; or, Wills Registered at York, […], London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 417:

Another entry shows that Henry Barry one of the witnesses to the grant, was at one time Kirkmaster:—"The Preuost and Counsall has grantit til Henry Barry and till Marione of Bum, his wyf, thar laris within the Kirk or queyr of Dunde, quhar thai pies til haff thame becaus the said Henry gef to the Kyrk werk his fee that pertenit til hym the tyme that he wes kyrkmaster, and a rest of silver that tha aucht till hym."

1886 February 8, John Shiell, “Notice of Carved Oak Panels Which Were Formerly in the Chapel of the Fransiscan Nunnery in Dundee”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume XX, Edinburgh, page 122:

"Upon a pew in Thornton Church is the following inscription cut in black letter upon oak:
" In the yer yat all the stalles
in thys chyrch wā mayd
Thomas Kijrkbe ihо̄n skre
bye hew resten ihon smyth
Kyrkmasters in the yer of owre Lorde God mccccc xxxii."

1898, Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, “Church Notes”, in The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, volume XXXIV, page 279:

[1507. 12 Nov.] […] "Provided allway that when soever the said Jamys Karr shall change his naturall lyfe, that then it shalbe lawfuU, as ofte tymes as it shalbe nedfuU, to the vicar of ye churche afforsaid for the tyme beyng and kyrkmasters of the same, heires executors and assignes to the said Jamys jontle, to electe one person beyng within holye orders, to be scole master of the gramer scole afforsaid, whiche so electe, and abled by the Prior of Duresme, shall have occupye and rejoce the said halfif acre of land and the hows therapon beildyd with the appurtenaunce, in lyk wyse as the said Jamys occupyed and usyd in hys tyme. […]”

1903, “Giggleswick Grammar School”, in Arthur Francis Leach, editor, Early Yorkshire Schools, volume II, […] J. Whitehead and Son for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, page 233:

At St. Andrews there was a special ' Master of the Kyrk werk ' or ' Kyrkmaster' responsible for the fabric of the parish church as early at least as 1503 ; in 1598 the office was still filled by a ' Kirkmaister.'

1907 October 17, David Patrick, “General Statutes of 1549”, in Statutes of the Scottish Church 1225-1559 […], Edinburgh: […] T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, page 119:

The kyrkmasters of the Trinete kyrk for a Garthen behynd the mason loge yerly

1983, “Rental of the Town's Land, 1465”, in Rosemary Horrox, editor, Selected Rentals and Accounts Medieval Hull 1293-1528, England: […] The University of Leeds Printing Service for the Yorkshire Archæological Society, page 116:

(obsolete, Christianity, Northern England, Scotland) A churchwarden.


kirkmaster

From Middle English kirkmaster, kyrkmaster, equivalent to kirk + master.

(obsolete, Christianity, Northern UK) Alternative spelling of kyrkmaster


Biblism

While dissemination of the Bible, without commentary, leads to the overthrow of all beliefs, the mysticism which one is supposed to reach through this Biblism leads to the conviction that the perfect security of the soul in the love of God renders unimportant the actions of the body, even those which were commonly held to be the most guilty.

1982, Henri Troyat, quoting the French embassy, translated by Joan Pinkham, Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, →ISBN, page 243:

(Christianity) A belief that the Bible is the sole authority in Christianity (rather than any subsequent tradition).


Old Adam

(theology, Christianity) A human nature of a sinful, unregenerate or unredeemed state.


double monastery

double monastery (plural double monasteries)

(Christianity) A monastery which combines separate communities of monks and nuns into a single institution.


impastor

Anyways, please by all means, this man is an Impastor, and it is wrong of him to present himself as such.

2003 April 26, Celestial, “Belief in God”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):

At least you have the common sense not to buy fake religions as touted round by impastors

2006 March 6, Les Hellawell, “Ignorant Atheist Idiots”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I felt even more like an impostor. Impastor.

2011, Greg Paul, Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 119:

I'm not referring to tattoos. I'm referring the ungodly, foul-mouthed impastor in the back seat.

2014 November 13, @Protestia, X, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

It’s pretty well known so I’m surprised that all those moronic impastors are so progressive, unless…

2023 October 16, u/Cerberus_Rising, Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

In this cosplay, @TuckerCarlson plays the Leninist “useful idiot” to the self-ordained impastor, whose delusional desire for power, would round up liberal Episcopalians like Tucker & use blasphemy laws to “disappear” them all from their #datpostmil Utopia

2024 April 15, @DanielRHyde, X, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

American impastors using the Bible for unnecessary sermon illustrations is no different than this woman tearing it up.

2024 June 23, @farmingandJesus, X, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

(Christianity, informal, derogatory) Someone who pretends to be a pastor; a false teacher.


alien prior

(historical, Christianity) A foreign prior who is affiliated with an alien priory.


neo-Ebionite

From the perspective of the sixteenth century, this neo-Ebionite halfway house between Pharisaic Judaism and Apostolic Christianity came to represent a viable pathway into Christianity for former Jews [who did not share in the traditions of medieval Catholicism] much as it was also a pathway back to the Old Testament for certain evangelical Restitutionist Christians who wished to eliminate much of medieval Catholic tradition.

1994, Jerome Friedman, edited by Richard H. Popkin, Gordon M. Weiner, Jewish Christians and Christian Jews: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, U.S.A.: Springer Science+Business Media, B.C., →DOI, →ISBN, page 41:

5. the highly reformed neo-Ebionite version where many Judaic practices are still kept.

2012 June 16, Ir. Jim K K Wong, chapter 19, in The Evolution of the God of Illusion, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 142:

Likewise, this research will seek to answer the question of whether we are at this time, 15th century Spain, facing the possibility of the existence oif a new movement of "Neo-Ebionites", which might have been represented and directed by the same converts, and if this is the case and we really are talking about the existence of a neo-Ebionite movement led by these converts, then who are those converts that constitute it and what religious, social, and political purpose do they have in the development of this ideology?

2019 November 27, Fabio Lichtensztein, Fray Hernando de Talavera. Frente al fenomeno ebionita a judeo cristiano en la España del siglo XV, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 5:

(Christianity, rare) Similar to what the Ebionites believed.


neo-Ebionite

His views were Monarchian, and are identified by Schleiermacher with those of the Patripassians, and by Bauer with those of Artemon and the neo-Ebionites.

1911, Henry Wace, William Coleman Piercy, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, London: John Murray, page 132:

(Christianity, rare) A postclassical Judeo-Christian whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.


neo-Ebionism

This third group, that which was led from Creationalism to neo-Ebionism, is represented by Arius and his followers.

1956, Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Faith, Trinity, Incarnation, volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, page 593:

Somewhat later a form of neo-Ebionism evolved which understood the notion of the incarnation of the Logos in the person of Jesus in much the manner that the Divine Presence may be said to rest upon any righteous and exemplary man.

1992, J. David Belich, edited by Lenn E. Goodman, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, State University of New York Press, Albany, →ISBN, page 247:

Augustine seemed to be making room for a kind of neo-Ebionism on the part of Jewish converts, for there can be no such thing as a qualified submission to the law’s observances.

2002, Peter J. Gorday, “six”, in Daniel Patte, Eugene TeSelle, editors, Engaging Augustine on Romans: Self, Context, and Theology in Interpretation, Harrisburg Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, →ISBN, page 215:

(Christianity, rare) A postclassical Judeo-Christian denomination whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.


Don Bosco

(informal, Catholicism) John Bosco, an Italian Catholic priest, educator, and writer (1815–1888).


apostolic exhortation

apostolic exhortation (plural apostolic exhortations)

(Roman Catholicism) A magisterial document written by the pope.


apostolic letter

apostolic letter (plural apostolic letters)

(Christianity) One of the books of the New Testament which was originally a letter issued by an apostle to an individual or a community.

(Roman Catholicism) An ecclesiastical letter issued by the pope.


apostolic constitution

apostolic constitution (plural apostolic constitutions)

(Roman Catholicism) The most solemn form of legislation issued by the pope.


third order

(Christianity) Lay members of Christian religious orders, who do not necessarily live in a religious community such as a monastery or a nunnery, and yet can claim to wear the religious habit and participate in the good works of a great order.


revival meeting

revival meeting (plural revival meetings)

(Christianity) A series of Christian religious services held to inspire active members of a church body to gain new converts and to call sinners to repent.


Luth.

Coordinate term: Ref.

(Christianity) Abbreviation of Lutheran.


Saint Joseph

(Christianity) Joseph, the husband of Saint Mary and legal father of Jesus.


Triadology

Triadology (countable and uncountable, plural Triadologies)

From Greek Τριάδα (Triáda, “Trinity”) + -logy.

(Christianity, theology, triunitarianism) the discipline concerned with the Holy Trinity.


glory-land

My pockets all are empty, I've got nothing more to lose
Take me home to glory-land and take away my blues

(Can we date this quote?), “Say Goodbye”:


Prayers of the People

(Christianity) A liturgical structure for public prayer in worship, moving in a well-defined sequence and covering specific content.


Scotch Baptist

(Christianity) A member of a Baptist denomination consisting mainly of immigrants from Scotland to northern England.


substitutionary atonement

substitutionary atonement (usually uncountable, plural substitutionary atonements)

(Christianity, theology) A central concept which asserts that Jesus died for humanity, and which regards Jesus as dying as a substitute for others.


superior general

superior general (plural superior generals or superiors general)

superior generals (plural)
superiors general (plural)
general superior (alternative)

(Catholicism) The highest leader of a Roman Catholic religious institute.


vicar general

(Catholicism) Priest appointed by the bishop to assist in governing the diocese.


supreme moderator

supreme moderator (plural supreme moderators)

superior general
superior general#English

(Catholicism) In canon law, Alternative form of superior general


gimong

“We must all take care of our faith for this will lead us to eternity,” Bendico said in a homily during a welcome mass held May 29 at the gymnasium of the Saint Louis High School-Philex, in this town’s Sitio Padcal, Brgy. Camp 3. “So let us exercise our faith in our gimong, as this enables us to become agents of communion, participation, and mission.” A gimong is a basic ecclesial community (BEC) or a sub-parish. Sitio Padcal’s Sto. Niño (of Prague) Parish, for instance, has 13 gimongs, while Kabayan, another Benguet town, has 22.

2017 June 4, PR, “In Philex, Bishop Bendico tells youth to care for environment”, in Amianan Balita Ngayon:

4 Tribes, 12 Gimongs, 68 young people, 3 days in 1 City. This is how we described the summer Youth Camp held in St. Joseph Parish in Dagupan City of Tabuk Kalinga. In line with the 2017 Pastoral Theme “Communion of Communities”, the Bukal ng Tipan Youth Unit facilitated an experience of Community with the different tribes among young people who desire to become one with Christ and with one another. Amidst the conflicts in their place, these young people proved that communion is possible in their tribes. Before the camp ended, the youth community chose their Gimong (chapel) representatives who will comprise their Parish Youth Council.

2017 June 21, “Youth Summer Engagement 2017”, in Bukal ng Tipan:

The gimong of Taba-ao celebrated today the 50th feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the titular of the community chapel. The gimong was instrumental in the building up of other gimongs at least 5 of them. It started with the solemn celebration of the Mass, Fr. Rolly Buyagan, diocesan administrator as presider and homilist with Fr. Raymond Songyap, the pastor of San Isidro Parish of Abatan, then a sumptouos feast lunch was served followed by a program, interrupted by the native dances. Interesting element was the presentation of the history of the birth and formation of the gimong and the 50 years of journey of faith.

2024 June 10, Diocese of Baguio-CURIA, Facebook:

(Catholicism, Philippines, chiefly Cordillera) A chapel that is under the jurisdiction of a parish, typically in rural areas.


White Thursday

(Christianity) Synonym of Maundy Thursday


green apron

(Christianity, obsolete, somewhat derogatory) A lay preacher.


priesthood of all believers

priesthood of all believers (plural priesthoods of all believers)

(Christianity) The common priesthood composed of all Christians, according to general Christian belief, and thought by Protestants to preclude the ministerial priesthood (holy orders) found in some other churches.


imago Dei

The fact that divine mercy and power have indeed been successfully carried in the image of Mary reveals the capacity of women to represent God. Not just Mary’s face but the face of every woman is created as an imago Dei.

2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:


Harrowing of Hell

The source of the Harrowing of Hell tradition is, of course, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, the oldest manuscripts of which date back to the fifth century, and that work was tremendously popular in England from the earliest days of Christianity there.

1991, M. B. McNamee, “Beowulf-An Allegory of Salvation?”, in Robert D. Fulk, editor, Interpretations of Beowulf, Indiana University Press, page 94:

(Christianity, theology, chiefly dated or historical) Christ's freeing from the underworld of those souls of the dead who merited entry to Heaven.

descente aux Enfers

Christ's freeing of souls from the underworld


evangelarium

evangelarium (plural evangelariums or evangelaria)

evangelariums (plural)
evangelaria (plural)

/ɪˌvæn.d͡ʒəˈlɛəɹi.əm/

/ɪˌvæn.d͡ʒəˈlɛɹi.əm/

(Christianity) A book containing the gospel.


Coredemptrix

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).


Crucifixion

(Christianity, often preceded by “the”) The death of Jesus on a cross; the crucifixion of Jesus.


glebe farm

glebe farms (plural)
glebe-farm (alternative)

From glebe (“plot of parish land assigned to a clergy member as part of a benefice”) + farm.

compound

On the glebe farms the country is very populous, and but for the liberality of the few reſident gentry, the poor would have literally ſtarved this diſtreſſing ſeaſon.

1801, Charles Coote, “Barony of Balliboy”, in General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the King’s County, with Observations on the Means of Their Improvement, Drawn Up in the Year 1801. […], Dublin: […] Graisberry & Campbell, […], →OCLC, section IV (General Subjects), page 88:

The immediate renters of the glebe farms, instead of being hostile to the incumbents of livings, would hold the same relation to them which other tenants do to landlords.

1812, Joshua Kirby Trimmer, Further Observations on the Present State of Agriculture, and Condition of the Lower Classes of the People, in the Southern Parts of Ireland: […], London: F[rancis] C[harles] & J[ohn] Rivington, […], and J. Harding, […], →OCLC, page 71:

One of the Earls of Eglinton, in 1734, had made an excambion with the minister of Beith, and the glebe farm thus acquired by the minister was said to have been at one time worth £200 per annum, and to be still worth £150, besides the full size of an ordinary glebe.

1835 May 20 (date decided), [David] Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, “Rev. John Stewart, Pursuer.—D. F. Hope—More. Lord Glenlyon, Defender.—Keay. [No. 243]”, in Patrick Shaw [et al.], reporters, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, from Nov. 12, 1834, to Sept. 30, 1835, volume XIII, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Thomas Clark, […]; and Saunders and Benning, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 797:

A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.

1848, Samuel Lewis, “FRODINGHAM, NORTH (St. Elgin)”, in A Topographical Dictionary of England, […], 7th edition, volume II, London: S[amuel] Lewis and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268, column 2:

I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy.

1873, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Old Squire and the New”, in The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, under Rode. […], volume IV, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 17:

Part of my father's income, as rector of the parish, was derived from a pretty little glebe-farm, on which was a neat old-fashioned farmhouse, surrounded with small but well-arranged buildings. All was let, years before I could remember, to a man named John Ashmeade, one of the most respectable men in the parish, […]

1880, H[enry] C. Barkley, chapter XVI, in My Boyhood: A Story Book for Boys, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, →OCLC, page 205:

We cannot easily admit that land has been distributed amongst a few men, like the benefices or glebe-farms in the king's gift, merely that it may yield them a certain income.

1891, Charles Gide, “The Man who Lives on His Income”, in Edward Percy Jacobsen, transl., Principles of Political Economy, Boston, Mass.: D[aniel] C[ollamore] Heath & Co., →OCLC, page 529:

At the turn of the century, the Episcopalian church in the South found itself in even worse straits. […] In 1802, an act of the General Assembly declared that the title of the colonial property of the church belonged to the state at large and directed that even the glebe farms be seized for public benefit. This created a financial collapse of the diocese at a time when very few young men were willing to serve the church.

1989, Nathan O[rr] Hatch, “Storming Heaven by the Back Door”, in The Democratization of American Christianity, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part II (Mass Movements), page 60:

The numerous small manors without servile tenants had no alternative but to hire labour and on many demesnes the supply of labour services was inadequate to the requirements of cultivation. The same usually applied to the thousands of modest glebe farms belonging to rectors.

2016, Bruce M[ortimer] S[tanley] Campbell, “Efflorescence: The Enabling Environment and the Rise of Latin Christendom”, in The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World: The 2013 Ellen McArthur Lectures, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 97:

(chiefly UK, Christianity) A home farm owned by a parish, assigned as part of a benefice to a parish priest, pastor, rector, or vicar to provide them with income.


en-proper-noun

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints#English

(US, religion, Christianity) Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


New England theology

(Christianity, historical) Synonym of Edwardsianism


Oneness Pentecostalism

(Christianity) A nontrinitarian religious movement within the churches Pentecostalism.


Spirit of the Lord

(Christianity) An epithet of the Holy Spirit.


Old School

Local politicians assume various appellations, such as New School and Old School Democrats, Snyderites, Clintonians, and many others, mostly derived from the name or principles of some popular demagogue.

1816, “an Old Scene Painter” [pseudonym], The Emigrant’s Guide; or, A Picture of America: […], London: […] W[illiam] Clowes, […] for W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 17:

(idiomatic, US, Christianity, politics) Alternative letter-case form of old school (“having conservative or traditional views on Christianity or politics”)


one heart, one soul

sign of the cross
sign of the cross#English

(Philippines, Catholicism) A saying that is said in every prayer, before the sign of the cross.


invinate

en-verb

invinate (third-person singular simple present invinates, present participle invinating, simple past and past participle invinated)

invinates (present singular third-person)
invinating (participle present)
invinated (participle past)
invinated (past)

Coordinate term: invination

(obsolete, Christianity, transitive) To embody in wine.


narrow road

The narrow road is rugged to view, and steep and difficult of ascent. It is the way into which God by His Spirit leads the sinner through "the straight gate" of repentance toward God, and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ.

1869 December 1, A.P.C., “The Great Mistake”, in The Christian Sentinel or Soldiers' Magazine, number 156, page 182:

She frequently experienced great consolation while her father read to her the Holy Scriptures, and was encouraged by the hope that her dearest relations were walking in the narrow road.

1822 August 1, “Memoir of Miss E. Ruck”, in The Christian Guardian, and Church of England Magazine, page 302:

We're pilgrims on the journey of the narrow road, and those who've gone before us line the way.

I will stand, even when the world leaves me all alone / Walking down the narrow road

(Christianity) The path that leads to eternal life, which can only be tread on through faith in Jesus Christ and is filled with hardship.


Aphthartodocetist

/ˌæfθɑːrtəˈdɒsɪtɪst/

From Ancient Greek ἀφθαρτοδοκήτης (aphthartodokḗtēs), derived from Ancient Greek ἀφθαρτος (aphthartos, “incorruptible”) + Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem, I appear”).

der

ἀφθαρτοδοκήτης

The question of the Aphthartodocetists or Phantasiastae and their central tenet of the incorruptibility of Christ's flesh would be broached in 726 at the Synod of Manazkert, which was also of importance for renewing relations with the West Syrian Church under Patriarch Athanasius III.

2004 APRIL, Cowe, S. Peter, “ARMENIAN CHRISTOLOGY IN THE SEVENTH AND EIGHT CENTURIES WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CATHOLICOS YOVHAN ŌJNEC'I AND XOSROVIK T'ARGMANIČ'.”, in The Journal of Theological Studies (NEW SERIES), volume 55, number 1, page 31:

The Aphthartodocetists of the sixth century constitute the standard exception here, though even they did not deny the reality of Christ’s sufferings; for while they denied that Christ’s human nature had any natural susceptibility to suffering, they also maintained that he willingly subjected himself to it.

2008 Oct, McFARLAND, IAN A., “Fallen or Unfallen? Christ's Human Nature and the Ontology of Human Sinfulness.”, in International Journal of Systematic Theology., volume 10, number 4, page 407:

(Christianity, theology, historical) A follower or proponent of Aphthartodocetism, the Christological doctrine that taught Christ's body was naturally incorruptible and not subject to physical suffering, associated with Julian of Halicarnassus


special grace

(Christianity) In Reformed theology: the grace by which God redeems, sanctifies, and glorifies His people. Unlike common grace, which is universally given, special grace is bestowed only on those whom God elects to eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.


post-supersessionist

Traditional supersessionism had this problem; it simply confined the problem to a more limited stretch of time than a post-supersessionist outlook does.

1997 June 19, Bruce D. Marshall, edited by Colin E. Gunton, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine, The Pitt Building: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 96:

(Christianity) Viewing Judaism as an acceptable alternative to Christianity, rather than something that needs to be replaced.


post-supersessionism

(Christianity) The belief that Judaism is an acceptable alternative to Christianity, rather than something that needs to be replaced.


star word

star words (plural)
starword (alternative)

(Christianity, uncommon) A spiritual practice observed around Epiphany, involving a member of a congregation receiving a starshaped piece of paper.


church crown

Southern United States
Southern United States

(clothing, fashion, Christianity) A decorative hat worn by women in the Southern United States as a headcovering during church services.


formee

(Christianity) A person undergoing formation or religious training.


black fast

(Christianity) A form of fasting in which no food or drink (not even water) is consumed between midnight and sunset; after sunset a single meal is allowed, but even then meat, eggs, dairy products and alcohol are avoided.


birth sin

(Christianity) Synonym of original sin (“state of sinfulness present in each human from birth”)


special revelation

(Christianity, theology) God's revelation made exclusively to His Chosen People in His divine Word, as opposed to knowledge of God attained through any other means such as philosophy.


camerlingate

(Roman Catholicism) The dignity of the camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber in pontifical interregnum).

(Roman Catholicism) period, between the death of a pontiff and the election of his successor, in which a camerlengo is in charge of governing the Church in the administrative field.


College of Cardinals

(Roman Catholicism) The body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church.


conclaved

konklaaviin osallistuva

participating in a closed, private, or secret meeting

"Brothers, we have a Pope!" Bennelli exclaimed. "But I request that you remain conclaved, until I consult the man whom we elected. I shall return within the hour."

2007, Peter M. Sciarrotta, “Seeing is Believing”, in The Seven Angels of the Apocalypse, 2nd edition, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Participating in a closed, private, or secret meeting.

(Roman Catholicism) Of a cardinal: attending, or secluded in, a closed assembly to elect a pope.

konklaaviin osallistuva

of a cardinal: attending, or secluded in, a closed assembly to elect a pope


secular clergy

secular + clergy, learned borrowing from Latin clerici saeculares, clēricī + saeculārēs

learned borrowing

(Christianity) One of two branches of the clergy, composed of deacons and priests who are not monastics and do not belong to religious orders.

tăng lữ thế tục

deacons and priests other than monastics


UCCP

w:United Church of Christ in the Philippines

(Philippines, Christianity) Initialism of United Church of Christ in the Philippines.


Kyriale

Borrowed from Latin Kyriale, ultimately from Ancient Greek Κῡ́ριε ἐλέησον (Kū́rie eléēson, “Lord God, have mercy”) and Ancient Greek κῡ́ριος (kū́rios, “lord, God Almighty”).

der

Κῡ́ριε ἐλέησον

(Christianity) A collection of Gregorian chant settings for the Ordinary.


Sylvestrine

(Christianity) A Benedictine monk of a congregation founded in 1231 by Sylvester Gozzolini.


Godbearing

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Godbearing.

(Christianity, uncommon) Bearing (the news of) God unto the world.


Black Madonna

Western Christianity
Western Christianity

(Christianity, art) A statue or painting in Western Christianity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin.


Virgin Birth

(Christianity, theology) Alternative letter-case form of virgin birth