Petrinity

Acts certainly follows the fortunes of Paul after Peter's release and departure; and the later New Testament shows no marked Petrinity.

1926, The New American Church Monthly, volume 19, page 228:

He says that Peter honoured (decoravit) Alexandria by sending his disciple Mark to be bishop there; he strengthened (firmavit) Antioch by occupying the see himself there for seven years; but he exalted (sublimavit) Rome where he spent his later days and died. The clear implication is that Rome remains pre-eminent even in Petrinity.

1980, Jeffrey Richards, Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great, →ISBN, page 65:

The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema.

2016, Jehangi Yezdi Malegam, “Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform”, in A Companion to the Medieval Papacy, →ISBN, page 58:

(Christianity, rare) The quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.


two swords

Allegorical interpretation of Luke 22:38, “Behold, here are two swords”.

The most clear-cut definition of the Pope's possession of the two swords was given in Boniface VIII’s famous bull Unam Sanctam, which stressed the unity of Christendom under its single head.

1952, C. W. Previté-Orton, The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, volume 2, page 943:

[…] the dispute between the two swords cut deep into the countryside in ways that the authors of ecclesiastical and revolutionary policy neither intended nor anticipated.

2004, Matthew Butler, Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–29, →ISBN, page 3:

In the crusader theology, the two swords were totally united and not divided as Bernard would have it.

2009, Peter Lodberg, Religion, Politics, and Law, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly history, Roman Catholicism) Spiritual and temporal power, church and state.


formal heresy

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis fōrmālis.

calque

Coordinate term: material heresy

(Roman Catholicism) The teaching or expression of an opinion in the conscious knowledge that it is contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical.


Camaldolese

From Italian camaldolese, from Camaldoli + -ese. The order was founded by Sain Romuald around 1012 in Camaldoli, Tuscany, Italy.

(Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to the Camaldolese Order of Italy.


Camaldolese

(Roman Catholicism) A monk or nun belonging to the Camaldolese Order of Italy.

camaldolese

mon or nun belonging to the Camaldolese Order


Christotokos

From Koine Greek Χριστοτόκος (Khristotókos, “Christ-bearer”), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth, bearer”).

bor

(Christianity) Synonym of Mother of God, Mary, mother of Jesus, in her role as the mother of the Messiah, particularly in Greek contexts.


Iotaba

From Latin Iotaba, from Ancient Greek Ἰωτάβη (Iōtábē).

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church#English

(Roman Catholicism) A titular see in Tiran, Palestina, Roman Catholic Church (located on the island)


First Day

Used (like also First Month in place of January, etc) to avoid the pagan history/etymology of the traditional name.

First day (alternative)
first day (alternative)
First-day (alternative)

(Christianity, Quakerism) Sunday (the first day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Second Day

Used (like also First Month in place of January, etc) to avoid the "pagan" implications/etymology of the traditional name.

(Christianity, Quakerism) Monday (the second day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Third Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Tuesday (the third day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Fourth Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Wednesday (the fourth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Fifth Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Thursday (the fifth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Sixth Day

(Christianity, Quakerism) Friday (the sixth day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Seventh Day

Used (like First Month in place of January, etc) to avoid the "pagan" implications/etymology of the traditional name.

(Christianity, Quakerism) Saturday (the seventh day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week)


Marianite

(Christianity, historical) A member of an ancient sect that regarded the Virgin Mary as divine.


ad orientem

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad orientem (literally “to the east”).

ubor

(Christianity) Facing liturgical east, that is, in the same direction as (and thus, away from) the congregation.


ad orientem

For that reason, I have restored the venerable ad orientem position when I celebrate Mass at the Cathedral.

2009 September, Edward J. Slattery, “From the bishop: Ad orientem”, in Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, archived from the original on 2012-02-10, page 3:

It was catechism by incense, rood screens, gorgeous vestments and ad orientem Masses chanted from high altars that scrape the heavens.

2019 August 15, Michael Rennier, “Liturgy wars? Younger Catholics just want reverence”, in Catholic Herald:

(Christianity) Describing worship facing liturgical east.


ad orientem

One faction within the Syro-Malabar Church favored the use of ad orientem in the liturgy — "to the east," with the presider's back to the congregation.

2021 August 5, Matt Kappadakunnel, “A call to communion: Pope Francis' letter to the Syro-Malabar Church”, in National Catholic Reporter:

Fr Kalathil says that just like there is a demand for Versus Populum in Ernakulam-Angamaly there are strong proponents of Ad Orientem in other dioceses.

2022 August 27, Disney Tom, “Altar ego”, in The Times of India:

(Christianity) Ellipsis of ad orientem worship, posture, etc.


communar

(Christianity) The administrator of a religious community.


Marcion

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃən/

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃʌ̈ʊ̯n/

From Late Latin Mārciōn (from Koine Greek Μᾱρκῑ́ων (Mārkī́ōn, diminutive of Ancient Greek Μᾶρκος (Mârkos, from Mārcus (from Mārs + -cus)))), from Old Latin Māvors and Proto-Indo-European *-kos.

der

(Christianity, Gnosticism, philosophy, history) Marcion of Sinope, 2nd century AD theologian, philosopher, preacher and founder of Marcionism, a Hellenistic Christian religious belief system influenced by Gnostic theology; compiled the first Biblical canon, consisting solely of Greek New Testament scriptures, totally rejecting the scriptural authority of the Hebrew Tanakh adopted as the canonical Old Testament of the Christian Bible


pittancer

(historical, Christianity) A person responsible for distributing small gifts on religious occasions.


altar server

(Christianity) A layperson, often a child or adolescent, who assists a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy, attending to supporting tasks at the altar.


altar of repose

en-noun

altar of repose (plural altars of repose)

(Christianity) An altar where the communion hosts consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Mass of the Lord's Supper are placed, or "reserved", for use on Good Friday.


sophiology

Russian Orthodoxy
Russian Orthodox Church

(Christianity) A controversial school of thought in Russian Orthodoxy, holding that divine wisdom is to be identified with God's essence, and that this divine wisdom is in some way expressed in the world as 'creaturely' wisdom.


co-cathedral

(Christianity) One of a group of churches (usually a pair) which share the function of being the seat of a bishop.

konkatedrála

someone who owns something together with one or more other people


Saint Andrew

From saint + Andrew. From being the apostle Andrew.

St. Andrew (alternative)
St Andrew (alternative)
Saint-Andrew (alternative)
St.-Andrew (alternative)
St-Andrew (alternative)

(Christianity) An apostle of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ


Deipara

Borrowed from Latin Deipara, from Deus (“god”) + pariō (“I bear [offspring]”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives), calque of Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “birth-giver of God”).

calque

It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]

1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66:

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.


Covidtide

From COVID + -tide (“time”), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide.

COVID-tide (alternative)
COVIDtide (alternative)

In the past 24 hours I played skyrim for 10, and ate a whole pizza, and that isn't all. Covidtide is exposing the paucity of the american dream much more efficiently than lent

2020 March 22, @subtle_mullet, “In the past 24 hours I played skyrim for 10 […]”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-03-23:

Like so many other congregations, St. Aidan is adapting its life together to realities created by this extended season of “Covidtide.”

2020 November, Dean Pinter, “Prayer and Scripture Are the Daily Bread in Moose Jaw”, in The Saskatchewan Anglican, Regina, Saskatchewan: Diocese of Saskatchewan / Diocese of Saskatoon / Diocese of Qu’Appelle, retrieved 2022-02-07, page 4:

Advent during "Covidtide," as some have termed the pandemic, allows families to enter a type of "family cocoon" or period of dormancy, said Anne Nicklaus, 57, whose family belongs to Our Lady of Peace Parish in Minneapolis.

2020 December 2, Maria Wiering, “Catholics Say They’re Able to Deepen Their Approach to Advent Season This Year”, in Angelus (Catholic News Service), Los Angeles, retrieved 2020-02-07:

Even in lockdown, even in Covidtide, our house has continued to brim over with life.

2021, Brad East, The Doctrine of Scripture, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page xvi:

COVID-19 might have further ruptured Christian unity as we debated mandatory vaccines and masking, but there’s one thing we can all agree on based on our experiences over Covidtide: Video calls are a bad substitute for human presence.

2021 December, Ted Olsen, “Screening Visitors”, in Christianity Today, volume 65, number 9, →ISSN, page 22:

(neologism, chiefly Christianity) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus

en-noun

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (plural Feasts of the Holy Name of Jesus)

Feasts of the Holy Name of Jesus (plural)

(Christianity) A feast of the liturgical year celebrated by a number of Christian denominations.

Zoete Naam Jezus

a celebration of the circumcision of Jesus


Mother of Mercy

Calque of Latin Mater Misericordiae and its descendants in other languages, viewing Mary as a sympathetic intermediary between Christians and the Godhead.

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, particularly in Catholic contexts.

Mater Misericordiae

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary, Mother of God, Virgin Mary


Jericho walk

Ever since we came , we have been aware of student groups who regularly conducted Jericho walks (some call them Joshua walks). They walk around campus and encircle dormitories […]

1995, Timothy Ken Beougher, Accounts of a Campus Revival: Wheaton College, 1995, page 86:

In addition to the fast, God called those men and myself to a Jericho Walk for our city. We began at 8 P.M. one Friday night and walked the 610 Loop around downtown Houston, about a 40-mile walk.

2001, Doug Stringer, Somebody Cares: A Guide to Living Out Your Faith:

(US, Christianity) A form of protest in which people walk seven times around a significant location.


holiness movement

(Christianity) A Wesleyan-Arminian set of Christian beliefs and practices that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism and emphasize the doctrine of a second work of grace leading to Christian perfection.


Promise Keeper

(Christianity) A member of the Promise Keepers, an Evangelical Christian parachurch organization for men, founded in the United States in 1990.


Massacre of the Innocents

the Massacre of the Innocents (canonical)

(Christianity) The incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.

Kindermoord van Bethlehem

Christianity: incident in the nativity narrative


en-proper-noun

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


cardinalitial

From Italian cardinalizio (“cardinalitial”) + -al, from cardinale + -izio.

af

(Christianity) Of, relating to, or characteristic of a cardinal.

bíborosi

of, relating to,or characteristic of a cardinal


chuhra

From Hindustani چُوہْڑا (cūhṛā) / चूहड़ा (cūhṛā).

Saai

people of Jesus; labourer; sweeper; Pakistani slur against Christians, meaning but also as or

"During a heated discussion of the budget, Abbasi called me churha (low caste). This is an insult to all religious minorities in Pakistan. His leader is also prejudiced. We only accept a Pakistan where there is no discrimination of color, cast [sic] or faith," said Tariq Gill, the Christian parliamentary secretary for human rights and minorities.

2018, Kamran Chaundhry, UCA Newshttps://www.ucanews.com/news/pakistani-politician-draws-censure-for-christian-slur/82356

(Pakistan, Christianity, ethnic slur, religious slur, offensive) A Hindu or (especially) a Christian convert from a lower caste.


Holy Rood

From Middle English Holy Rood, Holyrode, holy-rode, holy roode, hali rode, halgorode, equivalent to holy + rood (“crucifix, cross”).

holy rood (alternative)
Holyrood (alternative)

(Christianity) Synonym of True Cross: the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.


Holy Sepulchre

From Middle English Holy Sepulcre, holi sepulcre, equivalent to proprialization of holy + sepulchre.

(Christianity) The tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion.


rhema

(Christianity) A spiritual communication or inspiration from God to an individual, as opposed to the universal Logos.


state of grace

When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by His grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.

1646, “Of Free-Will”, in The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, published 1946:

I found these statistics, in a condensed form, in a telegram of the Associated Press, and preserved them. They made it apparent that St. Louis was in a higher state of grace than she could have claimed to be in my time.

1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 51, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:

This is a state of grace / This is the worthwhile fight

2012, Taylor Swift, “State of Grace”, in Red:

(Christianity) A condition free from mortal sin, in which one has the favor of God and enjoys unmerited divine assistance.


die roaring for a priest

en-verb

die roaring for a priest (third-person singular simple present dies roaring for a priest, present participle dying roaring for a priest, simple past and past participle died roaring for a priest)

dies roaring for a priest (present singular third-person)
dying roaring for a priest (participle present)
died roaring for a priest (participle past)
died roaring for a priest (past)
die roaring for the priest (alternative)

Variation of die roaring; in Catholicism, without a priest a dying person cannot receive the sacraments of confession or extreme unction.

“God’s curse down on you, Burke; may you never lie quiet in bed; may your children wither and die; may your rooftree fall; may your seed and breed in every generation from this day forward bring forth a thief or a murderer of his own kind; may brother rise against brother in every generation; may you never see the face of God; may you live to see the ruin of your family; may you die roaring for the priest and him far away—”

1973, Eilís Dillon, Across the Bitter Sea, page 436:

Suffice it to say that the barman physically hustled him towards the door, as Gus struggled and shouted, "I hope you die roaring for a priest."

1996, Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Poolbeg, →ISBN, page 654:

(Ireland, Catholicism, colloquial, dated) repent too late of one's sins; (hence) be damned


Cainitic

en-adj

Cainitic (comparative more Cainitic, superlative most Cainitic)

more Cainitic (comparative)
most Cainitic (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or relating to the Cainites.


adoptian

(Christianity) A proponent of adoptianism.


advocatrix

From Latin advocātrīx, from advocāre (“advocate”) + -trīx (“-ess”, forming feminine agent nouns), from ad- (“to, toward, on behalf of”) + vocāre (“speak”). By surface analysis, advocate + -trix.

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female advocate, especially as a title of Mary, mother of Jesus.


parabaptist

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβαπτιστής (parabaptistḗs), from παραβαπτίζω (parabaptízō, “to baptize without authority”). By surface analysis, para- + baptist.

bor+

παραβαπτιστής

(Christianity, rare) A person carrying out unlawful baptisms, especially in the early Church.


omnisufficient

For Christ hath offered himself a sweet-smelling sacrifice unto God the Father for my sins, yea, and that so perfect, absolute, consummate, and in all points so omnisufficient, that there can be found no imperfection in it. Christ hath borne away all my sins on his body.

1844, Thomas Becon, Prayers and other pieces of Thomas Becon, Cambridge University Press, page 126:

And I assure you, as I will answer at the tribunal throne of God’s majesty, we could find in the testament of Christ’s body and blood no other presence but a spiritual presence, nor that the mass was any sacrifice for sins: but in that heavenly book it appeared that the sacrifice, which Christ Jesus our Redeemer did upon the cross, was perfect, holy and good; that God the heavenly Father did require none other, nor that never again to be done, but was pacified with that only omnisufficient and most painful sacrifice of that sweet slain Lamb, Christ our Lord, for our sins.

1855, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, pages 33-34:

These main points of the mass, he repeated, he had never discovered in Scripture: he had read the New Testament over seven times with great deliberation ; he had studied it with men of such eminent learning as Cranmer, Bidley, and Bradford, when they were together in the Tower, and they could find no other presence of Christ's body and blood in the New Testament than a spiritual presence ; nor did Scripture say that the mass was a sacrifice for sins, but rather that the sacrifice "which Christ did on the cross was perfect, holy, and good ; that God did require none other ; nor that never again to be done, but was pacified with that only omnisufficient and most painful sacrifice of that sweet slain Lamb for our sins."

1882, Frederick James Furnivall, Phillip Stubbes, Hugh Latimer: A Biography, Ruth Wallace Hawkins, page 423:

(especially Christianity) sufficient in all things.


Millerism

(Christianity) The religious beliefs of the Millerites.


OCCB

(Canada, Christianity) Abbreviation of Ontario conference of Catholic bishops.


interadventual

(Christianity) Between the first and second advents of Jesus Christ.


theologal

(Christianity) A canon who teaches theology.


parousian

en-adjective

parousian (comparative more parousian, superlative most parousian)

more parousian (comparative)
most parousian (superlative)

From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).

der

We may dismiss at once the extremists of both types: those on the one hand whose laxity of conviction or conduct defended even attendance at the degrading public spectacles … and those who from extreme parousian standpoints made life of any sort practically impossible.

1908, Workman Herbert B, Persecution in the Early Church:

(Christianity) Relating to the second coming of Christ.


Phagiphany

From phago- + -i- + -phany. The -i- infix is a consequence of the word's coinage in Latin (phagiphania).

(Christianity, rare) Jesus' miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, commemorated in the Feast of the Epiphany.


have Jesus in one's heart

en-verb

have Jesus in one's heart (third-person singular simple present has Jesus in one's heart, present participle having Jesus in one's heart, simple past and past participle had Jesus in one's heart)

has Jesus in one's heart (present singular third-person)
having Jesus in one's heart (participle present)
had Jesus in one's heart (participle past)
had Jesus in one's heart (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-have Jesus in one's heart.wav

Possibly a reference to Ephesians 3:14 and 17 of the Bible (King James Version, spelling modernized): “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, […] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, […]”.

(intransitive, Christianity, idiomatic) To be a firm believer in the Christian faith.

olla harras kristitty

to be a firm believer in the Christian faith


seed-faith

In reference to Matthew 17:20: "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you" (KJV).

(Christianity) The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism.


Kilhamite

Named after Alexander Kilham (1762–1798), English Methodist minister, + -ite.

(historical, Christianity) A member of the Methodist New Connexion, a Protestant nonconformist church formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists.


quinquagene

From the shared title of three works of St. Augustine, Medieval Latin Quinquagena either directly or via French quinquagene, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”), distributive form of quīnquāgintā (“50”). Cognate with quinquagent.

(Christianity) A set of 50 psalms, typically with an analytical commentary.


Capernaism

(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) Belief in transubstantiation.


final reckoning

en-noun

final reckoning (countable and uncountable, plural final reckonings)

From final + reckoning (“act or occasion of accounting to God after death for one’s conduct in life”).

compound

judgement day

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism) Synonym of judgement day (“the final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits”)


Poor Clare

The Poor Clares... have also divided into Clarissines and Urbanists.

1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume XVI, page 711:

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

(Catholicism) A nun of the Poor Clares, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.


Poor Clares

From the order's namesake Saint Clare and its vows of poverty.

(Roman Catholicism) The Order of Saint Clare.


Adorantes

(Christianity, historical) Those Unitarians who believed that it was lawful to worship Christ as a divinity.


Nonadorantes

(Christianity, historical) Those Unitarians who believed that it was not lawful to worship Christ as a divinity.


Apostolos

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Απόστολος (Apóstolos).

ubor

(Christianity) A book containing texts traditionally believed to be authored by one of the twelve apostles.


Exaudi

(Christianity) Sunday within the octave of Ascension


Benedictinism

(Christianity) The practices and beliefs of the Benedictine order.


Bullockite

Bullockites (plural)
Bullochite (alternative)

(historical, Protestantism) A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists, founded by Jeremiah Bullock, which branched out to a small number of congregations in Maine and New Hampshire.


Buzzellite

(historical, Protestantism) A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists founded by John Buzzell.


Kyriopascha

(Christianity) The occurrence of Pascha (Easter) and Lady Day (the Annunciation) on the same day.


preaching band

When leading worship, Elsie usually wore a long black cassock and preaching bands. This would, of course, save her from the worry of choosing a suitable costume.

2014, Alan Argent, Elsie Chamberlain: The Independent Life of a Woman Minister, Routledge, →ISBN, page 203:

(Christianity, in the plural) Two bands (strips of linen) worn as formal neckwear by members of the Christian clergy.


nihilianism

(theology, Christianity) A doctrine stating that, Christ's essence being divine, his human nature was nothing.


spirit-filled

en-adj

spirit-filled (comparative more spirit-filled, superlative most spirit-filled)

more spirit-filled (comparative)
most spirit-filled (superlative)

(Christianity) controlled or directed by the Holy Spirit


slay someone in the Spirit

en-verb

slay<,,slew,slain> someone in the Spirit

slay someone in the Spirit (third-person singular simple present slays someone in the Spirit, present participle slaying someone in the Spirit, simple past slew someone in the Spirit, past participle slain someone in the Spirit)

slays someone in the Spirit (present singular third-person)
slaying someone in the Spirit (participle present)
slew someone in the Spirit (past)
slain someone in the Spirit (participle past)

(Christianity) Among Pentecostal and charismatic Christians: to cause a person (through prayer, anointing, laying on of hands, etc.) to fall to the floor in religious ecstasy, attributed to the power of the Holy Spirit.


provicar

/pɹəʊˈvɪkə(ɹ)/

(Roman Catholicism) The deputy of a vicar apostolic.


Spiritualist

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(historical, Christianity) An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church.


Spiritualist

(historical, Christianity) Pertaining to the Spiritualists.


neo-orthodoxy

Neoorthodoxy (alternative)
Neo-Orthodoxy (alternative)
Neo-orthodoxy (alternative)

(Christianity, theology) A theological movement developed in the aftermath of World War I, largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation.


low and slow

Now who can tell what a good word may do this high-spirited boy, who thinks true religion a low and slow affair? I tell you, my dear boy, a real Christian has an elevated, though an humble mind.

1862, Christian Treasury, volume 18, page 227:

Thus the "Evangelical," called also "the Low Church party," became, in the opinion of its adversaries, the low and slow church.

1871, Isaak August Dorner, History of Protestant Theology, Particularly in Germany, page 487:

(Christianity, derogatory) Adapted to be palatable to an ordinary person; relaxed and undemanding.


carecloth

(historical, Christianity) A sort of veil held over the heads of a newly married couple as they received the blessing.


pretrib

(Christianity, informal) Short for pretribulation.


skybook

skybooks (plural)
sky book (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-skybook.wav

From sky + book. Also Calque of Urdu آسمانی کتاب (asmānī kitāb, “heavenly book”), a popular term used in Pakistan for the Quran.
Referring to the belief that the Quran was first revealed by an angel to Muhammad, a prophet in Islam, so it is considered as a book from Heaven.

calque

(India, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive, Christianity, religious slur, less often by extension) the Bible.


Urbanist

From Urban + -ist. In reference to Catholic nuns, from the promulgation of a separate rule of conduct by Pope Urban IV.

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

(Catholicism) A Poor Clare who follows or advocates the use of revised codes of conduct in place of the original precepts established by Saint Clare.


abnormalist

On the other hand, there is the worldview represented by the abnormalists, who insist that the cosmos is in an aberrant state because a fundamental disturbance has taken place in the past which can only be remedied by a regenerating power that can restore it to its original goals (theism).

2002, David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept, page 21:

Abnormalists, in contrast, view the world as fundamentally broken, skewed or distorted. Christians believe that we live in an abnormal state—biologically, socially, psychologically, volitionally, emotionally—[…]

2009, Mark R. McMinn, Clark D. Campbell, Integrative Psychotherapy, page 289:

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.


ainoi

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek αἶνοι (aînoi), plural of αἶνος (aînos).

lbor

(Christianity) lauds; a prayer service following matins


Malabar rites

(Christianity, historical) Certain customs or practices of the natives of South India, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their Indian neophytes to retain after conversion but which were afterwards prohibited by Rome.


Prot

The rarest species was a Protestant although I'd bet that the majority of Ivy League rockheads in the 1950s were Prots.

2015, Edward A. Hagan, To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-1970, page 46:


Side A

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality and gay marriage are blessed by God and should not be treated differently from traditional heterosexual marriage.

Side A, Side B, Side X, Side Y (theological views)


Side X

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality and gay marriage are sinful and should be avoided, and that no true Christian can be homosexual.


Side B

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality is an intrinsic trait of some people, but that gay marriage is nevertheless sinful and should be avoided.


clobber passage

en-noun

clobber passage (plural clobber passages)

(Christianity, LGBTQ, informal) Any of a number of passages in the Bible that may be interpreted as clear condemnations of homosexuality: usually Genesis 19:1-38; Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 Timothy 1:9-10; Jude 6-7; and Romans 1:25-27.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 may be used as a clobber passage.

(Christianity, Ordination of women, informal) Any of a number of passages in the Bible that may be interpreted as clear condemnations of women being ordained as ministers of the church or preaching to mixed-sex congregations.


Angelic

(Christianity) A member of the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul, a Roman Catholic religious order.


palitza

The palitza, or diamond-shaped epigonation, signifies the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and is a senior award of the priesthood. At times in Greece this vestment has been employed to indicate the educated clergy who are ...

2010, Michael Prokurat, Michael D. Peterson, Alexander Golitzin, The A to Z of the Orthodox Church, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 337:

If the priest has been awarded the palitza, he blesses it with the words Blessed be our God..., kisses the cross, and puts it on after the nabedrennik, on the right thigh. When vesting in the nabedrennik and the palitza, […]

2011, Gregory W. Woolfenden, A Practical Handbook for Divine Services, Holy Trinity Publications, →ISBN, section 3:

(uncommon, Eastern Christianity) The epigonation.


holy rood

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Holy Rood: the True Cross of Jesus.


Greyfriars

As a common British placename, typically derived from having been the site of a Franciscan friary prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscans: the Order of the Friars Minor.


morose delectation

morose delectation (countable and uncountable, plural morose delectations)

Calque of Medieval Latin dēlectātiō mōrōsa, used by Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae.

calque

For quotations using this term, see Citations:morose delectation.

(Catholicism) The act of lingering with pleasure on an impure thought.


Coronatide

/kəˈɹəʊnəˌtaɪd/

From corona(virus) + -tide (suffix meaning ‘time’, denoting seasons), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide and Eastertide.

suffix

Nowhere in the letter do the writers express a desire to know what is going on with the recipient; they do not wish to listen, learn, or truly befriend. They seem, above all, to want compliance. They want butts in pews, or at least the coronatide equivalent.

2020 July 10, Jana Riess, “If you want to win Latter-Day Saints back to the church, shame and fear are not how to do it”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-31:

But Coronatide, as our extraordinary time has been dubbed, obliterated the usual sacred spaces and practices.

2020 August 12, David Gibson, “Jazz Vespers”, in Commonweal, volume 147, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Commonweal Foundation, published September 2020, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-21, page 64:

In this unsettling season of Coronatide we find ourselves beset by change, some welcome, some unwelcome.

2021, William Franklin, “Preface: Two Movements of the Past that Inform the Future”, in C[harles] Andrew Doyle, Embodied Liturgy: Virtual Reality and Liturgical Theology in Conversation, New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing, →ISBN, page xx:

Charles Butler's remarks in The Principles of Musik that "a Singing-man neede never fear the Astma, Peripneumonia, or Consumption: or any other like affections of that vital part: which ar the death of many students," seems particularly apt advice for the current Coronatide—an incentive perhaps for us all to sing more, even if we are stuck at home.

2021 spring–summer, Anna Lewton-Brain, “Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx + 245 pp. + 16 illus. + 14 tracks. $77. [book review]”, in Donald R. Dickson, editor, Seventeenth-Century News, volume 79, numbers 1 and 2, College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

Coronatide made it hard to go an hour or two without snacking, but we’re past that now, and Mass is definitely not the place for the munchies.

2022 October 4, Katie Burke, “Ready for Mass: Churching like a pro”, in The Catholic Sun, Phoenix, Ariz.: Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-16:

(Christianity, neologism) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.


docetize

en-verb

docetize (third-person singular simple present docetizes, present participle docetizing, simple past and past participle docetized)

docetizes (present singular third-person)
docetizing (participle present)
docetized (participle past)
docetized (past)

(Christianity, transitive) To explain or interpret in terms of docetism.


dorcastry

(Christianity, historical) A Dorcas society (ladies' church association making clothes for the poor)


Christiform

(theology, Christianity) Formed like, or acting in accordance with, Christ.


Blanchardism

From Blanchard + -ism, after Pierre-Louis Blanchard (1758–1826), a French priest and polemicist, one of the leaders of the movement.

In these he concurs with the Irish Bishops in their condemnation of Blanchardism, […]

1862, F. C. Husenbeth, The Life of the Right Rev. John Milner, page 229:

The schism of the Petite Eglise, or Blanchardism as it was called in England, was a terrible blow to him.

1867 May, “'He Went About Doing Good'”, in The Catholic World, page 265:

By the time of the Restoration most of the French had gone, and those who had not were often infirm or tainted with Blanchardism.

1980 May, Dominic Bellenger, “The English Catholics And The Exiled French Clergy”, in British Catholic History, volume 15, number 3, page 439:

(Christianity, historical) A Catholic schism that emerged in the early 19th century among exiled French clergy who, having fled to England after the French Revolution, opposed the Concordat of 1801, an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that sought national reconciliation between the revolutionaries and the Church.


Blanchardist

From these acts of the English vicars apostolic, the Blanchardists appealed (irregularly, it is allowed) to the Irish prelates convened in synod at Tullow.

1824, Francis Plowden, Human Subordination, page 99:

Besides the Blanchardists, there remained in England a considerable number of orthodox French priests and laymen, and their presence had a great influence on the Catholic Church in this country, far greater than is represented by the half-dozen churches or missions founded by a few of them.

1905, Bernard Ward, Catholic London a Century Ago, page 57:

That was not the method of Milner, however, who agitated for the most public denunciations of the Blanchardists.

1984, Joan Connell, The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850: A Study in Internal Politics, page 109:

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Blanchardism.


uhtsong

(Christianity, obsolete) The nocturn or night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours.


re-presentation

en-noun

re-presentation (countable and uncountable, plural re-presentations)

...but one constant of his work was his thinking about the theology of the eternal sacrifice (self-offering) of Christ on the cross and its relationship to the Eucharist. Jones was particularly interested in the relationship between the Mass and time, and constantly meditated on the Mass’s ability to touch all moments of history through the dynamic of “re-presentation” (anamnesis).

2021, Anna Svendsen, “C. C. Martindale (1879–1963), the History of Religions, and the Theological Imagination of David Jones (1895–1974)”, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, page 566:

(Catholicism, by extension) Presentation anew of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ through the Eucharist.


Newchurchman

(historical, Christianity) A member of the New Church; a Swedenborgian.


Antidicomarian

(historical, Christianity) A member of a Christian sect, active from the 3rd to the 5th century, who refused to accord any special status to Mary, mother of Jesus, and rejected the doctrine of her perpetual virginity.


antimins

antimens (alternative)
antimension (alternative)
antimensium (alternative)
antiminsion (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Ἀντιμήνσιον (Antimḗnsion).

(Christianity) A rectangular piece of linen or silk, usually decorated with religious emblems and inscriptions, and containing a small relic of a martyr.


phantomist

(Christianity, archaic, derogatory) One who believes that Christ's corporeal body was an illusion.


Admonitionist

(historical, Christianity) A supporter of the Admonition to the Parliament of 1572, which denounced the bishops of England and called for the replacement of Episcopalianism with presbyterianism.


Aphthartodocetism

/ˌæfθɑːrtəˈdɒsɪˌtɪzəm/

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

der

ἀφθαρτοδοκητισμός

(Christianity, theology, historical) The doctrines of the Aphthartodocetae. A Christological doctrine that taught that Christ's body was naturally incorruptible and not subject to physical suffering, associated with the 6th-century Monophysite theologian Julian of Halicarnassus.


Armageddonism

(Christianity) Belief in the coming Armageddon.


Armageddonist

(Christianity) One who believes in the coming Armageddon.


Ascensiontide

en-noun

Ascensiontide (usually uncountable, plural Ascensiontides)

(Christianity) The period from Ascension Day (39 days after Easter) until Whitsunday (49 days after Easter).


Assumptionist

(Christianity) A member of the Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption, a worldwide congregation of Catholic priests and brothers.


asterikos

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy) A metal cross that is placed over the diskos to prevent the veil from touching the host.


Athanasianism

(Christianity) Support for the Athanasian Creed.


Athanasianist

(Christianity) A supporter of the Athanasian Creed.


Audian

Named after their founder Audius or Audaeus.

(historical, Christianity) A member of a fourth-century Christian sect in Syria and Scythia, who took literally the text of Genesis stating that God created mankind in his own image.


Audianism

(historical, Christianity) The religious beliefs of the Audians.


collectarium

/ˌkɒˌlɛkˈtɛəɹi.əm/

(Roman Catholicism) A book that contains the collects (type of prayer).


Collegiant

(Christianity, historical) A member of an association of Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland, founded in 1619, who held a college (meeting) on the first Sunday of each month at which everyone had the same liberty of expounding the scripture and praying.


Helvidian

en-adj

Helvidian (comparative more Helvidian, superlative most Helvidian)

more Helvidian (comparative)
most Helvidian (superlative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Helvidius, the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary.


Helvidian

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Helvidius' religious views.


Vigilantian

Vigilantian (comparative more Vigilantian, superlative most Vigilantian)

more Vigilantian (comparative)
most Vigilantian (superlative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Vigilantius (fl. c. 400), Christian presbyter who wrote a work, now lost, that opposed a number of common fifth-century practices, and which inspired one of the most violent of the polemical treatises of Jerome (died 420).


Bonosian

Bonosian (comparative more Bonosian, superlative most Bonosian)

more Bonosian (comparative)
most Bonosian (superlative)

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Bonosus of Sardica, a bishop of Sardica in the latter part of the fourth century, who taught against the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary.


Bonosian

(Christianity, historical) A supporter of Bonosus' religious views.


Gnesio-Lutheran

(Christianity, historical) A member of a theological party in the Lutheran churches, in opposition to the Philippists after the death of Martin Luther and before the Formula of Concord.


Flacian

(Christianity, historical) A Gnesio-Lutheran.

(Christianity, historical) An adherent of Matthias Flacius' view of original sin, rejected by the Formula of Concord.


Philippist

(Christianity, historical) A member of a party in early Lutheranism who opposed the Gnesio-Lutherans.


Philippism

(Christianity, historical) The beliefs of the Philippists.


Mount of Temptation

Monastery of the Temptation
Mount of Temptation

(Christianity mythology) The supposed location of the Temptation of Christ in the early 1st century.


ABY

(Christianity, informal) Initialism of Archbishop of York.


Free Will Baptist

en-noun

Free Will Baptist (plural Free Will Baptists)

(Christianity) A member of a General Baptist Christian denomination which believes in free grace, free salvation and free will.


Clarissian

For a commentary on the range of Clarissian criticism, see...

1986, Helen O. Molitor, “Modern Isms and the Lovejovian Universe”, in Man and Nature, volume 5, page 128:

Along with the charism of the Teresian Carmel, other cloistered orders exist in South Korea, namely the Carthusians, the Complative Missionary Fraternity, Dominicans, Clarissian sisters and the Cistercians.

2008 November 21, Theresa Kim, “Comtemplatives in Korea...”, in PIME AsiaNews:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Clarissan: Of or relating to the Order of Saint Clare; of or relating to someone named Clarissa.


Clarissian

In 1260, the Clarissians moved to the convent of Santa Chiara in town; afterwards, the church became a Fransciscan friary...

1992, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, page 322:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarissan

Strict enclosure presented additional complexities when the convent churches were open to the lay public, as was the case in the Clarissan order ("Poor Clares").

2005, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, c. 1213–1340”, in Medieval Religion: New Approaches, page 249:

There are two commissions for the Clarissan order (or Poor Clares), that warrant attention, the convent church at Santa Chiara in Bra and the convent church at Santa Chiara in Turin.

2021, William Stargard, “Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone's Architecture”, in Hemispheres and Stratospheres, page 46:

(Catholicism) Of or relating to the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarissan

The rule of the Clarissans, who take their name from St Clara, was very strict.

1865, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Women's Work in the Church, page 130:


Clarist

His wife desired to enter a convent of Clarists.

1840, Kenelm Henry Digby, Mores Catholici, page 404:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly one who follows or advocates the original precepts established by St Clare.


Clarist

Soon after I arrived in Kerala, during a period when I was making frequent visits to Alphonsa's shrine in Bharananganam, a few of the Clarist nuns decided that I should take a trip up into the nearby mountain range to meet a gentleman they thought would be of great help to me in my research.

2001, Corinne G. Dempsey, Kerala Christian Sainthood, page 18:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Clarissan: of or related to the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarissine

From French clarissine, from Clarisse + -ine.


Clarissine

...she returned shortly thereafter to Austria where she lived from 1313 until her death in the Clarissine monastery of Ko:nigsfelden

2019, Attila Zsoldos, The Árpáds and Their Wives, page 199:


Poor Lady

Originally an epithet of St Clare of Assisi herself.

...his widow became a Poor Lady in the convent of Strala, where she long fulfilled the office of abbess...

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.

1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:


Sister Minor

Calque of Medieval Latin sorores minores (“lesser sisters”) and its variants in Norman, Middle French, and Italian. Doublet of Sister Minoress.

cal

...any Graunte by us made unto the Abbas, Covent and Susters Minores withoute Algate of oure Citee of London...

1473, Rolls of Parliament, volume VI, page 78:

(Catholicism, obsolete or historical) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.

(Catholicism) A nun of the Order of Mary Immaculate.


Sister Minoress

en-noun

Sister Minoress (plural Sisters Minoress)

Sisters Minoress (plural)
sister minoress (alternative)

From sister + Minoress, q.v. Doublet of Sister Minor.

...the Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate...

1451, Rolls of Parliament, volume V, page 224:


minorite

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minorite: a Franciscan.


Friar Minor

Friar Minor (plural Friars Minor or Friar Minors)

Friars Minor (plural)
Friar Minors (plural)

A calque of Medieval Latin Fratres Minores (“the Lesser Brothers”), both directly and via Old French freres meneurs and Norman freres menures, a name supposedly chosen by St Francis to inculcate humility.

der

[…] So þere weren with vs ij worthi men, Frere Menoures […]

c. 1410, "John Mandeville", Travels (Titus C.xvi), p. 188

The Friars Preacher opened their studium generale at St. Jacques, Paris, in 1229, the Friars Minor theirs in 1231.

1952, Beryl Smalley, Study of Bible in Middle Ages, p. 264

(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.


Friars Minor

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor#English

(Catholicism) Ellipsis of Order of Friars Minor: the religious order of friars founded by St Francis of Assisi.


autohomicide

en-noun

autohomicide (countable and uncountable, plural autohomicides)

(Christianity, rare) An act of submission; the act of laying down one's own self and desires in order to pursue Christ.


Christian right

(Christianity, politics, US politics) Political factions in the United States and other Western countries who favour conservative values enacted into their countries' society and laws.

Muslim right

ultraconservative Muslim movements, various countries


tricennal

From mistaken use of Medieval Latin trīcennāle, neuter substantive of Latin trīcennālis (“tricennial”), from trīcennium (“30-year period”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from trīciēs (“30 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Doublet of tricennial.

suffix

Your forefathers sawe somwhat, whiche made this constitution, against the venalitie and sale of Masses, that vnder peine of suspending, no priest shuld sell his sayinge of tricennals, or annals.

1537, H. Latimer, Sermon to Clergie, E2:

(Christianity, obsolete) Synonym of trental, set of 30 requiem masses, the payment for such services.


anaphoral

(Christianity) Relating to the anaphora.


minor order

cleric in minor orders

(Catholicism, historical) One of the orders of the Catholic Church lower than the major orders (diaconate and priesthood); i.e. the order of acolyte, exorcist, lector or porter.


great chain of being

en-noun

great chain of being (plural great chains of being)

great chains of being (plural)
Great Chain of Being (alternative)

Vaſt Chain of Being! which from God began, / Ethereal Eſſence, Spirit, Subſtance, Man, / Beaſt, Bird, Fiſh, Inſect! what no Eye can ſee, / No Glaſs can reach! from Infinite to Thee!

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 235:

If the one spirit permeated all things, if its all-energising presence linked the flower with the crystal as well as with the demon and the god, must it not link together also the two extremes of the great chain of being?

1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., chapter XXV, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 256:

[…]; ourselves being but links in the great chain of being, which begins with the origin of our race, runs onward through its successive generations, binding together the past, the present, and the future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God.

1903 [1820], Daniel Webster, “First Settlement of New England”, in A. J. George, editor, Select Speeches of Daniel Webster 1817–1845:

There was more than one way, however, in which the principles embodied in the cosmological conception of the Chain of Being could be used as weapons against social discontent and especially against all equalitarian movements.

1936, A. O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Harvard University Press, page 205:

In Descartes’s hands, two thousand years later, this hierarchical continuum of living forms, commonly called “the Great Chain of Being,” was polarized into a thorough dichotomy between mechanical, unthinking matter (including all minerals, plants, and animals, as well as the human body) and pure, thinking mind (the exclusive province of humans and God).

1996, David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, →ISBN:

Far from being a radical innovation without precedent, Darwinian evolution had itself evolved by fits and starts out of one of the hoariest concepts in Western civilization, the Great Chain of Being.

2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 5, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

(Christianity, historical) A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, descending from God through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals, and thought in medieval times to have been decreed by God.


Gangtide

From gang + -tide, from gang (“to go”), in reference to the processions held at this time.

(Christianity, UK, obsolete) Rogation Week.


catholicosate

The liquidation of the Albanian Catholicosate was long sought by Armenian Catholicoses, especially by Simeon Erevantsi in the second half of the eighteenth century.

2015, Kamala Imranli-Lowe, “Reconstruction of the 'Armenian Homeland' Notion”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 51, number 4, →DOI, page 553:

Similarly to the Jacobites, the Melkites took advantage of the changed political situation and expanded their hierarchy eastward, establishing the "catholicosate of Romagyris".

2022, Alexander Treiger, “From al-Biṭrīq to Ḥunayn: Melkite and Nestorian Translators in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad”, in Mediterranea, volume 7, →DOI, pages 147–148:

(rare, Christianity) The jurisdiction of a catholicos.


plenary indulgence

plenary indulgence (plural plenary indulgences)

From plenary + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia plēnāria.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.


partial indulgence

en-noun

partial indulgence (plural partial indulgences)

From partial + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia partiālis.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.


worker-priest

(historical, Christianity) A priest who took up manual labour to experience the everyday life of the working class, and gain the trust of the working class.


ultrapapist

(Christianity) A particularly devoted papist.


RCIA

w:Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

(Catholicism) Initialism of Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.


altar bread

(Christianity) Bread which is used in a eucharistic service.


Paracleticon

Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church

(Christianity) An office-book in the Greek Orthodox Church containing the troparia of the whole ferial office for the year.


Iron Crown

(Christianity) A reliquary from the early Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold and jewels fitted around a central silver band, which tradition held to be made of iron beaten out of a nail of the True Cross.


figurism

(Christianity, historical) An intellectual movement of Jesuit missionaries at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, whose participants viewed the I Ching as a prophetic book containing the mysteries of Christianity, and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.


Sabellianize

en-verb

Sabellianize (third-person singular simple present Sabellianizes, present participle Sabellianizing, simple past and past participle Sabellianized)

Sabellianizes (present singular third-person)
Sabellianizing (participle present)
Sabellianized (participle past)
Sabellianized (past)

(Christianity, intransitive) To practise Sabellianism.


Nestorianize

Nestorianize (third-person singular simple present Nestorianizes, present participle Nestorianizing, simple past and past participle Nestorianized)

Nestorianizes (present singular third-person)
Nestorianizing (participle present)
Nestorianized (participle past)
Nestorianized (past)

(Christianity) To teach or follow the Nestorian doctrine.


tent revival

(religion, Christianity) A gathering of Christian worshipers in a tent erected specifically for revival meetings, evangelism, and healing crusades.


Confessing Church

(Christianity, historical) A movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.


Extravagantes

(Christianity) Within the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, those papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority.


Collyridianism

(Christianity, historical) An alleged Early Christian heretical movement in Arabia whose adherents apparently worshipped the Virgin Mary as a goddess.


Collyridian

(Christianity, historical) Of or relating to Collyridianism.


Collyridian

(Christianity, historical, mostly plural) A member of the Collyridianism movement.


consolamentum

(Christianity, historical) The unique sacrament ritual of the Cathars.


antiepiscopal

en-adj

antiepiscopal (comparative more antiepiscopal, superlative most antiepiscopal)

more antiepiscopal (comparative)
most antiepiscopal (superlative)

(Christianity) Opposing the bishops, or episcopacy.


raise to the purple

en-verb

raise to the purple (third-person singular simple present raises to the purple, present participle raising to the purple, simple past and past participle raised to the purple)

raises to the purple (present singular third-person)
raising to the purple (participle present)
raised to the purple (participle past)
raised to the purple (past)

(idiomatic, figurative) To be elevated to a very high rank.

(Christianity, figurative) To become a cardinal.

To be elevated to a very high rank.
To become a cardinal.

(Christianity, figurative) To become a monarch.

To be elevated to a very high rank.
To become a monarch.


chrisom child

So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.

It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus "Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō."

1892, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, page 148:

There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.

1897, John Charles Cox, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, page 191:

As is the case in most early registers, the records of St. Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.

1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118:

Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.

2000, Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall, The Place of the Dead, page 281:

(Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism.


Saint Peter

From saint + Peter. From being the apostle Peter. The parish is named after him.

St. Peter (alternative)
St Peter (alternative)
Saint-Peter (alternative)
St.-Peter (alternative)
St-Peter (alternative)

(Christianity) An apostle of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ


Missourianism

(Christianity) The beliefs and practices of the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.


anti-Remonstrant

(Protestantism, historical) One who opposed the Remonstrants.


anti-Gallicanism

But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.

1985, Bernard M. G. Reardon, Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought, →ISBN, page 200:

(Christianity) Opposition to Gallicanism.


Great Assize

The complete report cannot be rendered until the books are opened at the Great Assize. Then many shall rise up and call its members blessed […]

1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City: or, The Churches’ Answer to the Bitter Cry of Outcast, page 63:

But none of these authorities seem to establish the Great Assize and the Coming of the Lord in the Clouds as a future, far-off event to be literally expected.

1896, Hugh Reginald Haweis, The Dead Pulpit, page 258:

The gehenna of corpses after the destruction of Gog’s army may naturally be identified with the gehenna of the Great Assize, which had become an accepted article of belief since Ezekiel’s day.

1949, Austin Farrer, A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John’s Apocalypse, page 302:

(archaic, Christianity) the Last Judgment


Neo-orthodox

(Christianity, theology) Of or relating to Neo-orthodoxy.


action sermon

The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.

2008, Duncan B. Forrester, Doug Gay, Worship and Liturgy in Context, scm Press, page 88:

(Christianity) Α sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church, especially that preached right before communion.


Introibo

/ˈɪntɹəʊiːbəʊ/

From Ecclesiastical Latin introībō ad altāre Deī (“I shall go in towards the altar of God”), the first line spoken.

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At the Introibo he noticed at his right, as usual, his guardian angel, who acted as the angel mentioned by St. John in the Apocalypse, standing before the altar and bearing a golden censer.

1959, Henri Béchard, The Visions of Bernard Francis de Hoyos, S.J.: Apostle of the Sacred Heart in Spain, a Biography, page 72:

In place of the humble but hopeful supplication of the Introibo, we have the narcissistic, desperate anguish of 1, punctuated by a blues refrain in the key of death and loss, drunkenness, violence, and sexuality.

1964, John William Corrington, The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems, page 9:

As imposing and plump as Buck Mulligan standing on top of a spiral stairway whilst intoning an “Introibo”, his slowly magnifying body brings to mind a purplish balloon, of a sort that you might buy for your child in Parc Montsouris.

1994, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void, page 273:

(Roman Catholicism) The prayers spoken by the priest at the foot of the altar at the start of a Tridentine Mass.


Loyolite

From Loyola + -ite. Named after Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), who founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus.

(Catholicism, archaic) A Jesuit; a member of the Society of Jesus.


Gilbertine

From Gilbert + -ine. Named after Gilbert of Sempringham (c. 1085 – 1189), who founded the order.

(Catholicism) A member of the Gilbertine Order, an English religious order founded around 1130 in Sempringham, Lincolnshire.


Arnoldist

From Arnold + -ist, after Arnold of Brescia.

(Christianity, historical) A member of a Proto-Protestant Christian movement of the 12th century that opposed infant baptism, the Eucharist, and the material wealth of the Roman Catholic Church.


Reformati

(Christianity) A certain order of Franciscans.


Rellyan

(Christianity, historical) A religious follower of James Relly, who maintained the doctrine of universal restoration, upon high Calvinistic principles.


ecumenical council

en-noun

ecumenical council (plural ecumenical councils)

ecumenical councils (plural)
oecumenical council (alternative)
œcumenical council (alternative)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin oecūmenicum concilium.

calque

[…] in 1215, the Maronite patriarch visited Rome and participated in an ecumenical council.

2016, David S. Sorenson, An Introduction to the Modern Middle East: History, Religion, Political Economy, Politics, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 80:

(Christianity) A church council to which bishops from the entire world are invited, held by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians to be infallible in its decisions on faith and morals when certain conditions are met.


Trinitytide

[…] in 1779 he printed a Latin oration which he had delivered in the chapel of his college at Trinitytide.

1894, William Prideaux Courtney, “Mathias, Thomas James”, in Sidney Lee, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, volume 37, page 47:

Henry followed up these steps to build up his power in South Germany by planning a military campaign in Saxony against Rudolf. It was a concern of his Trinitytide court at Nuremberg, and of a subsequent visit to Mainz and the middle Rhineland.

1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 178:

(Christianity) Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, or the period around it.

Whereas the Extraordinary Form counts Sundays after Pentecost, Divine Worship follows the traditional Anglican practice of numbering Sundays after Trinity Sunday. Trinitytide concludes with the celebration of Christ the King on the Sunday prior to the first Sunday of Advent.

2021, Steven J. Lopes, “The worship of God in the beauty of holiness: A presentation of Divine Worship”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, →ISBN, page 59:

(Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism) The season of the liturgical year from Trinity Sunday to Advent.


sermon-proof

en-adj

sermon-proof (comparative more sermon-proof, superlative most sermon-proof)

more sermon-proof (comparative)
most sermon-proof (superlative)

(Christianity) Resistant to the lessons in morality conveyed by sermons; unregenerate.


immaculism

Although the Dominicans continuously disapproved of immaculism, the conflict became considerably fiercer in the aftermath of the Council of Basel (1431–1449), when the Immaculate Conception was elevated to a dogma.

2020, Racha Kirakosian, “Introduction”, in The Life of Christina of Hane, →ISBN, page xxx:

Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Conception

(Christianity) Belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.


maculism

From maculate + -ism, or a back-formation from immaculism.

As maculism ceased to be a viable option in Catholic theology, however, theologians who argued that Mary had some debt to Adam, proximate or remote, often adhered to some form of mitigated Thomism or mitigated Scotism […].

2016, Trent Pomplun, “Baroque Catholic Theologies of Christ and Mary”, in Ulrich Lehner et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600–1800, →ISBN, page 115:

(Christianity) Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.


Precious Blood

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin pretiōsus sanguis.

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As the month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so the present month is dedicated to the Precious Blood.

1885, “The Precious Blood”, in Franciscan Annals, volume 9, number 103, page 193:

This was almost a parody of the procession conducted by Henry III when he took the Precious Blood to the raised shrine of Edward the Confessor.

2003, Valerie I. J. Flint, “Conversion and Compromise in Thirteenth-Century England”, in Kenneth Mills, Anthony Grafton, editors, Conversion: Old Worlds and New, →ISBN, page 19:

His palms were anointed with chrism and the oil of catechumens; he alone among laymen could now handle the chalice and drink of the Precious Blood at Mass.

2010, Elena Maria Vidal, Madame Royale: A Novel, →ISBN, page 253:

(Roman Catholicism) The blood of Jesus Christ, especially in the form it is believed to take in the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.


Dissentism

The natural man will be carried away, and will flit about with the wind of every false doctrine. Protestantism may go over to Puseyism; Dissentism may go over to Congregationalism; and all may merge into Catholicism; but what of all that?

1851, Joseph Irons, Zion has nothing to fear from Popery, page 4:

Is it a second Church-of-England establishment, created out of the taxes, in order to strengthen the patronage of the executive power, according to its imaginary requirements, from the healthy growth of Protestant dissentism?

1859, William Chadwick, The Life and Times of Daniel Defoe, John Russell Smith, →ISBN, page 44:

The present study examines an aspect of Green's professional and political life that has been noted but never adequately explained by previous studies — namely, his philo-Dissentism.

2004, Denys Leighton, The Greenian Moment, Imprint Academic, →ISBN:

(historical, Protestantism) The beliefs or practices of the English Dissenters.


Extraordinary Form

the Extraordinary Form (canonical)
extraordinary form (alternative)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin forma extraordinaria, coined by Benedict XVI in 2007 in Summorum pontificum, which referred to the Tridentine Mass as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

As noted above, communities adhering to the extraordinary form follow the calendar in force in 1962.

2013, The Liturgy Documents: Supplemental Documents for Parish Worship, Devotions, Formation and Catechesis, volume 4, page 642:

But what about the Extraordinary Form? How is the Traditional liturgy enriched by the New Mass?

2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 173:

It needs to be admitted that Benedict XVI, in his letter to bishops accompanying the motu proprio, also noted something not asserted in prior documents, namely, that many young people are attracted to the Extraordinary Form and should not be denied its celebration.

2018, Kevin M. Irwin, Context and Text: A Method for Liturgical Theology, revised edition:

(Roman Catholicism) The Tridentine liturgy according to the rubrics in force shortly before the Second Vatican Council.


Ordinary Form

Back-formation from Extraordinary Form; see there for more.

(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite introduced after the Second Vatican Council, usually celebrated in the vernacular.


personal ordinariate

en-noun

personal ordinariate (plural personal ordinariates)

From ordinariate, the office or jurisdiction of a church ordinary; personal by analogy with personal prelature, implying that members are part of the ordinariate as individual persons, rather than because they live in a particular diocesan territory.

(Roman Catholicism) A canonical structure equivalent to a diocese, administered by an ordinary and providing for the pastoral needs of former Anglicans who have joined the Catholic Church.


Ordinariate

Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4).

2013, Gerard Mannion, “A (Strange) Sort of Homecoming?”, in Martyn Percy, Robert Boak Slocum, editors, Point of Balance: The Weight and Measure of Anglicanism, page 116:

[…] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]

2018, Clinton Allen Brand, “Very Members Incorporate: Reflections on the Sacral Language of Divine Worship”, in Uwe Michael Lang, editor, The Fullness of Divine Worship: The Sacred Liturgy and its Renewal, page 197:

But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability.

2021, Timothy P. Perkins, “The evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, page 65:

personal ordinariate
personal ordinariate

(Roman Catholicism) The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.


ghostly father

My ghostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you,
That at a window,—wot ye how?—

c. 1415-1440 (date written), Charles, Duke of Orléans, reproduced by E. K. Chambers, Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial (1907), p. 31

Now will I to my Ghostly fathers Cell, / His Help to craue, and my good hap to tell.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

Therfore I saye, that a general confession only in saying to a Ghostly Father, I am a sinner without specifying the deadly sinnes in particular, is no sufficient knowledge for the Ghostly Father to iudge rightly of euery sinner, that demandeth absolution of him, whose sinnes are to be remitted, and whose sinnes are to be retained.

1625, Louis of Granada, translated by Richard Hopkins, A Memoriall of a Christian Life […] , page 184:

About the latter End of January, 1676, Thomas Thwing, a Priest, and William Rushton, another Popish Priest, who was my ghostly Father, came to my House at Shippon Hall, in Yorkshire […]

1680, The Papists bloody Oath of Secrecy […] ; republished as Samuel Johnson, William Oldys, editors, The Harleian Miscellany […] , volume 7, 1746, page 274:

The second remedy is frequent confession to a discreet ghostly father.

1741, Charles Gobinet, The Instruction of Youth in Christian Piety […] , volume 1, page 172:

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears one’s confessions)


Advent wreath

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Local custom gives us an “Advent Tree” or “Advent Wreath”: the trees are diminutive Christmas trees, which bear one candle for each Sunday in Advent; the wreaths are wooden rings with as many holes as there are days before Christmas Eve, decorated with fir green, and gay ribbons, and hung up over the dining-table, one candle being added every night till the circle is complete.

1929 December 28, “Correspondence: A Letter from Oberammergau. [To the Editor of the Spectator.]”, in The Spectator, volume 143, number 5296, page 972:

(Christianity) A usually evergreen wreath adorned with four (or sometimes five) candles, the first of which is lit on Advent Sunday, followed by the lighting of an additional candle on each subsequent Sunday.

adventskrans

usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles


CWOB

Consequently, although the primacy and priority of God's grace is affirmed in the practice of CWOB, the way that grace acts in repentance, redemption, justification and glorification is not explored.

2012, Michael Tuck, “Who Is Invited to the Feast? A Critique of the Practice of Communion Without Baptism”, in Worship, volume 86, number 6, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, →OCLC, page 517:

Some advocate the CWOB path as one that will attract Millennials and others to the church since CWOB illustrates the openness and inclusivity of the church.

2013 May, Armand J. Boehme, “The Church and the Culture of the Millennials”, in Missio Apostolica, volume 21, number 1, St. Louis, Missouri: Lutheran Society for Missiology, →ISSN, page 110:

Indeed, on my view CWOB is more problematic for interfaith relations than the specific liturgical/sacramental understanding of the term, “People of God.”

2023, Robert MacSwain, “Touching the Third (Altar) Rail: Lessons Learned About Theological Discourse on Baptism and Eucharist in the Episcopal Church”, in Anglican Theological Review, volume 105, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 204:

(Christianity) Abbreviation of communion without baptism.


sacramentalize

en-verb

sacramentalize (third-person singular simple present sacramentalizes, present participle sacramentalizing, simple past and past participle sacramentalized)

sacramentalizes (present singular third-person)
sacramentalizing (participle present)
sacramentalized (participle past)
sacramentalized (past)

Jack now sought to have their marriage sacramentalized, but the bishop refused.

2008, Marie A. Conn, C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light Among the Shadows, HiddenSpring, page 18:

Marriage is the only human relationship that is, or will ever be, sacramentalized.

2014, John Clark, “A Wedding Toast: Marriage, the Only Sacramentalized Relationship”, in Seton Magazine:

(transitive, Christianity) To make sacramental.

A majority of American Catholics have been "sacramentalized," but never catechized or evangelized.

2019, Kathy Schiffer, Sacramentalized But Not Evangelized? Maybe You Just Forgot!, National Catholic Register:

(transitive, Catholicism) To receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church.


Oratory

(Roman Catholicism) The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.


Raskol

Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church

(Christianity, historical) A mid-17th-century schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement, triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, which aimed to establish uniformity between Greek and Russian church practices.


prince-primate

en-noun

prince-primate (plural prince-primates or princes-primate)

prince-primates (plural)
princes-primate (plural)
prince primate (alternative)

From prince + primate, a calque of German Fürstprimas. In the case of the archbishop of Esztergom, the title derived from his status as primate of Hungary and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire from 1715.

vorst-primaat

Soon, on the right, appears the cathedral of Grann [Esztergom], a miniature of St. Peter’s, in something like red porphyry, built within this century by the prince-primates, at their own private expense […]

1884, John Fallon, “From Passau to Pesth, along the Danube. Part II”, in The Irish Monthly, volume 12, page 453:

These factors may have convinced Pope Pius XII to pass over other figures in the Hungarian Church and select Mindszenty in August 1945 to be cardinal at Esztergom and thus prince-primate of Hungary.

2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 228:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) An honorary title given to an especially prominent archbishop with certain secular prerogatives, in particular:

The act of the Confederation also seemed to hold forth some hope that the new federation might develop a growing community of its German member states. Apart from the presidency of the prince-primate, it mentioned the establishment of two colleges, those of the kings and princes.

1964, Hajo Holborn, A History of Modern Germany, 1648–1840, page 371:

Confederation of the Rhine
Confederation of the Rhine

The prince-primate of the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine, Karl von Dalberg.


kiss of charity

kiss of charity (plural kisses of charity)

(Christianity) Synonym of kiss of peace.


O Antiphon

(Western Christianity) One of the antiphons sung or read at vespers at the end of Advent, in the days immediately before Christmas, each beginning “O …” in Latin and English, addressing Christ and beseeching him to come; the basis for the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”.


Neocatechumenal

Borrowed from Spanish Neocatecumenal, equivalent to neo- + catechumenal.

In short, the ritual life of a Neocatechumenal community consists of at least two liturgical events per week.

2007, Goran Pavel Šantek, “Becoming Sacred: The Use of the Body in Identity Transformation”, in Senses and Religion, →ISBN, page 76:

(Roman Catholicism) Of or pertaining to the Neocatechumenal Way, a community-based Catholic movement founded in Madrid in 1964.


free church

Popularised in the late 19th century on the model of the Scottish Free Church formed in 1843.

(Christianity) A Christian denomination that is intrinsically separate from government, and neither defines government policy nor accepts theology, policy, or funding from the state.


Döllingerism

It will be only under the pressure of hard necessity that Döllingerism will ever consent to regard itself as a German sect.

1872 August 10, “Döllinger at the Munich Jubilee”, in The Spectator, volume 45, number 2302, page 1006:

There is nothing new in Döllingerism. It is the old story, as old as human shame and sin, of the vanity which is a law to itself, and the pride which will not stoop to obey.

1874, Thomas William Marshall, Protestant Journalism, page 156:

The Vatican Council, through its definition of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, had stirred up a muddy undercurrent of heretical and schismatic feeling among certain elements of the intellectuals, and Döllingerism was quite rampant, particularly in university sections.

1933, Celestine N. Bittle, A Romance of Lady Poverty: The History of the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order in the United States, page 224:

(Roman Catholicism, dated) Support for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.


synodality

synodality (usually uncountable, plural synodalities)

“I am well aware that speaking of a ‘Synod on Synodality’ may seem something abstruse, self-referential, excessively technical, and of little interest to the general public,” Pope Francis said in August. But, he added, it “is something truly important for the church.”

2023 October 2, Jason Horowitz, Elisabetta Povoledo, quoting Pope Francis, “What Is a Synod in the Catholic Church? And Why Does This One Matter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.

2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:

(Christianity) The quality or style of a synod; fraternal collaboration and discernment as typified in a synod.


Book of Concord

(Christianity) The confessions and documents of the Lutheran Church.


Saint Christopher

From Christopher. In reference to the Caribbean island, a calque of Spanish San Cristóbal. Doublet of San Cristobal and Saint Kitts.

doublet

St Christopher (alternative)
St. Christopher (alternative)

(Christianity) A saint, who was an early Christian martyr.


Gamaliel

/ɡæməˈliːəl/

From Late Latin Gamaliēl from Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).

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Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl)

cog

ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:3:

(biblical, Judaism, Christianity) Gamaliel the Elder, a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE.


works righteousness

(Christianity) The belief that salvation is achievable by doing good works, rather than merely by having faith.


Exsultet

Borrowed from Latin exsultet (“let it [i.e., the angelic host] rejoice”), the first word of the prayer in the Roman Rite.

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The Exsultet is the preeminent chant of cantor repertoire, both because of its difficulty and because of its importance in the liturgical year. Yet very few cantors have ever sung the Exsultet, or have seen printed music for it.

1997, Diana Kodner, Handbook for Cantors, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 77:

(Western Christianity) A long prayer traditionally pronounced or sung at the Easter Vigil, beginning “Rejoice!” or “Exult!” in English.


Cainian

(Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism) Synonym of Cainite.


Salve Regina

Borrowed from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.

The fifth remark is, that any person who cannot read or hear the Novena read, can make it by saying every day five Salve Reginas and five Ave Marias, saying first an act of contrition, and observing as far as possible the directions here given.

1852, A Novena in Honour of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel […], page 7:

(Roman Catholicism) A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.


open evangelicalism

(Christianity, chiefly UK) An approach that attempts to uphold evangelical doctrines, morality, and spirituality while also being inclusive of others.


open evangelical

en-noun

open evangelical (plural open evangelicals)

(Christianity, chiefly UK) A person who takes the approach of open evangelicalism.


Cisalpine

The adjective is derived from cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located)”). Sense 2 (“of or pertaining to cisalpinism”) was popularized by the Cisalpine Club which was founded in England in 1792.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

They [volume XIII of the works of Henri François d'Aguesseau] shew the conflict between the cisalpine and transalpine opinions on papal power, so late as the reign of Lewis XIV, and the great difficulty, by which, even at that period, the former obtained the ascendant.

1821, Charles Butler, “The English Jesuits—Father [Robert] Persons”, in Additions to the Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics, from the Reformation to the Present Time, volume III, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 157:

[N]ot being swayed by the spirit of either the ultramontane or the cisalpine school, by impracticable philosophical Jansenism, by abominable, gross, and hypocritical Jesuitism, nor by a collection of irrelevant doctrines based on contested principles, let us fix the following ones, which are essential......

1845 June, “Art. IV.—1. Revelations of Spain, in 1845. By an English Resident, 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1845. Colburn. […] [book reviews]”, in The Dublin Review, volume XVIII, number XXXVI, London; Dublin: Thomas Richardson and Son [et al.], →OCLC, page 403:

Within the first decades of the Sixteenth Century the University of Padua had secured a primacy in Europe which was to last for close upon three hundred years. […] [T]he academic pilgrimage, […] had become a daily, crowded transaction, in which the newcomers, no longer strangers and pilgrims, but fellow-citizens indeed, met the Cisalpine students on equal terms. As jurists or artists they were incorporated according to their place of origin into one or other of the Ultramontane "nations," each of which possessed its statutory rights and customs and shared in the administration of university business and in the privileges which the City-Commune was always eager to bestow.

1923 October–December, Leonard Penlock, “Cardinal Pole and His Friends at Padua”, in The Dublin Review, volume 173, number 347, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, →OCLC, page 210:

One of the best arguments for the Anglican position can be found in Gallican or Cisalpine Catholicism, whose roots go back to Roman Gaul but whose branches stem from the Port-Royal movement of the 17th century.

1945 August 26, Norman B. Godfrey, “Letters [Cisalpine Catholicism]”, in Clifford P[helps] Morehouse, editor, The Living Church: A Weekly Record of the News, the Work, and the Thought of the Episcopal Church, volume CXI, number 9, Milwaukee, Wis.: Morehouse-Gorham Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

[T]he "Constitutions of Narbonne" […] detailed further measures for governance in a collegial spirit by establishing a fixed triennial interval for the convening of general chapters and instated alternating locations for chapter meetings, oscillating between cisalpine and ultramontane provinces.

2014, Nicholas W. Youmans, “Non sic erit inter frateres. Internal Structures of Obedience in Early Minorite Relational Constructs”, in Mirko Breitenstein, Julia Burkhardt, Stefan Burkhardt, Jens Röhrkasten, editors, Rules and Observance: Devising Forms of Communal Life (Vita Regularis: Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter [Ordered Life: Orders and Interpretations of Religious Life in the Middle Ages]; treatise 60), Berlin: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, part I (Creation of Norms), page 35:

Synonym of Gallican (“of or pertaining to Gallicanism (“the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope”)”)

Gallican

In pointing to some of these excesses on both sides, I have it not in contemplation to canvass, argue or even to refute errors either ultramontane or cisalpine, but merely to secure to myself a tenable position, […]

1824, Francis Plowden, “Of Tithes and Other Church Property”, in Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, to which the Creator Requires the Submission of Every Human Being. […], Paris: Printed by J. Smith, […], and published by W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 72:

Lord Stourton [i.e., Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton] had declined to join the Cisalpine Club, which consisted of men opposed to what they considered the excessive claims of an ultramontane section, but he remained a supporter of the views held by the dissolved Catholic Committee; […]

1936 May, Joscelyne Lechmere, “A Great Catholic Historian. John, Cardinal Lingard, 1771–1851”, in The Ecclesiastical Review: Monthly Publication for the Clergy, volume IV (10th series; volume XCIV overall), number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: Board of Trustees of the American Ecclesiastical Review for the Catholic University of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 474:

(UK) Of or pertaining to cisalpinism (“a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with allegiance to the pope, and that Roman Catholics should be emancipated from various legal restrictions”).

Cæsar had by this time nearly 30,000 men. The Cisalpine territories in mere enthusiasm had raised twenty-two cohorts for him.

1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XXI, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 356:

Yes, 'tis old Gallus owns the heritage / Seen on the side of yon Cisalpine slope; / The homestead with the spreading pine for cope, / The thatched roof covers but a single stage.

1927, José-Maria de Heredia, “Villula”, in Merle St. Croix Wright, transl., Translations from José-Maria de Heredia, New York, N.Y.: Harold Vinal, →OCLC, page 49:

The antiquarian [Marcus Terentius] Varro, quoting Cato [the Elder], says that the Insubres grew pigs so fat that they could barely stand, and both Polybius and Strabo say that Cisalpine pork fed all Italy. Strabo further says […] that the viticulture there was so prosperous that Cisalpine wine casks were as big as houses.

2018, Carolynn E[lizabeth] Roncaglia, “The Roman Conquest”, in Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, Part I (The Creation of Northern Italy), page 23:

Alternative letter-case form of cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located)”)


Cisalpine

Synonym of Gallican (“an adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism”)

Gallican

Some of the Cisalpines carried their opposition to the monastic orders so far as to be very unfriendly to the French émigrées nuns, for whose expulsion from England Sir J. Mildmay introduced a Bill in 1800.

1897, Wilfrid Ward, The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 203, note 1:

But the Cisalpines began to be overshadowed by the ultramontane spirit in the 1830s, and it was not until after the Second Vatican Council a hundred and thirty years later that English Roman Catholics again asked themselves whether they were primarily English or primarily Roman.

1992, D[enis] G. Paz, Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England, →ISBN, page 83:

Just as with the Blackloists and Jansenists (and perhaps even more so), suspicion of the supernatural came to characterize the Cisalpines, although this time it had little to do with their doctrine of grace and more to do with the Cisalpines’ desire to make Catholicism comprehensible to a sceptical age.

2013, Francis Young, English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829, →ISBN:

(UK) In 18th–19th century Britain, a Roman Catholic opponent of ultramontanism and advocate of Catholic emancipation through compromise and obedience to secular authorities.


pardonmonger

pardonmongers (plural)
pardon-monger (alternative)
pardon monger (alternative)

I read of Tecelius, the Popes pardonmonger in Germany, that having by sale of indulgences scraped together a huge masse of money and returning for Rome, he was met and eased of his cash by an odde fellow; who being afterwards prosecuted for a felon, produced a pardon for future sinnes granted him by Tecelius himself, and being thereupon acquitted by the Judge, he roasted that which that other old fox had taken in hunting.

1650, John Trapp, Solomonis Παναρετος: or, A Commentarie upon the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs […], page 126:

Some of the bones were probably not even human, for Chaucer had the hardihood to represent the pardonmonger as carrying about with him a “pilwebere,” which he called our Lady’s veil, a cross of tin set full of stones, and pig’s bones in a glass; […]

1862, C. S. Carey, Lectures on the History of English Christianity, volume 1, The Roman Catholic Church in England, page 22:

For a certain nobleman having bought such an indulgence for thirty dollars, laid wait for the agent of the Pope as he passed between Jütterbock and Trebbin, deprived him of all his money, and stripped and beat him, alleging the plenary indulgence as freeing him from the consequences of his crime. In vain the unfortunate pardon-monger appealed to the Duke George of Saxony, who heard the story, and rather sympathized with the inflicter of the punishment than with his victim.

1883, Robert Charles Jenkins, Romanism: A Doctrinal and Historical Examination of the Creed of Pope Pius IV, page 237:

The first part is the tale of the temptation of King Humanity by Dame Sensuality; the second is the cheating of a poor man by a Roman Pardonmonger selling indulgences and absolutions; […]

1890, Aeneas James George Mackay, A Sketch of the History of Fife and Kinross: A Study in Scottish History and Character, page 42:

(Christianity, archaic, derogatory) A seller of (papal) indulgences.


rubricism

[…] finally both were wedded to an extreme high-church theory of discipline and doctrine, John Wesley being quite as far gone in this respect in 1735 as Newman himself was in 1835,—and indeed carrying his rigid rubricism and his asceticism very much farther than the Tractarians at any time carried theirs […]

1864 October, “Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume 23, number 45, page 148:

Theodor Klauser, author of perhaps the most widely read general account of the project, did not help matters when he described the liturgy of the period from Trent to St Pius X (Pope, 1903–14) in terms of rigid unification […] and rubricism.

1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 19:

The earlier rubricism and strict observance of the laws governing valid liturgical celebration, were considered stultifying and obsolete by the Council Fathers.

2000, David Torevell, Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform, →ISBN, page 148:

(Christianity, derogatory) A pedantic or scrupulous emphasis on following rubrics, that is, written directions and regulations, in celebrating the liturgy.


TLM

TLM (countable and uncountable, plural TLMs)

Traditional Latin Mass
Traditional Latin Mass#English

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Traditional Latin Mass.


Traditional Latin Mass

the Traditional Latin Mass (canonical)
TLM (alternative initialism)

Then, on July 7, 2007, Benedict XVI promulgated his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, generally liberating the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.

2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) The form of the Roman Rite Mass that was general before the Second Vatican Council, celebrated in the Latin language and now typically according to texts promulgated in 1962 (the Extraordinary Form).


Traditional Latin Mass

Traditional Latin Mass (plural Traditional Latin Masses)

Traditional Latin Masses (plural)
TLM (alternative initialism)

In one case, in August 2022, one particular Chicago parish which typically celebrated Traditional Latin Masses, stated that they would suspend all public Masses because they would not adhere to Pope Francis’s new guidelines on the subject.

2023, John Trigilio et al., Catholicism All-in-One for Dummies, →ISBN, page 283:

(Roman Catholicism) A Mass celebrated in this form.


Savonarolist

(Christianity, historical) A follower of Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), ascetic Italian Dominican friar.


Savonarolism

(Christianity, historical) Religious support for Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), ascetic Italian Dominican friar.


Seekerism

(historical, Christianity) The religion of the Seekers.


Simeonism

(Christianity) The beliefs of the Simeonites, followers of the Cambridge evangelical preacher Charles Simeon (1759-1836).


Simonianism

(Christianity) The beliefs of the Simonians.


Paccanarist

Named after the congregation's founder, Niccolò Paccanari.

(Christianity, historical) A member of the Society of the Faith of Jesus.


Counter-Reformer

Counter-Reformers (plural)
counterreformer (alternative)
Counterreformer (alternative)
counter-reformer (alternative)

From Counter- + Reform + -er or Counter- + Reformer.

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A proponent of the Counter-Reformation.


Pasagian

(Christianity, historical) A member of a religious sect that appeared in Lombardy in the late 12th or early 13th century, and considered Christ the highest created being and a demiurge by whom all other creatures were brought into being.


paternosterer

Learned borrowing from Middle English paternostrer, equivalent to paternoster + -er.

lbor

(Christianity, historical) A maker of rosary beads.


crusade bull

crusade bulls (plural)
Bull of the Crusade (alternative)

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A papal bull providing indulgences, dispensations from certain religious obligations, and absolution from certain ecclesiastical censures for the participants in a crusade, including those making donations for the cause.

bulle de la sainte croisade

bull providing indulgences, etc., for participants in a crusade


adoptionistic

en-adj

adoptionistic (comparative more adoptionistic, superlative most adoptionistic)

more adoptionistic (comparative)
most adoptionistic (superlative)


infancy gospel

(Christianity) One of a genre of early apocryphal gospels narrating the childhood of Jesus.


transubstantiative

(Christianity) Of or relating to transubstantiation.