purging place

Originally as a calque or translation of various Latin or Spanish terms.

Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?

1603, Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame, l. 262:

A place where purging occurs, particularly:

(Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.


Purgatory

(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.


Octoechos

From Ancient Greek Ὀκτώηχος (Oktṓēkhos).

(Christianity) A liturgical book containing a repertoire of hymns ordered in eight parts according to the eight echoi (tones or modes), used in many rites of Eastern Christianity.


stavrotheotokion

From Ancient Greek σταυροθεοτοκίων (staurotheotokíōn).

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σταυροθεοτοκίων

(Christianity) A hymn to Mary, the Theotokos, that refers to the crucifixion of Christ.


ektenia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκτένεια (ekténeia).

bor+

ectene (alternative)
ectenia (alternative)
ektene (alternative)
ektenes (alternative)

(Christianity) A litany in the Byzantine Rite.


typikon

(Christianity) A liturgical book containing instructions about the order of the Byzantine Rite office and variable hymns of the Divine Liturgy.


lampadarius

From Latin lampadārius, from lampada, from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “candle”).

(Christianity) The leader of the second (left) choir of singers in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.


lampadarios

(Christianity) Alternative form of lampadarius


protopsaltis

protopsaltai (plural)
Protopsaltis (alternative)

For the transliteration of the Oriental characters into European notation the musical world is indebted to the care and ability of Mr. Evstratios Pappadopoulos, Protopsaltis of the Church of the Panaghia in Stavrodromion, Pera, Constantinople.

1889, “Byzantine ecclesiastial music”, in The Scottish Review, volume 14, page 279:

In his letter to the parish board, Nikolaos's father complained about the Protopsaltis of the church, who first decreased the salary of his son and then dismissed him from the choir.

2015, Merih Erol, Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform:

The protopsaltai, the domestikoi, and the anagnostai who, according to an old custom, were called kraktai in these festivities and celebrations, stand on platforms made of wood that have been erected on both sides of the nave for this purpose and chant some hymns composed for and suited to these kinds of occasions.

2016, Ruth Macrides, Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies:

(Christianity) The cantor in charge of the music for a service of the Byzantine Rite.


prokeimenon

prokeimena (plural)
prokimenon (alternative)

Ancient Greek προκείμενον (prokeímenon).

(Christianity) In the liturgical practice of the Orthodox Church and Byzantine Rite, a psalm or canticle refrain sung responsorially at certain points of the Divine Liturgy or the Divine Office, usually to introduce a scripture reading.


koukoulion

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

(Christianity) A traditional headdress worn by monks of the highest degree in the Eastern Orthodox Church.


oikos

(Christianity) Synonym of kontakion (hymn or poem recited as a dialogue)


akathist

akathists (plural)
acathist (alternative)
Akathist (alternative)
Acathistos (alternative)
Akathistos (alternative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ακάθιστος (akáthistos, “unseated, standing”). Attested in the 1850s (as Akathist and Akathistos), after slightly earlier (1830s) German usage.

(Christianity) A hymn dedicated to a saint, holy event, or person of the Holy Trinity, in Eastern Christian traditions.


irmologion

irmologia (plural)
heirmologion (alternative)
hirmologion (alternative)

From Ancient Greek εἱρμολόγιον (heirmológion).

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Although an Irmologion, as its name suggests, is essentially a collection of irmosy or the nine hymns sung during Matins, the earlier Belorussian Irmologia contain in addition all manner of chants from the Holy Liturgy, Vespers and Matins, Festival and Holy Week services, […]

1993, B. Gasparov, Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages, volume 1, page 331:

(Christianity) A liturgical book containing irmoi for the various canons chanted during the morning service.


idiomelon

(Christianity) A type of sticheron found in the liturgical books used in Orthodox Christianity.


automelon

From Ancient Greek αὐτόμελον (autómelon).

(Christianity) A composition used in Orthodox Christianity to create other hymns, following its melody and rhythm.


Pentecostarion

Ancient Greek Πεντηκοστάριον (Pentēkostárion)

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Πεντηκοστάριον

(Christianity) A liturgical book for the Paschal season, used by the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite.


Bright Week

(Christianity) Among Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches, the period of seven days starting from Easter, during which Christ's resurrection is celebrated.


synaxarion

synaxaria (plural)
synaxarium (alternative)

Ancient Greek συναξάριον (sunaxárion), from συνάγειν (sunágein, “to bring together”).

(Christianity) A compilation of hagiographies in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.


boat bearer

(Christianity) A junior altar server in Catholic and Anglican churches, an assistant to the thurifer.


nunc stans

Borrowed from Latin nunc (“now”) + stāns (“staying, remaining”).

But they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, a nunc-stans, as the schools call it; which neither they nor any else understand, no more than they would a hic-stans for an infinite greatness of place.

In other words, at the point where the infinite past and the infinite future collide into the present of a nunc stans they spark into existence, as it were, the mental phenomenon of a timeless present which overcomes all ordinary time constructions.

2009, Patricia Bowen-Moore, Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality:

In its radical transcendence of all finite states the subject enters into the space of a nunc stans, in the face of which all temporality becomes an unreal appearance.

2005, Robert Spaemann, Happiness and Benevolence:

(Christianity, philosophy) Eternal existence as an attribute of God.


patriology

From Ancient Greek πατέρας (patéras, “father”) + -logy.

(Christianity, theology) A discipline of Christian theology, involving the study of God the Father as revealed in Scripture.


spermatophagy

It should then come as no surprise that, prior to his revelations on spermatophagy, Le Clément could have been a very prominent figure on both. At the same time, the idea of spermatophagy, wherever it was coming from, was as radical departure from the kind of arguments advanced in those circles, and, but for a few interesting exceptions, led to a general condemnation of Le Clément and the end of his personal career as a public figure. It just went too far.

2010, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism:

Let us pause for a moment and summarize this ritual in less outraged tones: we note the practice of owning their women in total community; agapes or orgies during which transient couples make love indiscriminately (it goes without saying that no sentimental choice is involved in these acts which are, let us repeat, conceived of as an ascetic discipline); the practice of coitus interruptus to avoid impregnation and in order to collect the sperm; finally, the consecration of the sperm which is transsubstantiated into the body of Christ and the Eucharist, in other words, spermatophagy.

There are no Borborians there, no obvious instances of spermatophagy; instead we have a tragic Sophia related directly to the struggle of the soul in the world.

2015, Tobias Churton, Gnostic Mysteries of Sex: Sophia the Wild One and Erotic Christianity:

(Christianity) The idea promulgated by Georges Le Clément de Saint-Marcq that the Eucharist involved the consumption of sperm.


greyfriar

greyfriars (plural)
grey friar (alternative)
grayfriar (alternative)
gray friar (alternative)
Greyfriar (alternative)
Grey Friar (alternative)
Grayfriar (alternative)
Gray Friar (alternative)

From grey + friar, from the grey habit worn by the Conventual Franciscans.

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


soulishly

en-adv

soulishly (comparative more soulishly, superlative most soulishly)

more soulishly (comparative)
most soulishly (superlative)


moaner's bench

(Christianity) A bench in a church for people who regard themselves as sinners and are waiting for the Holy Spirit to enter them.


staurolatry

(Christianity) idolatrous worship of the cross or crucifix


Western Christian

Western Christianity
Western Christianity

(religion, Christianity) Of or pertaining to Western Christianity.


Western Christian

en-noun

Western Christian (plural Western Christians)

Yet there is inadequate understanding among Western Christians of their own native cultural context.

2001, Paul Spickard, Kevin M. Cragg, Gordon William Carlson, A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World, page 343:

Theological squabbles had begun to affect denominational mission boards by the early 1920s, but among advocates of missions to Muslims, older models assuring Western Christians of Islam's eventual collapse remained dominant.

2009, Thomas S. Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism, page 75:

To the east of Christendom lay another Christian society, one that Western Christians regarded as heretical. The Orthodox, sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox, Church did not recognize the authority of the pope, as Western Christians did.

2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, unnumbered page:

(religion, Christianity) An adherent of any form of Western Christianity; a member of a society based on Western Christianity.


Didache

From Ancient Greek διδαχή (didakhḗ, “teaching”).

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Ever since its first publication at the end of the nineteenth century, Didache has attracted scholars because of its—in many ways—unique form and content.

2008, Jürgen Zangenberg, “Reconstructing the social and religious milieu of the Didache: observations and possible results”, in Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt, Jürgen Zangenberg, editors, Matthew, James, and Didache: Three Related Documents in their Jewish and Christian Settings, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 44:

(Christianity) An early Christian treatise, written in the first or second century AD. and published in the 19th century.


sword drill

The Bible has often been referred to as the Christian's "sword".

(Christianity) A competitive exercise in which children are given the name and number of a Bible verse and race to be the first to locate it in the book


presanctified

(Christianity) Sanctified in advance: applied to the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, a liturgical service of the Byzantine Rite, performed on the weekdays of Great Lent wherein communion is received from Gifts (the Body and Blood of Christ) that are consecrated in advance.


Keilah

(Christianity) An ancient city in the lowlands of Judah, mentioned in the Bible. David rescued it from the attack of the Philistines (1 Samuel 23:1-8) but the inhabitants sought to deliver him up to Saul (23:12).


S.J.

SJ (alternative)
S. J. (alternative)
SI (alternative)
S.I. (alternative)
S. I. (alternative)
SJ (alternative)
S. J. (alternative)

Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus#English

(Roman Catholicism) Abbreviation of Society of Jesus. (the Jesuits)


trination

(Catholicism) In the Catholic Church, the offering up of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass three times on the same day by the same celebrant.


bination

en-noun

bination (countable and uncountable, plural binations)

(Catholicism) In the Catholic Church, the offering up of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass twice on the same day by the same celebrant.


Wormwood

en-proper noun

Wormwood (countable and uncountable, plural Wormwoods)

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 8:10–11:

(Christianity) A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and poisonous.


Afro-Baptist

(Christianity) A member of a black Baptist Christian movement.


vicar forane

Borrowed from Latin vicārius forāneus. See forane.

(Roman Catholicism) A priest entrusted by the bishop with a certain degree of leadership in a territorial division of a diocese or a pastoral region.


soulwinning

From soul + winning, in allusion to Proverbs 11:30: "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise."


soulwinner

From soul + winner, modelled on soulwinning.


patriarchal church

en-noun

patriarchal church (plural patriarchal churches)

(Christianity) A church serving as the seat of a patriarch.

(Roman Catholicism) A church in Rome that previously served as the seat for one of the 5 patriarchs during visits to the city, St John Lateran, St Peter’s, St Paul’s outside the Walls, St Mary Major’s, and St Lawrence’s outside the Walls.


semper virgo

From Latin semper virgo (“ever virgin”).

(Christianity, of Saint Mary) Perpetual virgin. (Refers to the belief that Saint Mary remained a virgin her whole life.)


SDAer

Seventh-day Adventist
Seventh-day Adventist#English

(Internet slang, Christianity) A Seventh-day Adventist.


Hussitism

(Christianity, historical) A religious reform and nationalistic movement of the Bohemian Reformation, based on the teachings of Jan Hus.

husitství

religious reform movement of the Bohemian Reformation


author of life

ôʹthərəvlīfʹ

/ˈɔːθəɹəvˈlaɪf/

Calque of Late Latin auctor vītae (literally “the originator or cause of life”): “life” understood to mean existence simpliciter in the case of God the Father, and to mean the salvation of eternal life in the case of God the Son.

(Christianity) An epithet of God and of Jesus.


Canon

* As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon.
* As a French topographical surname, from placenames derived from canne (“reed, cane, tube”).
* As a Chaldean/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic surname, variant of Kanon, Kanoun, from [script needed] (Kānūn), the Classical Syriac name of the ninth and tenth months of the Assyrian calendar, from ܟܢܘܢ ܒ.

(Roman Catholicism, with definite article) The Canon of the Mass.


Canon

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of canon: a member of a chapter.

Canon Smith is our new parish priest.


Resurrection

en:resurrection of Jesus Christ, in Christianity

(Christianity) The resurrection of Jesus Christ.


Whit Monday

Contraction of white Monday; compare Whitsunday

(Christianity) The Monday that immediately follows Pentecost; the second day of Whitsuntide.


KJO

King James Only
w:King James Only movement

(Christianity) Initialism of King James Only.


Jesuism

A sentiment this, which is as far from a weak Arminianism as it is opposite to a wicked Antinomianism, and which may strictly be denominated pure Jesuism.

1794, John Rippon, The Baptist annual register; including sketches of the state of religion among different denominations of good men at home and abroad, volume 2:

The Jesuism which makes Jesus an object of religious faith is pseudo-Christian. That Jesuism which makes Jesus very God, has some claims to be considered religion. But that which makes him, as Dr. Clarke's does, a mere "perfect specimen of a man," is no religion at all; it is mere hero-worship.

1870 November 17, “Dr. J. F. Clarke against theism”, in The Examiner, volume 1, number 1:

The religion of the Christians has for good reasons been called, not Jesuism after the name of Jesus, but Christianity after Christ, the ideal of humanity, which is not an individual being but a superpersonal presence, not a man who lived and died at a certain time, but like the Platonic ideas, an eternal type, the prototype of the highest ideal of manhood.

1909, Paul Carus, “Christianity as the pleroma”, in The Open Court, volume 23, page 424:

(Christianity) The teachings or worship of Jesus, as opposed to Christianity as a whole.


son of God

Coordinate term: daughter of God

for you are the sons and daughters of God

(Judaism, Christianity, sometimes capitalised) A man who is beloved of God; a righteous man.


St. Francis

Saint Francis (alternative)
Saint-Francis (alternative)
St-Francis (alternative)
St.-Francis (alternative)
St Francis (alternative)

St. Francis be my ſpeed, how oft to night / Haue my old feet ſtumbled at graues?

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 76:

(Roman Catholicism) Saint Francis of Assisi

Any of several saints
Saint Francis of Assisi


paraliturgical

(Christianity) Not part of the official liturgical canon


delatinization

(Christianity) Changes in the Catholic liturgy that move away from the Roman Rite.


minoress

The chronicler Charles Wriothesley is the sole authority for the marriage of one Mistress Bures, a minoress of some 16 years standing, to the quondam abbot of Walden, Essex in 1538.

1992, Catherine Paxton, The Nunneries of London and Its Environs in the Later Middle Ages, page 302:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minoress: a Poor Clare.


bi-ritual

(of a priest) Able to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and administer the sacraments of two different sui iuris churches.

Unless he has bi-ritual faculties, the Latin priest must baptize and confirm the Eastern rite person, whether infant or adult, according to the liturgical books of the Latin church ( canon 846 , §2 ).

1994, John M. Huels, The Catechumenate and the Law, page 41:

(of a faculty or authority to celebrate a rite) Applying to the rituals of two different churches.


Panakhyda

Notwithstanding the personal or national mourning, the Panakhyda represents, and will remain for long, a kind of national religious Universal.

198, Manoly R. Lupul, Visible Symbols: Cultural Expression Among Canada's Ukrainians:

(Christianity) A solemn liturgical service for the repose of the departed in Eastern Christendom.


idiorrhythmic

en-adj

idiorrhythmic (comparative more idiorrhythmic, superlative most idiorrhythmic)

more idiorrhythmic (comparative)
most idiorrhythmic (superlative)
idiorhythmic (alternative)

From ἴδιος (ídios, “own, personal, distinct”) + ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “rule, measure, rhythm”).

St. Stergos was an idiorrhythmic monk.

(Christianity) self-regulating; usually referring to an Eastern form of monastic life where monks live alone, often in isolation, constantly in mental prayer.


hieromartyr

(Christianity) A martyr in the Eastern Church who was a bishop or priest


Judica

Borrowed from Latin judica, from the opening words of the introit: "Judica me, Deus."


Jubilate

So called because the church service began on that day with the 66th Psalm, "Jubilate Deo".

(Christianity) The third Sunday after Easter.


Nestorianist

(Christianity) Of or relating to the Nestorians.


Twelfth Day

From the fact that Epiphany is the twelfth day after Christmas Day.

A Sermon preached by Maiſter Hugh Latimer on Tvvelfth day, at Grimſtrope. Anno. 1553.

1607, Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon Preached by Maister Hugh Latimer on Tvvelfth Day, at Grimstrope. Anno. 1553.”, in Fruitfull Sermons Preached by the Right Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ, M. Hvgh Latimer, Newly Imprinted with Others not heeretofore set forth in Print, to the Edefying of All which will Dispose Themselues to the Reading of the Same. Seene and Allowed according to the Order Appointed in the Kings Maiestes Iniunctions, London: Printed [by William Jaggard] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, chapter title, page 290:

A Preſbyter of the Church of England has long officiated in a Meeting Houſe of this ſeceding deſcription, in London; but that is not all, he ordains too: […] But I would ſay both to the ordainer and the ordained, by what authority doſt thou theſe things, and who gave thee this authorty? […] [A]s to any legality to be derived from ſuch pretended orders, without the permiſſion I have alluded to, thoſe who draw Kings and Queens over a twelfth-day cake, have as good claims to the Crown of England!

1799, Edward Barry, The Friendly Call of Truth and Reason to a New Species of Dissenters, Reading, Berkshire: Printed for the author, and sold by Elmsley & Bremner, in the Strand, London; Smart & Cowslade, Reading, & all other booksellers, →OCLC, footnote, pages 12–13:

The Epiphany is called Twelfth Day, because it falls on the twelfth day after Christmas Day. Epiphany signifies Manifestation, and is applied to this day because it is the day whereon Christ was manifested to the Gentiles.

1828, William Pulleyn, “Section X. Eras, Months, Weeks, Days, &c.”, in The Etymological Compendium, or Portfolio of Origins and Inventions; …, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside; Glasgow: R. Griffin and Co.; Dublin: J. Cumming, →OCLC, page 185:

It is indeed remarkable that the twelfth day nearly coincides in the time of the year with the Saturnalia; and Fosbrooke even finds that the king of the Saturnalia was elected, like the king of the twelfth night, by a bean. […] As all the various customs of different countries on this day concur in the common object of commemorating the visit of the three wise men, or kings, to the birthplace of Christ, a king is in some way or other always a conspicuous personage in the entertainments which take place. In France, previously to the revolution, this mode of celebrating twelfth day prevailed as well at court as among the people in general. At the former, one of the nobles was chosen king, and at the entertainment which followed, the twelfth-day monarch was attended by the king and courtiers.

1847, Robert Sears, “France”, in Scenes and Sketches in Continental Europe: Embracing Descriptions of France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland, together with Interesting Notices of Their Principal Cities and Towns. Carefully Prepared from the Best and Latest Sources, New York, N.Y.: Published by Robert Sears, 128 Nassau Street; J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, →OCLC, page 38:

[W]e fell into a discussion upon the merits of those family meetings which this season brought with it; and it was agreed that the celebration of Christmas, of New Year's and Twelfth-days, the birthday and saint's day of the head of the family, and other festivals, were favourable to the maintenance of domestic harmony, and were therefore worthy of being preserved.

1855, Duchess D'Abrantes (Madame Junot), chapter LXXVII, in Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family. … In Two Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, →OCLC, page 533:

[…] Epiphany is a Christian feast, also known as Twelfth Day, as it is the twelfth day after Christmas. Traditionally, this coincides with the visit of the Magi. The day is marked by feasting and celebration.

2008, Susan Wiggs, “Epiphany”, in Snowfall at Willow Lake (The Lakeshore Chronicles; 4), Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, →ISBN:

(Christianity) Synonym of Epiphany (“an annual Christian feast on the twelfth day after Christmas Day (6 January) celebrating the appearance of Jesus Christ to the Magi”).


Pornocracy

Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century. This epoch deserves to be designated under the title of the Pornocracy; that is to say, the governmentof prostitutes, for Theodora, Marozia, and other ladies of rank at that time, placed on the pontifical throne their paramours and their sons, who were no better than themselves.

1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Art. VII.—Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility. The Council and Infallibility: An Address Delivered at Geneva, 10th December 1869, by M. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D. Paris: Michel Levy, 1870.”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) Alternative letter-case form of pornocracy.


love the sinner, hate the sin

hate the sin but love the sinner (alternative)
love the sinner but hate the sin (alternative)

(chiefly Christianity) Do not treat people badly because of their faults, but do not go so far as to accept or approve the faults themselves.


syneisaktism

From Ancient Greek συνείσακτος (suneísaktos, “(adjective) introduced together; (noun) participant in syneisaktism”), from συνεισάγω (suneiságō, “to bring in together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + εἰσάγω (eiságō, “to bring in, introduce”).

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Elizabeth Clark argues cogently that syneisaktism provided a couple with a rare opportunity for friendship between the sexes.[…]John Chrysostom, for example, who wrote two treatises against syneisaktism, was also a powerful advocate for female virginity, which he occasionally presented as a means of escaping Eve's curse of subordination.

1993, Dyan Elliott, Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock, Princeton University Press, page 34:

John Chrysostom (d. 407) wrote two treatises on the practice of syneisaktism - spiritual marriage between male and female ascetics - which was popular and widespread after the second century. Some assert that it represented the solution to a practical problem; since few convents were available until the fifth century, syneisaktism gave female ascetics a place to live without going off into the desert.

1998, Kenneth B. Steinhauser, “The Aesthetics of Paradise: Images of Women in Christian Antiquity”, in Joseph Martos, Pierre Hégy, editors, Equal at the Creation: Sexism, Society, and Christian Thought, University of Toronto Press, page 55:

Some have read in this text the possibility of a form of syneisaktism, or “spiritual marriage,” which would have involved living together but would not have involved sexual activity. Paul clearly separates syneisaktism from getting married, which is why I am naming it here as a form of cohabitation.

2017, Jana Marguerite Bennett, Singleness and the Church: A New Theology of the Single Life, Oxford University Press, page 211:

(historical, religion, Christianity) The practice, from early Christian until mediaeval times, of a man and woman living together in a non-legalised relationship while observing vows of chastity.

spiritual marriage

practice of non-legalised chaste relationship


Tertullianist

2007, William Tabbernee, Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, Koninklijke Brill (Brill), page 268,
Even Augustine's contact with the Tertullianists appears to have been slight. Could Augustine's assessment of the Tertullianists, therefore, have been inaccurate?

Christian learning must accordingly be Tertullianist learning. Tertullianist as well as Clementine — Clementine as well as Tertullianist.

2009, Nicholas Wolterstorff, edited by Terence Cuneo, Inquiring about God: Selected Essays, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, page 303:

Augustine's indication that Tertullian himself founded the Tertullianists as a splinter group from the Carthaginian Montanists is unlikely. It is possible that the term ‘Tertullianist’ was a synonym for African Montanists, or that the Tertullianists were a sect within Carthaginian Montanism, or even that the Tertullianists did not identify themselves as Montanists at all.

2017, Julian Barr, Tertullian and the Unborn Child: Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 8:

(historical, religion, Christianity) An adherent of the teachings of early Christian theologian Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c.155-c.240 CE).


rural dean

(Christianity) A dean who, under the bishop, has the special care and inspection of the clergy in certain parishes.


Fifth Monarchist

en-noun

Fifth Monarchist (plural Fifth Monarchists)

In reference to a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that four ancient monarchies (Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman) would precede the kingdom of Christ.

(historical, Christianity) A member of an extreme Puritan sect active from 1649 to 1660.


eradicationism

From eradication + -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.

The root error of eradicationism of the flesh has room to grow only in the false conception of "flesh," as a mere tendency to evil quite apart from the natural body.

1901 October, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, “Biblical Notes and Queries”, in Record of Christian Work, volume 20, page 832:

(Protestantism, derogatory) Strict holiness; a radical, Wesleyan holiness teaching that considers that sin is or will be completely eliminated from true believers (originally used only by opponents)


cathisma

cathisma (plural cathismata or cathismas)

From Ancient Greek κάθισμα (káthisma, “sitting down”).

der

(Christianity) A portion of the psalter; a troparion or short hymn used as a response.


mixed chalice

(Christianity) The chalice prepared for the Eucharist, containing wine mixed with water.


apocalyptic number

en-noun

apocalyptic number (plural apocalyptic numbers)


Keswickian

en-adj

Keswickian (comparative more Keswickian, superlative most Keswickian)

more Keswickian (comparative)
most Keswickian (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or relating to the Keswick Convention.


Keswickian

(Christianity) One who supports the principles of the Keswick Convention.


Keswickism

(Protestantism, derogatory) The religious practices associated with the Keswick Convention, in particular the holiness doctrine that also asserts that full perfection in human life is prevented by sin.


baptism of blood

en-noun

baptism of blood (countable and uncountable, plural baptisms of blood)


nipter

From Ancient Greek νιπτήρ (niptḗr, “basin”).

(Christianity) The ecclesiastical ceremony of washing the feet; maundy.


work of necessity

work of necessity (countable and uncountable, plural works of necessity)

(Christianity, Judaism) Work that is sufficiently important to be done on the Sabbath, despite the usual prohibitions against working on that day.


Petrinism

(Christianity) The Tübingen theory of F. C. Baur (1792-1860) and his school, of a doctrinal trend in primitive Christianity towards Judaism, ascribed to Peter and his party in opposition to Paulinism.


limitarianism

(Christianity) The doctrine that Christ's atonement applies only to the elect.


Huntingdonian

(Christianity) A member of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, a small society of evangelical churches, founded in 1783 by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, as a result of the Evangelical Revival.


cage stage

But after God has initially brought believers into an understanding of the preciousness of sovereign election, they frequently enter what a friend of mine called the “cage” stage—the time when the newly-convinced “Calvinist” ought to be locked into a cage and not let out until he stabilizes, or the medication kicks in. […] But unfortunately, there are some who never grow out of the cage stage, and this type of personality often thinks he is called to the ministry.

2001, Douglas Wilson, “A Deeper Right”, in Mother Kirk: Essays on Church Life, →ISBN, page 88:

The year between college and seminary was my prime Cage Stage. Everyone would have been better off—myself included—had I been locked away for at least a few months during that time. […] During this time I was so excited about the five points of Calvinism that I actually wrote a letter to a friend containing this line: “I'm concerned about you. If you will not submit to God's clear declaration about how he saves sinners, how can you ever expect to get one other thing in your life right?”

I went through my own cage stage in my early twenties. I was introduced to the beautiful truths of God's sovereignty in my salvation, of justification by faith alone, and the priority of sanctification—of growing to be more like Christ in my words and deeds.

(Christianity, humorous) A period of religious zeal following a religious conversion, often perceived as arrogant.


Lychnapsia

(Christianity) A series of seven prayers in the vespers of the Greek Church.


benitier

From French bénitier, from Latin benedictarium, benedictus.

(Christianity) The vase or vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.


churchical

en-adj

churchical (comparative more churchical, superlative most churchical)

more churchical (comparative)
most churchical (superlative)

/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃɪk(ə)l/

/ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃɪk(ə)l/

When I rode through the streets of your giant-like town (applause), and when I saw the many churches which heave their towers up stairs (cheers), I thought, the English are a very churchical people (loud cheers). I therefore wonder not that you also are an educational people, for religion is the mother of education, and where there are many churches, there we may expect that there are also many schools.

[1863, “A Dutchman’s Difficulties with the English Language, as Experienced by Mynheer Steven van Brammelendam”, in Donald McLeod, editor, Good Words, volume IV, London: Alexander Strahan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 873:

First of all, very many ages long the churchical dogmas taught that experiencing lust would bs a sin and sexual intercourse was only tolerated when the aim would be propagation.

1982, Darshana International: An International Quarterly of Philosophy, Psychology, Psychical Research, Religion, Mysticism & Sociology, volume 22, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India: J. P. Atreya, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67:

Kate and Max glanced at each other and grinned before Kate answered, “Oh I'm sure Dawn might want to go. But I don't know about Christina, she has a busy social life. She may have something churchical going on." / "Churchical?" frowned Thomas. / "You know, something to do with the church. She heads the youth team and is in the choir, as well as being an altar server and she even teaches grade 2 Sunday school."

2015 February 9, B. C. Stewart, Deep Waters, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN:

[S]he put the bow [of the double bass] away and went back to playing pizzicato, plucking the strings with chill serenity, ritual aplomb. She stood with her back straight, addressing the strings with a churchical assurance, churchical rectitude, as patient a fingerwalk as there ever was.

2017, Nathaniel Mackey, Late Arcade, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN:

(Christianity, informal) Pertaining to or characteristic of church; ecclesiastical.


minor canon

(Christianity) A cleric in orders, attached to a cathedral and having the duty of assisting the canons in singing divine service.


Liguorian

(Christianity) A member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer founded by Alphonsus Liguori.


resourcement

If this strategy of resourcement is a call for the American Church to become more deeply Catholic than it has perhaps even been, it should be clear that it is a call to become a very different kind of Catholic than prevailed in the pre-Vatican II Church.

1982 -, John Aloysius Coleman, An American strategic theology, →ISBN, page 165:

Insofar as these norms require modifications of the ideals and social goals that Catholicism aspired to in the long period from Constantine to Napoleon, they can be seen as encouraging either a progressive development of doctrine in social matters or a resourcement in which the church returns to patterns of organization and social aspiration which were appropriate to its early formative experiences as a minority group more concerned to survive hostility and contempt than to mold society.

1990, R. Bruce Douglass, Gerald M. Mara, Henry S. Richardson, Liberalism and the good, page 113:

After the Second World War there was, on the one hand, the movement striving for what was called resourcement, a return to the sources. Typically, it was not the Bible but the Church Fathers that were considered to embody the true and living source of theology, and, what was more, the true way of understanding the position of the theologian.

2010, Lieven Boeve, Frederiek Depoortere, Stephan van Erp, Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology, →ISBN, page 247:

In Roman Catholic circles, Henri de Lubac powerfully and controversially championed a resourcement of theology, looking beyond the manuals and commentaries authoritative in his day to the still living voice of the Fathers and great Scholastics.

2014, Steven D. Cone, An Ocean Vast of Blessing: A Theology of Grace, →ISBN, page x:

(Catholicism) A theological movement involving a return to the original sources of the Catholic church.


subpanation

(Christianity) The doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are locally and materially present in the Eucharist under the form of bread and wine.


Ecclesiast

(Christianity) The author of Ecclesiastes, traditionally considered to be King Solomon.


trinitarian formula

(religion, Christianity) The phrase "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit", or words to that form and effect, referring to the three persons of the Christian Trinity.


komboskini

From Greek κομποσκοίνι (komposkoíni, “prayer rope”).

bor

(Christianity) A rope of usually 33, 50 or 100 knots, used in meditative prayer in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, to count one's recitations of the Jesus Prayer.


scripture cake

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

(US, Christianity, cooking) A cake whose recipe references lines from the King James Bible as ingredients in encoded form, where the ingredient is a noun found in that verse. The recipe is used to induce biblical learning and rote memorization of this particular edition of the Bible.


Sunday obligation

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) the obligation to attend a church service (mass) on Sundays; failing to fulfil this obligation without excuse constitutes a grave sin


Church Father

Church Fathers (plural)
church father (alternative)

/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ fɑːðə(ɹ)/

/ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ fɑ.ðɚ/

(Christianity) One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.

kerkvader

authoritative ancient male Christian author


amillennial

(Christianity) Of or relating to amillennialism.


right hand of fellowship

en-noun

right hand of fellowship (plural right hands of fellowship)

(Christianity) The right hand given by one minister or elder to another at an ordination in some churches.


Febronianism

Derived from the pseudonym Justinus Febronius adopted by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, coadjutor bishop of Trier, in publishing his book De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestae Romani pontificis; + -ism.

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A powerful movement within the Roman Catholic Church in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century, directed towards the nationalizing of Catholicism, the restriction of the power of the papacy in favour of that of the episcopate, and the reunion of the dissident churches with Catholic Christendom.


canonical obedience

(Christianity) The obedience, as regulated by the canons, of one ecclesiastic to another of higher rank.


Ember day

Ember days (plural)
ember day (alternative)

From Middle English ember-dai, imber-dai, imbre-dai (“Ember day”), from Old English ymbrendæg. Ymbren is possibly a corrupted form of Old English ymbryne (“period, revolution of time”), from ymb (“around, about”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“around, about”)) + ryne (“path along which motion occurs; course”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r ̊-nw- (“to flow, move, run”)). Alternatively, Ember could be a corruption of Latin quatuor tempora (“four periods”), from which German Quatember (“Embertide”) is derived.

der

Days of Faſting or Abſtinence. [...] The Ember-days at the four Seaſons, being the Wedneſday, Friday, and Saturday after #92;#123; the First Sunday in Lent. / The Feaſt of Pentecoſt. / September 14. / December 13.

1662, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Tables & Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts; together with the Days of Fasting and Abstinence, through the Whole Year”, in The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, […], London: […] John Bill, and Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

Saints Days, &c. [...] 9 [...] Ember-week [...] 11 [...] Ember-day [...] 12 [...] Ember-day

1715, Job Gadbury, “MARCH hath xxxi Days”, in ΈΦΗΜΕΡΙΣ [EPHEMERIS]: Or, A Diary Astronomical, Astrological, Meteorological, for the Year of Our Lord, 1715. […], London: Printed for T. W. for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC:

St. Lambard's day (Auguſt 15) the feaſt of the dedication of Ryerſh church happening frequently in the Ember days (in diebus iiiiᵐ temporum) and alſo in harveſt, the biſhop ordered that it ſhould be kept on the tranſlation of St. Martin in the ſummer, which was July 4th.

1784 May 6, Rev. Mr. Denne, “XXIX. Memoir on Hokeday.”, in Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, London: Printed by J[ohn] Nichols, printer to the Society [of Antiquaries of London]; […], published 1785, →OCLC, pages 253–254:

47. When does the third Ember day happen? On the first Wednesday after the Holy Cross. 48. When does that day happen? The Holy Cross always happens on the 14th day of September. 49. Why is that day named Holy Cross? Because that day was instituted in consequence of Queen Helena finding a piece of the Cross on Mount Calvery,^([sic – meaning Calvary]) about the year A.D. 615.

1848, Joel Spyker, “Almanack. Containing 169 Questions and Answers.”, in A Collection of Geographical, Moral, Religious, Biblical, Political and Other Chapters, in the Form of Questions and Answers, […], Brookville, Pa.: Brady & Wilson, printers, →OCLC, page 115:

The Ember-days are periodical fasts originally instituted, it is said, by Pope Calixtus, in the third century, for the purpose of imploring the blessing of Heaven on the produce of the earth; and also preparing the clergy for ordination, in imitation of the apostolic practice recorded in the 13th chapter of the Acts.

1864, “December 13”, in R[obert] Chambers, editor, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar: […] In Two Vols., volume II, Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers, →OCLC, page 687, column 2:

You must not butcher beef on an Ember day but you may cut it up.

1915, Edwin Miller Fogel, “Special Days and Seasons”, in Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Germanica Press, →OCLC, paragraph 1305, page 252:

I then drove to the Red Lion, here I met one of the fathers the first thing he said to me was, I dispense you from eating fish today (an ember day) so I got some meat soup I found the stockport bus, and drive here.

2008, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Schoolboy (1867–1876)”, in Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley, editors, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, London: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 49:

These are the Ember Days, the name derived from the German Quatember, a corruption of quattuor tempore, "the four times," four groups of three days (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday), marking the seasons by fasting and abstinence.

2013, Philip H. Pfatteicher, “Advent”, in Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 67:

(Christianity) Any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for fasting and prayer. In Western Christianity they are usually the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 September), and Saint Lucy's Day (13 December).

Suché den

any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, set aside for fasting and prayer


swoon hypothesis

(Christianity) The hypothesis that Jesus did not die on the cross, but merely lost consciousness, and thus his resurrection in the tomb was not miraculous.


sunrise service

en-noun

sunrise service (plural sunrise services)

(Christianity) A religious service on Easter practiced by some Protestant churches, usually observed in an outdoor setting.


Rogation Sunday

(Christianity) The fifth Sunday after Easter, preceding Ascension Day.


Good Shepherd

Referring to the Bible verse John 10:11.


theanthropos

theanthropoi (plural)
Theanthropos (alternative)

From Ancient Greek θεάνθρωπος (theánthrōpos) Equivalent to the- + -anthrope.

(Christianity) Christ regarded as having both a divine and human nature.


communionist

(Christianity) One who takes part in Holy Communion; a communicant.


in partibus infidelium

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin in partibus īnfidēlium (literally “in the regions of the infidels”), so named because such bishops were assigned sees corresponding to territories that had passed under the control of other religions, and so did not imply a duty of residence or diocesan responsibilities.

bor+

in partibus (alternative)
i.p.i. (alternative)

(Roman Catholicism, historical, postpositive) Of a bishop or see: merely titular, without regular jurisdiction, and serving to assist some other bishop or to act as delegates of the pope where no hierarchy had yet been established.


Star of the Sea

From Middle English sterre of þe see, a calque of Latin Stella Maris (“Polaris, the North Star; Mary, mother of Jesus”) and direct translation from the Latin and its descendants in other languages. Cf. Morning Star.

der

(Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.

Estela do Mar

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


Blessed Virgin

Calque of Latin Beato Virgo and its descendants in other languages.

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


Queen of Heaven

Calque of Latin Regina Caeli and its descendants in other languages. Cf. Our Lady.

(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role as queen of Heaven.

বেহেশ্তের রাণী

Mary, mother of Jesus, as queen of Heaven — see also Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Our Lady of Sorrows


king of kings

Attested in Middle English as king of kinges. An ancient formula which seems to have originated in a Semitic language of the Ancient Near East; see Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠𐭭 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāhān-šāh, “king of kings”) for more.

noncog

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 17:14:

The title of an individual king who has other kings as subjects; in particular:


bible society

(Christianity) an organisation which promotes, distributes and, on occasion, translates the Holy Bible.


heaven of heavens

(Christianity) The highest of the heavens, the abode and seat of God.


particular church

en-noun

particular church (plural particular churches)

(Catholicism) An ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent) as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology.


original righteousness

(Christianity) The condition of man before the Fall as made in the image of God.


holy day of obligation

holy day of obligation (plural holy days of obligation)

(Catholicism) A feast day on which the faithful are expected to attend Mass.


Lord's Table

(Christianity) The table at which the Lord's Supper is held, or on which the elements are laid.


Remonstrant

Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

(Protestantism, historical) A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group.


KINGAFAP

(Christianity) Abbreviation of king, god, almighty, father, protector: a set of terms often used to refer to God in hymns.


processionism

(Christianity) A theological subject of research, within Christian pneumatology, dealing with the procession of the Holy Spirit.


Capernaite

From Capernaum + -ite, after the town in Galilee; a reference to John, vi. 52 in the Bible.

(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) A believer in transubstantiation.


monopatrism

From Greek μόνος (only one) + Greek πατήρ (father), 'of the father only' or 'from the father only'.

(Christianity) In Christian theology, teachings that hold the Father as a singular source of a particular relation, for example: notion that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father only, as from the singular source of eternal procession.


phelonion

phelonion (plural phelonions or phelonia)

phelonions (plural)
phelonia (plural)
phaelonion (alternative)

From Ancient Greek φαιλόνιον (phailónion).

(Christianity) A liturgical vestment worn by a priest of the Eastern Christian tradition, equivalent to the chasuble of the Western tradition.


rhipidion

From Ancient Greek ῥιπίς (rhipís, “fan”).

(Christianity) In the Greek Church, the eucharistic fan or flabellum.


Latin Church

(Catholicism) One of the 24 particular churches (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church which uses the Latin liturgical rites.


se-baptist

(Christianity) A person who carries out his or her own baptism.


lychnic

Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church

(Christianity) Part of the vespers of the Greek Orthodox Church on the occasion of a vigil.


regionary

Learned borrowing from New Latin regionarius, referring to a deacon in charge of one of the seven wards of Rome, from Latin regiō + -ārius. Equivalent to region + -ary. Doublet of regionarius.

lbor

(Christianity, historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”)


holy fire

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

From Middle English holi fir, haliȝ fir, equivalent to holy + fire.

But I now leave this great and wonderful call of Moses, to the sacred historian, whose pen is dipped in holy fire, and whose words are the words of God.

1787, J. Yonge, Practical and explanatory Commentary on the Holy Bible, page 44:

When we yield to Him, this holy fire will burn away self and give us a holy, burning passion for the lost.

2007, T. L. Lowery, Walking in the Supernatural:

As with Moses, Holy Fire precedes the commission for duty. It is The Eternal Fire of Almighty God. It consumes all but is never burned out. “Our God is a consuming fire” (see Hebrews 12:29). Don't you want to be a part of this kind of uprising? It is radical. It is energized by the Holy Fire and Heat of God. It will one day fill the whole wide world!

2012, Joanne Carraway, Windows into the Third Heaven:

(religious, Christianity) Ardent devotion or enthusiasm for God or Christian ideals; Christian fervour


Docetae

(Christianity, historical) The followers of the Christian heresy of docetism.


reserved case

(Christianity) A sin that can only be absolved by the pope or his legate etc.


Peculiar People

In reference to any of several places in the Bible where "a peculiar people", a people set apart from others, is mentioned, such as Deuteronomy 14:2, 1 Peter 2:9, and Titus 2:14: for example, "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth" (Deuteronomy 14:2).

(Christianity) Any of several Christian sects who have used this biblical description as a self-appellation, as:

(historical) A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.


Quicunque

From Latin quīcunque (“whosoever”), which is its first word.


will-worship

(Christianity) Worship that is self-invented; superstitious observance without divine authority.


subordinationism

(Christianity, theology) A doctrine regarding the Trinity, holding that the Son and possibly the Holy Spirit are inferior to the Father.


subordinationist

(Christianity, theology) A believer in subordinationism.


Eisodia

From Ancient Greek εἴσοδος (eísodos, “entrance”).

bor

(Christianity) The entrance of the Virgin Mary to the Temple.


INC

The Aglipayan Church is next with 12%; while the rest of the population is divided into different Protestant sects, the INC (Iglesia Ni Cristo) and other denominations.

1987, Miguela Gonzalez Yap, The making of Cory, Cellar Book Shop:

The INC, as it’s known, is headquartered in the Philippines, where church members are accused of financial irregularities, kidnapping and even the murder of a Canadian man.

2018, “Church of Secrets”, in The Fifth Estate, CBC News, retrieved 2018-11-09:

(Philippines, Christianity) Initialism of Iglesia ni Cristo.


Breeches Bible

(Christianity) A version of the Geneva Bible, first published in 1579, that uses the word "breeches" in Genesis chapter 3 verse 7.


double feast

Uncertain; possibly because either the antiphon or the matins took place twice on such days.

(Christianity) Any of certain feast days ranked above simples and semidoubles.


adoptianist

(Christianity) Alternative form of adoptionist


panagiarion

(Christianity) A paten on which the loaf is placed, used in the 'elevation of the Panagia'.


Panagia

From Ancient Greek Παναγία (Panagía, “All-Holy One”), from παν- (pan-, “all”) + άγια (ágia, “holy”).

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


panagia

(Christianity) An ornament worn hanging on the breast by Russian bishops.


Monotessaron

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) (though the meaning of Modern Greek μονός (monós) fits slightly better) + τεσσάρων (tessárōn, “out of four”). Attested in Latin since 1552.

(Christianity) A harmony of the four Gospels.


irenicism

en-noun

irenicism (usually uncountable, plural irenicisms)

A striking feature of this volume is the pronounced irenicism of the Americans, Lindbeck of Yale and Quanbeck of the Luther Theological Seminary at St. Paul, in contrast to the unsparingly critical approach of the Europeans.

1965, New Catholic World, volume 202, page 117:

The elector Palatine, as self-appointed Calvinist leader, promoted his own, narrow form of irenicism to remain within the Peace by finding common ground with Lutherans.

2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 122:

(theology, chiefly Christianity) Behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions; irenical theology; conciliation.


Isodicon

From Ancient Greek εἰσοδικόν (eisodikón, “an entrance”).

der

(Christianity) In the Greek Orthodox Church, a troparion or short anthem sung while the Gospel is being carried through the church.


pectoral theology

In reference to Neander's Latin phrase "pectus est quod facit theologum" ("the heart makes the theologian").

(Christianity, dated) The theology of those Christians who make much of experience and emotion as guides to a knowledge of divine truth.


Holy Mary

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


votive mass

(Christianity) A special mass over and above those ordinarily said for the day, for some particular grace or purpose, and provided by some individual.


solemn mass

(Christianity) A mass resembling a High Mass, but without some of its special ceremonies.


Marprelatist

(historical, Christianity) An opponent of the established church in the Marprelate Controversy.


Proverbs woman

Proverbs women (plural)
Proverbs Woman (alternative)

(Christianity) A woman who meets the ideal of womanhood described in Proverbs 31; a virtuous woman according to Christian standards


baptism of desire

(Christianity) The grace given to a believer who ardently desires baptism, but dies before being able to receive it.

baptême de désir

the grace given to a believer who ardently desires baptism, but dies before being able to receive it


Triodion

From Ancient Greek Τριῴδιον (Triṓidion).

(Christianity) The liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church, containing the propers for the fasting period preceding Easter and for the weeks leading up to the fast.


Revised Standard Version

the Revised Standard Version (canonical)

Since the Revised Standard Version only claims to be a revision of the American Standard Version the sources and background of which are quite fully discussed under the heading of "Revisions" in a previous chapter it is not further discussed here.

1996, Elton Jones, Which Bible?, page 40:

(biblical, Christianity) An English translation of the Bible published in 1952 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, based on the earlier American Standard Version.


hedge priest

From hedge (“third-rate”) + priest. To imply such a priest "plying one's trade under a hedge." Compare hedge alehouse, hedge whore.

The Pedant, the Bragart, the Hedge-Prieſt, the Foole, and the Boy. / Abate throw at Nouum, and the whole world againe, / Cannot picke out fiue ſuch, take each one in his vaine.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 545–547:

HEDGEPRIEST, an illiterate unbenificed curate, a patrico.

[1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:

The yeomen separated the incensed priests, who continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin, which the Prior delivered the more fluently, and the Hermit with the greater vehemence. The Prior at length recollected himself sufficiently to be aware that he was compromising his dignity, by squabbling with such a hedge-priest as the Outlaw’s chaplain, and being joined by his attendants, rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter.

1819, Walter Scott, chapter 33, in Ivanhoe: A Romance:

(Christianity, historical) An ignorant itinerant priest.


hedge parson

(Christianity, historical) A poor and generally illiterate parson.


sedes impedita

(Christianity) A papal or episcopal see when there is a partial cessation by the incumbent of his episcopal duties.


Passion Week

Analarin, a priest, spoke of boxwood rattles, which were used to announce the clergy from the ninth century. The crécelle, or 'cressel', was once used in Roman Catholic churches during Passion Week instead of a bell.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 36:

(Christianity) The week beginning on Passion Sunday.


Antiochianism

(Christianity, historical) A school of theology in the 4th and 5th centuries which spread over the whole Graeco-Syrian Church, and was a revolt against the allegorical interpretation of Scripture favoured by the Alexandrian school.


litany desk

(Christianity) In the English Church, a movable desk at which a minister kneels, facing the altar, while he recites the litany.


Tertullianism

(historical, Christianity) The beliefs of the Tertullianists.


secular arm

en-noun

secular arm (plural (rare) secular arms)

/ˌsɛkjʊlə ˈɑːm/

/ˌsɛkjələɹ ˈɑɹm/

From Late Middle English seculer arm, seculer arme (“civil authority or power”), a calque of Medieval Latin bracchium saeculāre (“(figurative) civil or lay power”), from Latin bracchium (“arm”) + saeculāre (neuter singular form of saeculāris (“profane, temporal, worldly”)).

calque

The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.

Then there's no more to be done, but to deliuer them vp to the ſecular arme of the olde vvife, and do not demaund the reaſon, for that vvere neuer to make an end.

1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Of the Pleasant and Curious Search Made by the Curate and the Barber, of Don-Quixotes Library”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC, part 1, page 44:

The firſt Inſtance of the Imploying the Secular Arm againſt Hereticks, that vvas ſet on by any of the Orthodox, vvas under the Reign of that bloody Tyrant [Magnus] Maximus, and it vvas managed by tvvo ſuch ſcandalous Biſhops, that their ill Lives is no ſmall Prejudice againſt every thing that vvas carried on by ſuch Inſtruments.

1687, Gilbert Burnet, “The Translators Preface”, in L[ucius] C[aecilius] F[irmianus] Lactantius, translated by Gilbert Burnet, A Relation of the Death of the Primitive Persecutors. […], Amsterdam: […] J[ohn] S[tarkey], →OCLC, pages 29–30:

The Secular Arm is the Lay or Temporal Authority of a ſecular Judge; to vvhich Recourſe is had for the Execution of the Sentences paſs'd by Eccleſiaſtical Judges. […] The Church ſheds no Blood: Even the Inquiſition, after they have found the Perſon guilty, ſurrenders him to the ſecular Arm.

1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Arm”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–H), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 138, column 1:

And vvhether the former [the corrupted clergy] did not abuſe the Povver of the Magiſtracy, in bringing over the Secular Arms for the Support of their VVickedneſs, excluding the vvhole Community from inſpecting and deciding the Matter?

1744, “To the Reader”, in Certain Queries, with Their Respective Answers; by Way of Introduction to the Reverend Mr. Godfrey Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and Hereticks. […], London: […] G. Smith, […]; and sold by Mrs. Cooper, […]; likewise, by Mr. Wilcox, […]; and Mr. Hodges, […], →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 5:

[W]e not only exhort you to expiate by a penitence proportionate to the enormity of such a crime, but also order you to quit the territories of the church vvithin three days, under pain of being given up to the secular arms, and the rigour of the flames.

1792 February 8, [François] Blanchet, translated by [anonymous], “The Dean of Badajoz, a Tale”, in James Anderson, editor, The Bee, or, Literary Weekly Intelligencer, […], volume VII, Edinburgh: […] [Mundell and Son] for the editor, →OCLC, page 209:

These doctrines are false; […] Yet all who reject them are by the Council of Trent and the Papal Church pronounced accursed heretics and excommunicated, and therefore to be given over to the secular arm, as we have just seen that millions have been, to be destroyed or burned; […]

1812 March 9 (date written), Gideon Ouseley, “A Short View of the Apostacy^([sic – meaning Apostasy]), and of the Man of Sin, which was to Appear in the Church, Predicted by the Prophet Daniel, and by the Apostles St. Paul, St. Peter, and St. John, as Recorded in the Holy Scripture”, in A Short Defence of the Old Religion, against Certain Novelties, Recommended to the People of Ireland, Dublin: […] J. O. Bonsall, […], published 1821, →OCLC, page 239:

And as many of this devoted people as they could get into their hands, were delivered over to the secular arms; scarcely was there a city or town throughout Piedmont, in which some of these martyrs were not sacrificed by the devouring superstition of the priests dominant.

1830 May 1, “The Waldenses and Albigenses. 3.”, in The Protestant, volume I, number 18, New York, N.Y.: James B. Requa, […], →OCLC, page 137, column 1:

We also understand that when the secular arm has the power it is requirable by the Church to execute those who entertain views opposed to the Papacy; and that the only reason why the Church does not now require it is that the secular arm is not at the Pope's command.

1870 October, “Art. IX.—Quarterly Book-table. [Pamphlets. The Catholic World, July, 1870.]”, in D[aniel] D[enison] Whedon, editor, Methodist Quarterly Review, volume XXII (4th Series; volume LII overall), New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Lanahan […], →OCLC, page 634:

In the Middle Ages, however, sometimes the assistance of the secular arm was sought, especially in trials for heresy or grave immorality when Church officials felt that sterner punishment was deserved than they could administer.

1980, John A[nthony] Hardon, “SECULAR ARM”, in Modern Catholic Dictionary, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 496, column 1:

(Christianity, law, historical) The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.

maallinen valta

lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court


panegyricon

(Christianity) In the Greek Orthodox Church, a collection of sermons for festivals.


Expectation Week

(Christianity) The period between Ascension Day and Whitsunday, during which the apostles continued praying in expectation of Christ.


vicar-general

(Christianity) An official performing the work of an archdeacon under the bishop.

(Christianity) In the English Church, an officer assisting the bishop, the chancellor of the diocese.


vicar-choral

(Christianity) An assistant, whether cleric or lay, at an English cathedral, especially in connection with the music.


coredemptrix

Mary's involvement in salvation was said to make her coredemptrix along with Christ.

2001, “Mariology”, in Walter A. Elwell, editor, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 736:

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female coredeemer.


discipler

I had to keep tabs on who was working with whom, and who had stopped I had to solve personality problems and give out discipline to those who were not doing their job— to both disciplers and trainees.

1979, John C. Souter, How to Grow New Christians, page 8:


Mid-Lent

(Christianity) Synonym of Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.


Lenten fare

(Christianity) Food that is fit to be consumed during Lent (in other words, food that does not contain meat).


regionarius

/ˌɹiːd͡ʒəˈnɛəɹi.əs/

/ˌɹid͡ʒəˈnɛɹi.əs/

(Christianity, historical) A Roman Catholic ecclesiastic having jurisdiction over certain districts of Rome.


Sacred Heart

(Christianity) The physical heart of Christ, adored with special devotion by Roman Catholics since the 18th century.


turn or burn

en-verb

turn or burn (third-person singular simple present turns or burns, present participle turning or burning, simple past and past participle turned or burned or turned or burnt)

turns or burns (present singular third-person)
turning or burning (participle present singular third-person)
turned or burned (participle past present singular third-person)
turned or burned (past present singular third-person)
turned or burnt (participle past present singular third-person)
turned or burnt (past present singular third-person)

(Christianity, informal) To accept the teachings of Christianity or be doomed to hell.


daughter of God

en-noun

daughter of God (plural daughters of God)

Coordinate term: son of God

for you are the sons and daughters of God

(Judaism, Christianity, sometimes capitalised) A woman who is beloved of God; a righteous woman.


His Eminence

(Roman Catholicism) An honorific style for a cardinal


Levitical degree

Levitical degree (plural Levitical degrees)

(Christianity) Any of the degrees of kindred who are forbidden to marry each other according to Leviticus xviii. 6-18 in the Bible.


immediatorial

en-adj

immediatorial (comparative more immediatorial, superlative most immediatorial)

more immediatorial (comparative)
most immediatorial (superlative)

... from everything that opposed the divine operation in their souls, and who have been transformed into undimmed organs of God, for whose glory all things shall serve. The mediatorial kingdom of God will then merge into the immediatorial.

1865, August Neander, History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles, page 485:

Then God will be known immediately. We shall know Him, when the mediatorial has merged in the immediatorial, in a way more high, more intimate, more sublime, than even through Christ.

1872, Frederick William Robertson, Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: Delivered at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ..., page 227:

(chiefly Christianity, possibly obsolete) Not mediatorial; immediate.


spirit man

en-noun

spirit man (countable and uncountable, plural spirit men)

spirit men (plural)
spirit-man (alternative)
spiritman (alternative)

Thanks to the long, slow, patient years of constant small strengthenings of the spirit, in triumphs achieved over fleshly greeds and brutal instincts, the flesh now yields obedience, doubtful, irregular, and strange, almost questioning obedience at first, but none the less change has come, and the beginning of the spiritman's control over the carnal man is established.

It must be on the inside in order to stop sin and starvation of the spirit man inside of you.

2009, Cheryl E. Chavis, The Spirit Man In Her, page 19:

Notice that verse 18 says everything that is in the new nature (the spirit-man) is of God.

2012, Johnny Young Jr., The Truth About You:

(Christianity) In some Christian belief systems, one's innermost spiritual entity (i.e. the "heart"), as contrasted with the more outer soulish and physical aspects of one's being.


long Barnaby

In the Old Style calendar, this was the longest day of the year.

(Christianity, obsolete) The feast day of Saint Barnabas, celebrated on June 11.


dyothelism

From that day, dyothelism became the official doctrine of the Orthodox Church, both in the East and in the West; and in the eighth century it found a most subtle expounder in John of Damascus.

1891, Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson, David Schley Schaff, A Religious Encyclopaedia:

Two years later Anastasius II reinstituted dyothelism, and the same bishops who had two years before vetoed dyothelism now changed their mind, and adopted it as the only true exposition of faith !

1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature:

Finally, the concept of divine adoption becomes a controlling feature of the theology of deification in Maximus, due to his concern to maintain dyothelism in christology, as well as in ascetic anthropology.

2002, Nicholas V. Sakharov, I Love, Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony, →ISBN:

(Christianity, theology) The doctrine of two wills (human and divine) in Christ.


Proto-Isaiah

(Christianity, Judaism) Chapters 1 to 39 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to be the actual words of Isaiah.


Deutero-Isaiah

(Christianity, Judaism) Chapters 40 to 55 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to be the work of an anonymous 6th-century BCE author writing during the Exile.


Trito-Isaiah

(Christianity, Judaism) Chapters 56 to 66 of the Biblical book of Isaiah, thought to have been composed after the return from Exile.


Ember week

(Christianity) The week in which the Ember days occur.


Ebionizing

(Christianity, historical) Having the religious views of the Ebionites.


fish-hook theory

(Christianity, theology, informal) The Christus Victor theory of atonement.


pre-scrutiny

(Roman Catholicism) In electing a pope, the phase before scrutiny, during which ballot papers are prepared and scrutineers are selected.


post-scrutiny

(Christianity) In electing a pope, the phase following scrutiny of the votes, during which the ballots are checked for errors and then burned.


titular church

titular church (plural titular churches)

(Christianity) Any of the parish churches of Rome supplying a title to cardinal priests.


Old Hundredth

(Christianity) A hymn tune in long metre, mainly associated with the 100th psalm, "All People that on Earth do Dwell".


horarium

Pre-conciliar changes to the horarium or any entrenched practices were often small in scope...

2020, Carmen M. Mangion, Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age:

(Catholicism) The daily schedule of a religious house or seminary.


Relief Church

(Christianity, historical) A Scottish Presbyterian denomination founded in 1761, which united with the United Secession Church in 1847 to form the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.


Old Light

Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.

2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN:

(Christianity) A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733.


free-willer

free-willers (plural)
free willer (alternative)

1614, John Robinson, Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, “Of the Baptism of Infants,” p. 96[a],
Since all are by nature alike children of wrath, I would know of these free-willers, how some become the children of God, & beleevers, & some abyde vnder the wrath of God?

1675, Richard Baxter, Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie, London: Nevill Simmons, “Of Natural Corruption and Impotency, and Free-will,” The third Crimination, p. 125,
And is it not then a horrid shame, to hear honest people so seduced into Love-killing factious sidings by their Teachers, as that Boys and Women speak of wiser and better persons with disaffection and reproach, saying, O he is a Free-willer, or he holdeth Free-will, when they know not what they talk of: but are made believe that it is some monstrous impious Opinion, making a man almost an Heretick?

1779, Isaac Watts, undated letter to Enoch Watts, in Posthumous Works, London: T. Becket and J. Bew, Volume 2, p. 153,
There was one Pelagius of old, that invented several opinions about free-will, and against free-grace, those that followed him strictly were called Pelagians; those that allowed more to free-grace were called Semi-Pelagians, almost the same with modern Armenians, called also Remonstrants, and by the common people Free-willers. Their notions are, that God elects none to salvation but on the account of that faith he foresees in them.

1862, Philip Cater, Punch in the Pulpit, London: William Freeman, Letter 1, p. 19,
[…] let a man be deeply imbued with the spirit of hyper-calvinism, and he will treat those whom he deems mistaken brethren, with ridicule and contempt; he will call them “free-willers,” “duty-faith men,” &c.; he will give them all sorts of nicknames, and cover them with all sorts of religious abuse.

(historical, Protestantism, derogatory) A person belonging to a sect that rejected the doctrine of predestination.


Tübingen School

(historical, Christianity) A rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.


maphrian

From Classical Syriac ܡܲܦ̮ܪܝܵܢܵܐ (map̄ryānā, “one who causes to be abundant”).

der

Tabriz was not subordinated directly to the Patriarchate with the nominal see in Antioch in Syria, but to the so-called Maphrian, who administered the entire East of the West-Syrian sphere from Mesopotamia to Central Asia.

2014, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, “Civitas Thauris. The Significance of Tabriz in the Spiritual Frameworks of Christian Merchants and Ecclesiastics in the 13th and 14th Centuries”, in Judith Pfeiffer, editor, Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th–15th Century Tabriz, page 286:

(Christianity, West Syriac) catholicos, high-ranking bishop


Gurneyite

(Christianity) A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister Joseph John Gurney, generally following evangelical doctrines on Jesus Christ, the Atonement, and the Bible.


Wilburite

(Christianity) A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister John Wilbur (1774–1856); a member or adherent of the Conservative Friends.


Canon of the Mass

(Roman Catholicism) The oldest anaphora used in the Roman rite of Mass.


holy orders

(Christianity) The sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.


parish priest

(Roman Catholicism) The main priest serving a parish.


Auld Kirk

(Christianity) The Established Church in Scotland.


kirk-session

(Christianity) The lowest court in Presbyterian churches, being the governing body of a particular congregation.


missionary rector

en-noun

missionary rector (plural missionary rectors)

(Christianity) A Roman Catholic priest appointed to the charge of some important mission in England.


titular of the tithes

titular of the tithes (plural titulars of the tithes)

(Christianity, historical) A layman invested with church lands after the Reformation in Scotland.


Simeonite

(Christianity) A follower of the Cambridge evangelical preacher Charles Simeon (1759-1836), whose influence is perpetuated by the Simeon Trust, established for purchasing advowsons.


Second Adventist

Second Adventist (plural Second Adventists)

(Christianity) One who lives in expectation of a second coming of Christ to establish a personal kingdom on earth.


Reminiscere Sunday

From Latin Reminiscere (“Remember!”), the beginning of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally drawn from Latin translations of Psalm 25.

(Roman Catholicism) The second Sunday in Lent.


Quadragesima Sunday

(Christianity) The first Sunday in Lent, the sixth before Easter.


Oculi Sunday

From Latin oculi (“eyes”), from the 1st word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 25:15.

(Roman Catholicism) The third Sunday in Lent.


Fig Sunday

(Christianity) Synonym of Palm Sunday: the Sunday before Easter.


Joachimite

(historical, Christianity) A member of a millenarian group that arose from the Franciscans in the 13th century, basing their ideas on the prior works of Joachim of Fiore, though rejecting the church of their day more strongly than he had.


missionary bishop

missionary bishop (plural missionary bishops)

(Christianity) A bishop assigned in the Anglican Communion (and, until 1964, in Methodist churches) to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church.


Holy Robe

(Christianity) The robe said to have been worn by Christ during or shortly before his crucifixion.


little office

(Christianity) A short service of psalms, hymns, collects, etc.


dark night of the soul

dark night of the soul (plural dark nights of the soul)

Your dear friend ought to take heart. From what you have told me, it is quite likely that they are going through a dark night of the soul.

(Catholicism) a period of time in which a holy person (someone believed to be potentially on their way to sainthood) experiences a seeming withdrawal of God's previously-felt presence in their lives, and undergoes stark spiritual attacks. This period of time is seen (by Catholics) to be a period in which God is calling the holy person to rid themselves of any remaining vestiges of self-pride and vanity that they may have.

a lélek sötét éjszakája

a period of time in which a holy person experiences a seeming withdrawal of God’s previously-felt presence in their lives, and undergoes stark spiritual attacks


Johnsmas

(UK, dialect, archaic, Christianity) The feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on 24 June.


water drinker

(Christianity, obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.


consecrated virgin

consecrated virgin (plural consecrated virgins)

(Christianity) A woman consecrated by the Catholic church to a life of perpetual virginity as an exclusive spouse of Christ, as a member of the order of virgins.


requiem mass

(Christianity, music) A mass sung for the repose of the soul of a dead person


Ghost of God

From Middle English gost of God, gaste of Godd.

And we should not alter any word in the Scripture, which wholly is ministered unto us by the Ghost of God.

1809, Thomas Cranmer, The Life, Martyrdom, and Selections from the Writings of Thomas Cranmer, page 99:

It was the emergence of the Ghost of God, the Spirit of God that had now experienced the incarnation of Himself in the Flesh of His own Word, Jesus...and He (The Holy Ghost) speaks (Hebrews 12:24-29)!

2019, Derick Virgil, The Holy Ghost: He is the Blood of Jesus, page 122:

(Christianity, rare) An epithet of the Holy Spirit.


holidayism

The tide of holidayism which came into Christianity with the Sunday has never been checked, even temporarily, by any other authority. Divine authority alone can make a Sabbath; whatever is less than that, cannot rise above holidayism.

1890, Annual Baptist Autumnal Conference for the Discussion of Current Questions, volumes 8-10:

And now, slain by their folly and error, these same Christian leaders sink willingly into holidayism, or wail in wondering weakness over the fact that they must reap what they and their ancestors have sown.

1922, The Sabbath Recorder, volumes 90-92, page 10:

(dated, Christianity, derogatory) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a day off rather than a solemn religious occasion.


Sabbathism

[…] they do not want the lowest forms of excitement, or of literature; they want something which shall occupy the middle ground between the debauchery of low holidayism and the religious observance which comes with Sabbathism.

1884, The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, volumes 3-6, page 325:

As to Sunday legislation we have seen that its origin was absolutely pagan, and that it has been destructive of true Sabbathism at all times.

1892, Abram Herbert Lewis, Paganism Surviving in Christianity:

(dated, Christianity) The tendency to treat the Sabbath as a solemn religious occasion rather than merely as a day off.


covenant of grace

(Christianity) God's promise of eternal life for all people who have faith in Christ.


Unigenitus

From Latin ūnigenitus (“only begotten”); its opening words were "unigenitus dei filius", meaning "only begotten son of God".

(Christianity, historical) An apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713, which condemned 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel.


baby dedication

baby dedication (countable and uncountable, plural baby dedications)

(Christianity, uncountable) Dedication of infant children to Christian upbringing and future Christian service.

(Christianity, countable) The ceremony of dedicating infant children to Christian upbringing and future Christian service, usually performed before God and the church.


convivify

en-verb

convivify (third-person singular simple present convivifies, present participle convivifying, simple past and past participle convivified)

convivifies (present singular third-person)
convivifying (participle present)
convivified (participle past)
convivified (past)

The believer was purified and, united with Christ, convivified with Him, even as, in the Eucharist, the body of the church, was concorporated, unified, sanctified, and offered in sacrifice with Christ its head.

1987, Richard Eugene Sullivan, Thomas F. X. Noble, John J. Contreni, Religion, culture, and society in the early Middle Ages, page 230:

They knew that spiritual consolations were given them because they were convivified with Christ, and raised with Him [Eph 2].

2005, Frederick A. Homann, Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels:

He “convivified” men with Christ, by love.

2006, Ceslaus Spicq, Agape in the New Testament, Volume 2:

(Christianity) To gain (eternal) life as a result of joining one's life to


host desecration

en-noun

host desecration (countable and uncountable, plural host desecrations)

(Christianity) The sacrilegious mistreatment or malicious use of the host (consecrated bread of the Eucharist).

a form of sacrilege in Christian denominations

Accusation de profanation d’hosties contre les Juifs


peccata clamantia

From Latin peccāta clāmantia, literally "screaming sins".

(Christianity) A group of mortal sins referenced in the Bible as those for which God will take retribution.


Rogation Day

(Christianity) Any of the three days preceding the festival of Ascension, and during which the Litany was anciently recited in procession.


Rogation Week

(Christianity) The week in which the Rogation Days occur.


halfway covenant

halfway covenant (plural halfway covenants)

(Christianity, historical) A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but unconverted parents to present their own children for baptism, but denying them the other privileges of church membership.


angelic salutation

angelic salutation (plural angelic salutations)


dry mass

From dry + mass. In the liturgical sense, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin missa sicca.

calque

Alongside the mass as a means of providing access to the consecrated elements, there is the oddity of the holding of masses without any consecration. These ‘dry masses’ are one of the more shadowy elements of medieval devotion, ill-documented and little considered.

1995, Robert N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515, page 139:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A demonstrative celebration of most of the liturgy of the Mass, omitting the consecration of the elements.


pretribulationism

(Christianity) One who believes that all righteous Christians will be transported bodily to Heaven before the Tribulation begins.


midtribulationism

(Christianity) The belief or doctrine that all Christians on earth during the Tribulation will be Raptured, or transported bodily to Heaven, partway through this period, before the worst of its plagues and judgments.

mesotribulacionismo

the belief that Christians will be Raptured partway through the Tribulation


posttribulationism

(Christianity) The belief or doctrine that Christians will not be Raptured, or transported bodily to Heaven, before the Tribulation, but rather received or gathered in the air by Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth after the Tribulation.

postribulacionismo

the belief that Christians will not be Raptured until after the Tribulation


ubiquitism

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.

The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops.

1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417:

This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism.

1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:

She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere.

2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:

(theology, Christianity) The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.


supply priest

(Catholicism, Anglicanism) A priest not assigned to a particular parish who is available to substitute temporarily for a parish priest who is ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.


profession of faith

en-noun

profession of faith (plural professions of faith)

(religion, Christianity, specifically) A formulaic declaration asserting the orthodoxy of one's beliefs, usually made at baptism, entry into a particular Church, or upon the acceptance of an ecclesial office, and typically including the recitation of a creed.

profession de foi

formulaic declaration asserting one's orthodoxy


Fast Sunday

(Christianity) A Sunday set aside by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for fasting by its members, and on which a testimony meeting is held by local congregations.


Branch Sunday

(Christianity, UK, obsolete) Synonym of Palm Sunday


Feast of the Circumcision of Christ

Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (plural Feasts of the Circumcision of Christ)

Feasts of the Circumcision of Christ (plural)

(Christianity) A celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Jewish tradition.

Besnijdenis van de Heer

a celebration of the circumcision of Jesus


Campbellian

en-adj

Campbellian (comparative more Campbellian, superlative most Campbellian)

more Campbellian (comparative)
most Campbellian (superlative)

(Christianity) Of or relating to the ministers Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, or the associated Campbellite movement.


Seeker

(historical, Christianity) A member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s; they considered organised churches to be corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.


odour of sanctity

en-noun

odour of sanctity (usually uncountable, plural odours of sanctity)

odours of sanctity (plural)
odor of sanctity (alternative)

/ˌəʊdəɹ‿əv ˈsæŋktɪti/

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A calque of French odeur de sainteté (“sweet smell said to be emitted by bodies of saints at or after death”), from Late Latin odor sānctitātis (literally “odour of sanctity”) (compare odor suāvitātis (literally “sweet odour”)), from odor (“(sweet) smell, odour”) + sānctitātis (genitive singular of sānctitās (“sacredness, sanctity; holiness, virtue”)).

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Perhaps, too, the opinion that the relics of the holy dead were distinguished by a peculiar fragrance, may have arisen from embalmed bodies: at first, it might honestly have obtained among the Clergy; but when they saw how willingly it was received by the people, whenever a new mine of relics was opened, care was taken that the odour of sanctity should not be wanting.

1824, Robert Southey, “View of the Papal System”, in The Book of the Church. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 291:

The odours of sanctity differ both in quality and degree. St. Benedicta tells us from "personal observations" she finds that the odours of the angelic hierarchy differ as much as the perfume of flowers.

1884, E[benezer] Cobham Brewer, “Odour of Sanctity”, in A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic, and Dogmatic, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 510, column 2:

It [the body of Saint Mark the Evangelist] was then put into a large basket and carried down to the harbour, where a Venetian ship was waiting. By this time the odour of sanctity that issued from the body was becoming so strong that, in the words of one chronicler, 'If all the spices of the world had been gathered together in Alexandria, they could not have so perfumed the city.'

1977, John Julius Norwich, “The City Rises Up”, in Venice: The Rise to Empire, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, pages 52–53:

As the odor of sanctity indicated the triumph of spiritual virtue over physical corruption, it was often considered able to heal physical ills. Numerous stories in saint lore refer to the healing power of the fragrance associated with a saint. […] The fact that corpses at this time were usually held to spread disease by their odor, made the curative power of the scents produced by the saint's corpse another example of how the natural order of bodily decay was reversed in the case of the saint through supernatural grace.

1998, Constance Classen, “The Breath of God: Sacred Histories of Scent”, in The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Cosmology), page 46:

During the Middle Ages a sweet smell came to be expected of holy corpses, "and if the corpse of a servant of God did not emit 'the odour of sanctity,' the veneration might stop as quickly as it had begun." That expectation was registered and at once reinforced by the endless elaboration of the odor of sanctity in hagiography, where the trope tended to be literalized.

2004, Frank Graziano, “Miracle of the Rose”, in Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

These [Taoist] 'immortals' were either resurrected or their bodies regrew, or the corpse did not go cold and emitted a 'pleasant' odour of sanctity.

2005, John J. Jørgensen, “‘Why Not Take All of Me?’ The Afterlife of Hui-neng as a Relic in China”, in Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And Biography in Early Ch’an (Sinica Leidensia; 68), Leiden, South Holland: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, part I (The Hagiographical Image and Relic Worship), page 241:

(chiefly Christianity, historical, especially Middle Ages) A sweet smell, usually likened to that of flowers, said to be emitted by the bodies of saints during their life, or especially at or after death.

pyhyyden tuoksu

sweet smell said to be emitted by the bodies of saints during their life, or especially at or after death


Book of Life

From Middle English bok of lyfe, boke of lyfe. Compare Old English līflīċ bōc (“Book of Life”).

(Christianity, Judaism) The book in which God is said to record the name of every person who is destined for heaven or the world to come.


Thorough

(Christianity, historical) A scheme devised in 17th-century England by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to establish absolute monarchy in England, involving the appointment of Arminian clergy.


Barlaam

Unknown. The immediate source is Medieval Latin Barlaam, borrowed from Byzantine Greek Βαρλαάμ (Barlaám) in the Byzantine Life of Barlaam and Josaphat (probably 11th c.), itself likely borrowed from Georgian ბალაჰვარ (balahvar). First attested c. 8th century as Arabic بِلَوْهَر (bilawhar), perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit भगवान् (bhagavān, “God”) or from Sanskrit पुरोहित (purohita, “priest”) via an unattested Middle Persian form.

(Christianity) A legendary saint in the tale of Barlaam and Josaphat.


Taboric

We could recite here account after account of these Ultimate experiences, […] the visions of God as the divine Taboric Glory, God of light.

2008, April D. DeConick, “Mysticism and the Gospel of Thomas”, in Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung – Rezeption – Theologie:

(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Comparable or pertaining to the Transfiguration of Jesus, traditionally believed to have taken place at Mount Tabor.


Novus Ordo

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Ellipsis of Ecclesiastical Latin Novus Ordō Missae (“New Order of the Mass”).

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A Catholic may consider the Novus Ordo banal, but he may not proclaim that the new rite is invalid.

2004, Michael Daniel, “What Constitutes a Valid Consecration?”, in CatholicCulture.org:

[…] the material in the interview indicated to me that he’s celebrating a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin.

2006, The Catholic World Report, volume 16:

I’ve heard many make the case that the Novus Ordo actually more closely resembles the Mass of the first 1000 years of Church history than the recent practice of the Tridentine (Latin) Masses. Surely Jesus didn’t speak Latin at the Last Supper. But many others point out that what has become of the Novus Ordo Mass was not what was originally intended either.

2019, Matthew Warner, “Which is Better: Latin Mass or Novus Ordo?”, in National Catholic Register:

(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite of the Mass established in 1969, the Mass of Paul VI, usually celebrated in a vernacular language.


Roman Canon

(Roman Catholicism) The Canon of the Mass, the oldest anaphora of the Roman rite of the Mass.


Church of the East

From Classical Syriac ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ (ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā), so called as it predominated to the east of the border of the Christian Roman Empire. Used as a proper noun in English from c. 1890s.

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ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā

(historical) The church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later exonymically known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite.

Ancient Church of the East
Ancient Church of the East

Assyrian Church of the East
Assyrian Church of the East

Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church

Any of the modern successors of that church following its schisms since the 16th century, in particular the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, and Chaldean Catholic Church, or all of these considered together.

景教

church originally of Persia — see also Nestorianism


Gelasian dyarchy

Father Murray is concerned to restate the Gelasian dyarchy in democratic terms.

1953, Religion in Life, volume 23, page 178:

Between secularists and anticlericals who would subject the Church to the state or entirely separate the institutions, and fanatical medievalists and curialists who would, against all reasonable hope, cling to their own inaccurate versions of theocracy, the pope steered a middle course that recalled the Gelasian dyarchy.

1962, Newman C. Eberhardt, A Summary of Catholic History, volume 2, page 161:

Determining the popes’ view of the relationship between church and state was their interpretation of “the Gelasian dyarchy,” the ancient papal teaching that “this world is ruled by two powers.”

2004, Robert Krieg, Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany, →ISBN, page 18:

(Roman Catholicism, politics) The doctrine, traced back to Pope Gelasius I, that there are two authorities governing human affairs, the spiritual authority of the church and the temporal authority of the empire or secular government.