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Alexander Alesius
(1500–65),alternatively ‘Aless’ or ‘Alane’, Scottish Lutheran divine. A native of Edinburgh, he studied at St Andrews, where he became a canon. Selected in 1527 to confute Patrick Hamilton, who ...
Alfonso de Madrigal
(c.1400–1455),Spanish philosopher, theologian, and polymath, born in Madrigal (Ávila); his nickname does not derive from a sunburnt complexion but rather alludes to his father's name, Alfonso ...
Alfred Firmin Loisy
(1857–1940).French biblical scholar and RC Modernist. An enthusiastic exponent of the historico-critical study of the Bible, he was dismissed from the Institut Catholique in Paris in 1893. In 1902 ...
anathema
The word means ‘separated’ or ‘accursed’. In the OT it was used of ‘things devoted to God’, that is not for common use; later when applied to people it came to involve exclusion from the community ...
Anglo-Catholicism
A tradition within the Anglican Church which is close to Catholicism in its doctrine and worship and is broadly identified with High Church Anglicanism. As a movement, Anglo-Catholicism grew out of ...
anticlericalism
The opposition to the secular influence of the Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church. It was a major theme in the domestic politics of several European countries during the late nineteenth ...
apostolic succession
A belief in Christianity that the authority of the ordained ministry, in word and sacrament, is protected by the continuous transmission of that authority through successive ordinations by those who ...
art and architecture: Romanesque
Term describing art produced in Europe between roughly 1000 and 1200.1. Definition2. Architecture3. Monumental decoration4. Portable arts5. Secular and military works6. Artists and aesthetics1. ...
baptism
In the Christian Church, the religious rite of sprinkling water on a person's head or of immersing them in water, symbolizing purification or regeneration and admission to the Christian Church. ...
Benediction
A service in which the congregation is blessed with the Blessed Sacrament (see sacrament), held mainly in the Roman Catholic Church.
Benedictional
In the W. Church the liturgical book containing the formulae of the bishop's blessing formerly pronounced at Mass, esp. in Spain, France, and England, before the ‘Pax Domini’. The oldest extant copy ...
Biblical theology
A movement in Christian theology, especially in the 1930s–1950s, which sought to expound a common, ‘biblical’ (usually, ‘Hebraic’) viewpoint and language in the Old and New Testaments.
Bishops' Book
(1537). Entitled ‘The Institution of a Christen Man’, it was compiled by a committee of English bishops and clergy. It expounded the Creed, Sacraments, Decalogue, Lord's Prayer, and Hail Mary, and ...
Bogomils
A member of a heretical medieval Balkan sect professing a modified form of Manichaeism. The name is recorded from the mid 19th century, and comes from medieval Greek Bogomilos, from Bogomil, ...
Book of Common Prayer
(often BCP).The major prayer book of the Anglican Church, and official service book of the Church of England. Its centrality and continuing use is advocated by the Prayer Book Society.[...]
boy bishop
In medieval times it was a widespread custom, in many English monasteries, schools, and country parishes, to elect on St Nicholas's Day (6 Dec.) a boy who should execute till ...
Byzantine rite
The liturgical rite of the E. Orthodox Church, so called because it was the rite used in Constantinople (anciently the city of Byzantium).
catechism
A summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians. The word is recorded from the early 16th century and comes via ...
Catechism of the Catholic Church
A comprehensive account of RC teaching. While covering the various areas of the faith, such as sacraments and prayer, it also includes material on such modern ethical problems as the sale of organs ...
Cathars
A member of a heretical medieval Christian sect which professed a form of Manichaean dualism and sought to achieve great spiritual purity. The name is recorded in English from the mid 17th century, ...
