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Christianese – Terms and jargon used within many of the branches and denominations of Christianity as a functional lexicon of religious terminology, characterized by the use in everyday conversation of certain words, theological terms, puns, and catchphrases, assumed to be familiar but in ways that may be only comprehensible within the ...
A Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible [31] James Covel 1848 Biblical Cyclopaedia [32] John Eadie: 1851 A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, illustrative of the Old and New Testament [33] John Farrar: 1854 A Bible Dictionary [34] Samuel Bulfinch Emmons 1856 A Dictionary of the most important names, objects, and terms found in the Holy ...
CARM offers several online dictionaries, including a theological dictionary compiled by Matt Slick and others, in addition to discussion forums. [3] The organization's stated motivation is "to equip Christians with good information on doctrine". [6] In 2004, CARM made available a free resource called the Dictionary of Theology for the Palm OS ...
Apologetics/polemics – studying Christian theology as it compares to non-Christian worldviews in order to defend the faith and challenge beliefs that lie in contrast with Christianity. Biblical hermeneutics – interpretation of the Bible , often with particular emphasis on the nature and constraints of contemporary interpretation.
B. Backsliding; Baptism; Baptism in the name of Jesus; Baptism of blood; Baptism of desire; Baptism of Jesus; Baptism with the Holy Spirit; Baptismal font; Baptismal regeneration
The Council of Trent in 1546 stated the list of books included in the canon as it had been set out in the Council of Florence. [108] In respect to the deuterocanonical books this list conformed with the canon lists of Western synods of the late 4th century, other than including Baruch with the Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch chapter 6) as a single book.
This is a glossary of terms used within the Catholic Church. Some terms used in everyday English have a different meaning in the context of the Catholic faith, including brother, confession, confirmation, exemption, faithful, father, ordinary, religious, sister, venerable, and vow.
The Anchor Bible Commentary Series, created under the guidance of William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971), comprises a translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Intertestamental Books (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanon/the Protestant Apocrypha; not the books called by Catholics and Orthodox "Apocrypha", which are widely called by Protestants ...