Religion

Religion

Refers to any set of beliefs of any community or nation, concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of life and the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a supernatural or divine agency.

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Cappadocian fathers

Religion; Christian theology

The collective name of the three major Greek-speaking writers of the patristic period: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa, all of whom date from the ...

Enlightenment, The

Religion; Christian theology

A term used since the nineteenth century to refer to the emphasis upon human reason and autonomy characteristic of much of western European and North American thought during the ...

Lutheranism

Religion; Christian theology

The religious ideas associated with Martin Luther, particularly as expressed in the Lesser Catechism (1529) and the Augsburg Confession (1530). A series of internal disagreements ...

Sabellianism

Religion; Christian theology

An early trinitarian heresy, which treated the three persons of the Trinity as different historical manifestations of the one God.

Trinity

Religion; Christian theology

The distinctively Christian doctrine of God, which reflects the complexity of the Christian experience of God. The doctrine is usually summarized in maxims such as "three ...