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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indulgences

Religion; Christianity

In Roman Catholicism, a partial remission of temporal (non-eternal) punishment for sin after the guilt of sin has been forgiven through penance. The concept of indulgences grew ...

mitre

Religion; Christianity

(Greek mitra, "turban"). Liturgical headdress of a bishop. In the Eastern Church it resembles a crown similar in form to that worn by Byzantine Emperors. In the Western Church it ...

apostolic succession

Religion; Christianity

Doctrine that the authority of ordained clergy (to perform valid sacraments and teach right doctrine) derives from an unbroken succession of valid ordinations beginning with the ...

patripassianism

Religion; Christianity

The heretical view, associated with Praxeas, Noetus and Sabbellius, that God the Father can suffer. A consequence of modalist monarchianism, in which the Son is the same person as ...

hell

Religion; Christianity

The word used in English translations of the Bible for both the Hebrew Sheol (the place of the departed) and the Greek Gehenna (the place of punishment for the wicked after ...

acolyte

Religion; Christianity

(Greek, "follower"). A lay person, usually a child or young adult, who assist ministers in worship services.

consubstantiation

Religion; Christianity

A doctrine of the Eucharist associated especially with Martin Luther, according to which the bread and wine and the body and blood of Christ coexist in the elements. ...