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Brewer's: Bloody Bill
The 31 Henry VIII., c. 14, which denounced death, by hanging or burning, on all who denied the doctrine of transubstantiation. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Morisonianism
The religious system of James Morison, the chief peculiarities being the doctrines of universal atonement, and the ability of man unaided to receive or reject the Gospel. James Morison, in…Brewer's: Optimism
in moral philosophy, is the doctrine that “whatever is, is right,” that everything which happens is for the best. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Opus…Brewer's: Heathen
A dweller on a heath or common. Christian doctrines would not reach these remote people till long after they had been accepted in towns, and even villages. (Anglo-Saxon, hæthen, hæth. (See…Brewer's: Hedonism
The doctrine of Aristippus, that pleasure or happiness is the chief good and chief end of man (Greek, hedone, pleasure). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Fathers of the Latin Church
Lactantius, Hilary, Ambrose of Milan, Jerome, Augustin of Hippo, and St. Bernard. The last of the fathers. St. Bernard (1091-1153). The schoolmen who followed treated their subjects…Brewer's: Floriani
A sect of heretics of the second century who maintained that God is the author of evil, and taught the Gnostic doctrine of two principles. Florianus was their founder. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Ebionism
The doctrine that the poor only shall be saved. Ebion, plural ebionim (poor). “At the end of the second century the Ebionites were treated as heretics, and a pretended leader (Ebion) was…Brewer's: Monarchians
A theological party of the third century, who maintained that God is one, immutable and primary. Their opponents turned upon them, and nicknamed them Patripassians (q.v.), saying that…Brewer's: Pietists
A sect of Lutherans in the seventeenth century, who sought to introduce a more moral life and a more “evangelical” spirit of doctrine into the reformed church. In Germany the word Pietist…Trending
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