n
(derogatory) Scientology, regarded as a scam.
n
(historical) A member of a sect of deists in Bohemia in the 18th century, professing to be followers of the pre-circumcised Abraham.
n
(Christianity) A proponent of adoptianism.
n
Alternative form of adoptionism [(Christianity) A form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God the Father adopted him, either at Jesus' birth, or at his death, as opposed to the orthodox understanding of the nature of the Trinity.]
n
(Christianity) Alternative form of adoptionist [(Christianity) One who believes in or supports adoptionism.]
n
(Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
n
Any of several related movements.
n
(Christianity) A member of a black Baptist Christian movement.
n
(historical) The religious beliefs and practices of the Aitkenites.
n
(historical) A religious follower of Robert Aitken (1800–1873), Scottish popular preacher who formed The Christian Society, with his following primarily drawn from Methodist and Anglican believers, promoting a mix of evangelism and Tractarianism.
n
The beliefs of the Albigenses.
n
(historical) A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738.
n
(theology) A form of Protestant belief also known as four-point Calvinism.
n
The doctrine espoused by Anabaptists.
n
A member of any of several present-day churches.
adj
Of or relating to the Anabaptists.
adj
Of or relating to the Anabaptists.
n
The doctrine or practices of Anabaptists.
n
The practice or mode of life of an anchorite.
n
a member of an Anglican church
n
The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church.
adv
In an Anglican manner; befitting an Anglican.
n
A member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition.
n
(Christianity, historical) A school of theology in the 4th and 5th centuries which spread over the whole Graeco-Syrian Church, and was a revolt against the allegorical interpretation of Scripture favoured by the Alexandrian school.
n
(religion) Beliefs and practices of an anythingarian.
n
(historical, theology) Apollinarism
adj
Of or pertaining to the Catholic missions.
adj
(Christianity) apostolic
n
One who follows the Christology of Arianism.
n
(Protestantism) A person who follows the soteriological doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius that people are able to choose to resist or accept divine grace and therefore faith and salvation through free will.
n
(Christianity) A member of the Protestant denomination founded by Jacobus Arminius.
n
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian and founder of Arminianism.
n
(Christianity, historical) A member of a Proto-Protestant Christian movement of the 12th century that opposed infant baptism, the Eucharist, and the material wealth of the Roman Catholic Church.
n
(Christianity) specifically, the believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.
n
(Christianity) A member of the Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption, a worldwide congregation of Catholic priests and brothers.
n
(Christianity) A supporter of the Athanasian Creed.
n
(historical, Christianity) The religious beliefs of the Audians.
n
The doctrines and practices of the Augustinians.
adj
(Christianity, of a church) Fully independent of the authority of any other church.
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Baptist worship service similar to that of charismatic churches, especially in the use of high-tempo contemporary Christian music, raising of hands, and spontaneous shouts.
n
Alternative spelling of baptizand [A person about to submit to baptism.]
n
A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
n
(Christianity) Christian martyrdom
n
(Christianity) The grace given to a believer who ardently desires baptism, but dies before being able to receive it.
n
(Christianity) The gift of the Holy Spirit.
n
A name given at baptism (christening).
adj
Of or for baptism; baptismal.
n
(Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
n
A person about to submit to baptism.
n
One who undergoes baptism.
n
(historical) An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Basilidean sect.
n
(religion) The practices and beliefs of the Benedictine order.
n
The religious practices of the Bereans.
n
(derogatory) A Christian fundamentalist or overzealous evangelical Christian.
n
(Christianity, historical) A Catholic schism that emerged in the early 19th century among exiled French clergy who, having fled to England after the French Revolution, opposed the Concordat of 1801, an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that sought national reconciliation between the revolutionaries and the Church.
n
(religion, historical) The martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered to have been baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.
n
The doctrines or actions of the Bollandists.
n
Someone who has been spiritually changed through their (Christian) faith.
n
(Protestantism) Members of any congregation in the Anabaptist tradition of the Schwarzenau Brethren, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, some of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.
n
(Anglicanism) The movement to latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England; collectively, those people engaged in the movement.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Buchmanites.
n
(historical, Protestantism) A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists, founded by Jeremiah Bullock, which branched out to a small number of congregations in Maine and New Hampshire.
n
The system of Christian mysticism introduced by Jakob Böhme (1575–1624).
n
(derogatory) The practice of picking and choosing which Catholic teachings to follow, while disregarding the others.
n
(derogatory) An adherent of cafeteria Christianity.
n
(derogatory) A moderate form of Christianity whose adherents pick and choose which doctrines to respect and follow, avoiding what is controversial or unpleasant.
n
(Christianity, humorous) A period of religious zeal following a religious conversion, often perceived as arrogant.
adj
(historical) Pertaining to Utraquism.
n
The Christian religious tradition based upon the doctrines and forms of Christian practice of several Protestant reformers, especially John Calvin, in contrast to Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anabaptism, and Arminianism. One distinctive trait of the system is its Augustinian doctrine of predestination, which teaches that God has elected some for salvation, apart from anything they do or believe.
adj
Of or pertaining to a Calvinist or Calvinists.
n
A follower of Richard Cameron (Covenanter) (1648?–1680), a leader of the militant Presbyterians, known as Covenanters, who resisted attempts by the Stuart monarchs to control the affairs of the Church of Scotland.
n
(religion, historical) The Restoration Movement.
n
(US) A member of any of various religious groups historically descended from the nineteenth-century Restoration Movement.
n
(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) Belief in transubstantiation.
n
(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) A believer in transubstantiation.
adj
(Christianity) Of, relating to, or characteristic of a cardinal.
n
The religious beliefs of the Carthusians.
n
(obsolete) Opposition to baptism; the religious position of a Catabaptist.
n
(obsolete) One who opposes baptism.
n
(historical) A Christian religious sect of mediaeval Europe, with dualistic and gnostic elements; condemned as a heresy by Pope Innocent III in 1209.
adj
Of or relating to Catharism.
n
(Christianity) The cathedral system.
adj
(obsolete) Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.
adj
Obsolete form of catholic. [Universal; all-encompassing.]
n
Conversion to or adoption of the Catholic faith.
n
The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church.
n
(colloquial, derogatory, Christianity) A Catholic person
adj
Alternative form of cenobitic [Of or pertaining to a cenobite]
adj
Accepting the Christological definition dogmatized at Chalcedon.
n
The religious doctrine of the Chalcedonians.
n
(derogatory) enthusiasm for the Christian Charismatic Movement
n
A member of the Charismatic Movement.
n
(Christianity) A Pentecostal movement within mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches.
n
A member of a particular nontrinitarian Christian denomination founded in the mid-19th century.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Christadelphians.
adj
Focused on Christianity; having a Christian point of view.
n
Alternative spelling of Christocentrism [A form of Christianity that concentrates on the teaching of Jesus Christ.]
n
(Internet slang, religious slur, offensive, nonstandard, rare) A Christian.
n
Alternative form of Christendom [The Christian world.]
adj
Obsolete form of Christian. [(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.]
n
(now rare) The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith.
n
The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name.
n
(sometimes derogatory) A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
n
(Internet slang, vulgar, derogatory) An overzealous Christian.
n
(rare, evangelical US Christianity) Alternative form of Christ-follower (“follower of Christ; Christian”)
n
(religion) A Christian church comprising the members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, founded by Mary Baker Eddy.
n
Synonym of Christian Science
n
A member of the Christian Science denomination.
n
A person or group of people that believe in the use of force with arms to do God's work.
adj
Befitting a Christian.
n
(Christianity, informal, slang) The terms, catchphrases and theological jargon used by some Christians, commonly from Christian theology and influenced by popular translations of the Bible.
n
Obsolete form of christening. [The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name.]
adj
Characteristic or resembling a Christian.
n
The Christian religion; Christianity.
n
One who espouses or practices Christianism.
adj
Relating to Christianism.
n
The state or quality of being Christian.
adj
Centred on or overemphasizing Christianity and/or Christians.
n
One who loves or admires Christians, Christianity or Christian culture.
n
Love or admiration of (the values of) Christianity or of Christian civilization.
n
A person who hates or fears Christ, Christians, or the Christian religion.
n
The fear or hatred of Christians or Christianity.
adj
Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.
n
Alternative form of Christocentrism [A form of Christianity that concentrates on the teaching of Jesus Christ.]
n
A person involved in Christology.
n
(uncountable) A field of study within Christian theology which is concerned with the nature of Jesus Christ, particularly with how the divine and human are related in his person.
n
A fanatical devotion to Jesus Christ.
n
A form of neopaganism influenced by Christianity.
n
(religion) The Christian church that comprises living people on Earth, which is supposed to be engaged in constant warfare against its enemies, and is thus distinguished from the Church Triumphant in Heaven.
n
Any of several Protestant Christian churches or church organizations.
n
(Scientology) the largest organisation promoting Scientology.
n
The religious practices and customs of the Church of England.
n
(derogatory) A person whose religious practices exhibit Churchianity.
n
(derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that place a larger emphasis on the habits of church life or the institutional traditions of the church than on theology and spiritual teachings of Jesus; the quality of being too church-focused.
adj
(comparative religion) Participating in the world at large; ecumenical, mainstream, non-insular.
n
Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Cistercian monastic order.
n
(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
n
Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.
n
(Christianity, historical) A member of an association of Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland, founded in 1619, who held a college (meeting) on the first Sunday of each month at which everyone had the same liberty of expounding the scripture and praying.
n
The religious beliefs and practices of the Collegiants.
n
(Christianity, historical, mostly plural) A member of the Collyridianism movement.
n
(Christianity, historical) An alleged Early Christian heretical movement in Arabia whose adherents apparently worshipped the Virgin Mary as a goddess.
n
(Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
n
The doctrine that the highest ecclesiastical authority is an ecumenical council (rather than a pope).
n
(religion) A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism.
n
A system of self-governing Protestant churches
n
(theology) The theological understanding and foundation of Methodist polity, as practised in the British Methodist Church, the American United Methodist Church, and many of the countries where Methodism was established by their missionaries.
n
A Roman Catholic council held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy, as a response to the Protestant Reformation.
n
A person who has been raised in the Catholic faith since birth (in contrast to a person who has converted to the faith). It is usually implicit that the person has not lapsed in the faith.
n
(Christianity) Practice of the credobaptists; belief that baptism is only to be administered to those who profess their faith.
n
(religion) One who holds that baptism should only be performed on those who have professed faith in the Christian religion and understand the significance of the rite.
n
(historical) Support for Oliver Cromwell.
adj
Focused on Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection as the core concept.
n
The practise or doctrine of militaristic Christianity.
adj
Crusader (attributive); pertaining to or studying the Crusades.
n
(Christianity) Abbreviation of communion without baptism.
n
A ceremony supposed to cancel a person's earlier baptism.
n
A self-help system designed by L. Ron Hubbard which is chiefly employed today in Scientology.
n
A breakaway faction of Scientology, formed by Jack Horner in 1965 and later renamed Eductivism.
n
Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.
n
(Christianity) One who disciples.
n
(Christianity, historical) The followers of the Christian heresy of docetism.
n
(Christianity, historical) One of a group of Christians in fourth-century North Africa who broke away as a group after opposing the appointment of Caecilianus as Bishop of Carthage, and who disputed the validity of baptisms performed by others.
n
(historical) A policy by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenots to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
adj
Druidic; pertaining to the Druids.
n
The religion, philosophical beliefs, and attendant ritual practices of the druids.
n
One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Dunkers.
n
The Pentecostal theology of William Howard Durham (1873–1912).
n
(Roman Catholicism, dated) Support for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.
n
The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
adj
(Christianity, historical) Having the religious views of the Ebionites.
n
(Christianity) A church council to which bishops from the entire world are invited, held by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians to be infallible in its decisions on faith and morals when certain conditions are met.
n
The religious beliefs and principles of Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (1703–1758), American revivalist, preacher, and theologian.
n
A member of a splinter group of puritans led by Cotton Mather.
n
The doctrine of the Encratites.
n
(historical) One of an ascetic 2nd-century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat.
n
The doctrines and practices of Episcopalians.
n
The doctrines or practices of the Essenes.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of eucharistic [(Christianity) Pertaining to the Eucharist.]
n
(historical) A member of an ancient mystical sect condemned as heretics.
n
The role or status of an evangelist.
n
One who was formerly a god or revered as such.
n
(religion, historical) A powerful movement within the Roman Catholic Church in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century, directed towards the nationalizing of Catholicism, the restriction of the power of the papacy in favour of that of the episcopate, and the reunion of the dissident churches with Catholic Christendom.
n
(historical, Christianity) A member of an extreme Puritan sect active from 1649 to 1660.
n
(Christianity, theology, informal) The Christus Victor theory of atonement.
n
The religious beliefs and practices of the Franciscan order.
n
(religion) A General Baptist Christian denomination and group of people that believes in free grace, free salvation and free will.
adj
(sometimes derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of both evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.
n
The beliefs or activities of the Galileans.
n
(Christianity) A liturgical feature distinctive of the Gallican Rite.
n
(Christianity, historical) A member of a theological party in the Lutheran churches, in opposition to the Philippists after the death of Martin Luther and before the Formula of Concord.
n
(informal, derogatory) Christians who proselytize.
n
A person who preaches from the Gospels
adj
(Christianity) Like a proper Christian; according to the gospel.
n
(Christianity) The supposed fallen state of traditional Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, as a result of tolerating the Greco-Roman mysteries and deities of solar monism.
n
(Christianity, historical) A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, descending from God through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals, and thought in medieval times to have been decreed by God.
n
(Christianity, historical) A split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417.
n
A member of an antinomian religious group in seventeenth-century England, which believed in the primacy of God's spirit over the word of the Bible and questioned the authority of ordination.
n
(historical) The antinomian beliefs and practice of the Grindletonians, who flourished in England during the seventeenth century.
n
(historical) The beliefs of the Guelphs (medieval Italian faction that supported the Pope against the Ghibellines and the German emperors).
n
(religion) A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister Joseph John Gurney, generally following evangelical doctrines on Jesus Christ, the Atonement, and the Bible.
n
A short private baptism, formerly used where an infant was at risk of imminent death.
n
(Christianity, historical) A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but unconverted parents to present their own children for baptism, but denying them the other privileges of church membership.
v
(religion) To be a firm believer in the Christian faith.
n
(religion, historical) The religion of the Hemerobaptists.
n
(religion, historical) A member of an ancient religious group who repeated a baptismal (bathing) rite every day.
n
Alternative spelling of Hesychast [(ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.]
adj
Of or relating to Hierax (ascetic).
n
The form of Christianity practised by High Churchmen.
n
(now chiefly historical) The principles or doctrines of a high churchman; Anglican ritualism, Anglo-Catholicism.
n
The spirit and policy of Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII, 1073-85); unbending assertion of the power of the church, etc.
n
1581, Glanvill, Joseph, Saducismus triumphatus, pages 125-126:
n
(Christianity) A Wesleyan-Arminian set of Christian beliefs and practices that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism and emphasize the doctrine of a second work of grace leading to Christian perfection.
n
(informal, derogatory) A devoutly religious Christian person.
n
(theology) Homoean beliefs.
n
The religion or doctrine of the Huguenots
n
(Christianity, historical) A religious reform and nationalistic movement of the Bohemian Reformation, based on the teachings of Jan Hus.
n
A member of a communal branch of Anabaptists founded by Jakob Hutter.
n
(Gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.
n
Alternative form of hypochristian [(slang, derogatory) A Christian who behaves contrary to Christian tenets or values.]
n
Alternative form of hypochristian [(slang, derogatory) A Christian who behaves contrary to Christian tenets or values.]
n
(religion) Baptism administered to somebody who may or may not have been baptized before.
n
(theology) The doctrine that immersion is an essential part of Christian baptism.
n
(theology) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is an essential part of Christian baptism.
n
The Methodist pastorate, or itinerant preaching in general.
n
(Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. [from 15th c.]
n
The Catholic doctrines of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination; condemned as a heresy by Pope Innocent X in 1653
adj
of, relating to, or characteristic of this society or its members
adj
Of or relating to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
n
(Christianity) The principles and practices of the Jesuits.
n
Jesuitism; subtle argument.
n
(informal) A form of Christian religion focusing on Jesus to the exclusion of God.
n
The beliefs of the Joachimites.
n
A sect which worships John the Baptist
n
The theology of Saint Joseph.
n
(historical) Jovinianist doctrines
n
(historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
n
(historical) The religious practices of the jumpers (Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions).
n
(theology) Someone or something (of disputed identity) whose removal is necessary before the Antichrist can be fully manifested, according to 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 in the Bible.
n
One who practises, or is knowledgeable of and/or able in the kerygmata; a Christian preacher; an evangelist.
n
(Christianity) One who supports the principles of the Keswick Convention.
n
(Protestantism, derogatory) The religious practices associated with the Keswick Convention, in particular the holiness doctrine that also asserts that full perfection in human life is prevented by sin.
n
(historical, Christianity) A member of the Methodist New Connexion, a Protestant nonconformist church formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists.
n
(Christianity, historical) The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.
n
(Christianity, historical) The political and religious movement of the Lollards.
n
That portion or group of the Anglican Church who diminish the importance of the priesthood, sacraments, and ceremonial in worship and often to emphasize evangelical principles.
n
Lurianic beliefs and practices
n
Martin Luther, German monk and theologian whose teaching inspired the Reformation
n
(Christianity) A member of any of the Christian churches which identify with the theology of Martin Luther.
adj
Of or relating to Lutheranism.
n
The Christian denomination based on the beliefs and doctrines developed by Martin Luther and his immediate followers.
adj
(uncommon) Lutheran; promoting Lutheranism
n
(rare, possibly derogatory) A Lutheran; a proponent of Lutheranism.
n
(Christianity, historical) A fourth-century Christian heresy that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit (also called Pneumatomachi).
n
(historical, Christianity) An opponent of the established church in the Marprelate Controversy.
n
Teachings and doctrine developed by the theurgist and theosopher Martinez de Pasqually. It is the first branch of Martinism.
n
A form of mystical and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his state of material privation from his divine source, and the process of his return, influenced by Freemasonry.
adj
Pertaining to Martinism.
n
A custom or belief from the Middle Ages.
n
(historical, rare) Support for the imperial Byzantine church and the Council of Chalcedon during the Monophysite controversies from the 5th century onwards.
n
A member of any of a group of Protestant churches or denominations in the Anabaptist tradition, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, many of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.
n
The beliefs and practices of Mennonites.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Messalians.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A Methodist.
n
The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
n
A member of the Methodist Church; a Wesleyan.
n
The Christian Church based upon Methodism
n
(New Zealand, archaic) A convert to Christianity.
n
(Christianity) The religious beliefs of the Millerites.
adj
(Christianity) Of or relating to the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.
n
(Christianity) The beliefs and practices of the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.
n
(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
n
(Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
n
The beliefs of the Monarchians.
adj
Alternative form of monastic [Of or relating to monasteries or monks.]
n
(religion) The practice of renouncing all worldly pursuits in order to fully devote one's life to spiritual work.
n
(Christianity) The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs.
n
The religious system of the Moravians.
adj
(by extension) Adhering more stringently to any norm more strictly than is required by the arbiters of the norm.
n
A member of the Evangelical Union, formed in 1843 by the Reverend James Morison (1816-93), after his separation from the United Secession Church.
n
(historical) A member of a small Protestant Christian sect most prominent in 17th- and 18th-century England.
n
(historical) The beliefs and practices of the Muggletonian religious sect.
n
(Christianity) A movement of Victorian origin stressing the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity.
n
(historical) The hegemony of the Catholic Church over all aspects of public and private life, one aspect of Francoism.
adj
(Roman Catholicism) Of or pertaining to the Neocatechumenal Way, a community-based Catholic movement founded in Madrid in 1964.
n
A movement in Italy that seeks the active presence of the Catholic Church in politics
n
The modern practice of living in religious or spiritual communities that have monastic elements but are not limited to a specific church or denomination.
n
(religion) (abbreviated NRM) Any religious community or spiritual group of modern origins, having a peripheral place within its nation's dominant religious culture.
n
Any number of Christian revivals and New Christian movements.
adj
(derogatory) Describing Christians or forms of Christianity seen as being marked by liberalism, influence from modern concepts and trends, novelty etc. and disregard for established or traditional beliefs and practices.
n
(historical, Christianity) A member of the New Church; a Swedenborgian.
n
The beliefs and practices of Nicodemites.
n
A particular Christian heresy (in the early church)
n
The beliefs of the Nicolaitans, an early Christian group or sect.
n
(historical) The practices of the Nicolaitan sect; libertinism, especially among the clergy; clerical marriage.
adj
relating to the heresiarch Novatian (see above) and/or his schismatic sect, Novatianism
n
(historical, Christianity) A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century.
n
(historical) A religious supporter of Obbe Philips (ca. 1500–1568), one of the early founders of Dutch Anabaptism.
n
The religious beliefs and practices of the Observants.
n
(Christianity) The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ.
adj
(Christian theology) One of the attributes of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.
n
(Christianity) The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization composed of a prelate, secular clergy and lay people, whose mission is to spread the Catholic teaching that everyone is called to become a saint; its lay members, men and women, engage in the affairs of the world and seek to direct them "according to God's will".
n
(Catholicism, religion, particularly) The doctrine that all souls are created by God prior to conception, also condemned as anathema at the Synod of Constantinople
n
(Catholicism, religion) A follower of Origenism.
n
(historical) A member of the Orphism religious movement.
n
(religion) Strict orthodoxy.
n
Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).
n
The baptism of infants or young children.
n
Alternative form of pedobaptist [One who advocates or practises infant baptism.]
n
A pagan ritual analogous to baptism for infants.
n
(Christianity) The beliefs and practices of the Palamites.
n
A person who carries out parabaptisms
n
A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War.
adj
(Christianity) Relating to the second coming of Christ.
n
(historical) A member of an English Baptist sect arising in the seventeenth century which believed in particular redemption.
adj
Believing in Patripassianism.
adj
Of or pertaining to the fathers of the early Christian church, especially their writings.
n
The mode of thought of the fathers of the early Christian church.
n
A Christian doctrine, interpreted among Catholics and some Protestants as allowing the dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons in the case that one (but not both) of the partners seeks baptism and converts to Christianity and the other partner leaves the marriage.
n
The teaching or theology of the apostle Paul.
n
(Christianity, historical) A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.
adj
Relating to the baptism of infants.
n
A member of a Pentecostal church.
n
Christian religious movement that emphasizes the Holy Spirit and is known for speaking in tongues.
n
A member of the Pentecostalism movement.
adj
(chiefly Christianity) Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning; self-righteous, hypocritical.
n
The doctrines and practices, or the character and spirit, of the Pharisees.
adj
(dated) Following the practice of Pharisees; pharisaic.
n
Obsolete form of Pharisean. [(dated) A Pharisee.]
n
(Christianity, historical) The beliefs of the Philippists.
n
(Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
n
(historical, Christianity) A stylite.
n
(religion) The beliefs of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative evangelical Christian movement.
n
(religion) A supporter of Plymouthism.
n
(informal) A person who has been disfellowshipped from the Jehovah's Witnesses, but who still believes in the religion, and would like to be reinstated in the congregation.
adj
(religion) After the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
n
A form of Protestant Christianity based on Calvinism.
n
One who follows the cult of Elvis Presley, especially in the southern United States.
n
A member of an early evangelical form of Methodism.
adj
(Christianity) Of or pertaining to several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation.
n
The beliefs held by the Protestant churches.
n
A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Puritans.
n
The principles of Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), English churchman and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
n
(historical, sometimes derogatory) One who holds the principles of Puseyism.
n
Obsolete spelling of paedobaptism [The baptism of infants or young children.]
n
Obsolete form of pedobaptist. [One who advocates or practises infant baptism.]
adj
(dated) Suggesting or pertaining to the Quakers.
n
The Religious Society of Friends.
n
The doctrines of the Quartodecimans.
n
(historical, religion) The beliefs and principles of the Rappists, or Harmonists.
n
(obsolete) A second baptism.
n
Alternative form of rebaptizer [One who rebaptizes.]
n
A second or subsequent baptism; the act or ceremony of rebaptizing.
adj
Relating to rebaptism.
n
Alternative form of rebaptisation [(obsolete) A second baptism.]
n
A member of a non-denominational movement within Christianity, especially evangelicalism, that emphasises political activism on issues of social justice about which Jesus has made pronouncements.
adj
Of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation.
n
(Christianity, historical) Synonym of regionarius (“type of Roman Catholic ecclesiastic”)
n
(Christianity, historical) A Scottish Presbyterian denomination founded in 1761, which united with the United Secession Church in 1847 to form the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
n
(Christianity, historical) A religious follower of James Relly, who maintained the doctrine of universal restoration, upon high Calvinistic principles.
n
(Protestantism, historical) A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group.
n
The religious beliefs of the Remonstrants.
n
(specifically) A movement that rejects much or all of contemporary Christianity and advocates a return to what is viewed as Jesus's original teachings. The Mormons are an example of a restorationist church.
n
(US) An evangelistic preacher.
n
(historical) The belief of the Rigdonites.
n
The theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889), German Protestant theologian.
n
The beliefs or religion of the Roman Catholic Church.
n
A theology of a secret society of mystics, allegedly formed in late medieval Germany by Christian Rosenkreutz, and using the rose cross as their symbol.
n
The beliefs of the Rosminians.
n
The activities and mission of Rotary Clubs.
n
(informal, historical) A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War.
n
(Christianity) One of the German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy Eucharist.
n
The practices, beliefs, or characteristics of the Sadducees.
n
The faith or system of the Sandemanians.
adj
(Christianity) Rescued from the consequences of sin.
n
A belief system with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.
n
One who adheres literally to the Scriptures.
n
(Christianity) A person who carries out his or her own baptism.
n
Alternative form of self religion [(religion) A religious self-improvement group.]
n
The beliefs and practices of the Sethians.
n
The beliefs and practices of the Setians.
n
(Christianity) The doctrines of the Shakers.
n
(religion, uncommon) simony
n
(Christianity) One who engages in simony, the purchase of church offices.
n
(historical) A group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.
n
The tenets or doctrines of the Socinians.
n
The beliefs or doctrines of the solifidians.
n
(Christianity) One who proselytises.
n
A member of a particular Baptist denomination based in the United States.
n
The belief or doctrine of the stercoranists.
n
(historical, derogatory) The doctrine or belief of the stercoranists.
n
(Protestantism) The beliefs and practices of the Stundists.
n
(Christianity, historical) A Christian ascetic in ancient times who lived alone on top of a tall pillar.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Talibangelical [(US, slang, politics, derogatory) Of, relating to, or espousing strong right-wing evangelical Christian views.]
n
(religion, Christianity) A gathering of Christian worshipers in a tent erected specifically for revival meetings, evangelism, and healing crusades.
adj
Relating to, or characteristic of, Saint Teresa of Ávila.
n
(historical, Christianity) The beliefs of the Tertullianists.
n
In Eastern Orthodox usage, a person who has had direct experience of and unity with God.
n
(derogatory, Christianity) An infidel (in reference to the doubting Apostle).
n
(Christianity, historical) A scheme devised in 17th-century England by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to establish absolute monarchy in England, involving the appointment of Arminian clergy.
adj
(loosely) Having the aforementioned qualities, but broadly applied to all Christian sects or believers deemed particularly traditional and anti-modernist.
n
(Christianity) The miracle itself.
adj
(Christianity) Aligned with the traditionalist Catholic movement.
n
(historical, Christianity) A rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.
n
(historical) One of a sect of strict Anabaptists whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists, with the additional doctrine that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved.
n
A ceremony intended to reverse baptism.
n
Alternative spelling of Uniate Church [Any of several Christian Churches, mostly from Eastern Europe, that are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, but use their own language and customs.]
n
A member of a Uniate Church
n
John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
n
The theological system propounded by John Wesley; commonly called Methodism.
n
The form of Christianity traditionally practiced in Western Europe, consisting essentially of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, and Old Catholic traditions.
n
(Wicca) A Wiccan ritual analogous to baptism for infants.
n
A follower of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend; a member of the Universal Friends.
n
(rare) The religious beliefs and practices of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, and of the Society of Universal Friends.
n
A member of the Churches of God General Conference (Winebrenner), an Evangelical Christian denomination in the United States originating in the revivalism and evangelistic efforts of John Winebrenner.
n
(Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist.
n
A member of Youth With A Mission, an interdenominational Christian missionary organization.
n
(historical) Alternative letter-case form of zealot [One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.]
n
A zealot; the male counterpart of a zelatrix.
adj
Characteristic of zealots, especially those that were part of rebellious movements in biblical times.
adj
Relating or referring to Zwingli, his beliefs, or his followers and adherents.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 7 letters and means "Relating to marshes or swamps." Can you find it?