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CHAPTER XXIV
FOR MINISTERS
[Sidenote: The Great Preachers]
The minister or candidate for the ministry will find a valuable course
of reading laid out for him in this Guide under the heading _Bible
Study_, and it might be said with little exaggeration that _any_
systematic course of reading in the Encyclopaedia Britannica should add
to the efficiency and power of one who would be an ideal pastor. If the
schools of the Middle Ages could truly call all the arts and sciences
hand-maids and helpers to Theology, much more truly, in the present age,
should the minister, in order that he may minister truly, know not
merely the history of the Bible and of the Church, the results of modern
criticism, and of comparative religion and folk-lore, but, almost as
fully, general history, literature, philosophy, psychology, education,
something of the fine arts, much of law and political science, and still
more of social science and economics. In a period of specialization he
cannot afford to be a specialist—or, it might be nearer the truth to say
that, like every other true specialist, he must make all knowledge, all
the circle of the sciences, tributary to his specialty, which is the
knowledge and the improvement of the human soul. The suggestions that
follow must necessarily be fragmentary, and should be considered as
including merely a few topics not covered in the chapter on _Bible
Study_ nor in the other courses which, as has just been suggested, a
minister might profitably pursue.
The article SERMON (Vol. 24, p. 673) is by Edmund Gosse, librarian of
the House of Lords, biographer of John Donne, Jeremy Taylor and Dr.
Thomas Browne. The writer is especially conversant with the English
literature of the 17th century, in the middle of which, to quote his
article, “the sermon became one of the most highly-cultivated forms of
intellectual entertainment in Great Britain, and when the theatres were
closed at the Commonwealth it grew to be the only public form of
eloquence.”
Each name on the following list of great preachers is accompanied by
volume and page reference to the biographical sketch in the Britannica,
containing criticism of the preacher and a bibliography of his works and
of works about him, so that the articles supply the basis for a study of
the world’s great preachers.
_British._
JOHN WYCLIFFE (Vol. 28, p. 868)
JOHN FISHER (Vol. 10, p. 427)
HUGH LATIMER (Vol. 16, p. 242)
JOHN KNOX (Vol. 15, p. 878)
RICHARD HOOKER (Vol. 13, p. 672)
JOHN DONNE (Vol. 8, p. 417)
JOSEPH HALL (Vol. 12, p. 847)
JOHN HALES (Vol. 12, p. 834)
EDMUND CALAMY (Vol. 4, p. 967)
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE (Vol. 28, p. 587)
THOMAS ADAMS (Vol. 1, p. 180)
RICHARD BAXTER (Vol. 3, p. 551)
THOMAS MANTON (Vol. 17, p. 607)
JOHN OWEN (Vol. 20, p. 392)
RALPH CUDWORTH (Vol. 7, p. 612)
ROBERT LEIGHTON (Vol. 16, p. 398)
JEREMY TAYLOR (Vol. 26, p. 469)
ISAAC BARROW (Vol. 3, p. 440)
ROBERT SOUTH (Vol. 25, p. 463)
JOHN TILLOTSON (Vol. 26, p. 976)
EDWARD STILLINGFLEET (Vol. 25, p. 921)
BENJAMIN HOADLY (Vol. 13, p. 542)
JOSEPH BUTLER (Vol. 4, p. 882)
THOMAS BOSTON (Vol. 4, p. 289)
JOHN WESLEY (Vol. 28, p. 527)
GEORGE WHITEFIELD (Vol. 28, p. 603)
THOMAS CHALMERS (Vol. 5, p. 809)
EDWARD IRVING (Vol. 14, p, 854)
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON (Vol. 25, p. 742)
EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY (Vol. 22, p. 667)
JOHN KEBLE (Vol. 15, p. 710)
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (Vol. 19, p. 517)
HENRY EDWARD MANNING (Vol. 17, p. 589)
JOHN CLIFFORD (Vol. 6, p. 507)
GEORGE MÜLLER (Vol. 18, p. 961)
FREDERICK TEMPLE (Vol. 26, p. 600)
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT (Vol. 26, p. 363)
BENJAMIN JOWETT (Vol. 15, p. 527)
ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY (Vol. 25, p. 777)
J. F. D. MAURICE (Vol. 17, p. 910)
HUGH PRICE HUGHES (Vol. 13, p. 860)
ANDREW M. FAIRBAIRN (Vol. 10, p. 129)
NORMAN MACLEOD (Vol. 17, p. 262)
_American._
COTTON MATHER (Vol. 17, p. 883)
INCREASE MATHER (Vol. 17, p. 884)
RICHARD MATHER (Vol. 17, p. 885)
JONATHAN EDWARDS (Vol. 9, p. 2)
JOHN CARROLL (Vol. 5, p. 409)
J. L. A. M. L. DE CHEVERUS (Vol. 6, p. 114)
S. W. G. BRUTÉ (Vol. 4, p. 695)
JOHN WITHERSPOON (Vol. 28, p. 759)
JOHN WOOLMAN (Vol. 28, p. 817)
SAMUEL SEABURY (Vol. 24, p. 531)
FRANCIS ASBURY (Vol. 2, p. 715)
PETER CARTWRIGHT (Vol. 5, p. 435)
MATTHEW SIMPSON (Vol. 25, p. 135)
DEMETRIUS A. GALLITZIN (Vol. 11, p. 421)
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (Vol. 5, p. 127)
JOHN WINEBRENNER (Vol. 28, p. 729)
WILLIAM A. MUHLENBERG (Vol. 18, p. 957)
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (Vol. 5, p. 843)
G. W. DOANE (Vol. 8, p. 349)
EDWARD PAYSON (Vol. 21, p. 2)
ADONIRAM JUDSON (Vol. 15, p. 543)
JOHN HUGHES (Vol. 13, p. 860)
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER (Vol. 1, p. 564)
MOSES STUART (Vol. 25, p. 1048)
NATHANIEL W. TAYLOR (Vol. 26, p. 472)
LEONARD BACON (Vol. 3, p. 152)
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE (Vol. 6, p. 444)
HENRY WARD BEECHER (Vol. 3, p. 639)
HOSEA BALLOU (Vol. 3, p. 282)
HORACE BUSHNELL (Vol. 4, p. 873)
PHILLIPS BROOKS (Vol. 4, p. 649)
EDWARD EVERETT HALE (Vol. 12, p. 832)
R. S. STORRS (Vol. 25, p. 969)
CHARLES FORCE DEEMS (Vol. 7, p. 921)
EDWARDS AMASA PARK (Vol. 20, p. 825)
DAVID SWING (Vol. 26, p. 237)
MICHAEL AUGUSTINE CORRIGAN (Vol. 7, p. 197)
JAMES GIBBONS (Vol. 11, p. 936)
T. DEWITT TALMAGE (Vol. 26, p. 380)
ISAAC T. HECKER (Vol. 13, p. 194)
ROBERT COLLYER (Vol. 6, p. 694)
HENRY C. MCCOOK (Vol. 17, p. 205)
JOHN FLETCHER HURST (Vol. 13, p. 960)
DWIGHT L. MOODY (Vol. 18, p. 802)
WASHINGTON GLADDEN (Vol. 12, p. 63)
JOHN IRELAND (Vol. 14, p. 742)
JOHN JOSEPH KEANE (Vol. 15, p. 706)
MINOT J. SAVAGE (Vol. 24, p. 239)
REUBEN ARCHER TORREY (Vol. 27, p. 61)
_French._
JOHN GERSON (Vol. 11, p. 904)
JOHN CALVIN (Vol. 5, p. 71)
THEODORE BEZA (Vol. 3, p. 839)
ST. FRANCIS OF SALES (Vol. 10, p. 940)
J. B. BOSSUET (Vol. 4, p. 287)
LOUIS BOURDALOUS (Vol. 4, p. 329)
ESPRIT FLÉCHIER (Vol. 10, p. 491)
JULES MASCARON (Vol. 17, p. 836)
JEAN BAPTISTE MASSILLON (Vol. 17, p. 867)
JEAN SIFFREIN MAURY (Vol. 17, p. 915)
These lists could easily be made longer and fuller, but the articles
mentioned give such a view of the great preachers of the world as cannot
fail to stimulate any minister. Supplementing what has been said above
about the necessity of the minister’s being a well-rounded man, it may
be worth while to notice that Donne and Keble and, in a less degree,
Doane and Muhlenberg, were poets as well as preachers; that Cudworth was
known as the founder of the Cambridge Platonists, and Jowett as the
translator of Plato, Barrow as a mathematician, second, in his day, only
to Isaac Newton, Edward Everett Hale as an essayist and writer of short
stories, and McCook as a great naturalist.
The minister will find the Britannica an excellent encyclopaedia of
comparative religion and of church history, with the newest and most
authoritative information on any subject in this field. For a brief
outline course in these topics let him read:
The article RELIGION (Vol. 23, p. 61; equivalent to 50 pages of this
Guide), by Dr. Joseph Estlin Carpenter, principal of Manchester College,
Oxford, and Robert R. Marett, fellow and tutor of Exeter College,
Oxford, author of the _Threshold of Religion_ and contributor to the
Britannica of articles on PRAYER, RITUAL, etc. This article is made up
of: a general introduction sketching the history of the study of
religions, especially in the last century, and concluding that “the
origin of religion can never be determined archaeologically or
historically; it must be sought conjecturally through psychology”; a
section on primitive religion, which is a remarkable summary of all that
is known of this subject; and a section on the higher religions which
discusses developments of animism, transition to polytheism, polytheism,
the order of nature (a half-way stage to monotheism), monotheism,
classification of religions, revelation, ethics and eschatology and
bibliography.
Another class of articles comprises ANCESTOR WORSHIP, ANIMAL WORSHIP,
ANIMISM, FETISHISM, FOLKLORE, MAGIC, MYTHOLOGY, PRAYER, RITUAL,
SACRIFICE, SERPENT-WORSHIP, TOTEMISM and TREE-WORSHIP, written by such
authorities as N. W. Thomas, author of _Kinship and Marriage in
Australia_, etc., Andrew Lang, Stanley Arthur Cooke and R. R. Marett.
Certain primitive religions are separately treated, as in the article
INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN (Vol. 14, especially pages 471–473), by A. F.
Chamberlain, assistant professor of anthropology, Clark University,
Worcester; in the article AUSTRALIA (Vol. 2, especially p. 957); in the
article _Hawaii_ (Vol. 13, pages 87, 88).
On higher religions there are the following separate articles (among
many):
BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN RELIGION, by Morris Jastrow of the University of
Pennsylvania; and the articles ANAI, ISHTAR, EA, MARDUK, ASSUR and
GILGAMESH,—all by the same author and all of particular value as
throwing sidelights on Hebrew Religion.
EGYPT (Vol. 9, pp. 48–56), by Allan H. Gardiner, editor of the _New_
(Berlin) _Hieroglyphic Dictionary_.
HEBREW RELIGION (Vol. 13, p. 176; equivalent to 40 pages of this Guide),
by Dr. Owen Charles Whitehouse, professor of Hebrew, Cheshunt College,
Cambridge; and the articles _Hebrew Literature_, _Jews_, etc.
BRAHMANISM (Vol. 4, p. 381) and HINDUISM (Vol. 13, p. 501), by Julius
Eggeling, Professor of Sanskrit, Edinburgh.
BUDDHISM, BUDDHA and LAMAISM, by T. W. Rhys Davids, author of _Buddhist
India_, etc.
CONFUCIUS, by James Legge, author of _The Religions of China_.
SIKHISM, by Max Macauliffe, whose book _The Sikh Religion_ is accepted
by the Sikhs as authoritative.
ZOROASTER, by Karl Geldner, professor at Marburg, and the article
PARSEES.
MAHOMMEDAN RELIGION (Vol. 17, p. 417; equivalent to 45 pages in this
Guide), by G. W. Thatcher, warden of Camden College, Sydney.
MAHOMET, by D. S. Margoliouth, Laudian professor of Arabic, Oxford;
MAHOMMEDAN INSTITUTIONS and MAHOMMEDAN LAWS, by D. S. Macdonald,
professor of Semitic languages, Hartford Theological Seminary.
BÁBIISM, by E. G. Browne, professor of Arabic, Cambridge, and author of
_History of the Báb_.
GREEK RELIGION (Vol. 12, p. 527), by L. R. Farnell, fellow of Exeter
College, Oxford, author of _Cults of the Greek States_; and such
articles as DEMETER, HECATE, HERA, HERMES, HESTIA, NIKE, PHOEBUS, THEMIS
and ZEUS.
ROMAN RELIGION (Vol. 23, p. 577), by Cyril Bailey, fellow of Balliol
College, Oxford, and author of _The Religion of Ancient Rome_; and such
articles as ANNA PERENNA, ARVAL BROTHERS, BONA DEA, CONCORDIA, FAMA,
FAUNUS, JUNO and JUPITER; and the valuable articles on Eastern cults in
Rome, GREAT MOTHER OF THE GODS, ATTIS, MITHRAS, etc., by Professor Grant
Showerman of the University of Wisconsin.
CHRISTIANITY (Vol. 6, p. 280; equivalent to 35 pages of this Guide), by
G. W. Knox, professor of philosophy and history of religion, Union
Theological Seminary, New York; JESUS CHRIST (Vol. 15, p. 348;
equivalent to 35 pages of this Guide), by the Very Rev. Joseph Armitage
Robinson, Dean of Westminster; GOSPEL (Vol. 12, p. 265), by Rev. V. H.
Stanton, Ely professor of divinity, Cambridge; articles on the separate
gospels; PAUL THE APOSTLE (Vol. 20, p. 938), by the Rev. James Vernon
Bartlett, professor of church history, Mansfield College, Oxford.
ON CHURCH HISTORY there is an excellent key article in volume 6 (p. 331;
equivalent to 45 pages of this Guide). It begins with an outline of the
work of the great church historians and divides the subject into three
parts: _first_, up to 590 B.C.,—this part and the general introduction
are by A. C. McGiffert, professor of church history in Union Theological
Seminary, New York City; _second_, the Church in the Middle Ages, by
Albert Hauck, professor of church history at Leipzig; and The Modern
Church, by W. Alison Phillips, author of _Modern Europe_. This sketch
may be filled in by reference to the following articles (among many):
ABYSSINIAN CHURCH
ARMENIAN CHURCH
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
PAPACY
ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH
REFORMATION
ENGLAND, CHURCH OF
IRELAND, CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN
LUTHERANS
BAPTISTS
PRESBYTERIANISM
CAMERONIANS
CONGREGATIONALISM
METHODISM
FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF
CALVINISTIC METHODISTS
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN
MENNONITES
MORAVIAN BRETHREN
DOUKHOBORS
GERMAN CATHOLICS
OLD CATHOLICS
UNITED BRETHREN
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A brief course in theology and dogma is contained in the following
articles:
THEOLOGY (Vol. 26, p. 772; equivalent to 45 pages in this Guide), by the
Rev. Dr. Robert Mackintosh of Lancashire Independent College,
Manchester.
ATONEMENT
BAPTISM
CONFESSION
CONFIRMATION
CONVERSION
DOGMATIC THEOLOGY
ESCHATOLOGY
EUCHARIST
EXCOMMUNICATION
GRACE
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
INFALLIBILITY
INSPIRATION
PENANCE
PREDESTINATION
PURGATORY
SIN
TRANSUBSTANTIATION
WORSHIP
On Religious Orders:
ABBEY
FRIARS
MONASTICISM
MONK
NUN
SISTERHOODS
and see also the names of different orders and hundreds of biographical
articles on saints and heretics, preachers and theologians.
The following alphabetical list includes only a part of the articles in
the Britannica on religious topics; but it will serve to show the value
of the book to a clergyman in his own field:
Abbess
Abbey
Abbot
Abbreviators
Abecedarians
Abgar
Ablution
Abrahamites
Absolution
Abstemii
Abyssinian Church
Acephali
Acerra
Acoemeti
Acolyte
Adamites
Adiaphorists
Adoptianism
Advent
Adventists, Second
Advocatus Diaboli
Agape
Agapemonites
Agapetae
Agapetus
Agnoetae
Agnosticism
Agnus Dei
Agrapha
Alb
Albigenses
Allah
All Saints
All Souls Day
Allocution
Almoner
Almuce
Altar
Ambrosians
Ambrosiaster
Amen
Amice
Amora
Ampulla
Anabaptists
Anathema
Angel
Angelus
Anglican Communion
Anglo-Israelite Theory
Annates
Annunciation
Anthropomorphism
Antichrist
Antinomians
Antitype
Apocalypse, Knights of
Apologetics
Apostasy
Apostle
Apostolic Canons
Apostolic Fathers
Apostolical Constitutions
Apostolici
Apotactites
Apotheosis
Aquarii
Arabici
Archbishop
Archdeacon
Arches, Court of
Archimandrite
Archpriest
Aristides, Apology of
Arius
Ark
Armenian Church
Artemon
Asaph
Ascension, Feast of
Asceticism
Ascitans
Ash-Wednesday
Asperges
Assassins
Assumption, Feast of
Asterius of Cappadocia
Atheism
Athos, Mount
Atonement
Attrition
Augsburg, Confession of
Augustinians
Augustinians Canons
Augustinian Hermits
Autocephalous
Auto da Fé
Auxentius of Cappadocia
Azan
Azymites
Bábiism
Babylonian Captivity
Bagimond’s Roll
Bairam
Bambino, Il
Bangorian Controversy
Baphomet
Baptism
Baptists
Basel, Confession of
Basel, Council of
Basilian Monks
Beatification
Beguines
Benedictines
Benediction
Benedictus
Bethlehemites
Bible Christians
Bidding-Prayer
Biretta
Bishop
Black Veil
Bogomils
Bollandists
Boy’s Brigade
Breviary
Bridgebuilding Brotherhood
Bridgittines
Brothers of Common Life
Cadi
Calf, The Golden
Calvary
Calvinistic Ministers
Camaldulians
Cameronians
Candlemas
Canon
Canoness
Canon Law
Canonization
Capuchins
Cardinal
Carmathians
Carmelites
Carnival
Carthage, Synods of
Carthusians
Cassock
Catechism
Catechumen
Cathars
Catholic
Catholic Apostolic Church
Celestines
Celibacy
Cenobites
Cerdonians
Chalcedon, Council of
Chaldee
Chalice
Chambre Ardente
Chant
Chantry
Chapel
Chapter
Chaplain
Chasuble
Chiliasm
Chimere
Chrism
Christ
Christadelphians
Christian Catholic Church
Christian Connection
Christian Endeavour Societies
Christianity
Christian Science
Christmas
Church
Church Army
Church Congress
Church History
Churching of Women
Churchwarden
Ciborium
Cistercians
Clares, Poor
Clergy
Clerk
Clementine Literature
Cluny
Cohen
Commendation
Common Order, Book of
Conclave
Concord, Book of
Concordat
Confession
Confessional
Confessor
Confirmation
Confirmation of Bishops
Congregation
Congregationalism
Consistory
Consistory Courts
Constance, Council of
Constantinople, Councils of
Consuetudinary
Convent
Conversion
Convocation
Cope
Copts
Corban
Corporal
Corpus Christi, Feast of
Council
Cowl
Cowley Fathers
Creatianism and Traducianism
Credence
Creeds
Cross and Crucifixion
Crozier
Culdees
Curia Romana
Curate
Cyprus, Church of
Dalmatic
Davidists
Deacon
Deaconess
Dean
Decretals
Dedication
Deism
Dervish
Devil
Didache, The
Diocese
Diognetus, Epistle to
Dionysius Areopagiticus
Diptych
Dirge
Disciples of Christ
Dispensation
Dissenter
Docetae
Dogma
Dogmatic Theology
Dominicans
Donation of Constantine
Donatists
Dort, Synod of
Dossal
Doukhobors
Doxology
Easter
Ebionites
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Elder
Elvira, Synod of
Ember Days
Encyclical
Energia
England, Church of
Enthusiasm
Ephesus, Council of
Ephod
Epiphany, Feast of
Episcopacy
Eschatology
Essenes
Establishment
Eucharist
Evangelical Alliance
Evangelical Association
Evangelical Church Conference
Evangelical Union
Exarch
Excommunication
Exorcist
Extreme Unction
Fakir
Faldstool
Familists
Fasting
Fathers of the Church
Feasts and Festivals
Febronianism
Ferrara-Florence, Council of
Flagellants
Font
Franciscans
Frankincense
Fraticelli
Free Baptists, or Freewill Baptists
Free Church of England
Free Church of Scotland
Free Church Federation
Friars
Friends, Society of
Gallicanism
Gaon
German Baptist Brethren, or German Brethren (U. S. A.)
German Catholics
German Evangelical Synod of North America
Ghazi
Giaour
Glasites
Glory
Gnosticism
Golden Rose
Good Friday
Grace
Gradual
Grandmontines
Great Awakening
Gustavus Adolphus Union
Habdala
Haggada
Hagiology
Hajj
Halakha
Halfway Covenant
Halisah
Hallel
Hanukkah
Haptara
Harem
Hebrew Religion
Heidelberg Catechism
Helvetic Confessions
Hemerobaptists
Heresy
Hermas, Shepherd of
Hermeneutics
Hermit
Hesychasts
Hierarchy
Hieronymites
High Place
Hippolytus, The Canons of
Holy
Holy Water
Holy Week
Homiletics
Homily
Hospice
Houri
Hours, Canonical
Housel
Humanitarians
Humiliati
Hussites
Hymns
Hypostasis
Iblis
Icon
Iconoclasts
Ignorantines
Illuminati
Image
Imam
Imitation of Christ, The
Immaculate Conception
Immortality
In Coena Domini
Incumbent
Independents
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Indulgence
Indult
Infallibility
Innocents’ Day
Inquisition, The
Inspiration
Installation
Institutional Church
Interim
Interdict
Investiture
Ireland, Church of
Islam
Jacobite Church
Jansenism
Jehovah
Jerahmeel
Jerusalem, Synod of
Jesuati
Jesuits
Jesus Christ
Jews
Jihad
Jubilee, Year
Jubilee, Year of
Ka’ba
Kabbalah
Kermesse
Keswick Convention
Kismet
Koran
Koreshan Ecclesia, The
Kosher or Kasher
Kyrie
Labour Church, The
Lamb
Lambeth Conferences
Laodicea, Synod of
Lateran Councils
Laud
Lavabo
Lay
Laymen, Houses of
Lazarites
Lazarus, St., Order of
Lection, Lectionary
Lector
Legate
Lent
Libellatici
Liber Diurnus
Liber Pontificalis
Libertines
Lights, Ceremonial use of
Limbus
Limina Apostolorum
Lincoln Judgment, The
Litany
Liturgy
Logia
Low Churchman
Low Sunday
Lutheran
Luther League
Lyons, Councils of
Mahdi
Mahommedan Institutions
Mahommedan Law
Mahommedan Religion
Mandaeans
Manichaeism
Maniple
Manse
Marabout
Marburg, Colloquy of
Marcion and the Marcionite Church
Maronites
Marprelate Controversy
Martyr
Martyrology
Matins
Maundy Thursday
Maurists
Mechitharists
Melchites
Mendicant Movement and Orders
Mennonites
Messiah
Methodism
Methodist New Connexion
Metropolitan
Midrash
Millennium
Minister
Miracle
Miserere
Missal
Missions
Mitre
Moderator
Monarchianism
Monasticism
Monk
Monophysites
Monothelites
Monsignor
Monstrance
Montanism
Moravian Brethren
Mormons
Morse
Mortuary
Mozarab
Muckers
Mufti
Mysticism
Mythology
Nazarenes
Necrology
Neo-Caesarea, Synod of
Neophyte
Nestorians
New Jerusalem Church
New Year’s Day
Nicaea, Councils of
Nîmes, Councils of
Nonconformist
Nosairis
Novice
Nun
Nuncio
Oblation
Oecumenical
Offertory
Official
Old Catholics
Olivetans
Ophites
Oratory
Oratory of St. Philip Neri, Congregation of the
Order, Holy
Orphrey
Orthodox Eastern Church
Pallium or Pall
Palm Sunday
Pantheism
Party Royal
Passion Week
Pastoral Letter
Pastoral Staff
Patarenes
Paten
Patriarch
Patron
Paulicians
Pax
Pectoral
Peculiar
Peculiar People
Pelagius
Penance
Penitential
Penitentiary
Pentecost
Peter’s Pence
Pew
Philadelphians
Phylactery
Piarists
Pietism
Pilgrim
Pilgrimage
Pirke Aboth
Pisa, Council of
Pistoia, Synod of
Plymouth Brethren
Poissy, Colloquy of
Pope
Prayer, Book of Common
Prayers for the Dead
Preaching
Prebendary
Precentor
Preconization
Predestination
Prelate
Premonstratensians
Presbyter
Presbyterianism
Primate
Primitive Methodist Church
Prior
Procession
Procession Path
Prolocutor
Proselyte
Protestant
Protestant Episcopal Church
Protestantenverein
Provision
Purgatory
Purim
Puritanism
Qaraites
Quakers
Quietism
Rabbi
Ramadan
Ranters
Rawendis
Rector
Recusant
Reformed Churches
Reformed Church in America (Dutch)
Reformed Church in U. S. A. (German)
Reformed Episcopal Church
Regium Donum
Regular
Relics
Religion
Remonstrants
Requiem
Reredos
Retable
Reverend
Ritual
River Brethren
Robber, Synod
Rochet
Rogation Days
Roman Catholic Church
Rood
Rosary
Rota, Court of
Rubric
Rum
Sabbation
Sabians
Sacerdotalism
Sacrament
Sacramentals
Sacramentarians
Sacrarium
Sacred Heart
Saint John of Jerusalem
Salvation Army
Saragossa, Councils of
Sardica, Council of
Schism
Scillitan Martyrs
Scotland, Church of
Scotland, Episcopal Church in
Sect
Secular
See
Sepulchre, Canons Regular of the Holy
Servites
Sexton
Shakers
Shiites
Shrine
Shrove Tuesday
Silvestrines
Sin
Sion College
Sisterhoods
Skoptsi
Soutane
Spanish Reformed Church
Sponsor
Stations of the Cross
Stigmatization
Stole
Suffragan
Sufiism
Sunnites
Supererogation
Superintendent
Surplice
Syllabus
Symbol
Synagogue
Synagogue, United
Synazarium
Syncellus
Synedrium
Synod
Talmud
Tanna
Targum
Templars
Tenebræ
Tertiaries
Testamentum Domini
Tetragrammaton
Teutonic Order
Theism
Theocracy
Theology
Theosophy
Therapeutae
Thurible
Tiara
Tithes
Toledo, Councils of
Tonsure
Transubstantiation
Trappists
Trent, Council of
Trinitarians
Trinity Sunday
Tunicle
Ulema
Ultramontanism
Unction
Unitarianism
United Brethren in Christ
United Free Church of Scotland
United Methodist Church
United Methodist Free Churches
United Presbyterian Church
Universalist Church
Ursulines
Vallombrosians
Vatican, Council of
Venerable
Verger
Vespers
Vestments
Viaticum
Vicar
Vienne, Council of
Vigil
Wahhabis
Waldenses
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Westminister Synods
Whitsunday, or Pentecost
Worship
Yezidis
Young Men’s Christian Association
Zenana