A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial ... Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World - Hardcover

Buck, Charles

9780265775400: A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial ... Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World

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ISBN 10: 026577540X ISBN 13: 9780265775400

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Excerpt from A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial Account of All the Principal Denominations Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World

The plan of conveying knowledge by dictionaries has been long established, and well received in the republic of letters. A dictionary, however, of a religious and ecclesiastical nature was still a desideratum in the religious world; for although we have had dictionaries which explained Scripture terms, yet it is evident these could not embrace the history of the church since the sacred canon was concluded nor explain the numerous terms which have been used; nor, indeed, point. Out the various sects and denominations which have subsisted since that time. I do not mean, by these remarks, to depre ciate the valuable works above referred to: I em sensible of their excellencies, and I have. No wish to undermine them in order to exalt my own. This work, however, is of a diﬂ'er em nature, as the reader will easily see. If he takes the tron Me to compare. And examine.

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