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• Council of Trent

  [History]

  The Council of Trent was a council of the Roman Catholic Church held from 1545 to 1563 in Trent (Trento) in northern Italy. In response to the Reformation, it defined Catholic doctrine and reformed the internal life of the Church.

• Joseph Barsabbas

  [People]

  Joseph Barsabbas was a disciple in the early church who was put forward, together with Matthias, as a candidate to fill the apostolic office left vacant by Judas Iscariot. He was surnamed Justus, and when lots were cast, Matthias was chosen.

• Alexandrian School

  [History]

  The Alexandrian School was a theological tradition of the early church centered in Alexandria, Egypt, from the second to the fifth century. It is known for allegorical interpretation, which reads Scripture spiritually and symbolically, and for a Christology that emphasized the divinity of Christ.

• Nicolas

  [People]

  Nicolas was one of the seven men chosen by the church in Jerusalem in Acts 6 to oversee the distribution of relief. He was a native of Antioch who had been a proselyte to Judaism.

• Polycarp

  [People]

  Polycarp (c. 69–c. 155) was a second-century bishop of the church at Smyrna in Asia Minor and a martyr. He was an Apostolic Father, traditionally regarded as a disciple of the apostle John.

• Judas Barsabbas

  [People]

  Judas Barsabbas was a leader and prophet of the early Jerusalem church who appears in Acts 15. Together with Silas, he delivered to the church at Antioch the letter containing the decision of the Jerusalem Council.

• Investigative Judgment

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The investigative judgment is a doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church teaching that since 1844 Christ has been conducting a judgment in the heavenly sanctuary, examining the records of believers before His Second Coming.

• Sacrament of Confession

  [Worship & Rites]

  The sacrament of confession is a sacrament of the Catholic Church in which a believer confesses his or her sins to a priest and receives forgiveness through the priest's pronouncement of absolution. Most Protestant churches do not recognize it as a sacrament and instead emphasize repentance through confessing one's sins directly to God.

• Leitourgia

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Leitourgia (λειτουργία) is a Greek word meaning "public service." In the church it refers to worship and liturgy, and it is the origin of the English word "liturgy."

• Novatian

  [People]

  Novatian was a third-century presbyter and theologian of the church at Rome. He took a rigorist position on whether to readmit those who had renounced the faith during persecution, broke with Cornelius, bishop of Rome, and formed a separate church community.

• Suspension from the Lord's Supper

  [Organization & Polity]

  Suspension from the Lord's Supper is a form of church discipline in which a member who has sinned is barred from participating in Communion for a period of time. The term is used chiefly in Presbyterian church constitutions.

• Ecumenical Councils

  [History]

  The ecumenical councils were assemblies of bishops representing the whole Church that decided matters of doctrine and church discipline. The seven councils held between 325 and 787 are recognized by both the Eastern and Western churches.

• First Vatican Council

  [History]

  The First Vatican Council was a council of the Catholic Church convened by Pope Pius IX at the Vatican in Rome in 1869–1870. It is best known for defining papal primacy and papal infallibility as dogma.

• Donatist Controversy

  [History]

  A schism and controversy in the North African church of the early fourth century over whether sacraments administered by clergy who had renounced the faith during persecution were valid, and over how pure the church must be.

• Judas Barsabas

  [People]

  Judas Barsabas was a leader and prophet of the Jerusalem church mentioned in Acts 15. Together with Silas, he carried the letter containing the decision of the Jerusalem Council to the church at Antioch.

• Recapitulation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Recapitulation (anakephalaiōsis) is the soteriology developed by the second-century Church Father Irenaeus. It teaches that Christ retraced from the beginning the human path on which Adam failed, restored it through obedience, and gathers all things together in himself.

• Indulgence

  [History]

  An indulgence was a certificate issued by the medieval Western Church that purported to remit the punishment due for sins already forgiven. Abuses in the sale of indulgences in the sixteenth century prompted Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and the Reformation.

• Tryphena and Tryphosa

  [People]

  Tryphena and Tryphosa were two women believers in the church at Rome whom the apostle Paul greeted in Romans 16:12 as those who "labour in the Lord." They appear in Scripture only in this single verse.

• Apphia

  [People]

  Apphia was a Christian woman of the early church who is named as a "sister" in the greeting of Paul's Epistle to Philemon (Philemon 1:2). This is her only appearance in the Bible.

• Judas Called Barsabas

  [People]

  Judas called Barsabas was a leader of the Jerusalem church who, after the Council of Jerusalem, traveled with Silas to deliver the letter containing the council's decision to the church at Antioch. He appears in Acts 15.