Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
2. RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES
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#983. [Religious Knowledge.] Theology.—N. theology (natural and
revealed); theogony[obs3], theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography;
Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion,
religious sect, religious denomination; creed &c. (belief) 484; article
of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of
faith. theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman[obs3],
canonist, theologist[obs3]; the Fathers. Adj. theological, religious;
denominational; sectarian &c. 984.
#983a. Orthodoxy.—N. orthodoxy; strictness, soundness, religious
truth, true faith; truth &c. 494; soundness of doctrine. Christianity,
Christianism[obs3]; Catholicism, Catholicity; "the faith once delivered
to the saints"; hyperorthodoxy &c. 984[obs3]; iconoclasm. The Church;
Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established
Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ,
members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian,
Christian community; true believer; canonist &c. (theologian) 983;
Christendom, collective body of Christians. canons &c. (belief) 484;
thirty nine articles; Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian
Creed[obs3]; Church Catechism; textuary[obs3]. Adj. orthodox, sound,
strick[obs3], faithful, catholic, schismless[obs3], Christian,
evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic; true &c. 494. Phr. of
the true faith.
#984. Heterodoxy. [Sectarianism.]—N. heterodoxy; error &c. 495;
false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism[obs3], schismaticalness;
recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3].
bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606; fanaticism, iconoclasm;
hyperorthodoxy[obs3], precisianism[obs3], bibliolatry[obs3],
sabbatarianism[obs3], puritanism; anthropomorphism; idolatry &c. 991;
superstition &c. (credulity) 486; dissent &c. 489. sectarism[obs3],
sectarianism; noncomformity[obs3]; secularism; syncretism[obs3],
religious sects. protestantism, Arianism[obs3], Adventism, Jansenism,
Stundism[obs3], Erastianism[obs3], Calvinism, quakerism[obs3],
methodism, anabaptism[obs3], Puseyism, tractarianism[obs3], ritualism,
Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism[obs3], Deism, Theism, materialism,
positivism, latitudinarianism &c. High Church, Low Church, Broad
Church, Free Church; ultramontanism[obs3]; papism, papistry;
monkery[obs3]; papacy; Anglicanism, Catholicism, Romanism; popery,
Scarlet Lady, Church of Rome, Greek Church. paganism, heathenism,
ethicism[obs3]; mythology; polytheism, ditheism[obs3], tritheism[obs3];
dualism; heathendom[obs3]. Judaism, Gentilism[obs3], Islamism, Islam,
Mohammedanism, Babism[obs3], Sufiism, Neoplatonism, Turcism[obs3],
Brahminism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sabianism, Gnosticism,
Hylotheism[obs3], Mormonism; Christian Science. heretic, apostate,
antichrist[obs3]; pagan, heathen; painim[obs3], paynim[obs3];
giaour[obs3]; gentile; pantheist, polytheist; idolator. schismatic;
sectary, sectarian, sectarist[obs3]; seceder, separatist, recusant,
dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror[obs3]. bigot &c. (obstinacy) 606;
fanatic, abdal[obs3], iconoclast. latitudinarian, Deist, Theist,
Unitarian; positivist, materialist; Homoiousian[obs3],
Homoousian[obs3], limitarian[obs3], theosophist, ubiquitarian[obs3];
skeptic &c. 989. Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter,
Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran,
Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana[obs3], Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day
Saint[obs3], Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian,
Supralapsarian[obs3]; Gentoo, Antinomian[obs3], Swedenborgian[obs3];
Adventist[obs3], Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian
Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer[obs3], Curist[obs3];
Familist[obs3], Jovinianist, Libadist[obs3], Quaker,
Restitutionist[obs3], Shaker, Stundist, Tunker &c.[obs3]; ultramontane;
Anglican[obs3], Oxford School; tractarian[obs3], Puseyite, ritualist;
Puritan. Catholic, Roman, Catholic, Romanist, papist. Jew, Hebrew,
Rabbinist, Rabbist[obs3], Sadducee; Babist[obs3], Motazilite;
Mohammedan, Mussulman, Moslem, Shiah, Sunni, Wahabi, Osmanli.
Brahmin[obs3], Brahman[obs3]; Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist; Magi,
Gymnosophist[obs3], fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Rosicrucian &c.
Adj. heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical;
antiscriptural[obs3], apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian[obs3];
schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident;
secular &c, (lay) 997. pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical;
gentile, paynim[obs3]; pantheistic, polytheistic. Judaical, Mohammedan,
Brahminical[obs3], Buddhist &c.n.; Romish, Protestant &c.n. bigoted &c.
(prejudiced) 481, (obstinate) 606; superstitious &c. (credulous) 486;
fanatical; idolatrous &c. 991; visionary &c. (imaginative) 515. Phr.
"slave to no sect" [Pope]; superstitione tollenda religio non tollitur
[Lat][Cicero].
#985. Judeo-Christian Revelation.—N. revelation, inspiration,
afflatus; theophany[obs3], theopneusty[obs3]. Word, Word of God;
Scripture; the Scriptures, the Bible; Holy Writ, Holy Scriptures;
inspired writings, Gospel. Old Testament, Septuagint, Vulgate,
Pentateuch; Octateuch; the Law, the Jewish Law, the Prophets; major
Prophets, minor Prophets; Hagiographa, Hagiology; Hierographa[obs3];
Apocrypha. New Testament; Gospels, Evangelists, Acts, Epistles,
Apocalypse, Revelations. Talmud; Mishna, Masorah. prophet &c. (seer)
513; evangelist, apostle, disciple, saint; the Fathers, the Apostolical
Fathers[obs3]; Holy Men of old, inspired penmen. Adj. scriptural,
biblical, sacred, prophetic; evangelical, evangelistic; apostolic,
apostolical[obs3]; inspired, theopneustic[obs3], theophneusted[obs3],
apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, canonical, textuary[obs3].
#986. Pseudo-Revelation.—N. the Koran, the Alcoran[obs3];
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Lyking[obs3], Vedas, Zendavesta, Avesta[obs3], Sastra, Shastra,
Tantra[obs3], Upanishads, Purana, Edda; Book of Mormon.
[Non-Biblical prophets and religious founders] Gautama, Buddha;
Zoroaster, Confucius, Bab-ed-Din[obs3], Mohammed.
[Idols] golden calf &c. 991; Baal[obs3], Moloch, Dagon.
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