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