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Artificer (some form of the verb , charash’, to engrave, as elsewhere), a person engaged in any kind of trade or manual occupation, SEE CARPENTER, SEE MASON, etc., Gen 4:22; Isa 3:3. SEE HANDICRAFT. In the early periods to which the scriptural history refers, we do not meet with those artificial feelings and unreasonable prejudices … Continue reading “Artificer”

articulo mortis (Latin: at the point of death) Phrase used in such expressions as: an indulgence granted to a person in articulo mortis, i.e., about to die. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Articles, Twenty-Five of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are as follows: I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity. There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body or parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things, visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there are … Continue reading “Articles, Twenty-Five”

Articles, The Organic A name given to a law regulating public worship, comprising 77 articles relative to Catholicism, and 44 relative to Protestantism, presented by order of Napoleon to the Tribunate and the legislative body at the same time that he made these two bodies vote on the Concordat itself. Together with the Concordat, the … Continue reading “Articles, The Organic”

Articles, Six Articles of faith imposed by a statute of King Henry VIII in 1539 . Also known as the Six-stringed Whip, or Bloody Statute, from the merciless persecutions to which it gave rise. The Articles, composed by Henry without any formal authority from the Church, enforced belief in Transubstantiation, communion in one kind, confession, … Continue reading “Articles, Six”

articles, organic The name given to a law regulating public worship in France enacted under Napoleon at the same time as the French Concordat was voted upon, and published with the Concordat in 1802. Although the French Governments down till the separation in 1905 held that the articles were inseparable from the Concordat, the Holy … Continue reading “articles, organic”

ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND See CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Fuente: Theological Dictionary

Articles Of Schmalkald The Protestants had formed the Schmalkaldic League (q.v.) in 1531, and the emperor, by the Religious Peace of 1532, had agreed to maintain the status quo until a council should meet to settle all questions. He endeavored to have a papal council called in 1537; but the Wittenberg divines, not willing to … Continue reading “Articles Of Schmalkald”

Articles Of Perth five articles agreed upon at a General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, convened at Perth by command of James VI on the 25th of August, 1618. These articles enjoined kneeling at the Lord’s Supper, the observance of Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost, and confirmation, and sanctioned the private administration of … Continue reading “Articles Of Perth”

Articles of Faith (Greek, arthron; Latin, articulus, joint). Certain revealed supernatural truths such as those contained in the symbol of the Apostles. The terms were not used by the Fathers or by ecclesiastical writers in the early Middle Ages. St. Bernard and Richard of St. Victor employed them, the latter applying them to truths having … Continue reading “Articles Of Faith”