Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Secularists the name assumed by a sect of modern unbelievers to express their fundamental tenet that the duties and interests connected with the world which we see around us are those with which alone we have any concern. The Secularists are atheists, so far as they consider the existence of a personal God an open … Continue reading “Secularists”

Secularism A term used for the first time about 1846 by George Jacob Holyoake to denote “a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life” (English Secularism, 60). More explicitly, “Secularism is that which seeks the development of the physical, moral, … Continue reading “Secularism”

Secular Sermons in Roman Catholic terminology, are discourses preached at the centennial jubilee of any religious or benevolent institution, association, etc. Their purpose is to review the history and work of the agency in question, or to rehearse the displays of divine grace manifested in and through its life. The scope of such sermons will … Continue reading “Secular Sermons”

Secular Power SEE SECULAR COURT. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Secular Court, Delivering Up To The a punishment peculiar to delinquent clergymen. The ancient law comprises it under the name of curioe tradi, and gave to it a different meaning from that which modern use and practice has put upon it. Among the modern canonists it signifies delivering a clergyman up to the secular judge … Continue reading “Secular Court, Delivering Up To The”

SECULAR CLERGY See CLERGY. Fuente: Theological Dictionary secular clergy (Latin: secularis, pertaining to the world) A term applied to the clergy, who are not members of a religious order, and whose immediate superior is the bishop of the diocese, to whom they owe obedience and under whose direction they labor for the sanctification of souls, … Continue reading “Secular Clergy”

secular abbot Cleric with the title and some of the honors of the office of abbot , who holds benefices which originally belonged to monastic houses, but which, since the suppression of the latter, are now secularized and transferred to other churches. There are three classes: those who possess quasi-episcopal jurisdiction and the right to … Continue reading “secular abbot”

Secu SECU.A place name which appears only in the late narrative of 1Sa 19:22 in connexion with Ramah, Samuels home, and especially with the great cistern or well of the threshing-floor. Perhaps the name represents a word in the original best rendered the height, referring to the highest part of the town of Ramah. H. … Continue reading “Secu”

Sects, Jewish (Modern) In the 17th century existed the sect of the Sabbathaites, so called after Sabbathai-Zebi (q.v.), whose apostasy to Islamism, and death in 1676, did not diminish the number of his followers, but rather increased it; and as there is no calculating the obstinacy of human credulity, his followers gave out that he … Continue reading “Sects, Jewish (Modern)”

Sects, Jewish (Ancient) These were of two kinds, arising from the fact that the differences of opinion, sentiment, and conduct were sometimes of a theosophical and sometimes of a practical character; but, among the ancient Jews, so close was the connection of Church and State that all theological or philosophical views necessarily affected the civil … Continue reading “Sects, Jewish (Ancient)”