Reed, Caleb an American divine, who belonged to the New Jerusalem Church, was born in 1797. He entered the ministry, but was finally made editor of the New Jerusalem Magazine, and continued its management for twenty years. He died in 1854. His publications were of a secular character. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Reed, Caleb”
Reed, Andrew
Reed, Andrew D.D., an English Independent divine, noted as one of the greatest philanthropists of our age, was born in 1788 at London, where his father, a pious man, was a watchmaker in Butcher Row, St. Clement’s Danes. Many a time, it is said, Andrew’s mother would keep the shop while his father was off … Continue reading “Reed, Andrew”
Reed, Alexander
Reed, Alexander D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born at Washington, Pa., Sept. 28, 1832. He was the son of the Hon. Robert R. Reed, a child of the covenant dedicated to God in baptism, and early instructed both by precept and example in the ways of religion. His preparatory education was received in the English … Continue reading “Reed, Alexander”
Reed, Alanson
Reed, Alanson a Baptist missionary, was born in Chesterfield, Mass., in 1807. He pursued his studies at the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (now Madison University), N. Y.; and was appointed Aug. 3, 1835, as a missionary by the American Baptist Missionary Union to labor among the Chinese living in Bangkok, Siam. Having acquired a … Continue reading “Reed, Alanson”
Reed
REED Sometimes a stalk or rod of any plant, as of the hyssop, Mat 27:48 Joh 19:29 .Usually, however, the word reed denotes a reed or cane growing in marshy grounds, Job 40:21 Isa 19:6 ; slender and fragile, and hence taken as an emblem of weakness, 1Ki 18:21 Isa 36:6 Eze 29:6 ; and … Continue reading “Reed”
Reece, Richard
Reece, Richard a preacher of Methodism in England, who travelled without interruption for a longer period than any other Methodist preacher no less than fifty- nine years and thus figured at one time as the oldest effective Mlethodist preacher in the world, was born about the year 1765. In 1823 he visited this country with … Continue reading “Reece, Richard”
Reduplicatively
Reduplicatively (in Schol.) a term is taken reduplicatively or there is reduplication when to a term there is added as, just as, as though, inasmuch as, or some similar expression, either in order to double the same term, or in ordei to add another so as to indicate the meaning in which the first term … Continue reading “Reduplicatively”
Reductto ad impossible
Reductto ad impossible The method of establishing a proposition by showing that its contradictory involves impossible consequences; also of disproving a proposition by showing that its consequences are absurd; reductio ad absurdum (q.v.). See Apagoge. — G.R.M. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Reductions of Paraguay
reductions of Paraguay Term applied to the communal mission villages established in South America by the Jesuit missionaries. Their purpose was to provide a settlement and refuge for the Indians of Paraguay and Brazil, who had been enslaved by the Spanish colonists as early as 1515. The first Reduction was established in 1609 in what … Continue reading “Reductions of Paraguay”
Reduction
Reduction (Ger. Reduktion) In HusserlSee Egological and Phenomenology. — D.C. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy