Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Primo die, quo Trinitas Hymn for Matins from the Octave of the Epiphany until the first Sunday of Lent, and from the Sunday nearest 1 October until Advent. It was written by Saint Gregory the Great, and has about 20 translations; the English title given is by J. Neale and others. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Primitivism A modern term for a complex of ideas running back in classical thought to Hesiod. Two species of primitivism are found, (1) chronological primitivism, a belief that the best period of history was the earliest; (2) cultural primitivism, a belief that the acquisitions of civilization are evil. Each of these species is found in … Continue reading “Primitivism”

Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Church of Ireland This body was formed in 1816, and was the result of a division in the Wesleyan Methodist Connection in Ireland. In that year tile Irish Conference, by a majority of thirty-six in a house of eighty-eight, resolved to authorize the preachers of the Connection to administer the sacraments. As … Continue reading “Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Church of Ireland”

Primitive Methodist Connection is the name of a Wesleyan body of believers principally in England and the British colonies. During the first decade of the present century stirring reports floated across the Atlantic of the power of God marvelously displayed in the camp meetings of America. The practice of holding religious services in the open … Continue reading “Primitive Methodist Connection”

Primitive Doctrine It is the opinion of some persons that there is a primitive doctrine, independent of Scripture, always to be found somewhere in the Catholic traditions; by which language, apparently, they mean to teach that the whole doctrine of the Church is not to be found in the Scriptures, nor yet in the writings … Continue reading “Primitive Doctrine”

Primitive Communism That stage of primitive society in which there is some form of socialized ownership of the basic means of production (the land, fisheries, natural resources and the like), an absence of economic classes (q.v.) and of the state as a special apparatus of internal force. — J.M.S. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Primitive Church An expression used to denote the condition of the Church, as respects doctrine and discipline, in the early stages of its history. Though this term is employed with little precision by ecclesiastical writers, it most frequently refers to the Church of the first three centuries. SEE CHURCH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and … Continue reading “Primitive Church”

PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS Those who lived in the first ages of Christianity, especially the apostles and immediate followers of our Lord. Fuente: Theological Dictionary

Primitive Christianity is the religion of the New Testament as first exemplified after the establishment of the new faith by that ecclesiastical organization called the Church, under State patronage. SEE PRIMITIVE CHURCH. In distinction from this, we have apostolic Christianity, the period that immediately succeeded the labors of the founder of the New-Testament dispensation. SEE … Continue reading “Primitive Christianity”

Primitive Baptists Group of Baptist associations which arose c.1835 and have never organized as a denomination. Other names applied to them are “Old School,” “Regular,” “Anti-Mission,” and “Hard-Shell.” They are opposed to all human religious institutions and are strongly Calvinistic in their doctrine. They hold strictly “to the full verbal inspiration of the Old and … Continue reading “Primitive Baptists”