Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Mani, Manes, Or Manichaeus (entitled Zendik, Sadducee), the founder of the heretical sect of the Manichaans, is said to have flourished in the second half of the 3d century. Little is known with regard to his early history, and the accounts transmitted through two distinct sources the Western or Greek, and the Eastern are legendary … Continue reading “Mani, Manes, Or Manichaeus”

Mani A heresy instituted in the 3rd century by a Persian dreamer variously named Mani, Manes, Manichaeus, who visioned himself a legate from God to introduce a religious and moral reformation. In the 4th and 5th centuries this heresy took a westward course and became dangerous to Christianity, finding a home especially in Proconsular Africa, … Continue reading “Mani”

Manhattan College New York City, New York, founded 1853; conducted by the Christian Brothers; preparatory school; schools of arts and sciences, engineering, commerce. See also: Manhattan College New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Manhartists Or Haagleitnerians the name of a party in the Romish Church, especially in the archbishopric of Salzburg, from 1814 to 1826, whose founder and chief was a young priest named Caspar Haagleitner, of Hopfgarten; and its most distinguished and active member was Sebastian Manzl, of Westendorf (known also by the name of Manhart, from … Continue reading “Manhartists Or Haagleitnerians”

Manharter A politico-religious sect which arose in Tyrol in the first half of the nineteenth century. Its founder was a priest, Kaspar Benedict Hagleitner of Aschau, who was the only one of the clergymen of Brixenthal to refuse to take the oath of allegiance prescribed by Napoleon’s edict of 30 May 1809, for the ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Manharter”

Mangum, Adolphus Williamson, D.D a minister and educator of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born April 1, 1834. At the age of twenty-one he graduated from Randolph- Macon College, and, joining the North Carolina Conference in 1856, he served as pastor and chaplain until 1875, when he was elected professor of mental and moral … Continue reading “Mangum, Adolphus Williamson, D.D”

Mangey, Thomas, D.D. an English theologian, was born at Leeds in 1684; was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge; held successively the livings of St. Mildred, Bread Street, London; St. Nicholas, Guilford, and Ealing, in Middlesex; was chaplain to Dr. Robinson, bishop of London; in 1721 was presented to the fifth stall in the cathedral … Continue reading “Mangey, Thomas, D.D.”

Manger, Samuel Heinrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, who died at Franeker in 1788, doctor and professor of theology, is the author of, De Siphra Deque Nomine (Utrecht, 1751): Commentarius in Librum Prophete losece (Franeker, 1785). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:225; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:320. (B.P.) Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Manger, Samuel Heinrich”

Manger is the rendering found in Luk 2:7; Luk 2:12; Luk 2:16, of the term , used to designate the place in which the infant Redeemer was cradled; which seems to denote a crib or stall for feeding cattle, as it is rendered in Luk 13:15 (see Horrei Miscell. Crit. Leon. 1738, bk. 2, ch. … Continue reading “Manger”

Mangan, James Clarence Poet, born Dublin, Ireland, 1803; died there, 1849. After working for several years as a clerk in a scrivener’s office, and for an attorney, he began in 1831 to write verses for the Journal of the Comet Club. He later contributed to the “Nation” inaugurated in 1842, to the “United Irishman,” the … Continue reading “Mangan, James Clarence”