Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Levellers or RADICALS, a political and religious sect of fanatics, which arose in the army of Cromwell at the time of the difficulty between the Independents and the Long Parliament (1647), advocating entire civil and religious liberty. They were not only treated as traitors by the king, but persecuted also by Cromwell as dangerous to … Continue reading “Levellers”

Level A grade or type of existence or being which entails a special type of relatedness or of organization, with distinctive laws. The term has been used primarily in connection with theories of emergent evolution where certain so-called higher levels, e.g. life, or mind, are supposed to have emerged from the lower levels, e.g. matter, … Continue reading “Level”

Levau, Louis (LE VAU) A contemporary of Jacques Lemercier and the two Mansarts, and the chief architect of the first decade of Louis XIV’s independent reign, born 1612; died at Paris, 10 Oct., 1670. Although posterity has refused to consider him a genius, he developed a distinctive style which aimed at classic simplicity of construction … Continue reading “Levau, Louis”

levate (Latin: levare, to arise) The response of the subdeacon to the deacon’s flectamus genua, or of the server to priest at Low Mass on ember days. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Levadoux, Michael One of the first band of Sulpicians who, owing to the distressed state of religion in France, went to the United States and founded St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore; born at Clermont-Ferrand, in Auvergne, France, 1 April, 1746; died at Le-Puy-en-Velay, 13 Jan., 1815. He entered the Sulpician Seminary at Clermont, 30 Oct., … Continue reading “Levadoux, Michael”

Leutard Or Leuthard a French fanatic, flourished among the peasants of Chalons-sur-Marne about A.D. 1000. He claimed the enjoyment of spiritual visions, and authority from on high for separation from his family and his iconoclastic idiosyncracies. He also, by like inspirations, became the opponent of many practices of the Church which had their authority in … Continue reading “Leutard Or Leuthard”

Leusden, Johann a very celebrated Dutch Orientalist and theologian, was born at Utrecht in 1624, and was educated at the then recently founded university of his native place and at Amsterdam, paying particular regard to the Oriental languages, especially the Hebrew. In 1649 he was appointed professor of Hebrew at Utrecht, and for nearly fifty … Continue reading “Leusden, Johann”

Leun, Johann Georg Friedrich a German theologian, was born Aug. 9, 1757, at Giessen. In 1774 he entered the university of his native place; in 1797 he became deacon at Butzbach, near Giessen, and there he remained until his death, March 15, 1823. He possessed an extensive knowledge of the Oriental languages, and was a … Continue reading “Leun, Johann Georg Friedrich”

Leummim (Heb. Leiimmimn’, , peoples, as often; Sept. ), the last named of the three sons of Dedan (grandson of Abraham by Keturah), and head of an Arabian tribe descended from him (Gen 25:3; and Vulgate at 1Ch 1:32). B.C. considerably post 2024. SEE ARABIA. They are supposed to be the same with the Allumoeotoe … Continue reading “Leummim”

LEUCOPETRIANS The name of a fanatical sect which sprang up in the Greek and eastern churches towards the close of the twelfth century: they professed to believe in a double trinity, rejected wedlock, abstained from flesh, treated with the utmost contempt the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper, and all the various branches of … Continue reading “Leucopetrians”