Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Tolman TOLMAN.See Talmon. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

Tollner, Johann Gottlieb a German theologian, was born Dec. 9, 1724, at Charlottenburg. He completed his studies at the Orphanage and the University of Halle under the guidance of Baumgarten, Knapp, Michaelis, Wolff, Weber, and Meier, and then became private tutor and military chaplain. In 1760 he was made professor of theology and philosophy at … Continue reading “Tollner, Johann Gottlieb”

Toll (, Ezr 4:20, or [Chald.] , 4:13; 7:24, tribute [so called from being measured or apportioned], as Nehemiah 5, 4) is strictly a tax for passing along a highway or other thoroughfare. SEE TAX; SEE TRIBUTE. In the Roman period taxes were collected along the roads or along the navigable waters by the postiloces, … Continue reading “Toll”

Toletan Rite The rite used in Spain , and in what later became Portugal , from about the 6th to the latter part of the 11th century. It is known also as Gothic, due to its development during the time of the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain; Toletan, from Toledo which was its center; Isidorian, because … Continue reading “Toletan Rite”

Tolet (or Toletanus) SEE TOLEDO. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Toles, Russell G., D.D a Baptist minister, was born at Dunham, N.Y., in 1811. He graduated from Madison University at an early age, studied theology, and then took charge of a Baptist Church in Cooperstown, where he was ordained. At the breaking-out of the rebellion he was given control of one branch of the Christian … Continue reading “Toles, Russell G., D.D”

Toleration, Tolerance TOLERATION, TOLERANCE.The Lord Jesus Christ exemplified the highest forms of toleration and encouraged the virtue in His disciples (Mar 9:38-40). The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans (Joh 4:9), yet Jesus laboured in Samaria (John 4, Luk 9:52), healed and praised a Samaritan leper (Luk 17:15-19), and chose a Samaritan, in preference … Continue reading “Toleration, Tolerance”

Toleration, Religious Toleration in general signifies patient forbearance in the presence of an evil which one is unable or unwilling to prevent. By religious toleration is understood the magnanimous indulgence which one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and … Continue reading “Toleration, Religious”

Toleration, History of In any attempt to deal historically with the attitude of the Church towards religious toleration two considerations have throughout to be kept in mind. In the first place, nearly all ecclesiastical legislation in regard to the repression of heresy proceeds upon the assumption that heretics are in wilful revolt against lawful authority, … Continue reading “Toleration, History of”

Toleration, Acts of Previous to 1868 the statute law of Great Britain (see 35 Eliz. and 22 Car, II) forbade the public exercise of any other religion than that of the Church of England. The Toleration Act (I Will. and Mary, c. 18) frees from the penalty of nonconformity those who take the oaths of … Continue reading “Toleration, Acts of”