Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Strigonia (or Gran, in Hungary), THE COUNCIL OF, was held in 1114 by Lawrence, the archbishop. Sixty-five canons were published. 2. Orders that the epistle and gospel be explained every Sunday to the people in large churches; in small parishes the Creed and the Lord’s Prayer. 3. Orders that in all large churches there shall … Continue reading “Strigonia”

Strigolniks SEE RUSSIAN SECTS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Strigel, Victorin a Melancthonian Lutheran and professor at Jena, was born Dec. 26, 1514. He studied philosophy and theology at Freiburg and Wittenberg, and in 1544 began to lecture in those departments. The Smalkald war interrupted his career at Wittenberg, and he drifted about in consequence to Magdeburg, to Knigsberg, and to Erfurt, where he … Continue reading “Strigel, Victorin”

Strife It was not unnatural that strongly marked varieties of character and opinion should appear in the living Apostolic Church, for the proverb many men, many minds had its application there as elsewhere. 1. Party-spirit (, ), which was stimulated by the free institutions of the Hellenic city-States, soon invaded the equally democratic Christian communities. … Continue reading “Strife”

Strict implication As early as 1912, C. I. Lewis projected a kind of implication between propositions, to be called strict implication, which should more nearly accord with the usual meaning of “implies” than does material implication (see logic, formal, 1). should make “p implies q” synonymous with “q is deducible from p,” and should avoid … Continue reading “Strict implication”

Strict * For STRICT, RV, see MANNER, A, No. 5. For STRICTLY, RV, see STRAITLY Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Strickland, Willlam Peter, D.D a Methodist Episcopal, and later a Presbyterian, divine, was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1809. He studied at the Ohio University, entered the Ohio Conference in 1832, labored several years in Cincinnati, and then became agent of the American Bible Society. In 1856 he engaged in literary labor in New … Continue reading “Strickland, Willlam Peter, D.D”

Strickland, John a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was admitted into the Georgia Conference Jan. 10, 1850. In the civil war he was chaplain to the 40th Georgia Regiment, and on his way home contracted the illness of which he died. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church, South , 1863, … Continue reading “Strickland, John”

Strickland, Isaac L.G. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1809, admitted on trial into the Tennessee Conference in 1834, and into full connection in 1836. He was transferred to the Texas Mission, Mississippi Conference, in October, 1838, and appointed to Montgomery Circuit; and in March, 1839, to Brazoria Circuit, where he died, July 2, … Continue reading “Strickland, Isaac L.G.”

Stricken (in years) “to go forward,” is used metaphorically of age, in Luk 1:7, Luk 1:18, with the phrases “in their (her) days,” translated “well stricken in years” (see marg.); in Luk 2:36, “of a great age” (marg., “advanced in many days”). See GO, No. 20. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words