Cyclopædia

Advanced Search

Here are a few examples of how you can use the search feature:

Entering this and that into the search form will return results containing both "this" and "that".

Entering this not that into the search form will return results containing "this" and not "that".

Entering this or that into the search form will return results containing either "this" or "that".

Entering "this and that" (with quotes) into the search form will return results containing the exact phrase "this and that".

Search results can also be filtered using a variety of criteria. Select one or more filters below to get started.

Assuming heretic is required, the following 32 results were found.

  • NEGATIVE Hereticshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NEGATIVE-Heretics

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    Of those who in the affair of the Council of Ephesus refused to follow either St. Cyril or John of Antioch.Of certain heretics of the Vth century who at first followed Peter Mongus, but afterwards abandoned him upon his subscribing to the Council of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    to re-baptize such as had been baptized in their Infancy. There were Anabaptists even in the Primitive Church; that is, Heretics who baptized a second time: Such were the Novatians, Cataphrygians, and Donatists. See NOVATIAN, CATAPHRYGIAN, and DONATIST....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    Acts of St. John, Acts of St. Philip; all of which have been declared apocryphal. The last were the production of the heretic Peuceres; those of St. Thecla were the work of a priest in Asia Minor, whom St. John degraded for his offense. Act, in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics
  • ARCHONTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ARCHONTICS

    Archontici, in Church History, asect of heretics who arose towards the close of the secondcentury. See HERETIC. They were thus called from the Greek word ἀρχήPrincipalities, or Hierarchies of Angels; because theyheld the world to have been created by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology
  • APOSTASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTASY

    a Fide, by him who not only abandons good Works, but also the Faith. There is this difference between an Apostate and an Heretic; that the latter only abandons a part of the Faith, whereas the former renounces the whole. See HERETIC. The Word is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ASCODROUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCODROUTES

    Antiquity, a Sect of Heretics, in the second Century, who rejected all Use of Sacraments, on this Principle, that incorporeal Things cannot be communicated by Things visible and corporeal. See SACRAMENT. They made perfect Redemption consist in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    must be Accidents. Hence, the Council of Constance condemns the following proportion, which is the second of Wiclif's, as heretical: The Accidents of Bread do not remain without a subject in the Sacrament. Ses. VIII. Some of the Fathers seem to give...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Philosophy
  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    of his Oration to Caesar, for Ligarius. SOMETHING like this has been observed, even in the Case of Prayer to God: Several Heretics are on record for possessing their Hearers that way. Racket, executed for Blasphemy under Queen Elizabeth, is said, by the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    out of the Scriptures: And it was hence, that the Alcoran became so full of the wild and erroneous Opinions of those Heretics, The Jews, also, who were very numerous in Arabia, contributed their Quota to the Alcoran; nor is it without some Reason that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    ABELONIANS, ABELOITES, a Sect of Hereticks in Africa, not far from Hippo, cotemporary with S. Augustin. See HERETICS. What distinguish'd 'em, was, that they made it a Duty to marry, and yet liv'd with their Wives in a prosess'd Continence, without...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology
  • ANGELICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICI

    were also a Sect of ancient Heretics.—St. Augustine supposes them thus called from their yielding an extravagant Worship to Angels, and such as tended to Idolatry: Though Epiphanius derives the Name from their holding that the World was created by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • APOCRYPHALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCRYPHAL

    Book, Passage, History, etc., meaning, such as are of suspected Authority—In Matters of Doctrine, the Writings of Heretics, Schismatics, etc. are held apocryphal. Vossius observes, that with regard to the sacred Books none are to be accounted...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    many votes or voices for the Affirmative. See VOTE. "Affirmative" is particularly applied in the Roman Inquisition, to such heretics as own the errors and opinions they are charged withal; and maintain the same in their examination with firmness and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • AEONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEON

    Eon, Aeon, q. d. Age; literally signifies the Duration of a thing. See Age, and Duration. But some ancient Heretics have affixed another Idea to it; in order to which, they have made use of the Philosophy of Plato: giving Reality to the Ideas, which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ÆONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆON

    Eon, Aeon, q. d. Age; literally signifies the Duration of a thing. See AGE, and DURATION. But some ancient Heretics have affixed another Idea to it; in order to which, they have made use of the Philosophy of Plato: giving Reality to the Ideas, which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ALOGIIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALOGII

    or Alogians, a Sect of ancient Heretics;who denied that Jesus Christ was the Eternal Word. See ARIAN. Theodore of Byzantium, by Trade a Currier, having apostatized, under the Persecution of the Emperor Severus, to defend himself against those who...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ARIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIANS

    or Arians,a Sect of Heretics, the Followers of Arius, and Arianism. See ARIANISM. The Arians divided into a great Number of Parties and Factions, under different Denominations, who mutually condemned each other.—Such were the Semi-Arians, Anomoeans,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ASTATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTATI

    or ASTARII or ASTARTI, a Sect of Heretics in the ninth Century, the Followers of one Sergius, who renewed the Errors of the Manichees. See MANICHEE. They prevailed much under the Emperor Nicephorus; but his nephew Michael Curopalates, curbed them with...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI

    were also a kind of heretics, who sprang up in Arabia, about the year 207; whose distinguishing tenet was that the soul died with the body, and also rose again with it. See RESURRECTION. Eusebius, lib. vi. c.38, relates that a council was called to stop...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
Results 1 - 20 of 32