A-Z: General definitions
- C.S. Lewis
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- Called up
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- Calumny
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- Calvin
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- Camaraderie
- Cambridge
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- Can-can
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- Canaan
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- Candlemas
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- Canon
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- Canon of Scripture
- Canon of the Mass
- Canonical
- Canonisation
- Canonise
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- Canons Regular
- Canterbury
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- Canticle
- Canto
- Cantor
- Capitalism
- Capitalist
- Capuchin
- Cardinal
- Cardinal virtue
A-Z: General definitions: Canon
Definition
1. The list of books which the Christian church accepts as inspired by God and authoritative. See Apocrypha. 2. Priest who is part of a group of clergy attached to a cathedral. 3. A set of rules governing how a church is to be run and what its beliefs are. 4. To canonise is to declare someone a Saint, worthy of special honour and veneration within the Roman Catholic church.
5. In Literary Studies, the canon is the group of those texts deemed worthy of serious study by students of literature.
Translation
Greek: kanon, 'measuring' rod or 'rule'.Name originally given to disciples of Jesus by outsiders and gradually adopted by the Early Church.
1. Term for a worshipping community of Christians.
2. The building in which Christians traditionally meet for worship.
3. The worldwide community of Christian believers.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
Books whose status as part of the Bible is disputed.
The collective term for priests and ministers of the church (as opposed to the non-ordained laity).
Generally a large and magnificent place of Christian worship that houses the 'cathedra' (the bishop's chair or throne).
In the New Testament the term is used of all Christians but gradually came to describe an especially holy person.
A worldwide Christian church which traces its origins from Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus. It has a continuous history from earliest Christianity. Its centre is the Vatican Palace, Rome, where the Pope resides.
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