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Remonstrants
Remonstrants , Dutch Protestants, adherents to the ideas of Jacobus Arminius , whose doctrines after his death (1609) were called Arminianism. They were Calvinists but were more liberal and less dogmatic than orthodox Calvinists and diverged from the teachings of the Dutch Reformed Church. After... Read more |
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Diego Lainez
Diego Lainez , 1512-65, Spanish theologian, leader of the Counter Reformation; general of the Society of Jesus. He was one of the small band that formed the original Society of Jesus under St. Ignatius of Loyola . At the Council of Trent (see Trent, Council of ) he was papal theologian and made a... Read more |
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-92, English Baptist preacher. He joined the Baptist communion in 1850. In 1852, at age 18, he took charge of a small congregation at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, and, at 20, went to London as pastor of the New Park St. Chapel. His immediate popularity made necessary... Read more |
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Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith Singer, songwriter, keyboardist Called a "true Renaissance [man] of contemporary Christian music" by Billboard, gospel singer Michael W. Smith gained popularity with mainstream audiences as well. His beautiful ballads and dance songs featuring a driving rock beat have,... Read more |
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catechism
catechism [Gr.,=oral instruction], originally oral instruction in religion, later written instruction. Catechisms are usually written in the form of questions and answers. Almost as old as Christianity, they were used especially for the instruction of converts and children. Catechisms were popular... Read more |
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Battle of Carbisdale
Carbisdale, battle of, 1650. Early in 1650 Montrose sailed from Bergen to Orkney with a small force. He moved to the mainland without gathering much support and on 27 April was surprised at Carbisdale, on the Kyle of Sutherland, west of Dornoch. His supporters were routed, Montrose captured and... Read more |
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Brethren
BRETHREN BRETHREN (often nicknamed Dunkers) originated in central Germany in 1708. They were former Reformed and Lutheran Pietists (largely from the Palatinate), dissatisfied with state-linked churches. Pietism sought to complete the reformation of doctrine with a reformation of life. Earnest... Read more |
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Albion Woodbury Small
Albion Woodbury Small 1854-1926, American sociologist, b. Buckfield, Maine, grad. Colby College, 1876, and further educated in Germany. He was made president of Colby in 1889, but left it in 1892 to found at the Univ. of Chicago the first department of sociology in an American university. Small... Read more |
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Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls (1839-1915) Source A FRICAN AMERICAN SAILOR The Escape.While their white officers slept peacefully in Charleston, the slave crew aboard the Confederate gunboat Plantermade a daring run for Northern vessels anchored off the coast of... Read more |
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