creek, pit of Acheron[obs3], Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.
Pluto, Rhadamanthus[obs3], Erebus[Lat]; Tophet.
Adj. hellish, infernal, stygian.
Phr. dies irae dies illa[Lat]; “the hue of dungeons and the scowl of
night” [Love’s Labor’s Lost].
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#983. [Religious Knowledge.]
Theology.— N. theology (natural and
revealed); theogony[obs3], theosophy; divinity; hagiology,
hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion;
religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination;
creed &c. (belief) 484; article of faith, declaration
of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith.
theologue, theologian;
scholastic, divine, schoolman[obs3], canonist,
theologist[obs3]; the Fathers.
Adj. theological, religious;
denominational; sectarian &c. 984.
#983a. Orthodoxy.—
N. orthodoxy; strictness, soundness, religious
truth, true faith; truth &c. 494; soundness of doctrine.
Christianity, Christianism[obs3];
Catholicism, Catholicity; “the faith
once delivered to the saints”; hyperorthodoxy
&c. 984[obs3]; iconoclasm.
The Church; Catholic
Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church,
Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church
of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples
of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian
community; true believer; canonist &c. (theologian)
983; Christendom, collective body of Christians.
canons &c. (belief)
484; thirty nine articles; Apostles’ Creed, Nicene
Creed, Athanasian Creed[obs3]; Church Catechism; textuary[obs3].
Adj. orthodox, sound,
strick[obs3], faithful, catholic,
schismless[obs3], Christian, evangelical, scriptural,
divine, monotheistic; true &c. 494.
Phr. of the true faith.
#984. Heterodoxy.
[Sectarianism.]— N. heterodoxy; error &c.
495;
false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism[obs3],
schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy;
atheism &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3].
bigotry &c. (obstinacy)
606; fanaticism, iconoclasm;
hyperorthodoxy[obs3], precisianism[obs3], bibliolatry[obs3],
sabbatarianism[obs3], puritanism; anthropomorphism;
idolatry &c. 991; superstition &c. (credulity) 486;
dissent &c. 489.
sectarism[obs3], sectarianism;
noncomformity[obs3]; secularism;
syncretism[obs3], religious sects.
protestantism, Arianism[obs3],
Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism[obs3],
Erastianism[obs3], Calvinism, quakerism[obs3], methodism,
anabaptism[obs3], Puseyism, tractarianism[obs3], ritualism,
Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism[obs3], Deism,
Theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism
&c.
High Church, Low Church,
Broad Church, Free Church;
ultramontanism[obs3]; papism, papistry; monkery[obs3];
papacy; Anglicanism, Catholicism, Romanism; popery,


