ANGELIC A community of Dutch pietists founded by George Gichtel in the 16th century. Its members held that, having attained a state of angelic purity, they should give no further thought to marriage. Extinct.
One definition for the High Church school in the Episcopal Church.
The name applied to those sects which teach the absolute destruction of the wicked.
The extreme sect of Arians; it taught that the Son was of an essence which was not even similar to that of the Father. It existed during the 4th century.
Ar4swituris.— A sect whose membership is almost entirely restricted to a small district in Syria. As a religious belief it is a combination of Mohammedanism, paganism and some thing that somewhat resembles Christianity. This strange faith is said to have first been taught by Nusari, a prophet and saint who lived at Nasai, near Koufa, in the latter part of the 9th century, and his gospel included the doctrine of metempsychosis as well as that of divine unity in three personalities, the second and third being created. This sect now receives both the Old and New Testaments, the Koran and several apocryphal works as its inspired scriptures.
A sect which is theologically in accord with the regular Baptists but that is opposed to missions, Sunday schools and other educational and evange listic enterprises.
A name sometimes applied to sects that are opposed to the doctrine of infant baptism.
A name applied to one of the two factions into which the Scottish Secession Church was split in 1747. The controversy was based upon the lawfulness of a clause in the oath required to be taken by burgesses, but. while the point was fiercely contended for several years, the two factions were reunited in 1820.
A sect which became extinct about the 9th century. It held that the body of Christ was incorruptible even before the resurrection and that his suffering of death was merely a phantasms.
A sect condemned during the 4th century for having denied the proper humility of Christ.
The followers of Arius, the Alexandrian priest who promulgated a widespread heresy during the 4th century. Denying the divinity of Christ and other
fundamental doctrines of the Christian Church, he was condemned and Arianism was suppressed by order of early councils. Since that time, however, the doctrines taught by Arius have been frequently revived and they still exist under other designations.
Although the separation of the Armenian Church from the main body of Christians, which occurred at the time of the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.), was the result of a comparatively inconsequential misunderstanding; it has been maintained to this day, in spite of the several attempts at reconciliation.
AgsznatAris.— A name sometimes applied to the anti Calvinistic sects of Protestants which teach the doctrine of Universal salvation.
A sect existing in the early days of the Church. It admitted women both to the priesthood and the episcopate and taught the use of bread and cheese in the eucharist on the ground that it was right that man's oblations should be of the fruits of the earth and of thi. Socks.
Masten.— The term applied to those persons who deny the existence of God.
A Paulician sect of the 8th and 9th cen turies. Extinct.
The followers of Mirza Ali,,Muharnmad of Shiraz, who founded a new religious system in Persia during 1844. Described as a " Pantheistic offshoot from Moham medanism, tinctured with Gnostic. Jewish and Buddhistic ideas," the high form of morality which it teaches has appealed so strongly to the Western mind that its converts in America alone during the past few years undoubtedly number several thousand. Among other doctrines Sebum teaches the equality of the sexes.
The same sect as the Habitue (q. v.). Brierists.— Those sects which oppose infant baptism, administering the rite only to adult persons, and then • them not to make them children of God, but sign that they themselves have accepted Him, See