Terminology Tuesday: Reordination
The repetition of an ordination to the priesthood which had been conferred either extra ecclesiam, i.e. by an heretical or schismatic bishop, or intra ecclesiam but not canonically
Terminology Tuesday: Recapitulation
recapitulation (Lat. recapitulatio; Gk. ἀνακεφαλαίωσις, a ‘summing-up’, ‘summary’). The term is used in its verbal form in Eph. 1:10, where G
Terminology Tuesday: PROSOPON
PROSOPON. Though retaining the various meanings of non-Christian Greek, the term prosōpon at first became a technical term in trinitarian theology, then in Christology. The specif
Terminology Tuesday: Proselyte
PROSELYTE. From the Greek term προσήλυτος, which meant “foreigner,” “stranger” (peregrinus), the term was used to refer to a convert to Judaism. T
Terminology Tuesday: Quartodecimanism
The belief of a number of early Christians in Asia Minor that Easter should be observed on the fourteenth Nisan, irrespective of the day of the week that may happen to be. In contr