Terminology Tuesday: RESERVED SINS
In conformity with the early practice, which restricted the administration of penance to a bishop, bishops in the RC Church have retained the right to ‘reserve’ certain
Terminology Tuesday: DREAMS IN THE NET & GRECO-ROMAN LITERATURE
DREAMS IN THE NT AND GRECO-ROMAN LITERATURE. Belief in the reality and significance of dreams and visions was widespread in ancient times. The people of the Greco-Roman world belie
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: PROTOPASCHITES
PROTOPASCHITES. Numerous methods for observing Easter and calculating the date on which it had to be celebrated were already known in ancient Christianity; nonetheless, the Council
Terminology Tuesday: PROSOPON
PROSOPON. Though retaining the various meanings of non-Christian Greek, the term prosÅpon at first became a technical term in trinitarian theology, then in Christology. The specif