Christian Cyclopedia

See Brahmanism, 2.

(January 20, (1804–1843). B. Greenwich, Eng.; LMS miss. to Malacca and Penang (1827–43). Invented movable metallic type for printing Chinese Scriptures. Helped tr. Bible into Chinese.

(1823–76). B. Hull, Eng.; cleric and composer; hymn tunes include Alford, Beatitudo, Nicaea, St. Agnes, St. Cross, St. Mary Magdalene, and Vox dilecti; other works include many services and anthems.

(ca. 1709–41). B. Swed.; to Am. 1737; served Swed. chs. along the Delaware 1737–41; preached in English, German, and Swedish; helped organize Ger. congs. at Germantown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; often preached in Episc. chs.; one of the most influential Swed. Luth. pastors in Am.

See Monarchianism, A.

See Psychology, Dynamic.

See Switzerland, Contemporary Theology in, 3.

(from Gk. dynamis, “power”). Philos. system which holds that all phenomena are manifestations of force; distinguished from mechanism.* Examples: 1. The view of Anaximenes* of Miletus (of the Ionian school of philos.) that things grow by condensation and rarefaction, or heat and cold; 2. G. W. v. Leibniz'* explanation of substance; 3. I. Kant's* explanation of matter as forces of attraction and repulsion; 4. Arnold van Gennep's (1873–1957) description of an attitude of the savage mind toward the sacred and hidden; 5. The view of W. Ostwald,* exponent of energetics; 6. The élan vital (vital force) of H. Bergson* and the philos. of organism of A. N. Whitehead.* See also Africa, A. 3.

(Diphysites; from Gk. dyo, “two,” and physis, “nature”). Those who held that in Christ 2 natures, divine and human, coexist as expressed by the Council of Chalcedon.* Opposed the Monophysites (see Monophysite Controversy).

(dithelitism; from Gk. dyo, “two,” and thelema, “will”). The doctrine that in Christ there are 2 wills, divine and human; Christ had a human soul (Mt 26:38) and a human, but sinless, will (Mt 26:39). The doctrine was upheld by orthodox theology against monothelitism.* See also Constantinople, Councils of, 3.

See Brahmanism, 2.