162 SYSTEMS OF RELIGION. 



Soteriol'ogy (Gr. .so/er, saviour, and logos, a discourse). — Tlie 

 doctiino of salvation by Jesus Christ. 



Sun'day. — A solemn festival observed by Christians on the first 

 day of every week, in memory of our Saviour's re.surrec- 

 tion. 



Syn'od. — A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons to con- 

 sult on matters of religion. 



Transubstantia'tion. — The supposed conversion of the bread 

 and wine in the Eucharist into the body and blood of 

 Christ. 



Trin'ity. — The doctrine of three persons in one God, — Father, 

 Son, and Holy Ghost. 



Type. — A sign or symbol ; a figure of something to come ; as, 

 the pasch-al lamb was a type of Christ. To this word in 

 this sense is opposed antitype; Christ, therefore, is the 

 antitype. 



Ves'pers, — The evening song, or,evening service, in the Roman 

 Catholic Church. 



Whit'sunday. — A solemn festival of the Christian Church, ob- 

 served on the fiftieth day after Easter, in memory of the 

 desceut of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles in the visible 

 appearance of fiery cloven tongues. 



RELIGION, SYSTEMS OF. 



Acos'misni is the theory of the non-existence of God and his 



woiks. 

 An'imisni is the theory of spirit in nature. 

 Anthropomorphism. — The theory that God has all the parts 



of a man. 

 A'theism. — The doctrine that there is no God. 

 De'ism. — The doctrine of belief in God, without belief in 



revelation. 

 Di'theism. — The doctrine of the existence of two Gods. 

 Du'alism. — The doctrine of tbe existence of two Gods, or .^^ 



a good and an evil principle. 

 Fa'talism. — The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or 



that they take place by inevitable necessity. 

 Hed'onism. — The doctrine that the chief good of man lies in 



the pursuit of pleasure. 

 Metempsycho'sis. — The passage of the soul of man after death 



into the body of some other animal. 



