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This second edition of The Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms provides a comprehensive guide to nearly 7,000 theological terms—1,000 more terms than the first edition. McKim’s succinct definitions cover a broad range of theological studies and related disciplines: contemporary theologies, biblical studies, church history, ethics, feminist theology, global theologies, hermeneutics,...

See Eastern Orthodoxy A festival observed by Eastern Orthodox churches on the first Sunday in Lent that celebrates the victory of right faith over all heresies. It originated to celebrate the defeat of the iconoclasts and the restoration of icons in Orthodox churches (842). See also iconoclastic controversy. (Gr. orthos, “right,” and praxis, “practice”) Right practice. Used in liberation theologies to stress the importance of action concerned
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