Charles Buck’s Theological Dictionary:
- “Containing Definitions Of All Religious Terms:
- A Comprehensive View Of Every Article In The System Of Divinity;
- An Impartial Account of all the Principal Denominations.
- Together with an Accurate Statement of the Most Remarkable Transactions and Events Recorded in Ecclesiastical History”
by Rev. Charles Buck, with a forward by Rev. George Bush. Originally published 1802 in two volumes.
There are over 1500 entries in this dictionary.
(From a seller’s review of the 1831 ed.):
“Despite a stated reliance on the plain meaning of the Bible and the dictates of common sense, Buck’s Theological Dictionary, first published in London in 1802, sought to provide a textual basis for the evangelical community. By combining brief essays on orthodox belief and practice with historical entries on various denominations, Buck provided an interpretive lens that allowed antebellum Protestants to see Christianity’s almost two millennia as their own history.
Brown The Devil's Mission of Amusement 7 page article from 1889. Hollywood in the church and her ministries. Brown was a student of C.H Spurgeon.
Excerpts:
Different days demand their own special testimony. The watchman who would be faithful to his Lord and to the city of his God needs to carefully note the signs of the times and to emphasize his witness accordingly. Concerning the testimony needed now, there can be little if any doubt. An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, that is so gross, so brazen in its impudence, that the most shortsighted of spiritual men can hardly fail to notice it.... Amusement for the people is the leading article advertised by each... until the hideous fact has been proved up to the hilt, that "amusement" is ousting "the preaching of the Gospel" as the great attraction... The Concert is fast becoming as much a recognized part of church life as the Prayer Meeting; and it is already, in most places, far better attended.
"Providing recreation for the people" will soon be looked upon as a necessary part of Christian work, and as binding upon the Church of God, as though it were a Divine command, unless some strong voices are raised which will make themselves heard.
Read the 7-page article: Brown, The Devil's Mission of Amusement.
American evangelicals rapidly seized on Buck’s dictionary, ceding to it an almost canonical status as the textual interpreter of what it meant to be evangelical.
Buck’s Theological Dictionary still contains some interesting material, especially when it comes to Religious Sects. Some of the more obscure ones that you will find in this book include:
- Beareans,
- Brownists,
- Cereinthians,
- Circoncelliones,
- Dunkers,
- Hopkinsians,
- Illuminati,
- Joachimites,
- Libertines,
- Manicheans,
- Marcionites,
- Materialists,
- Monophysites,
- Moravians,
- Muggletonians (no, I did not make that one up, and it has nothing to do with Harry Potter),
- Novations,
- Origenists,
- Pelagians,
- Petrobrussians,
- Philadelphian Society,
- Photinians,
- Picards,
- Pricillianists,
- Rellyanists,
- Sandemanians,
- Serpentinians,
- Socinians,
- Supralapsarians,
- Swedenborgians,
- Theophilanthropists,
- Valentinians,
- Waldenses,
- Waterladians and others.
There is also some good content on Quakers, Shakers, Universalists and others as well. As for the various Protestant denominations, Judiasm, Catholicism, Islam (Mahometanism), etc. there is plenty on that as well.”
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