| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| religion believing in a self-sufficient lifestyle that rejects influences of modern life |
Amish
|
| religion, sixth century, believing in adult baptism, church-state separation, nonviolence |
Anabaptists
|
| religion believing in the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England |
Anglicans
|
| group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists) |
Arminian Baptist
,
General Baptist
|
| religion believing in baptism by total immersion during early teens and older |
Baptists
|
| love, believing one is in |
besotted
,
infatuated
|
| religion believing in Islam |
Black Muslims
,
Moslems
|
| religion believing in finding enlightenment through meditation |
Buddhism
|
| group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination |
Calvinistic Baptist
,
Particular Baptist
|
| religion believing in strict rituals, joyous worship, mysticism |
Chasidim
,
Hasidim
|
| any people believing themselves to be chosen by God |
chosen people
|
| religion believing in faith healing and founded by Mary Baker Eddy |
Christian Science
|
| religion believing in Judaism but adapting it to modern life |
Conservative Judaism
|
| believing too easily |
credulous
,
gullible
,
naive
|
| blindly believing in theory |
doctrinaire
|
| believing two contradictory ideas at the same time |
doublethink
|
| religion believing in the primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople |
Eastern Orthodox
|
| believing in human equality |
egalitarian
|
| religion believing in the episcopal form of church government |
Episcopalians
|
| religion believing in the Gospels, faith, grace over sacraments |
Evangelicals
|
