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Concise Dictionary of Religion

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DEAD SEA SCROLLS:

DEATH OF GOD THEOLOGY:

DELPHIC ORACLE:

DEMYTHOLOGIZATION:

DEUTERO-ISAIAH:

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM:

DIALECTICAL THEOLOGY:

DISPENSATIONALISM:

DIVINE KINGSHIP:

DIVINE LIGHT MISSION:

DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS:

DOME OF THE ROCK:

DONATION OF CONSTANTINE:

DORT, SYNOD OF:

DOUBLE PROCESSION:

DUKKHA (Pali) or DUHKHA (Sanskrit):

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PIOUS IX (1792-1878):

reactionary PRIEST who became POPE in 1846. He pronounced the ROMAN CATHOLIC DOCTRINE of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in 1854 and promulgated the INFALLIBILITY OF THE POPE. In 1864 he issued the SYLLABUS OF ERRORS condemning LIBERALISM and MODERNITY.