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Concise Dictionary of Religion

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TAGORE, Rabindranath (1861-1941):

TANTRIC BUDDHISM:

TAYLOR, James Hudson (1832-1905):

TAYLOR, Jeremy (1613-1667):

TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, Pierre (1881-1955):

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT:

TEMPLE, William (1881-1944):

TENDAI BUDDHISM:

TERESA OF ÁVILA (1515-1582):

TERMINUS A QUO:

TERMINUS AD QUEM:

TERTULLIAN, Quintus Septimius Florens (160-225):

THALES OF MILETUS (640-546 B.C.):

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:

THERAVADA BUDDHISM:

THOMAS á KEMPIS (1380-1471):

THOMAS, GOSPEL OF:

THOMAS, M. M. (?):

THOMPSON, Francis (1859-1907):

THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862):

THUCYDIDES (450-400 B.C.?):

TIBETAN BUDDHISM:

TILLICH, Paul (1886-1965):

TIPIAKA [TRIPIAKA -Sanskrit]:

TOCQUEVILLE, Alex de (1805-1859):

TOLAND, John (1670-1722):

TOLEDOTH YESHU:

TOLSTOY, Leo, (1828-1910):

TORQUEMADA, Tomás de (1420-1498):

TOTAL DEPRAVITY:

TOYNBEE, Arnold Joseph (1889-1975):

TRACTS FOR THE TIMES:

TRADITION DIRECTION:

TRADITIONAL RELIGION:

TRADITIONALIST:

TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION [TM]:

TRANSCENDENTALISM:

TRANSMIGRATION:

TRANSUBSTANTIATION:

TRENT, COUNCIL OF:

TROELTSCH, Ernst (1865-1923):

TURNER, Witter Victor (1920-1986):

TYLOR, Edward Burnett, Sir (1832-1917):

TYNDALE, William (1494-1536):

TYRRELL, George (1861-1909):

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TROELTSCH, Ernst (1865-1923):

LIBERAL German theologian who devoted him energies to the problems raised for RELIGION by the scientific method applied to HISTORY and the question of CHRISTIANITY an CULTURE. He denied that dogmatic THEOLOGY has access to ABSOLUTE TRUTH and was intensely concerned with SOCIAL and political questions. His most famous work is The Social Teaching of the Christian Church (1912).