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HAGIN, Kenneth (1934-):

HAKUIN (1685-1768):

HALDANE, Robert (1764-1842):

HALEVY, Elie (1870-1937):

HAMANN, Johann George (1730-1788):

HAMMURABI, CODE OF:

HANDEL, George Frederick (1685-1759):

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928):

HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT:

HARMONIC CONVERGENCE:

HARNACK, Adolph von (1851-1930):

HARRINGTON, Michael (1928-1989):

HASAN, Ali (died 669):

HASAN al-BASR (died 728):

HEGEL, George Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831):

HEIDEGGER, Martin (1884-1976):

HEIDELBERG CATECHISM:

HEILSGESCHICHTE:

HEISENBERG, Werner (1901-1976):

HENRY VIII (1491-1547):

HERACLITUS, of Ephesus (540-475 B.C.):

HERBERT, Edward, Lord of Cherbury (1583-1648):

HERBERT, George (1593-1633):

HERDER, Johann Gottfried von (1744-1803):

HERMAS (2nd century):

HERMETIC LITERATURE (Hermes Trismegistus):

HEROD ANTIPAS (died 39):

HESIOD (8th century):

HESSE, Herman (1877-1962):

HIGHER CRITICISM:

HILLEL (1st century):

HIPPOCRATES (460?-370? B.C.):

HIPPOLYTUS (165-236):

HO YEN (3rd century):

HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679):

HODGE, Charles (1797-1878):

HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thirty, baron d' (1723-1789):

HOLINESS MOVEMENT:

HOLMES, John Haynes (1879-1959):

HOLY, THE SACRED:

HOMER (sometime before 700 B.C.):

HNEN (1133-1212):

HOOKER, Richard (1554-1600):

HORT, Fenton John Anthony (1828-1892):

HORTON, Robin (1832-?):

HSAN T'SANT (596-664):

HUBBARD, Ron L. (1911-1976):

HÜGEL, Frederick, Baron von (1852-1925):

HUI-NENG (628-713):

HUI-YÜAN (334-417):

HUMAN SACRIFICE:

HUME, David (1711-1776):

HUNG HSIU-CH'AN (1812-1864):

HUNTINGDON, Selina, Countess [of] (1707-1791):

HUSAYN, Ibn 'Ali (626-680):

HUSS, John (1372-1415):

HUSSERL, Edmund Gustav Alberta (1859-1938):

HUXLEY, Aldous Leonard, (1894-1963):

HUXLEY, Julian Sorell (1887-1975):

HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895):

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CATHOLIC:

from a Greek term meaning "in general" or "on the whole." In the EARLY CHURCH it was used to express the universal nature of CHRISTIANITY and to indicate that the BELIEF and practice of a CHURCH was such that it had been "everywhere and always accepted by all." Thus it became identified with ORTHODOXY. Today the term is often used to mean "UNIVERSAL."