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DioceseAn ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop | ||
Dionysius, the AreopagitePseudo author of the Dionysian works that were the corpus containing three treatises. The work was translated into Latin by John (the Scot) Eriugena in the ninth century. His writings profoundly influenced medieval theology and spirituality and through time impacted Alber the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and mystic Richard of St. Victor, Bonaventure. The Gothic architecture of Saint-Denis in Paris is also named for the author-become-missionary, attributed to his uplifting illumination (Hill, 103). Bibliography Hill, Jonathan. Zondervan Handbook to the History of Christianity. Oxford: Lion Publishing, 2006. | ||
DiptychOfficial list of bishops (past and present) who should be prayed for. A double catalog of the living, and on the other side deceased, names of ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalog of saints | ||
DiscernmentThe ability to tell between what is right and almost right. | ||
DisciplineInstruction (direction that is often verbal, sometimes harsh and corrective), Inspiration (aggressively and simultaneously convicting and encouraging) and Intervention (corrects and restores both verbally and physically) are the three components to discipline functions directed by leaders. | ||
DispensationalismBelief in a historical progression of revelation by the LORD God about His Being, Works and Will through His covenanted Word. | ||
DivinationA soothsayers attempt to foretell future events or discover hidden mysteries by occult or supernatural means. | ||
DivinePertaining to the LORD God that which is religious, sacred and befitting Him. | ||
Divine HealingA healing as a result of a sacred supernatural and miraculous intervention of the LORD God, in response to prayer, faith, hope or His Will. | ||