Glossary

__Ascetic:__ a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

__Imprimatur:__ an official license to print or publish a book, pamphlet, etc., esp. a license issued by a censor of the Roman Catholic Church.

__Prophetic:__ having the function or powers of a prophet

__Liturgical:__ of or pertaining to formal public worship or liturgies.

__Schismatic:__ a person who promotes schism or is an adherent of a schismatic body.

__Schism:__ division or disunion

__Mysticism:__ a doctrine of an immediate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation or ecstasy.

Ecumensim:

Sectarian:

Secular:

Athiest:

Agnostic:

Assylum Seeker:

Liberal: