#theological term

• Unmercenary — A Christian religious term designating a saint (usually a physician or healer, such as Cosmas and Damian or Pantleimon) who practiced their profession or gift of healing completely free of charge, structurally refusing any payment, material reward, or money from patients. As an adjective, it describes a person, deed, or attitude devoid of silver, financially disinterested, acting exclusively out of philanthropy or Christian charity.
• Anglican — An adherent of Anglicanism or a member of the Church of England; as an adjective, relating to Anglicanism, specific to this Christian doctrine, or to the ecclesiastical institutions organized within it. From a structural perspective, the term defines well-defined elements of worship, theology, and church hierarchy that emerged in the 16th century following the English Reformation initiated by King Henry VIII.
• Arian — Pertaining to Arianism, relating to the theological doctrine of Arius or his followers; Arian. In old ecclesiastical texts or medieval chronicles, this adjective was structurally used to describe dogmatic errors, particular councils, or writings considered heretical by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches following the 4th-century Trinitarian controversies.
• Likeness — An archaic and regional form for 'asemănare'; the existence of common traits or a partial identity between two or more entities. In an old theological context, it refers to the creation of man in the image and likeness of the deity, representing the spiritual potential for moral perfection.
• Astralism — An ancient religious, mythological, or philosophical doctrine stating that terrestrial phenomena, human destinies, and deities are directly determined, governed, or symbolized by the movement of stars and constellations; a belief system specific to major ancient civilizations (Babylonian, Egyptian) based on the veneration of celestial bodies as divine entities.
• Attrition — An alternative, archaic, or scholarly variant of the word 'atriție'; a structural process of wear, grinding, erosion through friction, or progressive numerical reduction of an element. In historical theological language, it describes a form of imperfect regret or repentance for sins, motivated not by pure love for the divinity, but by fear of punishment or consequences.
• Azymous — Pertaining to the worship, ritual, or liturgical use of unleavened bread (azyme); a rare theological term used historically in polemical writings to describe the specific Eucharistic practices of the Western Church.