The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1018 page)

(
c.
1554–1600).
Anglican
theologian. As the apologist of the Elizabethan religious settlement in England, he was a decisively important interpreter of Anglicanism. His
Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
, also a classic of English prose, was only partly published in his lifetime (books i–v of eight books). Starting from a broadly conceived philosophical theology appealing to natural law, he attacked the
Puritans
for regarding the
Bible
as a mechanical code of rules, since not everything that is right (e.g.
episcopacy
) finds precise definition in the
scriptures
. Moreover, the Church is not a static institution, and the method of Church government will change according to circumstances. Hence the Church of England, though reformed, possesses continuity with the early Church.

 
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(1844–89).
Poet and
Jesuit
priest. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of
Tractarianism
, he became a Roman Catholic in 1866 and a Jesuit in 1868. He taught, latterly, as Professor of Greek in Dublin. His poetry was a search after style which would match his vision of God's creation. From the 13th-cent. philosophy of
Duns
Scotus, he developed the view that all things bear the inward stress of their particularity (what Scotus called
haecceitas
) and of their own God-given meaning, which he called ‘inscape’. In 1874, Hopkins was sent to St Beuno's in N. Wales as part of his training, and during his three years there, his poetry took off from theory into celebration. After he left Wales, he wrote little poetry until the final so-called ‘black’ sonnets/poems.

 
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(Heb., ‘ruling for the hour’). Legal ruling by Jewish authorities in an emergency, but not intended to have permanent validity.

 
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Horin
.

Jap. for
dharmacakra
.

 
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(1896–1981).
Pioneer of P
li Buddhist studies in the West. She edited and translated many Buddhist texts, in particular, the
Vinaya
Pi
aka, the
Majjhima Nik
ya
, and
Milinda's Questions
. She became Honorary Secretary of the P
li Text Society in 1942, and its President from 1949.