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secret discipline
discipline of the secret n. Theology (also with capital initials) the practice, held to have been observed in the early Church, of concealing certain theological doctrines and religious usages from the uninitiated, and revealing them only gradually to neophytes. Sometimes also secret discipline. Cf. sense 5b. [After French †discipline du secret (1700 in the passage translated in quot. 1700), itself after post-classical Latin disciplina arcani (1683 in the title of a book by the Lutheran theologian W. E. Tentzel, 1685 in the title of a refutation of Tentzel's work by the Catholic theologian E. Schelstrate).]
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1700 tr. M. Souverain Platonism Unveil'd viii. 25/2 Among Christians of the Discipline of the Secret [Fr. de la Discipline du Secret], and of the Platonick Trinity, it is very likely that they design'd to hide it under this Allegorical and Symbolical Name.
1794 J. Jamieson Vindic. Doctr. Script. II. vi. ii. 347 Not till after the introduction of this secret discipline, which seems to have been about the beginning of the third century, did the fathers, as far as I can observe, form such distinctions.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 266 Discipline of the Secret..a convenient name for the custom which prevailed in the early Church of concealing from heathen and catechumens the more sacred and mysterious doctrines and rites of..religion.
1914 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. VI. 235/1 To this purpose of circumventing the hostile rulers the secret discipline of Gnosticism was mainly directed.
1966 D. Newsome Parting of Friends ii. 75 In the early Church, the principle of reserve was developed into a regular system, described as the Disciplina Arcani, the discipline of the secret, whereby the catechumens were gradually educated in the mysteries of the faith.
2012 M. Hickey Get Real x. 44 The Discipline of the Secret also involved a cryptic language used by Christians to communicate with one another.
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