Four Marks of the Church adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb ("katholou"), meaning "according to the whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition meaning "according to" and the adjective meaning "whole". Applied to the church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to the church as spread throughout the world but also to each local
The Cults of the Greek States at any rate, a reputation of being a "bizarre and hopeless thing". The work, as Farnell freely states in his preface, is indebted to Frazer's "The Golden Bough", which generated a whole new way of studying and analysing religion, i. e. comparatively and abstractly. The author states in his preface to the work that, "a compendious account of Greek cults [...] has long been a desideratum in English," and as such Farnell wrote "The Cults of the Greek States" to sate that desire. Farnell, however, ensured that his work was thoroughly modern for its time. His work did not draw