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| Pantocrator, Christ | ||
| Christ depicted as "Ruler of the Universe," a common image in Orthodox iconography. |
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| Passion | ||
| (Latin passio, "suffering"). The crucifixion of Jesus and the events leading up to it. |
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| patriarch | ||
| (Gk. "father ruler") Generally, an early biblical figure such as Abraham or one of the "church fathers" of the early Christian church. Specifically, the spiritual leader of a major city in Eastern Orthodoxy (the Patriarch of Constantinople is the Pope's Eastern counterpart). |
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| Patristics | ||
| (Lat. pater, "father") Branch of Christian theology and history concerned with the church "fathers" (patres), usually understood to refer to the period from the later first century to the mid-fifth century. |
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| patripassianism | ||
| The heretical view, associated with Praxeas, Noetus and Sabbellius, that God the Father can suffer. A consequence of modalist monarchianism, in which the Son is the same person as the Father. |
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| Pelagianism | ||
| Belief system, attacked by Augustine and declared a heresy in , which denies original sin and asserts the ability of humans to choose good over evil with only external assistance from God. |
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| pope | ||
| (Lat. papa, "father") The bishop of Rome, who became the recognized leader of the entire Western church. See History: Development of the Papacy. |
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