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  • to an action being intrinsically wrong as in deontological theories. The ... to 'love thy neighbour' taught in the Bible. He believed that ...
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  • A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ... used by Reverend Samuel Peters (1735-1826) in his book, General History of ...
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  • Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...
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  • was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century ... nascent Christian community, Polycarp was martyred in Smyrna. ...
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  • Fragments, is one of the works found in multiple fragmentary copies ... The document seems to have been written in stages between 175 B.C.E. and ...
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  • holds Halakha to be binding, but believes in a progressive tradition by ... civil, criminal, and religious law, but in the modern era Jews are generally ...
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  • In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... manner of playing it is closely prescribed in Jewish tradition, although ...
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  • for the revival of the study of logic in England in the early part of ... clergy. Even more radically, he spoke out in favor of granting of civil ...
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  • 350 B.C.E.-70 C.E.). The group was founded in the second century B.C.E., ... associated with the leadership of the Temple in Jerusalem. ...
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  • day") is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year ... Pentecost is also called Whitsun, Whitsunday, or Whit Sunday in the ...
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  • , or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology, is the idea that ... one hand, religious rules/laws have been set in motion for the purpose of helping ...
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  • were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai in two stone tablets. ... Upon these tablets were listed ten ethical precepts that are listed ...
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  • I, was the leading Jewish teacher of his day in the first half of the first ... leader who saved the disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts ...
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  • from the Malabar coast (now Kerala) in South India, who follow Syriac ... such as covering their heads while in worship and holding their ritual ...
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  • Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...
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  • Creation is a theological notion or position in many religions or ... quot; is part of the purpose of creation in all religions. That purpose ...
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  • and his disciple, Timothy, to the church in Colossae. It is particularly ... Colossians represents an example of "high Christology," ...
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  • to a Jewish movement within contemporary Christianity. Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...
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  • to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia ... believe that they needed to be circumcised in order to be true Christians ...
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  • the news of Jesus' death, he "went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved ... Nicodemus, he took the body and wrapped it in the fine linen, sprinkling ...
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