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  • figures, Saturn was appropriated from the Greek tradition, and his mythology is commonly mixed with that of Cronus, the god of the harvest and ...
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  • , from Latin haeresis, from Ancient Greek αἵρεσις or haíresis ... # A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established ...
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  • etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos ... traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology ...
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  • # (religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal. ... ##: In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal ...
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  • theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek θεολογία or theología ... # The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion ...
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  • politia (circa 1530s C.E.), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía ... # (politics, religion, usually uncountable) organizational structure ...
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  • From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek ... set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion. ...
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  • Old French cisme or scisme, from Ancient Greek σχίσμα or skhísma ... # (religion) A formal division or split within a religious body. ...
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  • |list1 = Buddhist Chinese Greek Hellenistic Hindu Indian Jain Persian ... Philosophy Physics Politics Psychology Religion Science Social science Technology ...
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  • Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was Greek by birth, he is said to have ... his feast is celebrated on January 2. The Greek Church celebrates it on February ...
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  • little significance in the popular Greek religion. His equivalent in Roman ... enjoyed any other significant roles in ancient Greek religion. ...
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  • fifth century b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and the founder ... and sense experiences. He was the first Greek philosopher who took materialistic ...
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  • Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ... of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1880), had a strong influence ...
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  • to reconcile the Hebrew Scriptures with Greek thought. The exact dates ... concepts subsequently taught by the ancient Greek philosophers. Aristobulus ...
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  • The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings ... The Greek word "logos" means "order," "word ...
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  • last=Burkert|title=Greek Religion| year=1985| pages= 169 ... * Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press ...
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  • in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed to the cross ... the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" (King James ...
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  • the Maccabees or their revolt against the Greek Empire, as described in 1 ... of Gentile rulers, who saw the Jewish religion as a force for law and order ...
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  • The Aramaic word Abba, (written Αββα in Greek), appears three ... spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. Robert H. Stein, The Method ...
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  • who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in his seminal ... Diogenes Laertius wrote in Greek, compiling his material from hundreds ...
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