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  • In Christian theology, the satisfaction view of the atonement is the ... /summa/summa.TP_Q46.html The Passion of the Christ (Twelve Articles ...
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  • A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Christ. It includes the trial, suffering, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
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  • The term Bride of Christ is normally a metaphorical reference to the ... In the Roman Catholic Church, the image of the Church as Christ's ...
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  • Mel Gibson's 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ, could be argued ... * The Passion of the Christ * Passion (Christianity) ==Notes== ...
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  • quot;) is a cross with a representation of Jesus' body, or corpus ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...
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  • The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...
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  • Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before ... The holiday is celebrated with processions in which Christians carry ...
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  • The Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine in Christian theology, derived ... The "Harrowing of Hell" doctrine was especially popular ...
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  • The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...
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  • The Eucharist is a sacramental or memorial reenactment of the Last ... Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this ...
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  • Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...
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  • (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...
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  • Saint Bridget or Bridgid of Sweden (1303 – July 23, 1373), born ... From a young age she kept records of what came to be known as her ...
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  • INRI is an acronym of the Latin phrase IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM ... a Titulus Crucis (Latin for "Title of the Cross") was inscribed ...
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  • Calvary (originally known as "Golgotha" meaning: "place ... The New Testament describes Calvary as being located close to Jerusalem ...
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  • The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...
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  • Stigmata (from Greek: stizo, “to prick”) refers to the five wounds ... The causes of stigmata are largely mysterious, but some observers ...
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  • and promoted a complex understanding of the origins of the universe ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...
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  • The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy ... The story, however, is not found in the Bible and does not appear ...
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  • estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...
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  • was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore ... films Jesus Christ Superstar and The Passion of the Christ, portray him as ...
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  • Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was ... Clement of Alexandria was, and still is, a highly unorthodox and controversial ...
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  • Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to ... It is a time of somber reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation ...
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  • ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea province from 26 -36 C.E. He ... Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ, while British ...
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  • William Booth (April 10, 1829 – August 20,1912) was the founder ... Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England, the only son of four ...
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  • 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North ... difficulties early in his career, he read the Bible and experienced a religious ...
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  • and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ... engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome ...
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  • An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented ... monasteries. As with other religious works, the creative process involved ...
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  • In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Despite his notorious role in the Gospel narratives, Judas is still ...
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  • Concluding that a rational explanation of God and the meaning of life ... He regarded novels and dramas as a means of learning about life. His plays ...
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  • Saint Clare of Assisi (also Claire of Assisi), born Chiara Offreduccio ... to organize the women who chose to embrace monastic life in the Franciscan ...
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  • religious dogmatism in general, and the concept of an institutional ... Franck came to believe that God communicates with individuals through ...
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  • existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...
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  • 1910–July 28, 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin ... Claims of her intervention began almost immediately upon her death ...
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  • Roman Catholic priest. Born into a family of Christian converts at a time ... torture and eventual martyrdom under the repressive Korean monarchy ...
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  • The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...
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  • [[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive ... Montanism was an early Christian sectarian movement beginning in the ...
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  • was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, Bedfordshire), in ... He preferred to face and endure years of imprisonment at great sacrifice ...
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  • The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...
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  • [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated ... To be drawn and quartered was the penalty ordained in England for ...
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  • The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden" ... or "garland of roses" [http://books.google.com/books?id=eqkFAAAAQAAJ ...
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  • Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the Roman ... upright portion of the cross. In The Passion of the Christ (2004), the crucifixion ...
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  • The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...
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  • The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance ... The Council of Trent (1545-1563), in which the Roman Catholic Church ...
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  • The Song of Solomon (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim ... the Tanakh (and Christian Old Testament), which celebrates and interprets ...
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  • The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply ... According to Saint Melito in the second century C.E., the Book of ...
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  • 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...
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  • was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High ... Raphael apprenticed with Perugino, studied the work of Michelangelo ...
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  • In many Christian churches, Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and ... abstinence from meat, and repentance—a day of contemplating one's transgressions ...
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  • The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion ... collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. They consist ...
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  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence ... One of the writings of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Acts of Paul ...
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  • The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic ... ) comes via Latin from the Greek grc|σύνοψις , synopsis, i.e ...
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  • was much troubled by difficulties with the Lombards and the increasingly ... Threatened by a Lombard blockade, Pelagius II sent the future Pope ...
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  • Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and ... of Christ and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. ...
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  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the first poem in the volume; ...
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  • The term True Cross denotes the actual cross on which Jesus was crucified ... For over a millennium, these supposed fragments of the True Cross ...
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  • Saint Teresa of Ávila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptized ... Disillusioned with the lax practices at her Carmelite convent, the ...
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  • The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... this doctrine was included in the two most widely used Christian creeds ...
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  • Jews) is a term which can have two meanings. The first describes the members ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...
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  • Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...
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  • Niue is a small island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. ... Niue is located about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) northeast of New Zealand ...
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  • Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (c. 390– 2 September ... After the cessation of Christian persecution under Constantine (and ...
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  • 11, 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from ... other Pope's were also related. By the time he became Pope, he had ...
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  • The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes ... According to early Church tradition, c. 140 C.E., the author of the ...
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  • known for having authored An Inquiry into the Cause of the Wealth of Nations ... however, his writings span a broad spectrum of topics ranging from astronomy ...
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  • Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...
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  • cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya ... His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. ...
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  • religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...
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  • 1940) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of the first half of the twentieth ... Mikhail Bulgakov was born in 1891 in Kiev, Ukraine, the oldest son ...
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  • The Cologne Cathedral ( Kölner Dom , officially de|Hohe Domkirche ... ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ...
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  • The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...
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  • A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body ... "Choir" has the secondary definition of a subset of an ensemble; ...
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  • and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement, especially ... His father, Augustus, who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran ...
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  • theologian and socialist recognized as one of the most important thinkers ... His friends included some of the leading intellectuals of his time ...
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  • A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...
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  • The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... represented a class of devotional manuals popular among medieval Catholic ...
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  • In Hinduism, an avatar (from the Sanskrit avatāra: meaning "downcoming ... Due to the correspondences between the Hindu concept of avatar and ...
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  • any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order ... There are several specific categories of monks including cenobites ...
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  • Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus ... #039; public ministry, Mary was present at the crucifixion and is depicted ...
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  • which male members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy ... Anthropologists studying cultures around the world, and at different ...
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  • Rodrigo Borgia), Pope from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the ... He was renowned for his mistresses but also for his patronage of the ...
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  • Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people ... Francis founded the Franciscan Order or "Friars Minor" ...
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  • The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; ... The Christian community traditionally ascribes authorship to Matthew ...
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  • Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God ... Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Passion of the Christ (2004), as well ...
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  • Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de ... Ignatius and the early Jesuits recognized that the hierarchical Church ...
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  • March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, ... Gesualdo was part of an aristocratic family which acquired the principality ...
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  • an artist, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There he befriended ... As a naturalistic writer, he was among the first English-language ...
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  • was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...
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  • Pio of Pietrelcina (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) was a Capuchin ... Pio is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church's ...
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  • The Gospel of John, (literally, According to John; Greek, Κατά ... Of the four gospels, John is the only one that presents a true christology ...
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  • and versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose sacred ... Bach expressed as much, writing, "The purpose and end aim of figured ...
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  • Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...
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  • and paleontologist. She is credited with the discovery of many fossils ... a world in which women were not admitted to the scientific societies, she ...
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  • The Apostle Peter, also known as Saint Peter, and Cephas—original ... role by Jesus, who reportedly gave him the keys of heaven and called ...
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  • architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...
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  • The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... Methodism originated in England in the eighteenth century, among a ...
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  • Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... as Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ and Pier Pasolini ...
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  • , which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theater of the ... Jarry's response was to create a sometimes grotesque parody of ...
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  • Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...
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