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- Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions ... Catholic Church (i.e. the Western Church), and Eastern Catholic Churches ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- of Homer (eighth-seventh century B.C.E.), and continues through the rise ... 039;s rightful place as the author of values and as the director of history ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. He is also referred ... the idea that God is present in all things and yet transcends all things ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... His activities spanned from theology to politics for he was also the ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- Boris inherited a large territory that was home to both Bulgars and ... His embrace of Christianity may have been his attempt to unite the ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet ... , or in thoroughly explaining its nature, and set out to complete his system ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- the declaration of the Second Republic, and was shot while speaking to ... His ministry and episcopacy was set in the context of post-Revolution ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations ... but it is widely read by Israeli politicians and foreign journalists and so ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- Methodist, had studied in the United States, and sent her to Wellesley College ... widely, publicizing China’s plight and eliciting support against ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- a pioneer of Christian socialism in America, and one of the leaders of Progressive ... eldest of three children to Ezra Sterling and Harriet Gardner (Mason) Ely ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- of religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastrianism ... According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- a bridge between the philosophies of Hegel and Marx. Along with Schopenhauer ... after the publication of The Essence of Christianity (1841), in which he contended ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and essayist. His informal but ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or ... cannot be derived from others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- appointed bishops leading the Church, and the practice of ecstatic worship ... sect persisted well into the fourth century and continued in some places for ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, and Slovakia, as well as the republics ... as the nations bordered by the Baltic and Barents seas on the north; ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton ... His writings on slavery, war, labor problems, and education were extremely ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- the philosopher. For the British composer and conductor see Sir Anthony Collins. ... English philosopher, theologian, politician, and a provocative proponent of ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... concentrated in the areas the downs and moors of Devon and Cornwall ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 06:21, 24 November 2022
- the fourth century. He made three primary (and integral) contributions to ... four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church, and is regarded as one of the ...20 KB (3,060 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... A S Underwood, Arthur Keith, W P Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester.]] ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- born in the great northern seaport of Hull and served in the English Parliament ... When Wilberforce's opponents criticized his faith and attacked ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- Senate. His young son was declared co-ruler and heir. Following a successful ... Later Roman literature was unkind to Philip and to Arabs, depicting ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- 1882), was a German theologian, philosopher, and historian. Bauer was associated ... incorporated many Greco-Roman elements, and that some texts were second ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- Jewish scholar of the first century C.E., and an important figure in Judaism ... as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai), and Hillel's was known as ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- Category:Philosophy and religion The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and Culture (1951), and Radical ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- corruption was rampant in the government, and members of the bureaucratic ... joined with neighboring academies in Wu-chin and I-hsing to form the powerful ...12 KB (1,805 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- Grand Prince of the Magyars (997-1000/1001) and the first King of Hungary ... He organized several counties (vármegye) in Hungary and his decrees ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... He was a pioneer of economic anthropology and a leading figure at the London ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- February 19, 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the ... figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. His works ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... attempts to bring the concept of soul and other spiritual aspects of ...6 KB (829 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, and Anglican ... Whately was a liberal theologian and actively supported the removal ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- sinned could receive absolution. Early Christianity abandoned this practice ... against whom they have sinned, both humans and God. Absolution is also an ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- on earth, as espoused in the premillennial and some postmillennial views ... (354-430) systematized amillennialism, and it became the standard view ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- by death. Historically, both Judaism and Christianity harshly punished ... When used by sociologists, apostasy often refers to both renunciation ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- named after the Kingdom of Aksum, a naval and trading power that ruled the ... due to the emphasis it placed on commerce and trade. It minted its own coins ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- Richard de Clare, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke and a Cambro-Norman lord, known ... may have unfolded differently. Celtic Christianity might have continued to ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- occurs in the relation between an individual and that to which he or she is ... self, social alienation from one another, and environmental alienation from ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe. It is ... as experienced in the world is substantial and virulent. As such, it compares ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- called Père Enfantin was a French economist and political theorist, and one ... students who, on the heights of Montmartre and Saint-Chaumont, attempted ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- - 1789) was a French author, philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of ... intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative alike, many of ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered ... ==Life and career== Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- noted biblical scholar, historian, linguist and expert in ancient ceramics ... He conducted and participated in important excavations at Gibeah, ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- service of the British East India Company and as a private moneylender. ... which came to be an important spiritual and reformist religious movement ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... between the upper mountains of the Andes, and the tropical rainforests and ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 17:14, 27 October 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... enduring mythological symbol for millennia and across vastly different cultures ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- mainly remembered for persecuting Christians and for the manner in which his ... that the tide of history was running in Christianity's favor. Despite ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ... Organization and diplomacy, not ideas, made him great. But, the bottom ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- ) is an association founded by Sri Ramakrishna's chief disciple ... several times in both the United States and Europe, he expressed admiration ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... as schools, churches, armies, industries and bureaucracies (organizational ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- was a Protestant social ethicist, preacher, and prolific writer who is best ... "an impossible possibility," and that it does not sufficiently ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena ... functions to legitimize power, authority, and social customs. A grand narrative ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for ... ("having done great things together and wishing to do more"). ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and economist. In light of the ... ==Life and Works== Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- 西泰 Xītài) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary who introduced ... from the West to enter the Forbidden City, and was granted permission to ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- a government intent on remaining in power, and rebellions on several fronts. in 1960, Chad has suffered instability and violence, stemming mostly ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent political thinker ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- name, "The Union Islands," and until 1976 the official name ... Ocean approximately midway between Hawaii and New Zealand. They lie about ...17 KB (2,411 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- social movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ... with reformers such as Richard T. Ely and Washington Gladden. The Social ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Freire, Paulo – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian philosopher and educator, influenced by Marxist ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request. The Cook Islands ... Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Hawaii and New Zealand, spread out over ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- mining town, he studied the German idealists and later taught at Harvard for ... town of Grass Valley, California, to Josiah and Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... to in sections of the Old Testament, and while a popular metaphor in ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership ... serving a wide spectrum of denominations and broadening students’ horizons ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential ... Catholic and Orthodox traditions regarding the Fathers of the Church ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- 1, 1864) was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion ... In 1844, Hong and his follower Feng Yun-shan founded the "God ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- Arc, the suppression of the Knights Templar, and the silencing and imprisonment ... The Inquisition is alien and excessive to the modern mindset. However ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- #039;s sainthood is both theologically and practically significant, as ... Churches), by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and by the Oriental Orthodox Churches ...17 KB (2,634 words) - 19:27, 25 November 2023
- eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ... reason" against all revealed religions and their churches. This continental ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- to a church whose patriarch is independent and does not report to any higher ... autocephaly by the Council of Ephesus and is ruled by the Archbishop ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- status began in 1905. Ahn was arrested and held in Japanese prison after ... ==Early life and education== An Jung-Geun was born in 1879 as the eldest ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou, and the Bailiwick of Jersey, which ... of Normandy that held sway in both France and England. They were the only ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... herding is a pivotal part of Nuer culture, and most aspects of daily life ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- personality, his love of scholarship, and his missionary activity, though ... In 521 C.E., Colm Cille (the future Columba) was born to Fedlimid ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- (354-430), Gregory the Great (c.540-604), and Jerome (c.342-419). In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- Korean and world experts have celebrated Jeong Yak-yong's contribution ... a consistently high level of comprehensive and careful scholarship, sophisticated ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- our own. R. L. Poole (Studies in Chronology and History, 1934) put forward ... ===Background, youth, and exile=== Oswald's father, Aethelfrith ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... staple in the realms of legend, folklore, and fantasy. One of the most anthropomorphic ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. In addition ... novels Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), and Hereward the Wake (1866). ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... currently reside in northeastern Nebraska and western Iowa, United States ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 00:35, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law the witness has sworn to tell the truth and, for the credibility of the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- - April 1, 1872) was an English theologian and socialist recognized as one ... of his time, such as John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. His interests ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- traditions by remembering their legendary and mythical beginnings. Although ... from the extreme north of Subansiri and Siang areas following the ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- B.C.E. by Zeno of Citium (334-262 B.C.E.) and further developed by his two ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- also known as the Second Ecumenical Council and I Constantinople was a gathering ... it did not in fact create theological unity; and soon new issues surfaced, ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... king, just has He had given spiritual power and authority to the church, centering ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- 244. Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana and his father was an unnamed ... cultural development of the European space and its debt to Rome, the Empire ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- #039;s organization in the United States and worldwide. The women of Fredonia ... prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace. As the ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- in the common vocabulary of the Middle East and adapted into the Arabic language ... gather an army of those he has deceived and lead them in a war against ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, considered to ... Little definitive is known of Sturluson's life, and much of what ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Plains, including the Wichita tribe proper and several independent bands ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- Joseon dynasty, rose to the occasion. Born and raised in obscurity, Queen ... third king of the Joseon Dynasty, Taejong, and second, the wife of the 19th ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- "Harefoot" was for his speed, and the skill of his huntsmanship. ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- was also notable in that, for a period, he and another pope, known to history ... The consequence was his banishment to Thrace and the appointment of Felix as ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 11:07, 13 February 2022
- the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming ... of priests who refused were defrocked and exiled. Churches were ransacked ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation ... theology (theology of people) in Korea and Dalit theology (theology of ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- as kathairein "to purify, purge," and adjective katharos "pure ... by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an audience ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
