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  • claimed to experience several visions of divinity in the forms of Kali, Krishna ... * Divinity can be found in all living beings. * We are all interconnected ...
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  • Divinity, as presented in the religious scriptures, makes claim to the final authority for all truth and reality, and provides rules and directions ...
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  • Academy. Playing at Yale, where he was a divinity student, and a member of ... Stagg chose to attend Yale because it had a divinity school. ...
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  • his court. Belief in the Pharaoh’s divinity, a distinctive feature of ... family. While belief in the Pharaoh’s divinity and ability to control the ...
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  • of God in Hinduism, which depicts divinity as a three faced figure. These three faces represent God's roles of creation, preservation and ...
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  • the view that Christ's humanity and divinity must be regarded as united ... explained the union of Christ's divinity and humanity as "inward ...
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  • the Lady Margaret's Professorship of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. ... Margaret Beaufort and Her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge: 1502-1649 ...
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  • regarding the character of Christ's divinity and humanity. Moreover, ... Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity ...
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  • to give up in terms of his divine attributes, or divinity, in order to assume human nature. Specifically, it refers to attributes of God that are thought ...
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  • either 40 days or 40 years, declaring his own divinity. By appearing to work miracles, he will succeed in deceiving many people, hence his name. Then ...
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  • Emerson attended Harvard Divinity School and was ordained as a Unitarian ... of Christian doctrine, including the divinity of Jesus, as incompatible ...
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  • heresy, which they saw as limiting Christ's divinity. ... Father (that is, granted the status of divinity) in order to allow him to ...
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  • and a theological defense of the full divinity of Christ (against the position ... way of treating the Arians who denied the divinity of Christ in favor of his ...
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  • church, which was taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among Transcendentalists ... use of reason in religion, and denied the divinity of Christ and the doctrine ...
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  • Christianity as evidence for Jesus' divinity and unity with God the Father ... the book's author believed in the divinity of Christ. However, this ...
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  • church, which was taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among Transcendentalists ... texts about mankind, nature, and divinity. ==Origin== The term dark ...
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  • the unity of Christ's humanity and divinity in terms which implied that ... or confuse" the humanity and divinity of Christ are condemned ...
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  • before the Incarnation, and had no divinity of his own, but that the divinity of the Father dwelt in him. Origen disputed with Beryllus in a ...
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  • Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which is called by its adherents Mazdayasna (meaning "the worship of Mazda ...
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  • often insist that their experiences of divinity are beyond the realm of ... Given the vast magnitude of divinity, it is assumed that any ...
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  • , Doctor of Medicine, and Doctor of Divinity, was the inventor of the sport of basketball. The majority of his 13 Rules of Basketball are in ...
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  • a heresy which taught that Christ's divinity overshadowed his human aspect ... which allegedly denied the personal divinity of the Holy Spirit and affirmed ...
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  • it does not necessarily deny his ultimate divinity. In Adoptionism Jesus became ... deny Christ's pre-existent divinity. Rather, they insist that ...
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  • " of the full humanity and full divinity. The Chalcedonians understanding ... believes that Christ is perfect in His divinity, and He is perfect in His ...
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  • On December 4, 1915, the first group of Bachelor of Divinity students ... nine students earned their Bachelor of Divinity degrees through Serampore ...
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  • Eckhart explained this more clearly in distinguishing between the ... To describe divinity, Eckhart applied the terminology of negative ...
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  • Price received the degree of doctor of divinity from the University of Glasgow ... 1781, he received the degree of doctor of divinity from Yale College. ...
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  • was appointed assistant librarian of Harvard Divinity School while still a student there. After graduation, Cutter worked as a librarian at Harvard ...
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  • of whether Jesus had one nature (a fusion of divinity and humanity) or two (divine and human). After a long and often violent struggle, that issue ...
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  • Photius began to teach grammar, rhetoric, divinity, and philosophy during the regency of Theodora, whose young son Michael III was still too ...
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  • Amos Niven Wilder, was Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, a noted poet, and a nationally-ranked tennis player who competed ...
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  • Kama speaks to the ability of the supreme divinity to absorb aspects of both ... *[http://www.webonautics.com/mythology/kamadeva.html Indian Divinity: ...
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  • griffins, which are thought to symbolize divinity, as seen on other media ... would have been purely a symbol of divinity rather than a heraldic motif. ...
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  • man suggests that there is a higher divinity beyond the universe in which ... Even the deeply personal view of divinity propounded in the Bhagavad ...
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  • the true humanity as well as the divinity of Jesus by insisting that ... nature in Christ, which was a unity of divinity and humanity. This idea ...
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  • degrees: four Masters programs (Master of Divinity, Master of Religious Education ... programs have been added: the Master of Divinity and the Doctor of Ministry ...
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  • and culminates in monotheism (the belief in only one divinity). They ... posited the existence of a primary divinity that acted as ruler or father ...
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  • making and sacrifices. However, belief in his divinity may have developed after his death. He was called the “invincible warrior.” ...
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  • we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning ...
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  • other Jews were convinced of Jesus' divinity after visiting Lazarus. ... ), and his divinity by commanding Lazarus to come forth from the dead ( ...
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  • 1917, at the University of Marburg's Divinity School, one of the most ... is a hidden, non-rational element in the divinity, but that our mind cannot ...
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  • in New York City. In 1985 he went to Yale Divinity School in what eventually ... with a joint appointment at the Divinity School. West taught one ...
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  • theologian Jonathan Edwards and the New Divinity Calvinists. His teachings ... rejected several tenets of "Old Divinity" Calvinism which he ...
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  • To save the Church from Arianism, which in denying the divinity of ... early Christian tradition (to prove the divinity of the Holy Spirit), and ...
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  • In the late 1950s, the Vanderbilt Divinity School became involved ... *[http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/ Divinity Library] ...
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  • . He taught for several decades at Yale Divinity School. Niebuhr illuminated ... became a professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School. ...
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  • philosophy. Cranmer became a doctor of divinity in 1523 and ordained the same year. He was both a lecturer in divinity at Jesus College and public ...
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  • and the Howard University School of Divinity coined the term "Black ... Architecture, Social Work, Business, and Divinity. Also contained in the Library ...
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  • are a Dialogue with two Turks about the divinity of Christ, and a work about ... spring? They find out the honors of the divinity, and after they are found ...
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  • ===Wiccan Views on Divinity=== It is commonly understood that most Wiccans worship two deities: The Goddess, often associated with Gaea or Mother ...
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  • the trinity of God, the pre-existence and divinity of Jesus, the virgin birth ... the humanity of Christ as well as his divinity, then the gap between Ebionites ...
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  • Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, 2006. ISBN 978-0674019195 ==External links== All links retrieved March 20, 2024. ...
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  • :equal to the Father in divinity, subordinate to the Father in humanity. :Although he is God and man, he is not divided, but is one Christ. ...
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  • Fire and light are universal symbols of holiness and divinity. The ... with the introduction of Atar as a divinity). There is no allusion to ...
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  • and interprets it as a confirmation of Jesus' divinity by God the Father. In John 8:58, Jesus states, "Before Abraham was, I am," ...
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  • are linked to mantras in order to manifest of divinity: :"Mantras, the Sanskrit syllables inscribed on yantras, are essentially 'thought ...
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  • who are sometimes regarded as symbols of divinity or prophets. Medicine men ... beings other than God, or that evil is a divinity in itself. Spirits are often ...
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  • could not gain access to the mysteries of Divinity through intellect or personal ... of Hindu and Muslim approaches to divinity. His perspective, especially ...
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  • he advocated a modalistic view of divinity that described God possessing a single unified substance, albeit one that took particular forms ...
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  • by Gibbon. Decline and Fall tells of a young divinity student, Paul Pennyfeather and his accidental expulsion from Oxford because of indecency. ...
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  • her many forms as the absolute manifestation of divinity. Practitioners of Shaktism (commonly known as Shaktas) conceive the goddess to be the personification ...
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  • was the only tree to refuse to acknowledge the divinity of Jesus. The cross that Christ was crucified on is sometimes said to have been aspen wood. ...
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  • role in establishing the doctrine of Jesus' divinity and the Trinity. The opening verse in the KJV reads: "In the beginning was the Word [Logos ...
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  • *Ziegler, Robert. The mirror of divinity: the world and creation in J.-K. Huysmans. University of Delaware Press, 2004. ISBN 0874138736 ...
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  • Christ that suffered was separate from his divinity. Likewise, they rejected the term Theotokos (Giver of birth to God/Mother of God) as a title of ...
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  • pattern by "emptying" himself of his divinity and taking on the nature of a servant, dying on the cross for the sake of humanity. Yet, God ...
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  • (The two faculties were, of course, Theology (or Divinity) and Philosophy.)Thomas Albert Howard, Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German ...
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  • rights were endowed through creation, by a divinity or by providence, but that scientific examination revealed that such ideas were merely superstition ...
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  • with and without a name and form, and that divinity exists in all beings. Swami Vivekananda soon began the life of sannyasi. Before dying in 1886 ...
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  • and he was appointed to teach at the Divinity School, where he developed ... * Reese, William L., and Eugene Freeman (eds). Process and Divinity: ...
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  • * Sanneh, Lamin. Lecture at Yale Divinity School. REL 814: Muslim-Christian Dialog and Understanding. Fall 2005. * Shaban, M.A. Islamic History: ...
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  • According to Nestorius, Jesus' divinity should be regarded as distinct from his humanity. God could not be a helpless infant, nor was it ...
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  • the object of their devotion the Persian divinity MithraAlison Griffith. ... or that among them Mithra - or any other divinity - ever enjoyed a separate ...
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  • that Christ has only one nature, in which his divinity and humanity are united. The opposing Chalcedonian ("orthodox") position holds that ...
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  • he had the hubris to assert that his own divinity and to found a religious ... addressing Simon's alleged claims of divinity and his use of magic to ...
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  • Rather than denying the fact that the idea of divinity can be found ... As Ricci argued, "since they do not recognize any divinity in ...
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  • of the first clear declarations of Christ's divinity. ... straightforward belief in Jesus' divinity and atoning sacrifice. She ...
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  • ocean which has only unconscious divinity—unaware of itself even ... to that question (to gain conscious divinity) each soul evolves consciousness ...
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  • he took Holy Orders, earning his doctorate in divinity, and once again chose to remain at Trinity College lecturing this time on divinity and Hebrew ...
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  • strength as a representation of female divinity. As Burkert notes, "in ... seen as a special element of Hera's divinity as a great fertility goddess. ...
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  • on Jesus' humanity (as opposed to his divinity) and continued to practice Jewish customs like circumcision and kosher dietary laws. ...
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  • Gentile Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus, the Virgin Birth ... the doctrines of the Virgin Birth and divinity of Jesus. ...
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  • Logos, manifested in Jesus, originated in the divinity of God and yet was less than God. The system of emanation developed by Proclus, Plotinus, and ...
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  • *Devatattva (Principles of Divinity, Published Posthumously) *Srimadvagavat Gita, a Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (1902--Published Posthumously) ...
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  • close and privileged relation with the divinity or the deified spirit.. ... advances, but she could not disguise her divinity among the horses of King ...
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  • natural world, man can acquire knowledge of the divinity and the unity of God. Al-Kindī emphasized the importance of the intellect (‘aql) and its ...
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  • teaching that Christ's divinity overshadowed his humanity—was the lesser of two evils. In Acacius' view, the Monophysites were allies ...
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  • actors and writers, as well as the art, divinity, forestry and environment ... Serious American students of theology and divinity, particularly in ...
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  • * Essayes in Divinity (1651) * Sermons Never Before Published (1661) * John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon (1996) * Devotions Upon Emergent ...
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  • Did Christ have one unified nature of divinity-humanity, or two natures, divine and human, which were harmoniously combined within a single person? ...
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  • statues of huge proportions, and the power of his divinity enabled him to slay thousands of enemies in battle. ==Etymology== [[Image:Tutankhamun ...
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  • that undermined the concept of Jesus' divinity and misunderstood God's plan of salvation. He refused to join in the emperor's wish ...
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  • mean 'loyalty' to a particular view of divinity, allegiance to a particular religious community and belief in its doctrines. Yet all religious ...
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  • either the harmonious male-female essence divinity or else the ineffible genderless nature of of God beyond human distinctions. Ideally, Ardhanarisvara ...
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  • of Revelation. The faith in the incarnate divinity of Emperor Haile Selassie ... for many Rastas is seen as proof of his divinity in that he was no false ...
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  • requests and needs often. The denial of divinity by Selassie did nothing ... about Haile Selassie's alleged divinity (5:5). Rastas believe that ...
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  • had only one "nature," in which his divinity and humanity were combined. The "orthodox" position, on the other hand, was that ...
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  • *"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand" (Henry David Thoreau). ...
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  • to be one and the same as Brahman, the supreme divinity. Any perception of a difference between the two is merely human egoism, caused by maya, or ...
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  • College in Calcutta and a Doctor of Divinity from Brown University. Among ... *1807 Doctor of Divinity conferred by Brown University of U.S. ...
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