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philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...

Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying" ... The topic of kenosis was revived in the nineteenth century to reinterpret ...

William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 ... William was thoroughly acquainted with the works of Aristotle, and ...

Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 – December 14, 1591), born ... Best known for his introspective poetry and writings on the growth ...

Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of ... Negative theology is found in various world religions and is based ...

A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...

Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...

In Christianity, Sabellianism is the belief that God the Father, God ... Sabellianism differed from classical trinitarianism by insisting that ...

(c. 386–c. 451 C.E.), Patriarch of Constantinople, who taught ... Nestorianism originated in the fifth century out of an attempt to ...

Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which ... Scholastic theology is distinct from Patristic theology and from positive ...

a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...

Saint Maximus the Confessor (also known as Maximus the Theologian ... to Saint Sophronius, who instructed him in the theological teachings of Gregory ...

Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized spiritual ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...

The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation was ... It is one of the most common books found as an illuminated manuscript ...

Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...

In Christian theology, the satisfaction view of the atonement is the ... == Development of the doctrine == The classic Anselmian formulation ...

existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...

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 ...

The filioque clause is a heavily disputed part of Christian trinitarian ... Underlying the theological question were issues such as the struggle ...

estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...

a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the Franciscan Friars Minor ... He rejected Aristotle’s concept of the eternity of the world, ...

and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...

Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941 ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...

(Friedrich Gustav Emil) Martin" The New Encyclopaedia Britannica ... and survived imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop ...

Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...

Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God ... Some thus see the term "Alpha and Omega" as a paraphrase ...

Saint Photius, or Saint Photius the Great (Greek: Φώτιος, Phōtios ... in Constantinople, Photius was appointed to the patriarchate in the midst ...

a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ... After the Nazi anti-semitic legislation forced her to resign from ...

(monastic leader) often seen as the instigator of the Monophysite ... The head of an influential monastery near Constantinople, Eutyches ...

John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of ... According to the New Testament, John came from a family of fisherman ...

Among Jews and Christians, the burning bush is a biblical representation ... As a powerful religious symbol, the burning bush represents many things ...

The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ...

evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, the Mount Hermon ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...

(c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...

by Aristotle and used in philosophy and theology. Aristotle noted that things ... The central question about such causal chains, raised by Aristotle ...

writer who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served ... #039;s theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness ...

In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor ... Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I were the original Doctors ...

revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...

Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...

The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... In appreciating the dialectic, one question is whether it over-emphasizes ...

Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...

Cardinal József Mindszenty (March 29, 1892 - May 6, 1975) was the ... An opponent of both Fascism and Communism, he was elevated to the ...

| field = Medicine, music, philosophy, theology ... philosopher, and physician, renowned in the twentieth century as a humanitarian ...

The Counter-Reformation was a movement within the Catholic Church ... The Counter-Reformation, or the Catholic Reformation, was comprehensive ...

name=Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg| native_name=Albert-Ludwigs ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ...

and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...

The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Established to preach the Gospel and to combat heresy, the order is ...

Pope St. Gregory I or Gregory the Great (c. 540 – March 12, 604 ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...

Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...

The Ninety-five Theses (95 Theses) or Disputation on the Power and ... is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 ...

The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest ... The Muslim conquest of the city solidified Arab control over Judea ...

work and his courageous insistence on the rights of Native Americans. Serra joined the Franciscans and entered the Order of Friars Minor ...

Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either ... The practice of confession in the Judeo-Christian tradition goes back ...

activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...

New Jersey. Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...

in post-World War II Europe was honored by the Nobel Foundation in awarding ... An enthusiastic supporter of internationalism, he founded the Peace ...

In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...

In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Despite his notorious role in the Gospel narratives, Judas is still ...

The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... perspective is markedly different from the biblical gospels in that the ...

:For the council of 449, see Second Council of Ephesus. The Council of Ephesus, also known as the Third Ecumenical Council ...

The Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine in Christian theology, derived ... The "Harrowing of Hell" doctrine was especially popular ...

Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by ... :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ...

The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... The Divine Principle follows the format of systematic theology, basing ...

The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament ... a sermon than a letter. It portrays Jesus as the high priest who sacrificed ...

Personalism is a philosophical perspective that holds that the person ... as a personalist, but his perspective of man as a morally autonomous ...

Monarchianism (also known as monarchism) refers to a heretical body ... Many theological explanations of the relationship between the Father ...

The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...

Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God"), formally known as The ... Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by the Roman Catholic priest ...

The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the ... Besides its joyful character, the letter is also unique in its attitude ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... Saint Thomas Aquinas is held in the Roman Catholic Church to be the ...

also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Church ... ," which literally means "the inhabited," and was originally ...

or a "religious system," although the word commands much more respect ... The presence of different sampradaya within Hinduism, rather than ...

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; ...

Asherdu and in Ugaritic as Athirat. She was the consort of the chief deity ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition Asherah is considered a false Canaanite ...

The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...

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 ...

[[Image:Slc mormon tempel.jpg|thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple ... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the ...

building a successful dry goods business in the United States, and moved into ... Perhaps his best known philanthropic work in the U.S. is the Peabody ...

Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. They describe Abraham ... 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all ...

Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... Almost all traditional theodicies have attempted to logically solve ...

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - August 21, 1153) was a French abbot ... Devoted to the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Bernard is credited ...

The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were ... in their theology, espousing a stark distinction between the physical ...

:In keeping with, and seeking to respect the sacred in the tradition ... According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות ...

writer and philosopher. He was the first Russian philosopher ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...

The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... 1545, and December 4, 1563, as a response to the Protestant Reformation. It ...

Jews) is a term which can have two meanings. The first describes the members ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...

Easter, also called Pascha, commemorates the resurrection of Jesus ... Easter also refers to the season of the church year, called Eastertide ...

Gadamer. Ricoeur published a large body of work on a variety of philosophical ... philosophical investigations centered upon the human person. In doing this ...

The Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a twenty ... Languedoc, offering lands belonging to the schismatics to any French ...

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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 ...

:This article refers to the South Korean private university. For the ... South Korea, has earned recognition as one of the leading universities in ...

(May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...

Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome ... As pope, he promoted the authority of Rome both within the Christian ...

The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the ... The library was created based on Pope Nicholas V's vision of ...

The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...

The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...

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 ...

New Year's, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...

born Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, and ... In 1895 he was appointed to the chair of Moral theology, and in 1903 ...

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 ...

which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...

) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...

The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early ... The Apostles' Creed was esteemed as an example of the apostles ...

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 ...

The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...

district, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a town on the site of an ancient forest ... Although all branches of Hinduism consider Vrindavan sacred, Vaisnavisisim ...

also an important courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...

The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Eden) is described by the Book ... Eden is described as a paradise where the first man and woman lived ...

engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the nineteenth ... father was Dr. James Thomson, a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical ...

any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order ... There are several specific categories of monks including cenobites ...

independence activist. In 1909, during the period following the signing ... An Jung-Geun was born in 1879 as the eldest child among three sons ...

The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... The author is characteristically concerned with social ethics, the ...

March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph who reigned ... Despite Al-Mutawakkil's somewhat abusive rule, which lacked the ...

Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... That change, often known as the Copernican revolution, had important ...

The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory ... The hypothesis was first proposed by historian and theologian Bruno ...

Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160 C.E.) was a Christian theologian who ... Marcion was deemed a heretic for his rejection of the whole Hebrew ...

was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...

Saint Teresa of Ávila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptized ... Disillusioned with the lax practices at her Carmelite convent, the ...

Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions of India in Practice, edited by ... Despite his antinomian avoidance of particularistic religious commitments ...

In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... The story is based on an obscure historical figure who probably lived ...

The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...

The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... The Shakers are famous for their ecstatic religious dances and work ...

(August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of ... In 1956, the British exiled him for what in their view was sedition ...

Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...

The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... The term "social science" did not appear until the nineteenth ...

which a person is held accountable. It is the human condition that people ... essential to being human. Freedom, which is the ability to know right from ...

Catholic Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit ... In 1529, while attending the University of Paris, Xavier became acquainted ...

missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...

The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...

), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...

The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue ("Ten Statements ... are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ...

historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...

a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...

essayist, Biblical scholar, and founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai ... enough ("worshiping") before the portrait of Emperor Meiji ...

The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake ... The event was widely discussed by European Enlightenment philosophers ...

The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... Jesuits are required to pledge allegiance to the Pope but their intellectual ...

Christian doctrine, which claims that during the Eucharistic meal, the sacramental ... The doctrine of Transubstantiation was criticized or misinterpreted ...

Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins ... Ancient Jewish religion involved rites of priestly sacrifice of animal ...

Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to ... It is a time of somber reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation ...

Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...

2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... He was Napoleon's chief diplomat during the years when French ...

pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of progressive ... alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave ...

best known for his single-handed composition of a new Latin translation of ... One could argue that Jerome's Bible (the Vulgate) is the most ...

The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based ... The Acts of John describes his journeys to Ephesus, filled with dramatic ...

Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... According to the Norse legends, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ...

emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm ... or emotion that is linked primarily to the body or to the mind. Examples ...

An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance ... More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to such substances ...

naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...

philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew: מגילות ים המלח) comprise ... The Dead Sea Scrolls are widely acknowledged to be among the greatest ...

Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from ... was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art ...

المودودي; alternative spellings of first and last names: Syed ... The family had a long-standing tradition of spiritual leadership and ...

in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946. SNU, the first national university ... Seoul National University's history presents a cross-section ...

as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...

The Scopes Trial (often called the Scopes Monkey Trial) was a highly ... The Scopes Trial (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي ... ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ...

In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian ... as a synonym for Christianity, despite the fact that it is composed of ...

In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...

14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...

Ecumenism (from the Greek οἰκουμένη meaning "the inhabited world") refers to initiatives aimed ...

In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence ...

The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...

The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church ... The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest ...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...

Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...

A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...

June 10, 1940), West Indian spokesman of black nationalism and economic ... By enlarging upon the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, Garvey became ...

was a French film director. Working within the medium of narrative cinema ... Bresson dispensed with spectacle and drama in favor of a lean and ...

from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of ... Justinian is known as "The last Roman emperor" and was the ...

Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... The trance state may be associated with hypnosis, meditation, channeling ...

The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...

The Gospel of John, (literally, According to John; Greek, Κατά ... Of the four gospels, John is the only one that presents a true christology ...

Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language ... The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök Runestone, carved ...

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...

Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based ... The movement is generally traced to Alexandria in the first centuries ...

Sociological research ranges from the analysis of short contacts ... public policy with rationales for the actions that they take. Sociology ...

As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... and is thus most likely to be the correct version. [[File:Ostfriedhof ...

somber contemplation, and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de ... Ignatius and the early Jesuits recognized that the hierarchical Church ...

a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...

The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 ... If a philosopher is to be a pioneer of thought, trying to open up ...

Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... prior to Socrates are called PreSocratics; the second period spans the lifetimes ...

Christmas Eve is the evening or day before Christmas Day, the widely ... Christmas Eve is celebrated in different ways around the world, varying ...

The Book of Joshua (Hebrew: Sefer Y'hoshua—ספר יהושע ... In Jewish tradition, the Book of Joshua is the first of the books ...

The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...

and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... While the twentieth century in many ways proved him correct, stronger ...

[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew ... A prophet (from the Greek word προφήτης, meaning one who ...

his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature ...

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... against Darwinism, which culminated in the Scopes Trial in 1925. Like ...

The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...

Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... Originally a Viking fishing village known as "Havn," in ...

The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...

2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...

to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ... On the other hand, countercultures can be detrimental to society, ...

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... The far-reaching reforms enacted by the Council impacted virtually ...

The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... colonist whose son, Paul Revere, became the famous United States revolutionary. ...

is a general term which refers to change in the nature, the social institutions ... many other social sciences. Among many forms of creating social change are ...

The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella ... The Inquisition, as a tribunal dealing with religious heresy, had ...

to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...

called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...

a powerful English statesman and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Wolsey became involved in furthering the political ambitions of Henry ...

1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...

Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of ... The term 'mysteries' does not imply that the religion was ...

; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...

and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist ... Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student ...

Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...

Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional ... The act of prayer is attested in written sources as early as 5000 ...

is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...

Scouts coming from various nations sing at the European Jamboree 2005]] A Boy Scout is a boy, usually a teenager, participating in the worldwide ...

16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government ...

Ludwig Gumplowicz is believed to have coined the term "ethnocentrism" ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from ...

Popularly, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...

023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...

who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...

Protestants, Catholics, and a small number of Orthodox Christians. Although ... The Nestorians were accepted in China because of their ability to ...

New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is ... after those at Oxford and Cambridge. Each of 12 residential colleges houses ...

The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...

politician and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from ... Merkel was considered by Forbes Magazine to be the "most powerful ...

quot;) in religion and philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...

Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... authoritative perspective, or definition of creativity; nor is there a ...

The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...

topics. For nearly 60 years he traveled the world, pointing out to people ... India, and in 1909 met C.W. Leadbeater on the private beach at the Theosophical ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...

Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth or The Old Colony) was an ... Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ...

), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...

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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President ... and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law ...

born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...

The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...