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  • Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions ... Catholic Church (i.e. the Western Church), and Eastern Catholic Churches ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. He is also referred ... the idea that God is present in all things and yet transcends all things ...
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  • Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... His activities spanned from theology to politics for he was also the ...
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  • Boris inherited a large territory that was home to both Bulgars and ... His embrace of Christianity may have been his attempt to unite the ...
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  • John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet ... , or in thoroughly explaining its nature, and set out to complete his system ...
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  • the declaration of the Second Republic, and was shot while speaking to ... His ministry and episcopacy was set in the context of post-Revolution ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations ... but it is widely read by Israeli politicians and foreign journalists and so ...
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  • Methodist, had studied in the United States, and sent her to Wellesley College ... widely, publicizing China’s plight and eliciting support against ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastrianism ... According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and essayist. His informal but ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...
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  • Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or ... cannot be derived from others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy ...
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  • appointed bishops leading the Church, and the practice of ecstatic worship ... sect persisted well into the fourth century and continued in some places for ...
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  • Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, and Slovakia, as well as the republics ... as the nations bordered by the Baltic and Barents seas on the north; ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His ...
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  • States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton ... His writings on slavery, war, labor problems, and education were extremely ...
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  • the philosopher. For the British composer and conductor see Sir Anthony Collins. ... English philosopher, theologian, politician, and a provocative proponent of ...
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  • Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... concentrated in the areas the downs and moors of Devon and Cornwall ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... A S Underwood, Arthur Keith, W P Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester.]] ...
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  • born in the great northern seaport of Hull and served in the English Parliament ... When Wilberforce's opponents criticized his faith and attacked ...
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  • Senate. His young son was declared co-ruler and heir. Following a successful ... Later Roman literature was unkind to Philip and to Arabs, depicting ...
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  • 1882), was a German theologian, philosopher, and historian. Bauer was associated ... incorporated many Greco-Roman elements, and that some texts were second ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Philosophy and religion The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and Culture (1951), and Radical ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Grand Prince of the Magyars (997-1000/1001) and the first King of Hungary ... He organized several counties (vármegye) in Hungary and his decrees ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... He was a pioneer of economic anthropology and a leading figure at the London ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... attempts to bring the concept of soul and other spiritual aspects of ...
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  • educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, and Anglican ... Whately was a liberal theologian and actively supported the removal ...
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  • sinned could receive absolution. Early Christianity abandoned this practice ... against whom they have sinned, both humans and God. Absolution is also an ...
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  • on earth, as espoused in the premillennial and some postmillennial views ... (354-430) systematized amillennialism, and it became the standard view ...
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  • by death. Historically, both Judaism and Christianity harshly punished ... When used by sociologists, apostasy often refers to both renunciation ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Richard de Clare, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke and a Cambro-Norman lord, known ... may have unfolded differently. Celtic Christianity might have continued to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • called Père Enfantin was a French economist and political theorist, and one ... students who, on the heights of Montmartre and Saint-Chaumont, attempted ...
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  • - 1789) was a French author, philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of ... intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative alike, many of ...
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  • 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered ... ==Life and career== Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the ...
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  • noted biblical scholar, historian, linguist and expert in ancient ceramics ... He conducted and participated in important excavations at Gibeah, ...
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  • service of the British East India Company and as a private moneylender. ... which came to be an important spiritual and reformist religious movement ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... between the upper mountains of the Andes, and the tropical rainforests and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... enduring mythological symbol for millennia and across vastly different cultures ...
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  • mainly remembered for persecuting Christians and for the manner in which his ... that the tide of history was running in Christianity's favor. Despite ...
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  • A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ... Organization and diplomacy, not ideas, made him great. But, the bottom ...
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