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- 11, 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from ... He was elected in 1294 after Pope Celestine V (Peter of Morone) abdicated ...14 KB (2,378 words) - 07:22, 17 November 2023
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers ... Ingarden was critical to positivism and all forms of relativism, including ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... stories on these themes, such as the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Parable ...37 KB (5,220 words) - 04:27, 24 May 2024
- polystylistic musician and composer because of his talent in combining the ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy ... origins are more likely to be found in image of Jesus associated with the Eastern ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- over 26 hits and recorded in the styles of doo-wop, R&B, pop, blues ... and the Vandellas number 96 on their its of the 100 Greatest Artists of ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- spelled Halacha) is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including ... Halakha. Reflecting the cultural diversity of Jewish communities, slightly ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea province from 26 -36 C.E. He ... Claudius can be found in the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Paul. ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 20:06, 9 April 2023
- English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral ... Some of Hare's students, such as Brian McGuinness and Bernard ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- according to the Christian narrative of the Passion of Jesus. According ... Barabbas had been charged with the crime of treason against Rome—the ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 08:01, 20 September 2023
- The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... biblical gospels in that the resurrection of Jesus plays no part in it, ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 04:31, 24 May 2024
- The Shepherd of Hermas was a very popular Christian writing of the ... was done by the original author as a sign of the authenticity of the translation ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- together" or "council") is an assembly of 23 ... The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- in early Christianity. The apocryphal Acts of Peter gives a legendary tale ... html Early Christian Writings- The Acts of Peter].earlychristianwritings ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- juvenile delinquency, showing silhouettes of a child stealing a piece of ... Juvenile delinquency refers to criminal acts performed by juveniles ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- in the Hebrew Bible during the period of Jewish exile in Babylon. reasons. He is regarded as the author of much of the Biblical "Book ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- in different directions. The directions of these beams depend on the spacing ... A photographic slide with a fine pattern of black lines forms a simple ...13 KB (1,983 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- Kharms founded the avant-garde collective OBERIU, or Union of Real ... Like most of the modernists, Kharms saw the Russian Revolutions in ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth ... England, the Pilgrims arrived off the coast of New England without a patent ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- , Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) (Alternative transliterations of ... musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος ... and Roman Catholic Christianity, all of which celebrate his memory ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 18:10, 31 January 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,766 words) - 15:09, 21 May 2024
- Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul ... before his conversion was a great persecutor of Christians. His experience ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- opera movement which combined elements of the French opera comique and ... Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari, right down near the ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Influenced by the philosophy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- Apostolic succession refers to the Christian practice of appointing ... Due to the sacramental theology of these churches, only bishops and ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... a later writer who was not a direct disciple of Jesus. Its date has been estimated ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Voluntarism is fundamentally a theory of action according to which ... Voluntarism (from the Latin: voluntas, meaning ‘will’) is a theory ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches ... Before the conquest of Lebanon by Arabian Muslims, which resulted ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392), from which ... " Since maxims are, roughly, principles of action, the categorical imperative ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- quot;the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- It is being used to inhibit the formation of natural gas clathrates in long ... aircraft design because, when used in place of water as an engine coolant ...16 KB (2,258 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- Rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz) arose in the 1940s ... Brown are considered the earliest pioneers of soul music. Solomon Burke& ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins ... Ancient Jewish religion involved rites of priestly sacrifice of animal ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin to be canonized ... Claims of her intervention began almost immediately upon her death ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- (the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. Gregory ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
