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- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- The Epistle to Philemon is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Philemon is now generally regarded as one of the undisputed works ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- The Third Epistle of John (also referred to as 3 John) is a book of the New Testament. It is the sixty-fourth book of the Christian Bible—its ...7 KB (1,190 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- " which may be an early use of this Christian title for Rome, familiar ... about thirty-five references to the Hebrew Bible, all of which, however, come ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- appears in the New Testament and early Christian writings, and is known ... Gehenna is often mentioned in the New Testament of the Christian Bible ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- The spectrum of Christian theological views on the meaning of 144 ... of Jacob (also called Israel in the Bible) have a distinct role at ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 06:27, 13 June 2023
- reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English ... that if lay people had direct access to the Bible they would misinterpret and ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- "Harmony of Four") is an early Christian text written by the apologist ... Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (HarperCollins, 2005 ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- position that in its original form, the Bible is totally without error ... basic moral and theological truths of the Bible, cannot in good conscience ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:41, 1 October 2023
- prophetic texts included within the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) as well as the Christian ... – the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Obadiah simply ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Considered one of the "general epistles" because it is addressed ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- TaNaK (Hebrew: תנ״ך), or Tanakh, is an acronym for the Hebrew ... In the Christian Bible, Daniel and the Book of Esther sometimes include ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the ... quot;; they either omit them from the Bible, or include them in a section ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. ... printed. His book on The Rights of the Christian Church had an immense impact ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- in many English translations of the Bible, although it is not generally ... and the Book of Enoch, as well as to Christian works such as the Book ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- is a short book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Written to the Christian church at Thessalonika (modern Thessaloniki or Salonica, Greece ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 20:43, 17 May 2023
- the text of the the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah or ... its laws, but reject the rest of the Hebrew Bible. In the Bible, the Samaritans ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- to a Judaizing heresy which insisted on Christian conformity with Jewish ... Young men should act with self-control. Christian slaves must obey their ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- that brought Neoplatonic thought into the Christian debates about trinity, ... his Neoplatonic views after becoming a Christian, being particularly influenced ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- In the Slavonic editions of the Bible this book is called "2 ... determining what books belonged in the Christian version of the "Old ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible's New Testament ... than on Christ. Those who share in the Christian life must "put to ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:41, 7 January 2024
- 100 C.E.Stephen L Harris, Understanding the Bible (Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1985). have traditionally been printed in the Bible is not the order of their ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- Zur, one of the sites in the land of the Bible which William Albright helped ... became noted leaders in the study of the Bible and the ancient Middle East ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- quot;) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Classified as one of the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- A cherub (Hebrew: כרוב, plural כרובים kruvim) is a supernatural entity mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- standards of doctrine, subordinate to the Bible. The Westminster Confession ... then adopted in part as the Articles of Christian Religion in 1648, by act ...10 KB (1,440 words) - 17:22, 4 May 2023
- of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of the first ... In Moesia, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- The First Epistle of John is a book of the Bible New Testament, the ... to by a trinity found nowhere else in Christian scriptures: "the Spirit ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- to several parents of sons in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to Zechariah ... Christian churches, particularly within the Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- principally developed in the 1960s by the Christian Episcopal priest Joseph ... on love was the best way to express the Christian principle to 'love ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- the Dragon does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles ... serpent, called Rahab and Leviathan in the Bible, a theme which occurs several ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- #039;s monogram and is still used in Christian art, often in combination ... in all their fullness. What the Hebrew Bible had said of God, John the ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- In many Christian churches, Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and ... in Eastern Christianity, and in other Christian denominations, including ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 04:01, 18 August 2023
- The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Elegantly written as a summary of many of the core ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- face value. While his commentaries on the Bible are noted for their brevity ... and humility. He was conversant with Christian theology and is thought ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers ... YMCA movement and did much to spread the Christian message in the United States ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion of the Christian Bible. It is the sacred scripture and central element of ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- reference to the body of believers of the Christian Church, or the Ecclesia ... Bible Gateway, [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 23:02, 20 November 2023
- March 28, 1930) was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, essayist, Biblical ... Movement), a network of individual Bible study groups deliberately ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- Jews from Rome around 49 C.E., because of Christian disturbances. ... It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- classical philosophers with medieval Christian theology. It was not a ... In early Christian schools, especially after the beginning of the ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian Old Testament. Also known to Jews as the Megillah (Scroll) it is the basis ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- texts of wisdom found in Gnostic and Christian sects. Over time, the term ... Surviving manuscripts of the whole Christian Bible include at least ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- is one of the Deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is one of the seven sapiential ... These verses have long been taken by Christian exegetes as references ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- Christ. He, thus, reaffirmed the basic Christian faith, while also confronting ... reticence to affirm the inerrancy of the Bible made his views suspect among ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- of Christ, one of the most well-known Christian books on devotion. ... composition, and copying. He copied the Bible no less than four times, ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- of it was included in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. ... that was not included in the Christian Bible. ==Old Testament era apocalyptic ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- its doors to the West in 1853, many Christian clergymen were sent to ... percentage of the population of Japan, Christian thought has been a powerful ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- of the Savior"), a term used in Christian tradition, refers to the ... Advent (and adventism) has its roots in Hebrew and Christian prophetic ...6 KB (939 words) - 14:01, 7 May 2024
- of Abraham's wife Sarah in the Bible. She became Abraham's ... subjugated by Israel. Jews, who take the Bible's view that Sarah was ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Officially from Paul, Timothy and Silas but clearly the work primarily of Paul, it was ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament attributed to the prophet Zechariah, who prophesied after the ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... The Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible used ἐκκλησία ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- criticism that seeks to analyze the Bible through asking certain questions ... and place of writing for each book of the Bible. In the twentieth century ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- to the Jordan in both the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, yet perhaps its ... The Christian Bible mentions the Jordan frequently, about 175 times ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 06:19, 6 May 2024
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the Christian Old Testament), where it holds the honor of being the shortest ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- , portrayed as the most wicked woman in the Bible. A Phoenician princess, her ... The Bible, our only near-contemporaneous source for Jezebel, says ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 03:03, 1 August 2022
- important in discussions on the Christian concept of original sin ... master by obeying God's commandment. Christian theology on the subject ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 22:55, 14 May 2020
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is a letter from St. Paul to the church of Philippi ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- religious tradition as intolerably anti-Christian. He attempted to have copies ... from jail was contingent on his becoming a Christian.) [[Image:Talmud ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 07:19, 5 April 2024
- 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses ... work to be canonical and thus part of the Bible, while Protestants and Jews ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- inspired and thus constituting the Christian Bible. Though the Early Church ... The canonical Christian Bible was formally established by Bishop Cyril ...22 KB (3,254 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- Some scholars of the Bible have suggested that John made creative ... the laws of logic were contained in the Bible itself and were therefore ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- the ancestor of King David in the Hebrew Bible and of Jesus Christ in the ... Though ignored in most Christian sources, Tamar played an important ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman ... (Galatians 5:12) He argued forcefully for Christian freedom from the Jewish ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... ==Symbols drawn from pre-Christian traditions== Common in most Christian ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- In the Bible, a specific but unidentified "Mount Carmel" ... In the Bible, Carmel is first mentioned as the location of Jokneam ...10 KB (1,644 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- Moral theology or Christian ethics is an Ethics developed from and ... Christian ethics developed while early Christians were subjects of ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The Shepherd of Hermas was a very popular Christian writing of the ... form an interesting development in early Christian ethics. One precept deserving ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named for its ... even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which premillennalism ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... many early recensions of the Christian Bible. In this account, the ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- His story is contained in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of Genesis, ... to God, the first altar mentioned in the Bible, and made an offering. ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), written by the eponymous prophet ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by the Jews of ... Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. Atlanta: ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- or in the Apostolic Fathers to refer to Christian “patriarchs,” or the ... com/2peter.html 2 Peter at Early Christian Writings] Category:Bible ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- on the various different books of the Bible. The Midraish Rabbah is not ... * Yalkut Shimoni. A collection of midrashim on the entire Hebrew Bible ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- story is told in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. ... priests and prophets, as well as the Christian apostle, Paul of Tarsus. ...14 KB (2,238 words) - 22:37, 7 December 2022
- Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was not literally revealed ... === Traditional Jewish and Christian beliefs === The traditional view ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Empire, he was raised in Rome by devout Christian parents. His life coincided ... the standard Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, and ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... have become permanent parts of the Christian-based western ethical and ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- Bible critics tend to take the view that these passages reflect the ... adopted in the early centuries of the Christian era for the Sacrament of ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year, celebrated ... The Christian term "Pentecost" simply means "fiftieth ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, Ishmael's life is described in the Book ... ==Jewish and Christian tradition== Judaism has generally viewed Ishmael ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- They form the core of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. In Christianity, the Pentateuch ... of the Old Testament. Thus, the Christian Bible incorporates the Pentateuch ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- Christ, and is traditionally used as a Christian symbol. Different types ... as a disturbance of the peace. Yet, the bible also records that Pilate ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- In the Bible, Shechem was the first place where the patriarch Abraham ... Shechem's position is clearly indicated in the Bible. It lay ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- In Christian tradition, Elizabeth is revered as a saint. Modern scholarship ... several other providential women in the Bible, Elizabeth was barren. Luke ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- interpretation of the Alexandrian Christian tradition, which incorporated ... Syria (now Samsat, Turkey), to wealthy Christian parents. Following their ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. The term originally meant "songs sung to a harp, ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- called in the Orthodox tradition, was a Christian Apostle and the younger ... According to Christian sources, Andrew was born at Bethsaida on the ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- The Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine in Christian theology, derived ... Other references in the Bible have also been interpreted by some to ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... attitude toward salvation than some other Christian works, especially the letters ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ... ” are the equivalent of archangels in Christian theology. Some interpreters ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- order and forbidding women to serve as Christian teachers or ministers. ... in 2 Tim. 1:5. His mother was a Jewish Christian and his father was Greek ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... sharply with earlier books of the Hebrew Bible as well as later ones such ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper The Christian Science Monitor. society. She made her discovery of Christian Science at a time when ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- Sentences for two years, and apart from the Bible, Sentences has been one of ... the Church influenced the development of Christian theology in Europe. The ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- called "bone-conjurers," in the Bible. The Book of Deuteronomy ... society were either the nobles or Christian clergy. Either of these ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin ... Calvinism is also known for some notable experiments in Christian ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 18:38, 25 November 2023
- ===Ichthus as a Christian symbol=== ====Symbolic meaning==== ... motif is an adaptation based on an Early Christian symbol which included a ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- There is debate among Christian and secular scholars about whether ... Jericho is found in the Book of Joshua. The Bible describes the destruction ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- himself but a member of the later Pauline Christian community. ... been written by a person who received the Christian message from others, ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- #039; teaching for Matthew's Jewish-Christian audience. It emphasizes ... works in all of literature, let alone the Bible itself. One of the key points ...16 KB (2,654 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- beyond death. For this purpose, some Christian thinkers make a controversial ... one can still find passages in the Hebrew Bible that can be considered to ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- word “Calvary” comes into the English Bible only from the King James ... of Jesus' crucifixion in the Christian canonical Gospels: ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer ... John was no scholar, except of the English Bible. He knew scripture thoroughly ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
- was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Christian tradition identifies him ... minor. He is recognized as a saint in all Christian traditions which venerate ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- are inferred by accounts in the Hebrew Bible, which refer to them frequently ... In early Christian literature, the idea of the hieros gamos may also ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions ... split from the larger body of the Christian Church centuries before ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- on politics, religion, philosophy and Christian life. He was an early critic ... and Plato, with his concept of the Christian God as a god of truth and ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons of the Bible. Protestants and Jews regard ... Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and later included in Christian ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- following soon after the first Protestant Christian missionary in Korea, Presbyterian ... Church and gathered every week to read the Bible at home. After attending ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It stands first in order among what are known as the ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- epistles are some of the earliest extant Christian documents. They provide ... they are foundational texts for both Christian theology and ethics. ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- Black, Peake's commentary on the Bible (Routledge, 2001). It is ... Christian hermits originally gathered at Mount Serbal, believing it ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, traditionally attributed ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- soul and spirit became current in Judeo-Christian terminology.) A spirit ... In Christian theology, the term spirit is used to describe God, or ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- Peasants' War and a leader of a radical Christian movement. The Protestant reformation's stress on salvation as a personal experience and on ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- that it was important to recognize that the Bible was written in a particular ... in any other way could not claim to be Christian, and advocated the demotion ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew version, it often appears as the last book ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- This situation was mirrored in other Christian communities in the Byzantine ... in 1291 and was continued in anti-Eastern Christian pogroms in following decades. ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Gospel of Luke, in the New Testament of the Bible. By tradition in the Catholic ... The parable is one of the clearest expressions of the Christian concepts ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- small group community and frequently Bible study groups, choirs, youth ... The name cell church comes from the Christian Church in China that ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often called the "Old ... Of significance for all Christians and for Bible scholars, the LXX is quoted ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- language, made accessible to the Jews of Christian Europe, the ideas which ... the decimal system to Jews living in the Christian world. He used the Hebrew ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- theologians and scholars of the early Christian Church. He is thought to ... texts that would later become the Bible, and in Greek literature ...23 KB (3,479 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2022
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... More than any historical figure in the Bible, Jeremiah bears his soul ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those ... "scripture only" as a basis for Christian doctrine, but in fact relied ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt. This pre-Christian group of Jewish ascetics ... == Forerunners of early Christian monastic orders == Philo's monachism ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- The Euphrates River has numerous mentions in the Judeo–Christian ... == Euphrates in the Bible == A river named Perath (Hebrew for Euphrates ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- ninth-century B.C.E. prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose name has been variously ... to repent of their polytheistic ways. The Bible also describes Elijah as ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before ... worthy of the highest honor. The Hebrew Bible reports that Joshua was treated ...17 KB (2,712 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
- (Chronica: Time Book and Historical Bible), a wide-ranging study of ... to work with them. Franck considered the Bible to be a book full of contradictions ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- century that changed the course of Christian theology significantly ... This led Barth to turn to the Bible with his close friend Eduard Thurneysen ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:11, 14 May 2024
- religion, such as in the Buddhist faith or the Christian faith. ... theme of human religiosity. According to Christian tradition, faith is one ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... the traditional Rabbinic and early Christian view uncritically attributed ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- ) is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries ... by angels. Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr initially sentenced ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- The prophetic book of the Bible attributed to Zephaniah occurs ninth ... The Book of Zephaniah has been most influential in the Christian and ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the eponymous ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- how to "die well," according to Christian precepts of the late Middle ... a mostly illiterate population about Christian teachings and biblical ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- The Christian community traditionally ascribes authorship to Matthew ... Mount#Interpretation and Old Testament#Christian view of the Law. ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed to ... various themes found in other books of the Hebrew Bible. ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ... notes towards his unfinished treatise on Christian apologetics. However, various ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- the Samaritans respond positively to the Christian message. ... Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- particularly well-known in the context of Christian theology, in reference ... portrayed in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible speak in the name of ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that ... and so were the members or the primitive Christian church. The modern-day ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- In the Judeo-Christian tradition Asherah is considered a false Canaanite ... Asherah is particularly important in the Judeo-Christian tradition ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- classics, paid close attention to Christian teachings. He perceived ... recorded in his writing and in the Donghak Bible compiled by his disciples ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- most frequently used name for God in the Bible is Elohim, usually translated ... The most important and most often written name of God in the Hebrew ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- the lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the Bible, this route was called Derekh ... figures and images of fish, an early Christian symbol. It is speculated ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- According to the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Israelite patriarchs and ... as places of worship well into the Christian era. A probable former ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
- The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, traditionally attributed to Isaiah, an eighth century ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Dr. Milne, a translation of the entire Bible in 1821. He also compiled ... 1822), and scourged in Canton for making Christian books" and later, ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- many early recensions of the Christian Bible. This account, like ... ::Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 (a document ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- and who stressed the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian ... These books were published by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... by faith alone, and a belief in the Bible, rather than Catholic tradition ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- he is one of the ancestors of Jesus in Christian tradition. ... series, no. 8. Decatur, GA: Committee for Christian Education and Publications ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 20:02, 4 November 2023
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew Bible (and Christian Old Testament) that describes the rebuilding of Judah ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- Ninhursag and the Genesis account in the Bible, including the story of Adam ... and the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible. Some scholars hold that ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- island of Patmos. He writes to the seven Christian churches in Asia to warn ... #039; writing had a major impact on Christian tradition and history, ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 17:05, 4 May 2024
- in the Book of Acts, is necessary for Christian growth and empowerment ... that they emphasize the reliability of the Bible and the need for the transformation ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- in 1781. There was no mention of God, the Bible, or sacred events. "Let ... "education useless without the Bible." Preface to the 1828 ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- of Elam, a figure unknown outside of the Bible, who had established a growing ... the Qur'an and the story of Lot in the Bible is that the Qur'anic ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- the fathers of the Church and many early Christian writers prior to it being ... ==Jewish and Early Christian Antecedents== Despite the fact that Jewish ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 14:29, 2 July 2022
- === Anthropomorphism in the Bible === The first book of the Hebrew Bible depicts God with qualities and ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- (baptism following a mature confession of Christian faith), he was troubled ... was his refusal to use a translation of the Bible in worship. Rather, he would ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam. The first ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- Neill and Owen Chadwick, A History of Christian Missions (Harmondsworth ... Ways would be found to reconcile the teaching of the Bible with science ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- The Bible is the main historical source for his reign. His story is ... David's rebellious son Absalom. In Christian tradition, Rehoboam is ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It is a record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- ===Early and modern Christian interpretations=== Some Biblical scholars ... Many pre-modern Christian sources discussed the curse of Ham in connection ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- "We confront the Roman Catholic Church, other Christian bodies ... a key figure in the development of Christian anarchism due to his belief ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- apparent contradictions in the Hebrew Bible and was one of the first ... He was acquainted with many leading Christian thinkers and was also ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... often quoted in the second part of the Christian Bible (known as the New Testament). ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- In the Christian Bible, the magi (or "wise men") are sent ... There is an oppositional element in Christian thought between secular ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- debates found their way into the emerging Christian tradition, which had to ... In the Hebrew Bible, the terms goy and goyim were sometimes applied ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira is accepted as part of the Christian biblical ... reaction to its embrace by the nascent Christian community. ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- ==Precursors to Christian sacraments== and celebration. In the subsequent Christian celebration of the Eucharist ...20 KB (3,310 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- of Hellenistic philosophy on early Christian writings and called on ... church history and the development of Christian theology. His liberal theological ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- There are many Christian groups that disagree with this interpretation ... shuts his sacred mouth, [the student of the Bible] also desists from inquiry." ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- *The Bible records 10 generations between Adam and Noah, and 10 generations ... practice of tithing is still common in Christian churches today, though ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- quot; a term that is still widely used in Christian spiritual practice today ... of songs at a time when translations of the Bible into the vernacular were ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- the Standard Mandarin Union Version of the Bible, though shen 神 (lit. spirit ... a Mandarin Chinese translation of the Christian Bible. Nineteenth century ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- is not mentioned again in the Hebrew Bible. The apocryphal Book of Judith ... tent and assassinated him in his sleep. The Bible preserves a lengthy poem ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- Jacob and Esau, as described in the Hebrew Bible. His story is told in the ... The historicity of Isaac's story in the Bible has come under ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- The Hebrew Bible tells Jews to wear tzitzyot colored with tekhelet ... Tzitziot are found both in Christian scripture and in limited segments ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- The Hebrew Bible notes that slaves voluntarily had one ear pierced ... Another controversial example of a mark in the Bible is found in the ...21 KB (3,372 words) - 18:00, 21 October 2022
- whose works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Though little ... Within the context of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), the Book ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... appear in only four verses in the Bible--in the epistles 1 John and ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- virgin. A universally held belief in the Christian church by the second century, ... this doctrine was included in the two most widely used Christian creeds ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- His liturgy is still used by many of the Christian churches of Iraq and Iran. ... 1882. His commentaries on the rest of the Bible have survived only in quotations ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- that are the foundation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). According to Jewish ... of the Old Testament. Thus, the Christian Bible incorporates the Torah ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- 31, 2007. In contrast to the dominant Christian sects that viewed Jesus ... theologians and writers in the Christian Church, who viewed the ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- but friendly debates about the truth of the Bible and the Christian Religion ... on the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion as well as An ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- as the most mentioned figure in the Hebrew Bible. He is the archetypal biblical ... referred to in ancient literature outside of the Bible. ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Amihai Mazar, Archeology of the Land of the Bible-10,000-586 B.C.E. (Doubleday ... In the Bible, God calls Jacob to return to Canaan from exile in Haran ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- In the Hebrew Bible, Sukkot is called: *“The Feast of Tabernacles ... == Sukkot in the Christian Bible== The Gospel of John states that Jesus ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- According to the Bible, the mysterious substance called manna descended ... In Christian tradition, manna represented the body of Jesus Christ ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- early June), 50 days after Passover. In Christian tradition, it is known ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- The Tabernacle, in the Bible, was a portable central place of worship ... " or "to live in." The Bible describes God as physically ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- prominent visitor to Anicetus was the Christian historian Hegesippus. ... century writer Eusebius of Caesaria, the Christian historian Saint Hegesippus ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- the Tanakh (and Christian Old Testament), which celebrates and interprets ... , 365. In those editions of the Christian bible that accept this interpretation ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- inconsistencies and contradictions in the Bible and in religious doctrine ... its implications for ethics and practical Christian life. The first three Sermons ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 17:47, 6 May 2024
- The Bible lists Shealtiel as the son of Jehoiachin King Jeconiah ... In Christian tradition, Zerubbabel is one of the ancestors of Jesus ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- and David, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, and was ... " in which the strict Judeo-Christian morality of Western society ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- that for centuries after his death, Christian authors wrote hundreds ... his parents were part of the growing Christian community in the city, ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- decisions that would help build the Christian social group into a worldwide ... convictions at a tender age. She read her Bible through eight times before ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- as the prophetic gift described in the Bible as the Spirit of Prophecy. A contemporary of Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science) and ...20 KB (3,079 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned ... The symbol of the Tree of Life predates the Judeo-Christian tradition ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- #039;s case is one of the few in the Bible where the name given by God ... According to the Bible, Solomon was the builder of the first Temple ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- numerous persecutions by the new Christian Roman Empire until it finally ... during the last great persecution of the Christian church by Emperor Diocletian ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- feast in Jerusalem, according to the Christian narrative of the Passion ... by crucifixion. However, according to Christian sources, there was a prevailing ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 08:01, 20 September 2023
- is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt. The Church ... contribution to the development of early Christian monasticism and for its ...24 KB (3,712 words) - 21:25, 4 May 2020
- Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau in the Bible. She was the daughter of ... and a woman of great virtue. In Christian tradition, she is one of ...13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022
- in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible (Dan. 8:16; 9:21). In the ... quot; (Dan. 8:15, 8:17). A Hebrew-English Bible, [http://www.mechon-mamre ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- Ages in Babylonia. However, the Hebrew Bible indicates that the tradition ... the cantorial tradition was influenced by Christian musical traditions, just ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- Jewish law during his imprisonment. In Christian tradition, Jeconiah/Jehoiachin ... Amel-Marduk (called Evil-merodach in the Bible) released Jehoiachin and ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 04:29, 31 July 2022
- back to the beginnings of first century Christian thought, and the seven ... Vellian 2001. becoming Hindu in culture, Christian in religion, and ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- Jew volume 3, p.130-133, 200 ("Christian imagination was quick to ... Some early Christian writers, by contrast, have argued that the multiplicity ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 08:48, 12 May 2024
- this line of thinking outside the Christian tradition are from Harold ... In the King James version of the Bible, as well as several other versions ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- The preface contains a plea for Christian unity in light of the Turkish ... VII. Concerning the Church—a statement on the belief in one Christian ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- in Serampore, India, he translated the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit, and ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- In his youth, he was preoccupied with religion, studying both the ... Instead, he concentrated closely on the Bible and Church Fathers, which ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- plot after the death of his wife Sarah. The Bible gives the sum Abraham paid ... Issac and Jacob- Leader Guide. Lifeway Christian Resources, 2005. ISBN 9780633197 ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- as the ancestor of the Arabs. In Christian tradition, Abraham is described ... have been a Muslim, 'not a Jew nor a Christian' (Surah 3:67). The ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- especially and primarily within the Christian faith. The "Ecumenical ... of Roman Emperors to clarify matters of Christian theology and doctrine. ...23 KB (3,375 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- The Hebrew Bible does not assign this level of personification to ... In the Hebrew Bible, the concept of the Devil is not highly developed ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- of him I must say that he is an anonymous Christian; if not, I would have to ... committed to those values which for the Christian are concretized in God ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian art (paintings, carvings, mosaics, and stained glass) that were used primarily ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- basing its insights on exegesis of the Bible. However, it is held by some ... which God revealed through the Jewish and Christian scriptures and encompasses ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- #039;s displeasure with his people. In the Bible, an example of this is seen ... Whether or not Jesus himself ever intended it, the Christian church ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- in Patiala State, India, became an Indian Christian missionary whose life and ... The international Christian missionary press focused upon Sundar Singh ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- repeated three times) followed by "The Bible tells me so," are a ... Christianity of the New Testament. The Christian Church, Disciples of Christ ...15 KB (2,238 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- often refers to the sacred texts of the Bible, also referred to as Holy ... In medieval Europe, the word "scripture," implied the Bible ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... usually associated with admission to a Christian church. Although the primary ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- In the Hebrew and Christian traditions, filial piety is asserted in various instances of the Bible. For example, the fifth commandment says to ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Her story ... is one of the oldest passages of the Bible and the earliest extant sample ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely ... Adoptionism was one position in a long series of Christian disagreements ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 06:15, 15 June 2023
- xxxvii), which in many details anticipate Christian practice. The bones or ... relics have been an important part of Christian devotionalism. During the ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped an estimated 800 Jews ... who had supported efforts to improve Christian-Jewish relations in the ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- New Testament and Old Testament of the Christian Bible forbid premarital sex ... 25; Luke 1:34). It is commonplace for Christian believers to accept this ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- limited to the Roman Empire) of the Christian Church, held in the city ... Emperor Constantine had invited all 1800 bishops of the Christian ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers to one of the books of the Hebrew Bible that is also included in the Christian ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- Reconquista, the campaign by the medieval Christian states of Spain to drive ... Constable (1997) reproduces a "Muslim-Christian Treaty" ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- a movie script and became a classic Christian testimony of the struggle ... father died in 1911, he rejected his Christian upbringing and became a ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- thirteenth king of independent Judah in the Bible. The son of King Ahaz, who ... The account of this king in the Hebrew Bible is contained in 2 Kings ...20 KB (3,298 words) - 11:58, 22 January 2024
- century. Today, Korea has the largest Christian population by percentage ... two centuries, academic criticism of Christian beliefs continued unabated. ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the ... in the development of both Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- could commit to memory entire books of the Bible. McGuffey became a "roving ... placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- he courageously threatened the powerful Christian Emperor Theodosius I with ... 337 and 340 in Trier, Germany, into a Christian family at a time when being ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- not the product of the Human Fall, as in Christian teaching, but is part of ... Christian tradition inherited a sense of the yetzer harah, but under ...17 KB (2,843 words) - 11:10, 24 May 2023
- In the second sense, Christian theologians have debated for centuries ... James Ussher [1581-1656] used the Bible to calculate that the universe ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- word "Devil."Easton's Bible Dictionary, [http://eastonsbibledictionary ... === In the Hebrew Bible === Satan is primarily understood as an "accuser ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- court between Darrow and fundamentalist Christian William Jennings Bryan. ... the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible. Jews normally do not pronounce ... In Christian Bibles, Yahweh is usually translated as "the LORD ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- compares favorably with the Augustinian Christian view that evil is non-being ... religion was widely persecuted under Christian leaders of the Roman Empire ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- of Revelation was writing, during the pre-Christian Roman Empire. Still others ... period of serious persecution against the Christian church by the Roman Empire ...13 KB (2,133 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- 1868. Already as a young man he had met Christian missionaries and dedicated ... and too complex for a wider audience. For Christian students of anthropology ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- in considerable detail in the Hebrew Bible. The most famous artifact ... While contemporary scholarship challenges the Bible's story of ...30 KB (4,697 words) - 20:29, 9 May 2024
- confrontation between fundamentalist Christian William Jennings Bryan ... the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- In Christian theology, the biblical story of the raised Lazarus is ... Second, to teach that that if people will not listen to the Bible ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
- word for "spirit" in the Hebrew Bible is ruach (breath). The Greek ... What the Bible calls "Spirit of Yahweh (the LORD)" and ...27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
- in the person of Voltaire took an anti-Christian stance, opposing the "religion ... of undermining the credibility of the Christian Bible as a whole, suggesting ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- Christian churches promoted the development of writing through the ... Gutenberg used Gothic to print his famous Bible, but the lighter-weight Italic ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- sharing a common element, in this case the Christian bishops. monumental for their efforts to promote Christian unity. ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- of knowledge: in addition to the Bible, the liturgical texts and ... capable of spelling out the tenets of the Christian faith. ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- to Christianity, as the second official Christian state (after Armenia) and ... After Axum became a Christian kingdom, it allied itself with the Byzantium ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- reserved for special books: an altar Bible, for example. Wealthy people ... spread to other Orthodox and Eastern Christian areas (see Medieval art ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- Lord) is one of the greatest prophets of the Hebrew Bible. ... prophet to Judah's King Hezekiah, the Bible reports he inspired that ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- return to their bodies. In the medieval Christian era, the tomb served as ... effigy or a wall tablet, located within a Christian church. It usually resides ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- In the Christian tradition, some of the arguments between Jesus and ... with every moment of one's life. The Christian version of this commandment ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- Son, and Holy Spirit described in the Bible. The particular question ... After many debates amongst Christian leaders, the consubstantiality ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- The Epistle of Barnabas, also known as Pseudo-Barnabas, is a Christian ... The epistle goes farther in its anti-Jewish stance than earlier Christian ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- him to practice reading from a large Bible she had ordered from England ... age of 32, he acquired his first book, a bible, in which he inscribed the ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian ... Jesus Christ is also called the faithful witness of God in the Bible ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... However, it was not firmly established in Christian tradition until the Pelagian ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- is a book of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. As suggested ... in Jerusalem. It is also used as part of Christian Tenebrae services, which ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- In the Hebrew Bible, apostasy is equated with rebellion against God ... The Bible speaks of other notable defections from the Jewish faith: ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- and Yang Xiuqing. Hong was an unorthodox Christian convert who declared himself ... changed from the Confucian classics to the Christian Bible. ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is a Christian denomination that stems ... church places special focus on peace and Christian evangelism, and is dedicated ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ... history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ...17 KB (2,636 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2022
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed ... to them. He refers to it as the source of Christian joy. ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- lore. It was also well known to Early Christian writers in the East and ... to be such an important book of the Bible, and older than Genesis, ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- While no list of the seven deadly sins appears as such in the Bible ... of all sins. This relates directly to Christian philosophy and the story ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... many other books of the Torah and the Christian Bible, remains contentious ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- there were no facts or doctrines from the Bible which were not perfectly ... to Reason, nor above It, and That No Christian Doctrine Can Be Properly ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- during the first three centuries of the Christian era, was posttribulational ... an important component in fundamentalist Christian eschatology today, which ...32 KB (4,883 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- origins in both classical philosophy and Christian theology. As a more specifically ... Christian theologians have suggested that the three levels of alienation ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- famous Nazirites are described in the Bible including Samson and John ... The Bible describes Nazirites being simultaneously "holy unto ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- on the Talmud, Torah, and Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). Born in Troyes, Rashi traveled ... Rashi also wrote an extensive commentary on the Hebrew Bible, completed ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant ... and have nothing to do with the truth of Christian theology. Its argument ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- "Stephen L. Harris, Understanding the Bible: A reader's introduction ... second century, though many apologetic Christian scholars still hold to ...37 KB (5,608 words) - 20:09, 13 September 2023
- in the myths of Ancient Greece and The Bible. Virgil (ca. 70 - 19 B.C ... ==Some Christian and Theological Periodizations== Several theological ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- and theologian. Erasmus deeply influenced Christian theology during the first ... a higher stage in the development of the Christian’s relationship to God ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Today's Christian theology with includes invoking the name of ... by the first passage found on opening a Bible. This method was evidently ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- as one of the highest duties for any Christian. The offertory is the traditional ... Roman Garrison analyzes how and why the early Christian doctrine that ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- religion that draws extensively from the Bible. Adherents look particularly ... Rastafari are criticized, particularly by Christian groups, for taking ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- Philo wrote commentaries portraying the Hebrew Bible as an allegory ... His works were preserved by the Christian church, primarily because ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- of the Madonna has been proclaimed the oldest Christian painting in India. H. Hosten, Antiquities from San Thomé and Mylapore: The Traditional ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- had led him to the conclusion that the Bible did not support a strict ... the Work and Person of Christ. Studies in Christian history and thought. Bletchley ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- The Bible refers to numerous prophets of Yahweh, as well as prophets ... Because of the influence of the Bible, the Hebrew concept of prophecy ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- refutations of Sadducean beliefs, and the Christian New Testament. However ... quot;omer") to Shavuot (Pentecost in Christian reference) should, according ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- as goats, eagles, and hawks, leading many Christian scholars to surmise that ... The word "Leviathan" appears six times in the Bible: ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... Modern English Bibles such as the New American Standard Bible and ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- home of Jesus, and is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines ... city in Israel. A predominantly Arab-Christian town until the Arab-Israeli ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- 14:22-25). This meal is the origin of the Christian ritual for the celebration ... *Hauer, Christian and William Young. An Introduction to the Bible: ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- books and over sixty articles on Hegel, the Bible, modern theologies, the Enlightenment ... works make reference to Bruno Bauer as a Christian. Bauer's philosophy ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- in his earlier days as a newly converted Christian he had to address the problem ... This was applied to Christian theology, and a new school of theology ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ... Three main regional concentrations of Christian population exist, namely ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Much of the Hebrew Bible is an account of the Israelites' relationship ... central text of Judaism along with the Hebrew Bible. ===Critical view=== ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow ... with different understandings of what the Bible taught to give their assent ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder ... Richard Rolle, an English religious writer, Bible translator (1290-1349) or ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- hand, they are frequently seen in Judeo-Christian and Islamic cultures as ... influenced by the story of Genesis in the Bible in which a Serpent (symbolizing ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- the Noahide Laws as laid down in the Bible and expounded upon in Jewish ... Noahides. The strict view is that Christian theology is considered ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ... that all people should be able to read the Bible. However, today it does not ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- Apostolic succession refers to the Christian practice of appointing ... According to the Bible, the original apostles were chosen directly ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- are they called "angels." In the Bible, angels appeared to Abraham ... In the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, angels are a spiritual ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- known as the betrayer of Christ. Christian writings widely condemn ... still somewhat of an ambivalent figure in Christian history. Judas' betrayal ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- one of the 12 minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible, whose speeches are reported ... on later Jewish prophets as well as on Christian ministry. In the modern ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- 3. The church's interpretation of the Bible was final. Any Christian ... *Cross, F.L. (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 ... 30 percent are fragments from the Hebrew Bible, from all the books except ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- and an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. A sometimes persecuted ... Empire, and he later studied the Hebrew Bible and the writings of the emerging ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- יהושע) is the sixth book of Bible. It tells the story of Joshua ... In Christian circles, both Catholic and Protestant, the authorship ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- dwelling, the sea, is called yam in the Hebrew Bible. Yam's defeat ... In some Christian interpretations of (Genesis 3:15), the serpent of ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- In Christian tradition, Aaron was the ancestor of Zechariah and Elizabeth ... In Christian tradition, Aaron was the ancestor of John the Baptist ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- be self-governing, as they studied the Bible they became convinced that ... ==Helwys’ Christian mission== Inevitably, the Church authorities ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 21:16, 30 April 2023
- When Tiridates III became a Christian in Tiridates III in 301, Armenia ... in 406 for the purpose of translating the Bible, and Christianization at ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served as ... human sinfulness, which he adopted in his Christian realism to address social ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- The term “covenant” is used in the Bible more than three hundred ... relationship with his chosen people. Christian theologians are in disagreement ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- believing that infant baptism is not in the Bible. He discussed the issue with ... as a personal faith. The true Christian lives a life that is discernibly ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 04:32, 9 November 2022
- Jewish organizations and by Evangelical Christian groups. ... Christian summer camps are also very popular. In addition to the non ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- quot;) was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the period of Jewish ... age. They spurred on both Jewish and Christian apocalypticism and messianic ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- Fränkel, who besides teaching him the Bible and Talmud, introduced to ... of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, Lavater publicly ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- syncretistic myths found within the Hebrew Bible itself. Various battles between ... for several reasons. First, the Christian belief in the Holy Trinity ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- monarchism) refers to a heretical body of Christian beliefs that emphasize ... refers to the eventually anathematized Christian belief that Jesus was born ...19 KB (2,965 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- spread the "good news" of the Christian message to the people of ... them the power to teach in his name. Many Christian churches still base their ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325. Buffalo: Christian literature Pub. Co, 1885 ... *[http://www.bible-researcher.com/muratorian.html Text of the Muratorian ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- the Eastern Orthodox Church. Outside the Christian tradition Chrysostom is ... House: 1997, ISBN 9650706658). or as a Christian, and his father was a high ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- it was one of the most widely collected books of Christian popular piety, which fell in popularity following the Protestant Reformation and the ascendancy ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses was called by God to receive ... and then given to Moses; however, the Bible reports that when Moses saw ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- contribution was his re-reading of The Bible, demonstrating that the biblical ... of modern philosophy and his outspoken Christian views (such as his assertion ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the only biblical book that is almost wholly composed of apocalyptic literature. Other ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- in their holy books and beliefs. The Hebrew Bible describes Abraham as the ... The Bible does not say anything of his early life. There is a story ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and the rejection ... from the old Hebrew word for the Hebrew Bible, Mikra, or Kara. This name ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- of the Canon of Scripture for the larger Christian Churches, various groups ... the view that this section dates from Christian times. However, since the ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- real and genuine. He applied logic to Christian faith, which he regarded ... on Some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion, followed in 1828 ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible ... The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- of his generation, and his knowledge of The Bible, the classics, and writers ... Life in which he praised Browne as a faithful Christian. ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- twentieth century especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition issued in various ... myths," ranging from the Judeo-Christian creation narrative in the ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- It is home to one of largest Palestinian Christian communities in the Middle East. ... The city has great significance to the Christian religion as it is ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 2024
- According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person ... four writers: Matthew 27:57–60, [http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2024
- leadership of religious group. Within the Christian Church, the term takes ... In ancient Israel, the culture from which the roots of the Christian ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- Transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio) is a Christian doctrine ... they see this teaching as definitely implied in the Bible. ...30 KB (4,681 words) - 02:14, 2 May 2023
- – May 2, 373 C.E.) was a Christian bishop—the Patriarch of Alexandria—in ... For these contributions to the development of the Christian faith ...20 KB (3,060 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic ... The Copts are by far the largest Christian community in North Africa ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- Harris, Stephen L., Understanding the Bible. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985 ... Harris, Stephen L., Understanding the Bible. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985. ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- in the Jewish tradition to baptism in the Christian tradition, ritual washing ... for these practices are found in the Hebrew Bible, and are elaborated in the ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- of Good and Evil. The Devil (in the Bible symbolized by a serpent) ... wheat, a pomegranate, and a citron. The Bible gives no clue, and most commentators ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- After Christianity became the state religion of Rome, dissident Christian ... assume esotericism to be opposed to the Bible or Christianity, as a historical ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- rejected by orthodox Jews in the Hebrew Bible because of their mixed blood ... the religious tradition emerged. In the Bible, the Northern Kingdom of ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- of the Faith, is an ecumenical Christian statement of faith accepted ... from orthodox doctrines based on the Bible as interpreted in Christian ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- are theological and use passages from the Bible and the writings of the saints to discuss the role of the church, the Pope and the clergy. Marsilius ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- prophet and lawgiver, who according to the Bible and the Qur'an (by his ... The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- variety of genres including epic poetry, Bible translations, historical ... Old English poetry is of two types, the pre-Christian and the Christian ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- several places in the Old Testament of the Bible (for example, Genesis ... Foot washing is described in the scriptures of the Bible wherein Jesus ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- ) was an early Christian apologist, theologian, and ascetic, who is ... One could argue that Jerome's Bible (the Vulgate) is the most ...33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- the abuses, lies and desolation of the Christian world. These, Luther believed ... Luther began his German translation of the Bible. The edict was temporarily ...7 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 29 January 2024
- and Platonism within the framework of Christian faith. Nicholas was ... The early Christian Church Fathers adopted the theories of Neoplatonism ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- school. Milner turned out to be a strong Christian without the stereotypes ... "The Bible became his best-loved book and he learned stretches ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- Somaliland. Home of an ancient African Christian Church and with a continuous ... have enabled the kingdom to survive as a Christian state surrounded by Muslim ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Today, the word is most commonly used in Christian circles to denote the Three ... Some translations of the Bible, such as the King James Version and ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- within the Church of England focused on Bible study, and a methodical approach ... members into classes, where they met for bible study and confessed their ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- geography, jurisprudence, study of the Bible, mathematics, anatomy, and ... Quintana, an Erasmian, and read the entire Bible in its original languages ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- life he served as president of the American Bible Society. ... Jay combined such elements with a Christian aesthetic vision glorifying ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- The actress was a Christian who left her Ohio estate, Moorehead Manor ... arriving on the set with "the Bible in one hand and the script ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- A philanthropist and committed Christian, McCormick founded the McCormick ... McCormick was a devout Christian. His favorite Bible passage was Romans ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- In the Bible, the day is called Yom HaKippurim (Leviticus 23:27) and ... emit palpable light in a manner echoing the Bible's account of the countenance ...20 KB (3,188 words) - 16:40, 4 June 2023
- them into his commentaries on the Bible. Samuel ibn Tibbon also became ... in an allegoric-philosophical manner the Bible verses cited by the author ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- was said he knew the entire original text of the Bible. ... ===Leader of the Christian army=== [[Image:Hans von Aachen 003.jpg ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- Montanism was an early Christian sectarian movement beginning in the ... councils and the canonization of the Christian Bible effectively restricted ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- and Joseph the Worker) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband ... Joseph's death is not recorded in the Bible. He is reported by Luke to ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Bible. Formally established in ... known nearly complete manuscript of the Bible. The Secret History of Procopius ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- scriptures of the world (for example, the Bible). Wendy Doniger, ed ... said to contain references to the Judeo-Christian creation myth (Adam and ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- by studying the scriptures as a Christian humanist scholar. As a ... eventually his identity as Zwingli the Christian humanist gave way to Zwingli ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- Tyndale, the maker of the 1526 English Bible, to express the nature of ... theory. Today, an increasing number of Christian theologians argue that ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- of doctrine, traditionally used in Christian religious teaching. Catechisms ... have been valuable repositories of Christian faith over the ages, containing ...21 KB (3,269 words) - 17:53, 30 November 2023
- The practice of confession in the Judeo-Christian tradition goes back ... In the Christian churches, confession became a more formalized practice ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based ... it to fall in the Romance genre set in a Christian context. Two of its tales ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher ... and spiritually. The relevance of Christian teachings to modern life ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- and Thecla was widely read in the early Christian churches and survives in ... with Paul, Thecla requested baptism as a Christian, but Paul declined, prophetically ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- was not primarily his understanding of the Bible's teaching on the matter ... * [http://www.ccel.org/h/hodge/ Works by Charles Hodge] at the Christian ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 19:10, 4 December 2023
- was founded in England in the seventeenth century as a Christian religious ... faith does not fit within traditional Christian categories of Roman Catholic ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- During the second and third centuries C.E., various semi-Christian ... removed and put up for sale. The early Christian writer Irenaeus of Lyons ...24 KB (3,824 words) - 19:38, 8 June 2023
- to the Grave (New York: Doubleday, Anchor Bible Reference Library 1994), ... Jesus is featured throughout the New Testament and other Early Christian ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- of icons in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian tradition. The term is ... 1982), 60-72. all specialists in Christian religious art—the main ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- , a booklet written by the Christian Liang Fa, and interpreted ... from the Confucian classics to the Christian Bible, and women were admitted ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The major events of the ... The Book of Exodus presents some of the Bible's most dramatic ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- destruction occurred at the hands of a Christian mob led by St. John Chrysostom ... wonders of the world until well into the Christian era. ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Christian sources indicate that Jesus of Nazareth (Mark 9:5, etc. ... by the late first century C.E.. If the Christian recollection of Jesus himself ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- here that the first third of the King James Bible Old Testament and the last ... *Hexham, Irving. The Christian Traveler's Guide to Great Britain ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- Millennialism or millenarianism is a Christian belief, based on the ... Millennialism developed out of a uniquely Christian interpretation ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- tirelessly on an English translation of the Bible in one complete edition and ... felt it was his mission to teach that the Bible was the supreme authority ...43 KB (7,057 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- In addition, the prophets of the Hebrew Bible spoke of social responsibility ... for the sins of our ancestors, despite the Bible's depiction of God who ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Yemen today. She is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Holy Qu'ran ... According to the Hebrew Bible, the unnamed queen of the land of Sheba ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- about the Kingdom of Judah is the Hebrew Bible, especially the Books of ... Ramoth-Gilead. Although praised by the the bible (I Kings 22:41-44) for commendable ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- In Christian circles, the term historicism refers to the confessional Protestant form of prophetical interpretation. This theory holds that ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ... sources on the history of the early Christian church. ==Summary== ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- baptisteries show illustrations of the Bible. In Gothic art and in the ... Early Christian examples show much similarity to antique models in ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- Arabic poetry even when composed by the Christian ʿAdī ibn Zayd.Nicholas ... language - even in id|Alkitab (Christian Bible, from ar|الكتاب ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- gnostic who, according to ancient Christian accounts, allegedly asserted ... in the accounts of several early Christian authors, who regarded him ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- refers to the early history of specific Christian denominations in the United ... rules for the interpretation of the Bible (Miller 1841). Based on his ...24 KB (3,639 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- saint, after reading excerpts from the Holy Bible. The Pope himself read out ... an end to a recent deadly wave of anti-Christian violence: "I urge ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- Hicksite branch espoused free interpretation of the Bible and reliance on inward, as opposed to historic Christian, guidance. Like many Quakers ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- reformers of the relationship between the Christian church and use of military ... added only, "so far as every pious Christian is bound." Stanislav ...28 KB (4,685 words) - 08:56, 1 April 2024
- After the Protestant Reformation, some Christian denominations returned ... It is the first holy day mentioned in the Bible, and God is thought to be ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- from rationalist skepticism to fervent Christian faith, and applied his ... New York City and Boston. By now wealthy Christian laymen were in his support ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- John Calvin’s unique interpretation of Christian theology. In addition to ... word. In the Flemish corner of France, Bible students who gathered in ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- of the order. It reached all classes of Christian society fighting heresy ... century owing to the general decline of Christian society. The weakening ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- America, were men and women of profound Christian faith who took their convictions ... of Almighty God…it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- were supposed to drive out of Canaan. The Bible stipulates that they were ... Amman, Jordan. Though rarely mentioned in Christian tradition, Jesus' ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- a De fide Trinitatis, commentaries on the Bible, and others. ... * West, Andrew Fleming. Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- the oldest civilizations chronicled in the Bible. The great patriarchs of ... the land between the Jews and the Christian and Muslim inhabitants ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- how an art form was used to illustrate the Bible for people who could not ... The cathedral has been a site of Christian worship since the third ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- The story, however, is not found in the Bible and does not appear ... was made by Roger d'Argenteuil's Bible in French in the thirteenth ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... he became convinced of the benefits of Christian salvation. After this experience ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- a theologian, philosopher, statesman, Christian apologist, playwright, ... to all social and rational beings, Christian and non-Christian alike ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Rosicrucianism was based on an amalgamation of Christian mysticism ... who adopted the symbolic name of Christian Rosenkreuz. It was said ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- and Vine's Concise Dictionary of the Bible: Two Bible Reference Classics ... Catholic Campus Ministry, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and the Pagan ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- == Demons in the Hebrew Bible == quot; commonly known in popular or Christian culture. Those in the ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a prominent Christian ... and virtually ruled over an experiment in Christian government, though he did ...41 KB (6,580 words) - 14:04, 7 May 2024
- Stanton, she was a vocal critic of the Christian Church, which put her at ... credit, Stanton's The Woman's Bible. She became a theosophist ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- William Tyndale's translation of the Bible in the sixteenth century ... instead was adopted relatively late. The Bible mentions two occasions when ...28 KB (4,349 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- examples of etiological myth come from the Bible, such as the setting of the ... By the Christian era, the Greco-Roman world had started to use the ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- only direct encounter with Yahweh in the Bible was in the form of divine ... continued when the Roman Empire became Christian; initially Christ was only ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- resurfaced again and again throughout Christian history through liberal ... teaching doctrine contrary to traditional Christian understanding of grace ...24 KB (3,917 words) - 07:13, 23 November 2022
- the eighteenth-century German philosopher Christian Wolff to designate philosophical ... ones referred to as types of monism by Christian Wolff (1679-1754). Both ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- for their opposition to slavery in Christian scripture. That which is ... The songs sung by the slaves combined Christian and biblical imagery ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- Some have claimed that the mainstream Christian tradition has mistakenly ... they were universally credited by the Christian community there. There ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- usually uncovered. In a later Early Christian era, scrolls became quite ... In general, Christian texts were kept in codex form: That is, books ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- also with demons as associated with some Christian teachings and lore. ... escape one is to quote a passage from the Bible. They lose a tooth on hearing ...13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
- and seventeenth centuries, which rejected Christian revelation and sought truth ... “De monarchia Christianorum” (On Christian Monarchy). In 1594, having ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- his life to help others. A practicing Christian, his theological views ... As a child, Cayce found comfort in reading the Bible and decided to ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 18:08, 12 February 2024
- and is mentioned numerous times in the Bible, including in Genesis 43:11 ... and is mentioned numerous times in the Bible. The Hebrew name of the tree ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- Jewish Christians (sometimes called also Hebrew Christians or Christian ... 11:22), and Saint Paul (himself a Jewish Christian) was among them. Paul& ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- Watchers to the gods of the four winds. Christian theologians, in their attempts ... God in the Book of Genesis. According to Christian mythology, their "sins ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- Dead was seen as an Egyptian analog of the Bible. However, unlike the Judeo ... * Larson, Martin A. The Story of Christian Origins. New York: David ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- writings from ancient Persia and the Jewish Bible affirm that history is non ... In the Hebrew Bible, only a few rather vague passages refer to a personal ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, God's forgiveness of sin was a major concern ... a term referring to any member of the Christian church, which was seen ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since the first ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- The Hussites were a pre-Protestant Christian movement centered on ... accorded with the injunctions of the Bible, with the University of Prague ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 21:21, 9 February 2024
- distanced herself from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and her ... Gage, who later worked on The Woman's Bible with Stanton. Despite the ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ... * Footnotes and cross-references to the Bible * An index of doctrinal ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- The concept of “limbo” does not appear in the Bible, nor was it ... their faith or performing acts of Christian charity, the only means ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- political fanaticism emerged in the Christian and Muslim worlds. Judah ... come from without, so with Judah word and Bible passage, meter and rime, ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- the incarnation of evil resonates with Christian symbolism of the devil ... often slain or being defeated by a Christian knight to symbolize the ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- supported by several emperors and leading Christian patriarchs, resulting in ... often divided the eastern and western Christian churches, the Nestorians ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- renewal in the areas of the clergy, Christian life, and Church administration ... of faith and saw love as the basis of Christian faith, not obligation or ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 08:30, 10 January 2024
- literary form. Religious texts such as the Bible, Buddhist sutras, and Confucian ... religious texts in antiquity, including the Bible, Buddhist sutras, mythologies ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- of the King James translation of the Bible to her class; her family ... is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion". Some have ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Epistles and the lack of early non-Christian documents to argue that ... ISBN 978-0155003781). J.N.D Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines (HarperSanFrancisco ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- quot;origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called The First Book ... Genesis is the most widely read book of the Hebrew Bible. For Jews ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- to their "eternal abodes," the Bible sees Cyrus as the agent of ... The Bible records that the immediate ancestors of these Jews had been ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- reform. Exposure to the preaching of Christian missionaries and to their ... the Baptists at Serampore in their work of Bible translation. He worked closely ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian ... philosophers of the time John Locke, Christian von Wolff and Leibniz, ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- America, whose cultures are based on a Christian model, political and religious ... In 1 Timothy 2:8-15, Paul outlined the role of women in the Christian ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- The Hebrew Bible contains a number of prophecies concerning a future ... among the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible and considered by most scholars ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- words as bibliography, bibliophile, and bible. Papyrus is also the etymon ... book-form codices were fashioned. Early Christian writers soon adopted the ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- included journalism, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and ... He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are admired and quoted ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Pentateuch, included in both Jewish and Christian scriptures. It continues ... Land. The book contains several of the Bible's most memorable episodes: ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- only classical authors and disdained the Bible and works of the Church Fathers ... on the Appian Way, but he died a Christian. Pope Alexander VI requested ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- colleges, founded originally as Chosun Christian College in March, 1915 ... University traces its origins to Chosun Christian College (조선기독교대학 ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- God") was adopted officially by the Christian Church at the Council of ... of religion and art and helps many Christian faithful focus prayers ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- al-Malaṭī. It appears that he took the Christian name Gregory Grigorios ... and Interfaith relations, especially Christian-Muslim relations. When ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- Gnosticism was widespread within the early Christian church until ... spirit is the only true reality. Thus Christian gnostics emphasized spiritual ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- turned to religion, using the ship's Bible as their guide, to attempt ... six men were convicted, including Steve Christian, the island's mayor ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux ... dealing with all the major events in the Christian calendar, from the Creation ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was ... The Protoevangelium was once honored as scripture by Christian churches ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- ("the goat who departs"). In Christian thought, Jesus Christ came ... early example of sin and expiation in the Bible&namely, the story of ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- exhibited high standards of Christian humility and compassion ... became a catechumen—a candidate for Christian baptism. At this time, ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- extent, it is bound to do so. Just as a Bible or a cherished photograph ... signs" dates back to the pre-Christian era in Europe, when symbols ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- in the Eastern Orthodox Churches. In most Christian communities, the holiday ... Besides its Christian roots, many Christmas traditions have their ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- and therefore had no authority over the Christian Church as a whole. ... threat to social and political order in Christian Europe. During his tenure ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- that while the miracles recorded in the Bible can indicate their divine ... and attributed the mysteries of the Christian faith, allegedly originated ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Brahms was a a devout student of the Bible, if unconventional in his ... texts which Brahms selected from the Luther Bible. Brahms was also a prolific ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- subjects and expounds broadly on the Hebrew Bible. Printed editions of the ... disagreements on many subjects. Like the Bible itself, it can be used to ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- [http://www.christian-thinktank.com/gilgy09.html Flood Traditions ... to understanding of the Hebrew of the Bible, for example, the meaning ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- it as a modern innovation derived from Christian categories. Many Orthodox ... Haredi Judaism views higher criticism of the Talmud, let alone the ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- was later adopted by the established Christian church, and various rules ... handed back to his owner if he swore on the Bible not to be cruel. This Christian ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- world as compared with God the Creator, Christian philosophers such as Thomas ... ===Medieval Christian philosophy=== Eventually, however, the concept ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- of which had been accepted into the Christian canon and was known as ... The geniza also contained copies of Greek translations of the Bible ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- In the Judeo-Christian tradition, as well as in Confucianism and other ... The Hebrew Bible elevates honor to a high spiritual position. It is ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ... referring to “Phut of the Ionians.” The Bible indicates that during his ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- with either Islamic (supportive) or Christian (prohibitive) colonial ... Periodically, Christian reform movements that have aimed at rebuilding ...37 KB (5,815 words) - 17:42, 30 November 2023
- for the Ark and cherubim as latter-day Christian angels]] The Hebrew word aron is used in the Bible to designate any type of ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- transcribing difficult passages from the Bible. She was also tutored in ... Wheatley's poetry overwhelmingly revolves around Christian themes ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
