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  • history and the development of Christian theology. His liberal theological ... the traditional propositions of Christian theology. Protestantism, he ...
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  • a synthesis of Platonism with Christian theology, and greatly influenced ... the beauty of classical thought and Christian theology; both could be appreciated ...
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  • that brought Neoplatonic thought into the Christian debates about trinity, ... been recognized for his contributions to theology and philosophy, and as a ...
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  • The Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian theological teaching that ... The Social Gospel movement applied Christian ethics to social problems ...
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  • (2 volumes, 1893) and The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers ... and, in the final lecture, to Christian theology and St. Augustine. ...
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  • opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ... Creeds came into use in the Christian church as statements of faith ...
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  • were prevalent among the rank and file of Christian believers of the time. ... During the development of trinitarian theology, it was often proposed ...
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  • 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was an early Christian philosopher and one of ... ==Contribution to Christian theology== Clement's main contribution ...
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  • "new" does not refer to his theology, but his status as the later ... determined to devote himself to a life of Christian asceticism and prayer. ...
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  • In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of ... Most Christian denominations accept the doctrine of infant baptism ...
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  • in both classical philosophy and Christian theology. As a more specifically ... === Christian theology === In the classical Christian tradition, alienation ...
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  • and humility. He was conversant with Christian theology and is thought to have ... Rashbam's knowledge of the Christian interpretation of the Hebrew ...
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  • Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...
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  • in defining and defending Christian theology during a particularly ... Gregory's second major contribution to Christian theology was ...
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  • continues to confer its own degrees in theology under the power vested by ... privilege of awarding degrees in arts and theology. William Carey, Joshua Marshman ...
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  • Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... the vernacular languages. In addition the Christian humanism of the Renaissance ...
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  • (Macmillan: New York, 1977). In Christian theology, the ransom view of ... through the first thousand years of Christian history. However, the theory ...
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  • was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher ... particular synthesis of Protestant Christian theology with existentialist ...
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  • ” elaborating his own radical system of Christian metaphysics, and treatises ... (1771; “Elements of Universal Christian Theology”), but decided not ...
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  • Aristotle with conclusions more open to Christian doctrine, similar to the ... to conform with the thirteenth-century Christian synthesis of Thomas Aquinas. ...
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  • barred from advancement in the faculty of theology. His trial and censure is ... him as a master of arts and bachelor of theology and civil law. A letter ...
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  • Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist ... and undermined many of the advances Christian theology had made. Within two ...
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  • Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer in the sixteenth century, and further developed by ...
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  • then adopted in part as the Articles of Christian Religion in 1648, by act ... , influenced by Puritan and covenant theology. Its more controversial ...
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  • + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named for its ... even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which premillennalism ...
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  • state of "soul-sleep," in Christian theology. In this state, the ... thinkers adopted reincarnation to Christian theology. Geddes MacGregor ...
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  • (c. 580 - August 13, 662 C.E.) was a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar ... beliefs and died soon after. However, his theology was vindicated by the Third ...
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  • approach permanently oriented Christian theology towards historical realism. ... Lucian's influence permanently oriented Christian theology towards ...
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  • by German idealist philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781 ... one may not be totally alien in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ...
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  • #Process theology—God is not omnipotent but merely persuasive. ... priest trained in both mathematical physics and theology: ...
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  • Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis) is a Christian theologian celebrated in ... journeyed to Egypt, which was rent by Christian struggles, and visited ...
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  • The Epistle to Philemon is a book of the New Testament in the Christian ... been of only marginal interest in Christian theology and ethics, it gives ...
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  • theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those ... instrumental in the promotion of Christian theology and are highly respected ...
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  • – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth ... was brought up in the house of a devoted Christian, Quintus Aurelius Memmius ...
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  • Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of ... Negative theology is found in various world religions and is based ...
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  • adopted in the early centuries of the Christian era for the Sacrament of ... ==Christian theology== |left|250px|The Eucharist, also known as Holy ...
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  • Eucharist, it plays a major role in Christian theology and has been the subject ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...
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  • great bishop's contributions to Christian theology: ... * Olson, Roger E. The Story of Christian Theology. Downers Grove, ...
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  • Aristotelian philosophy to contemporary Christian thought. Albertus tried ... organized the form and method of Christian theology and philosophy. Together ...
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  • Christian Science Monitor, The The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international newspaper ...
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  • The Shepherd of Hermas was a very popular Christian writing of the ... form an interesting development in early Christian ethics. One precept deserving ...
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  • In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. Fideism can be both a response to anti-religious ...
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  • of Discipleship have become classics of Christian literature, criticizing ... Tübingen. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Berlin ...
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  • to a Judaizing heresy which insisted on Christian conformity with Jewish ... Young men should act with self-control. Christian slaves must obey their ...
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  • YMCA movement and did much to spread the Christian message in the United States ... Moody was involved with the United States Christian Commission of the YMCA ...
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  • - 1274) further developed it within a Christian context and the issues ... Although Christian von Wolff (1679 - 1754) further developed it, ontology ...
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  • The filioque clause is a heavily disputed part of Christian trinitarian theology and one of the core differences between Catholic and Orthodox ...
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  • anonymous illustrated work of popular theology in the late Middle Ages ... one of the most widely collected books of Christian popular piety, which fell ...
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  • time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ... a metropolitan center of early Christian theology. There, he became conversant ...
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  • of a broad scope of Hellenic and Christian traditions re-ignited the ... they were to have a strong influence on Christian theology. ...
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  • to believe through this experience in the theology of "instant conversion ... Booth's view of salvation was not focused on doctrine or theology ...
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  • Rooted in the ancient tradition of Christian asceticism and contemplation ... fourth to the fifteenth centuries), and a theology of Uncreated Light. ...
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  • figure and Jesus the subject of Christian belief. Despite the flaws ... near Ulm, to be prepared for the study of theology. Amongst the principal masters ...
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  • of the books of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Elegantly written ... Ephesus continued to be a major center of Christian life throughout the first ...
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  • attention to heathen philosophers than to Christian revelation. with standard understandings of Christian doctrine, prompting the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. ... printed. His book on The Rights of the Christian Church had an immense impact ...
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  • #039;s monogram and is still used in Christian art, often in combination ... ===In Christian art=== [[Image:Arcidieceze Presov reckokat.jpg|thumb ...
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  • Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining to the Church itself as a community or organic entity, and of how the ...
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  • Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic theology and to demonstrate that ... in the University of Paris) within the Christian scholastic tradition which ...
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  • While non-Christian traditions such as Judaism used scrolls, early ... about 390 C.E., all the texts (Gnostic Christian) are codices. The earliest ...
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  • and an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. A sometimes persecuted ... councils, but ran afoul of imperial theology once again. After returning ...
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  • greatness of God; through the practice of Christian virtues such as faith, ... some Aristotelian elements in his theology. He considered universals ...
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  • during the nineteenth century. His theology was based on traditional ... was transferred to the chair of didactic theology, retaining, however, the ...
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  • In Christian theology, the satisfaction view of the atonement is the dominant theory of the meaning of the death of Jesus Christ taught in Roman ...
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  • pamphlets defending the cause of rational theology, which provoked heated responses ... particularly favoring works on history, theology, and philosophy. In an article ...
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  • In Christian theology, the term spirit is used to describe God, or ... In Christian theology pneumatology refers to the study of the Holy Spirit. ...
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  • articulate a global legal system based on Christian tenets, which gave each ... at Salamanca, and studied philosophy and theology there for five years, from ...
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  • much to define the ultimate form of Christian theology, Saint Basil also codified ... edifying appeal to Scripture and early Christian tradition (to prove the ...
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  • Emanationism differs from the Christian doctrine of creation, which ... Jewish thoughts became a foundation for Christian, and later Jewish and Islamic ...
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  • totality, and perfection. In Christian theology, the Absolute is conceived ... In Christian theology and philosophy, the absolute is understood in ...
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  • Process thought, also known as process philosophy or process theology ... and perfect loveJohn B. Cobb, Jr. Process Theology as Political Theology. ...
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  • Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely ... Liberal Christian theology, especially the historical Jesus school ...
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  • These were works of practical theology for the edification of the ... his parents were part of the growing Christian community in the city, ...
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  • An Indulgence, in Roman Catholic theology, is the full or partial ... In Roman Catholic theology, indulgences are granted for personal sins—specific ...
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  • the rule of God. Therefore, in Reformed Theology, God must predestine individuals ... There are many Christian groups that disagree with this interpretation ...
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  • development and popularization of process theology during his time as a professor ... of his parents and discover a more reasonable theology. ...
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  • quot; a term that is still widely used in Christian spiritual practice today ... and moved to Salamanca, where he studied theology and philosophy at the University ...
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  • giving rational support to the tenets of Christian faith, assured him a place ... Jews, and heretics claimed that theology itself could be demonstrated ...
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  • The name cell church comes from the Christian Church in China that ... In reality, many of the first Christian churches in the days of Saint ...
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  • Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch ... at ages 15 to 20 (393-397), and Christian theology and biblical studies ...
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  • by some to have been influenced by their theology. However, he later associated ... Edessa in 435, promoted Theodore's theology at his academy until it ...
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  • Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons ... From the point of view of the Chalcedonian theology which is held ...
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  • Dionysius to add a new dimension to Christian theology, and translations of ... major systematic works. The Elements of Theology is a singular work in the ...
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  • This was applied to Christian theology, and a new school of theology ... Category:Christian theology 24367388 ...
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  • he rose to the position of professor of theology, then rector and vice-chancellor ... France, where he pursued philosophy, theology, and canon law, supported ...
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  • Sabellius, a Christian priest, theologian, and teacher, was active ... Like many other challengers to early Christian orthodoxy, little is ...
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  • Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized ...
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  • he began to teach in Berlin as a licentiate of theology. In 1839, he was transferred to the theology faculty at Bonn after publishing ...
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  • that the language of science and Christian theology are similar, forming ... critical realism—later used in theology—has its source in the thought ...
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  • those teachings to others. The word Christian appears only one time in ... more practical meaning. Generally in Christian theology, discipleship is a ...
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  • religion, such as in the Buddhist faith or the Christian faith. ... is central to salvation in Christian theology. However, such faith ...
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  • in Africa, the Caribbean, and India. Christian IV first initiated the ... India authorized to grant degrees in Christian theology, and validates many ...
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  • to the academic title of Master of Theology that he obtained in Paris ... of dubious authority, give him the Christian name of Johannes. His Christian ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Semi-Pelagianism is a Christian theological understanding about salvation ... by voluntarily choosing to live a life of Christian asceticism. ...
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  • Nestorianism was an ancient Christian heresy associated with Nestorius ... to assure the loyalty of their Christian subjects and supported ...
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  • The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ... Brown attended Oberlin College, which was a Christian school and the ...
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  • Personalism developed primarily within Christian (Catholic) contexts ... Platonism and Aristotelianism into a Christian framework, articulated ...
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  • of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, an international ... XIII in 1900. He was proclaimed Patron of Christian Teachers by Pope Pius XII ...
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