Search results for "Charity (practice)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- was a distinct lack of love-motivated charity in the ancient world, and ... * Uhlhorn, Gerhard. Christian Charity in the Ancient Church. (New ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 09:46, 12 May 2024
- till 1851. He also served for some time as charity commissioner. ... " This was a protest against the practice of taking the exceptional ...8 KB (1,180 words) - 01:42, 14 December 2022
- However, it is also possible to practice an exclusivist faith while ... to the Law of Moses or other good works of charity and morality could bring ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- 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
- so as to ensure no abuse of this charity, workhouse conditions were ... requesting that, as a matter of Christian charity, second helpings of gruel ...14 KB (2,160 words) - 23:59, 17 May 2023
- He soon left the monastery, where the practice of Buddhism was frequently ... as a mendicant monk (one that relies on charity). His father committed suicide ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- mother organizations helped start charity works in which areas for playgrounds were set aside in urban environments so as to give children safe ...16 KB (2,295 words) - 08:03, 24 November 2022
- greatly admired Aedesia for her piety and charity, and gave her eulogy while ... the alleged Alexandrian Neoplatonic practice of making the gods into ...15 KB (2,178 words) - 17:13, 26 July 2023
- to treatment.Stephen R. Connor, Hospice: Practice, Pitfalls, and Promise ... century in France by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 20:47, 25 September 2020
- to decipher, and mediums soon adopted the practice of holding the pen or pencil ... the medium's body to communicate, a practice that is differentiated from ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- and to demonstrate through his acts of charity that anyone could overcome ... Rose was diminutive in stature. When he attended a show, his practice ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- 27, 1922) was an American journalist, author, and charity worker, who received initial renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- by faith alone; instead both faith and charity are necessary for salvation ... through the conjunction of faith and charity in a person, and that the ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- acquired through participation in any practice. Defining the exact nature ... defined by an agreement, institution or practice, the rules of which specify ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- city and it was also planned to serve as a charity school. The fundraising ... boundaries, a place where theory and practice combine to produce a better ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- #039;clock. In most places, however, the practice was to abstain from eating ... Today, in the West, the practice of fasting is considerably relaxed ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- schools were established as acts of charity, either by private benefactors ... for thus changing the nature of the Charity, and filling a School intended ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- of human custom since pre-history. The practice is mentioned in the Bible ... The Vajrayana practice of Nyung Ne is based on the tantric practice ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- she founded several Sunday schools and charity schools in her parish. To ... was inspired to write The Œconomy of Charity, which describes how readers ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- more than fifty-one houses of Sisters of Charity were established to serve ... by Roman law. In the United States, the practice was first introduced in ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
