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- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
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- | name = Paul | class = vcard | pretitle = Part of a series of articles on | title = Paul in the Bible ...1 KB (176 words) - 22:14, 29 January 2024
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... While the letter is addressed from Paul, many scholars today doubt ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles ... While Paul is traditionally recognized as the author of 1Timothy, ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth century ... he uses Plotinus' well-known analogy of a sculptor’s cutting away ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament ... The primary theme of Ephesians is the church, its basic nature and ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- is a book in the New Testament, written by Paul the Apostle. Paul's most ... Paul also asks the Corinthians to renew their efforts to collect a ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 16:52, 10 February 2024
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of ... According to the New Testament, John came from a family of fisherman ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human ... anthropology seeks to understand the nature of the human being through its ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian ... was permissible under the doctrine of Christian freedom from the ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... including the Acts of Thomas, the Acts of Paul (and Thecla), the Acts ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- disciples of Jesus. Together with the Acts of Paul, it is considered one ... * Acts of Paul and Thecla ==References== * Bremmer, Jan N. The Apocryphal ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve ... by Jesus, who reportedly gave him the keys of heaven and called him the ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion ... collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. They consist ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The son of Agrippa I ... the right to name the important post of high priest of Jerusalem. Agrippa ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular ... ==Vacancy of the Holy See== In the context of the papacy, sede vacante ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson ... but suffered several dramatic changes of fortune until the ascension ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- have even suggested that James the brother of Jesus (and perhaps Jesus himself ... has led to divergent interpretations of the Nazirites among Talmudic ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... a later writer who was not a direct disciple of Jesus. Its date has been estimated ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- The Epistle of Barnabas, also known as Pseudo-Barnabas, is a Christian ... Today, it is included in most collections of the Apostolic Fathers. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament ... #039;s sins, superseding the sacrifices of the "old covenant" ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- #039;s will remains free under the action of divine grace. Molina developed ... One of the most controversial thinkers in the history of Catholic ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- [[Image:Ponzo illusion.gif|250px|thumb|right|An example of the Ponzo ... The Ponzo illusion is an optical illusion where a pair of converging ...4 KB (658 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- meanings. The first describes the members of the early Christian movement ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency ... The classical approximation of the force of friction, known as Coulomb ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical ... was done by the original author as a sign of the authenticity of the translation ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of ... As part of the canon of the New Testament, they are foundational texts ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of ... Most Christian denominations accept the doctrine of infant baptism ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- by God to spread the "good news" of the Christian message to the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either ... The practice of confession in the Judeo-Christian tradition goes back ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, whose ... still a child, mostly due to his uncle Paul Janet, a professor of philosophy ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ... ==Kant and the transcendental unity of apperception== "Transcendental ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...15 KB (2,501 words) - 03:45, 31 July 2022
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ... Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating extensive financial ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
- ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions ... Ablutions of one sort or another are practiced in nearly every religious ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament attributed ... The dating of this epistle has proved very difficult. Commentaries ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- The Apocalypse of Peter or Revelation of Peter is an example of popular ... the Revelation of Peter along with the Acts of Paul and the Shepherd of Hermas ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 06:02, 11 August 2023
- affirms that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. ... who live under the visible representative of Christ. However, there are ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul ... There is also the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla. However, scholars ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... a reed or a fipple. A woodwind may be made of any material, not just wood ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... stories on these themes, such as the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Parable ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... who settled among the Jews. The Book of Leviticus thus commands: "The ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Didymus, meaning "Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus ... the nations. While Saints Peter and Paul were said to have brought ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Throughout his adult life, Hancock gave of himself tirelessly to the cause ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin to be canonized ... Claims of her intervention began almost immediately upon her death ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- "a time in between," a moment of undetermined period of time ... Kairos time is usually perceived as a time of crisis. With this in ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Ficino introduced the concept of the immortality of the soul into ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- In Christianity, a gospel is generally one of four canonical books ... been printed in the Bible is not the order of their composition, and that ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- | name = History of Christianity | title = History of Christianity | bodyclass = hlist | state = autocollapse ...11 KB (1,221 words) - 01:35, 2 August 2022
- " Traditionally, the office of deacon originated in the selection ... Saint Lawrence, and Saint Francis of Assisi. Others became powerful ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- 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
- In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by ... Positive and negative signs of work indicate whether the object exerting ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 03:50, 9 November 2022
- The Eucharist is a sacramental or memorial reenactment of the Last ... Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church and ... throughout the world, despite the objections of small groups of traditionalists ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- :This article is about the Gnostic Valentinus. For the martyr of the ... he professed a neo-Platonic version of gnostic theology, stressing ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... those that can no longer be observed because of the destruction of the Temple ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- ], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of ... derives from the Greek name for Shavuot, one of the three Jewish Pilgrimage ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Influenced by the philosophy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. Based ... He entered the University of West Virginia at the age of fifteen, ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 07:17, 5 October 2022
- ) is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (c. 50–160 ... "Let there be placed among the spurious works the Acts of Paul ...25 KB (3,964 words) - 14:24, 29 January 2024
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- spelled Halacha) is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including ... Halakha. Reflecting the cultural diversity of Jewish communities, slightly ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- The Third Council of Constantinople, also known as the Sixth Ecumenical ... for opposing Monothelitism during the reign of Emperor Constans II. ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- teacher who efficiently perfected the art of composition as well as becoming ... entire family converted to the religion of his grandfather, Judaism, and ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning ... hearted approach to interpreting the spirit of the law, Hillel and his followers ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- a Christian Apostle and the younger brother of Saint Peter. He was renowned ... It is also held that Andrew founded the See of Byzantium in 38 C.E ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as described ... "On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- to reveal a plot and the personalities of characters on stage to the ... Massenet was born in Montaud, then an outlying hamlet and now a part ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- like John Prine and Steve Goodman, each of whom, like Van Zandt, regularly ... country musicians and was an integral part of the Texas musical culture which ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ... Organized crime takes advantage of social conditions or laws, such ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 10:42, 11 March 2023
- According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person ... 'was searching') for the Kingdom of God" (Mark 15:43), and ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2024
- The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- is engaged in the ministry and leadership of religious group. Within the ... Members of holy orders, as leaders of their religious communities ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- together" or "council") is an assembly of 23 ... The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing ... *Acts of Paul and Thecla *Acts of John ==References== * Bremmer, Jan ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... it manifests in certain interpretations of the concepts of the Chosen ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... biblical gospels in that the resurrection of Jesus plays no part in it, ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- Commedia dell'Arte (Italian: "The art of comedy") is ... status. In a similar way, universal forms of entertainment have continued ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- [[Image:london.bankofengland.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Bank of ... The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, and ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...24 KB (3,632 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family ... sound, the saxophone is the result of its inventor's realization ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- for one's actions. The concept of autonomy is also found in education ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Male Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes some or all ... it include that circumcision is a form of ritual sacrifice or offering ...30 KB (4,501 words) - 22:23, 10 December 2023
- Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins ... Ancient Jewish religion involved rites of priestly sacrifice of animal ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- The historicity of Jesus concerns the historical authenticity of Jesus ... of biblical scholars argue that Jesus never existed as a historical ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- quot;the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος ... and Roman Catholic Christianity, all of which celebrate his memory ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 18:10, 31 January 2023
- Leo Tolstoy he was nevertheless a writer of considerable accomplishment ... Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famous family of Count ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- that serve the spiritual aspirations of its adherents, and mark dispensational ... defines a sacrament as “an outward sign of an inward (invisible) grace ...20 KB (3,310 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- their substance into the body and Blood of Christ. The doctrine of Transubstantiation ... The doctrine of Transubstantiation was criticized or misinterpreted ...30 KB (4,681 words) - 02:14, 2 May 2023
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- – February 3, 1959), was the stage name of Charles Hardin Holley, an American ... Holley and Ella Pauline Drake, the youngest of four boys. The Holleys were ...11 KB (1,803 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of ... lift, a push, or a pull. A familiar example of force is the weight of an object ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... Folk rock had antecedents in the labor movement of the 1930s, notably ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Veneration of Saint Barbara was common from the ninth century until ... Today Barbara is perhaps best known as the patron saint of artillerymen ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until his death ... but he is most noted for his "Theory of Objects" (Über Gegenstandstheorie ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea province from 26 -36 C.E. He ... Although sometimes portrayed sympathetically because of his reported ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 20:06, 9 April 2023
- and which cannot be explained in terms of another interaction. Currently ... In the conceptual model of fundamental interactions, matter consists ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 09:25, 18 October 2022
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...23 KB (3,516 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- known for his novels, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... father’s regiment was disbanded on the day of Sterne’s birth, and within ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2022
- during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the leading French artists ... language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore ... The son of Herod the Great, Antipas ruled as a client king of the ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 14:56, 12 February 2022
- and is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ... Sexual behavior is related to the very purpose of human existence: ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- clear and forceful singing, his powerful use of the 12-string guitar, and the ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a ... In the case of a rigid body, the position of its center of mass is ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... but beneficial event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment, available to ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars ... Crosby's recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes. Cumberland ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal ... Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- observation statements, and judgments of perception have also been used ... A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the ... The text of the Book of Obadiah is singularly focused on one theme: ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of ... After the huge success of "Blue Suede Shoes," Perkins was ...15 KB (2,405 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- In physics, the angular momentum of an object rotating about some ... The concept of angular momentum is important in physics because it ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the hermeneutic ... Normale Supérieure, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre. Afterwards Merleau ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- by the belief that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true ... Broadly speaking, there are two schools of Inclusivist thought: ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Under normal conditions of room temperature and pressure, it is a ... can significantly increase the power output of automobile internal combustion ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- often referred to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music." Bluegrass ... his brother Charlie in the 1930s, as one of the Monroe Brothers. Bluegrass ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance ... flips, and other tricks to entertain large groups of people. ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- cultivator that works the soil by means of rotating tines or blades. Rotary ... tillers have been used to clean the exterior of oilfield pipes and to prepare ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:27, 16 December 2022
- was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, Bedfordshire), in ... He preferred to face and endure years of imprisonment at great sacrifice ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
- The original group (1967-1976) consisted of Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel ... the time, has become a much-covered classic of the era. ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Church ... inhabited," and was originally a figure of speech referring to the territory ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation ... The biblical prophets used various forms of divination in reading the future ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide of iron). Objects with such properties ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... for modern philosophy. The great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ... Suicide occurs for any number of reasons, often relating to depression ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was ... Rome, it continued to enjoy a high degree of autonomy as a client-state ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- these tended to focus more on the lives of saints), are among the earliest ... The Catholic church eyed mystery plays warily. Until the beginning ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient ... Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. The Greek Old ...31 KB (4,479 words) - 22:23, 7 January 2024
- and Beelzebus) was reportedly the name of a deity worshiped in the Philistine ... In the Old Testament, the Israelite king Ahaziah inquired of Ba‘al ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican ... many letters to popes and men and women of influence for peace between ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated ... penalty ordained in England for the crime of treason. It is considered by ...18 KB (2,928 words) - 19:19, 14 August 2020
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- regarded as the "Founding Father" of the Hudson River School, an ... His historical and allegorical paintings of the 1820s and 1830s gave ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- It is a time of somber reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation ... from foods and festivities, and by other acts of penance. Historically, ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- was a British general and commander in chief of the British North American ... Gage was born in Firle, England the second son of the first Viscount ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart ... From its first incarnation as the Manhattan Opera House, home of Oscar ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
- French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- (the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. Gregory ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ... Constantius II to immigrate with part of his flock of converts to Moesia ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... Due to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo (1475-1564), the ...23 KB (3,674 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... Hard rock became a template of society and reflected the many views ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo ... whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ... speech represented a milestone in his work of turning the United States away ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- Saint Agnes (291–304 C.E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the ... Traditionally, Agnes was martyred for her faith during the persecution ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical developments ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- that can form or replace fossils. The resulting fossils, though not ... Opals range in quality from gemstone, composed of tightly arranged ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- Cream was a 1960s British rock band consisting of bassist/vocalist ... "Strange Brew" and "Tales of Brave Ulysses." Cream ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy ... origins are more likely to be found in image of Jesus associated with the Eastern ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- Roman Catholic Church elects a new Bishop of Rome (Pope) at a time when ... In the early centuries of Christianity, the bishop of Rome (like other ...41 KB (6,415 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was a ... theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness a bit too ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo ... The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (located in western part of Turkey ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- themes from the spiritual tradition of Judaism. Malamud's stories ... schoolhood friends. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin's comedies ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- telegraphy traffic. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- , Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) (Alternative transliterations of ... musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- "Salvation is the Lord) is one of the greatest prophets of the ... seventh century B.C.E., he advised several of the kings of Judah. He warned ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name "Devil ... The Hebrew Bible does not assign this level of personification to ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ... Thuringia in Saxe-Altenburg, the son of a painter in a porcelain factory ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Forms of nonviolence draw inspiration from both religious or ethical ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... jurisdiction, may include execution, loss of liberty, government supervision ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... exclusion, expropriation, and extermination of Jews. In the decades after ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- The phrase Son of God is a title that was applied to different figures ... Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- history. The innovative music and style of John Lennon (1940–1980), ... The Beatles popularity led the "British Invasion" of United ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- " referring to the academic title of Master of Theology that he ... Meister Eckhart can be considered a symbol of the intellectual spirit ...18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
- novel and signaled his emergence as one of the world's great writers ... original creation. Torn in two (the root of his name, "raskol' ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England ... due to the uncertain political situation of the time. His father was executed ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment ... Their warm-up routine, done to the tune of Brother Bones' whistled ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 09:11, 19 January 2024
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople ... Catholic Church as a saint and a Doctor of the Church. Churches of the ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... from the copyright holder. A violation of the terms of [http://en.wikipedia ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- Apostolic succession refers to the Christian practice of appointing ... Due to the sacramental theology of these churches, only bishops and ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny ... current affairs and on events in the worlds of show business and of celebrity ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 19:16, 3 August 2022
- church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals ... (seat or chair), and refers to the presence of the bishop's or archbishop ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the ... and joined a Carmelite convent at the age of 15. Never a physically strong ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like ... and first appeared in a newspaper on June 14 of the same year. It was written ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- The Gospel of Mary is an ancient Christian text rediscovered by scholars ... Two Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary were discovered (Papyrus ...15 KB (2,491 words) - 18:05, 27 December 2022
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- was an American-born French entertainer, and international star of ... 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald. Her father ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Although this ... 20 kHz) is caused by the middle ear, which acts as a low-pass filter. Ultrasonic ...27 KB (3,908 words) - 11:29, 18 April 2023
