Search results for "Before Christ" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • states that Jesus descended into Hell before being resurrected in order ... usage: first, it refers to the idea that Christ descended into Hell, as expressed ...
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  • life, he is purified by the blood of Christ. Such cleansing is necessary ... will not sin. However, if they do sin, Christ atones for them. Yet, to ...
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  • urged the Colossians to remain focused on Christ, whom he characterized as ... is a "high" Christology in which Christ, rather than his Heavenly ...
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  • and proponent of the view that Christ's humanity and divinity ... Before becoming patriarch (also known as pope in Alexandrian tradition ...
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  • By these accounts, Jesus earned the title Christ through his sinless devotion ... was unacceptable. Adoptionism was common before it was first declared heresy ...
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  • nature and character as the "body of Christ," predestined from the ... statements as: "He chose us in him (Christ) before the creation of the ...
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  • "body" and "blood" of Christ. It is also known as Holy ... Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this ...
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  • Eastern Orthodox Churches. It emphasizes Christ's sacrifice—his death ... comes from the redemption offered through Christ's death on the cross ...
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  • analogy between the church and Christ, as well as husband/wife ... world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any ...
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  • He is to appear at a time in the future, before Yawm al-Qiyamah (The Day ... For some, such figures as the Anti-Christ, ad-Dajjal and their righteous ...
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  • Some consider him to represent Christ, while others believe he ... the events related to the Second Coming of Christ, also referred to as the ...
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  • encourages patience and holiness following Christ's example (3:14–4:19). ... own works, then it must have been written before the mid-second century. However ...
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  • of Nestorius, who had taught that Christ was composed of two distinct ... by insisting on "one nature" in Christ. This led to the Second Council ...
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  • the issue of how to express the concept of Christ as being both fully human ... formula that affirmed "two natures in Christ without confusion, change ...
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  • youth there, later going away to school at Christ's Hospital, a notorious ... published ten years or so later, shortly before Lamb's death. He died ...
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  • the logos (“divine nature”) and Christ (the Son, the Lord) as a ... to Mary, claiming that “Mother of Christ” was appropriate instead ...
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  • of the epistle urges believers to imitate Christ's self-emptying. In ... emphasizes following the example of Christ. Kenosis is only possible ...
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  • seventh century C.E. Its teaching was that Christ's human will was at ... centuries, Monothelitism held that while Christ had two natures (both human ...
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  • controversy over the question of whether Christ had one will or two. It condemned ... certain supposedly Nestorian writings on Christ's "two natures ...
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  • thousand-year, physical reign of Jesus Christ on earth, as espoused in ... Before the appearance of this term, it was apparently called "anti ...
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