Search results for "Epistle" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The afterlife, or life after death, is a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically spiritual, experiential ...65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- Millennialism or millenarianism is a Christian belief, based on the Book of Revelation 20:1-6, that Christ will establish a kingdom on earth ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- in order to be a true church of Christ. Echoing the Epistle of James, he emphasized that "faith without works is dead," urging Christians to ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- repeated the idea, current as early as the Epistle of Barnabas, that the number ... (see "Apost. Const." iii. 17; Epistle of Barnabas, xi.-xii.; Justin ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- in his lectures on Gospel of Matthew and Epistle to the Romans, together ... of the "leading thoughts" of the Epistle to the Romans. His purpose ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- writer, while purporting to quote from the First Epistle of John, inserted a passage now known as the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7) which has often been ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- quot; in 2 Peter 2:5, and the First Epistle of Peter equates the saving power of baptism with the Ark saving those who were in it. In later Christian ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- Edward Pococke (1604 - 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- slaves to sin." (Rom. 6:6-7) The anonymous Epistle to the Hebrews portrayed Christ as the true "high priest" whose sacrifice of his own ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- against the Hasmonean priest/kings. A literary epistle published in the 1990s expresses reasons for creating a community, some of which mirror Sadducean ...18 KB (2,848 words) - 16:03, 7 December 2022
- newadvent.org/fathers/1102075.htm "Epistle to Augustine" 112.13.] Without surviving texts, it is difficult to establish exactly the ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- idols or shrines for the gods. In his First Epistle to Timothy, Paul argues that God is incomprehensible in His essence, "dwelling in the light ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
- *al-Farabi. Risala fi'l-'aql (Epistle on the Intellect), ed. M. Bouyges, Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1938. (A seminal text for ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- *[http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/barbauld1.htm "Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- * Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1972) * Forewords and Afterwords (1973, essays) * Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974; posthumous) ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- Omnipotence (literally, "all power") is power without limits. Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence only to God. In ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- In religious discourse, Inclusivism designates a particular theological position regarding the relationship between religions. This position ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- *Maimonides, Moses Maimonides.' Epistle to Yemen: The Arabic Original and the Three Hebrew Versions, ed. A. Halkin, English trans. by B ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- The Epistle to the Hebrews introduces the concept of a spiritual ablution in the sprinkling of Jesus' blood, as a counterpart to the washing ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- of Saint Ignatius; (2) St. Polycarp's own Epistle to the Philippians; (3) sundry passages in St. Irenæus; (4) the Letter of the Smyrnaeans recounting ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
