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  • Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, some forms ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...
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  • by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...
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  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...
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  • Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin ... John Calvin's international influence on the development of the ...
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  • philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known for ... Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle ...
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  • most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...
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  • Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic-American ... As an actress, she pushed the envelope on what was acceptable in terms ...
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  • Country Music Association's performer of the year in 1971| ... prison term in the 1960s, Haggard became one of the giants of country music ...
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  • reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...
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  • religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...
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  • his close contemporary Homer, Hesiod is one of the oldest poets in the Western ... accumulated around Hesiod. Unlike the case of Homer, however, some biographical ...
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  • commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written primarily in ... The Zohar is considered to be the greatest work of Jewish mysticism ...
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  • and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ... skepticism toward the totalizing nature of "metanarratives" ...
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  • Concluding that a rational explanation of God and the meaning of life ... He regarded novels and dramas as a means of learning about life. His plays ...
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  • – June 9, 1870) was an English novelist of the Romantic and Victorian ... even political leaders have pointed out, one of the most politically revolutionary ...
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  • :This article is about the Gnostic Valentinus. For the martyr of the ... he professed a neo-Platonic version of gnostic theology, stressing ...
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  • a renowned "halakhist" (teacher of Jewish law). During the catastrophic ... that there is no contradiction in the idea of empty space or an infinite ...
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  • The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house ...
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  • Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... administrator, who enjoyed the respect of his men. Most of those whom ...
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  • The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... Originally used as a term of derision, the origin of the name Huguenot ...
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