dys-
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dys- prefix in L. adoptions repr. Gr.
dus- = Skr.
dus-, Gmc. *
tus- (OE.
tō-, OHG.
zur- (G.
zer-), ON.
tor-); denoting the reverse of easy, favourable, or fortunate, used in direct derivs. from Gr. and in new (chiefly scientific) formations.
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N. T. WRIGHT AND SAUL'S MORAL BOOTSTRAPS: NEWER LIGHT ON "THE NEW PERSPECTIVE"
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...knew was not "a form of the old heresy Pelagianism, according to which humans must pull...the phrases "moral bootstraps" and "Pelagianism" is no accident. This constant repetition...thought of it as an early version of Pelagianism.4 Among other things, this agreement...
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The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...the body) and with people (e.g. Pelagianism and Augustine) also come to light...links the Origenist controversy with Pelagianism and Augustine's response. Here the...is at the heart of his struggle with Pelagianism on issues of human destiny, free will...
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Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...context that was profoundly influenced by Pelagianism. The extent of the Pelagian heresy...finding previously unknown evidence for Pelagianism. What they do is to examine literary...its argument on the significance of Pelagianism will need to be considered by all those...
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All wound up.(a catalog of seemingly useless items includes a Watch Tuner for $51.95, or $63.95 for the battery powered model)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/10/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...a Skymall catalog while waiting to deplane. Pelagius and Pelagianism regularly cross the minds of us Augustinians especially we...to keep your watch going? Augustine, the great enemy of Pelagianism, once said that he always knew what time was, until someone...
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Aquinas
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Perhaps most notably, she argues that Aquinas's doctrine of justification by faith avoids the perus of Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism and theological determinism. Her work in this area deserves-and will repay-a close and careful reading...
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Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...emerging from a cocoon spun of so many disparate strands (Pelagianism, Hellenism, Romanism, nativism) that his final discovery...continued to struggle, as did Mithraism, Druidism, and Pelagianism, resisting assimilation into a system that would destroy...
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The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...appears to deviate from Reformed teaching on grace, T. is apt to refer anachronistically to precursors of Pelagianism or semi-Pelagianism. The ideal religious figure is the prophetic sage who dares to contradict the "mercantile soteriology...
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Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the Protestant embrace as at combatting the plague of neo-Pelagianism" (p. 43) In his "Note on the Sources," flawed only...adherence to Augustinianism and to embrace a modified form of Pelagianism which remains the unofficial position of the Church today...
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Reclaiming the doctrine of sanctification
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...certain problems, including the charges of individualism, Pelagianism, and detachment from the concerns of the world. Nevertheless...certain approaches to sanctification concerns an incipient Pelagianism. From a Lutheran perspective, too great an emphasis upon...
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The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...God. "The actual principles of Manicheism, Platonism, Pelagianism, Donatism, and pagan aristocracy can be detected in the...committed to the heresies of Manicheism, Donatism, Platonism, Pelagianism, and paganism. Consider as an example a different stereotype...
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Pelagianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pelagianism , Christian heretical sect that rose...coming of Christ. The church fought Pelagianism from the time that Celestius was denied...to prevent its spread in the East. Pelagianism was condemned by East and West at the...
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Semi-Pelagianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Semi-Pelagianism see Pelagianism .
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Pelagius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...facilitates what the will can do itself. Pelagianism was condemned by the Church. Soon after...with the outbreak in North Africa of Pelagianism all occurred after Pelagius's departure...Carthaginian condemnation of Caelestius and Pelagianism. Orosius's news caused such a furor...
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John Cassian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...at Marseilles (415) and established religious houses for men and for women. He was attacked for Semi-Pelagianism (see Pelagianism ), but he was trusted in Rome. His Conferences, a record of his earlier experiences with famous abbots...
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Augustine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...Donatists, a local Christian movement, which actively opposed Roman oppression. Around 411, Augustine decided to address Pelagianism, a strong ascetically oriented movement, which Augustine felt put too little emphasis on God's saving grace in Jesus...
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