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Gospel of Thomas Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Thomas a collection of sayings, composed originally in Greek, attributed to the "living" (i.e., resurrected) Jesus. Some of the sayings were previously known from papyri discovered at Oxyrhynchus and published in the late 19th cent. The sayings are similar to those of Jesus in the... Read more
Freemasons Freemasons
Freemasonry An occult movement of the seventeenth century. Freemasonry emerged as the British form of revived gnosticism analogous to the Rosicrucian movement in Germany. While having its roots in the architectural and construction guilds of the Middle Ages, modern masonry is rooted in the... Read more
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ways there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream proverbial saying, mid 19th century; meaning that there are more ways of achieving an end that giving an opponent a glut of what they most want. (Compare the next two entries.)there are more ways of killing a dog than choking it... Read more
nominalism nominalism
nominalism in philosophy, a theory of the relation between universals and particulars. Nominalism gained its name in the Middle Ages, when it was contrasted with realism . The problem arises because in order to perceive a particular object as being of a certain kind, say a table, we must have a... Read more
Militarism Militarism
M ILITARISM William Kamman Near the turn of the twentieth century, Secretary of War Elihu Root told a Chicago audience: "We are a peaceful, not a military people, but we are made of fighting fiber and whenever fighting is by hard necessity the... Read more
Philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The mind seems to occupy a special place in the world. It is the seat of thought and feeling, of rationality and moral concern. Is it fundamentally different from the other things we find in the natural world? Is it possible for the mind to be investigated scientifically? Can one... Read more
Ignis Fatuus Ignis Fatuus
Ignis Fatuus A wavering luminous appearance frequently observed in meadows and marshy places, around which many popular superstitions cluster. Its folknames, Will o' the Wisp and Jack o' Lantern, suggest a country fellow bearing a lantern or straw torch (wisp). Formerly these lights were supposed... Read more
Eucharist Eucharist
Eucharist [Gr.,=thanksgiving], Christian sacrament that repeats the action of Jesus at his last supper with his disciples, when he gave them bread, saying, "This is my body," and wine, saying, "This is my blood." (Mat. 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; 1 Cor. 11.) Partaking is called communion. For... Read more
Synoptic Gospels Synoptic Gospels
Synoptic Gospels [Gr. synopsis =view together], the first three Gospels ( Matthew , Mark , and Luke ), considered as a unit. They bear greater similarity to each other than any of them does to John , which differs from them also in purpose. The question of the relations between the three is... Read more

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