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iconoclasm
iconoclasm [Gr.,=image breaking], opposition to the religious use of images. Veneration of pictures and statues symbolizing sacred figures, Christian doctrine, and biblical events was an early feature of Christian worship (see iconography ; catacombs ). The humanity of Christ was increasingly... Read more |
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Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture works of art exhibiting Christian themes and structures designed for Christian worship created relatively soon after the death of Jesus. Most date from the 4th to the 6th cent. AD See also Christian iconography under iconography . Earliest Works Little is... Read more |
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Christianity
Christianity religion founded in Palestine by the followers of Jesus . One of the world's major religions, it predominates in Europe and the Americas, where it has been a powerful historical force and cultural influence, but it also claims adherents in virtually every country of the world. ... Read more |
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Antichrist
Antichrist , in Christian belief, a person who will represent on earth the powers of evil by opposing the Christ, glorifying himself, and causing many to leave the faith. He will be destroyed by Jesus at the time of the Second Coming. 1 John 2.18-22; 4.3; 2 John 7; and Rev. 13. Similar ideas are... Read more |
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Junia
Junia , in the New Testament, man or woman early converted to Christianity.... Read more |
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Pseudepigrapha
Pseudepigrapha [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 BC and c.AD 200, not found in the Bible or rabbinic writings. Apocalypses are well represented in the Pseudepigrapha; those of the early Judaic period may date from... Read more |
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theology
theology , in Christianity, the systematic study of the nature of God and God's relationship with humanity and with the world. Although other religions may be said to have theologies, this is a matter of controversy within, for instance, Judaism , which holds that God is unknowable. This article... Read more |
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Missions (Religion)
MISSIONS, FOREIGN MISSIONS, FOREIGN, were the primary means by which American Christians spread their religion and worldview across cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In sending missionaries, denominations and parachurch organizations sought at various times to convert people to... Read more |
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Christianization
CHRISTIANIZATION Christianization was the acceptance of Christianity (in its Eastern Orthodox form) by the political elite of the early Rus principalities and its imposition upon the rest of the population at the end of the tenth century. The most influential decision in the process of... Read more |
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Christian Sinding
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The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America.(Book review)
...paganism, Judaism, and Islam...authentic Christianity. Writing...opposed to the Bible); practices idolatry in its worship of Mary and...theirs was a false religion...circulation of the Bible, or by ... |
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A LOCAL VIEW: 'DEEP ECOLOGY' IS FAITHFULNESS, NOT RELIGION
...states that earlier environmental...Islam, Judaism, most tribal...and even Bible-believing Christianity. Perhaps...those who "worship the Earth...stewardship isn't idolatry; it is faithfulness...I don't ... |