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Marduk
Marduk , ancient god of Babylonia and chief god of the city of Babylon. His cult rose to prominence in the reign of Hammurabi, and Marduk became the omniscient king of the pantheon—the creator of mankind and the god of light and life. In his various aspects he was the successor of the Sumerian... Read more |
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Puritans
Puritans Sources Covenant Theology.Covenants were important in the religious communities of the Puritans in early New England. These were solemn and binding agreements which were patterned after the covenants they believed God had made with man. In the Covenant of... Read more |
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Jonah
Jonah , prophetic book of the Bible. It tells the story of a prophet called by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. According to the Second Book of Kings, Jonah lived during the reign (c.786 BC-c.746 BC) of Jeroboam II. In the story, Jonah flees because he does not want Nineveh to be... Read more |
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Kingdom of God
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impassibility of God
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Image of God
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Lamb of God
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Assemblies of God
Assemblies of God a large group of churches comprising the second largest Pentecostal organization in the United States, founded at Hot Springs, Ark., in Apr., 1914. In doctrine the Assemblies of God affirm the basic teachings of Pentecostalism (i.e., baptism with the Holy Spirit as evidenced... Read more |
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monarchianism
monarchianism [Gr.,=belief in the rule of one], the concept of God that maintains his sole authority even over Christ and the Holy Spirit. Its characteristic tenet, that God the Father and Jesus are one person, was developed in two forms in early Christianity. Dynamistic monarchians, such as the ... Read more |
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Jesus Christ
...his followers as the Son of God. Knowledge of Jesus' life is based mostly on the...gave birth (c.4 bc) to Jesus near the end of the reign of Herod the Great in Bethlehem...bright star and other portents. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, and may... |
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Bible
...all expressing the Jewish experience of God—a literature of faith rather than of...arrangements of remembered acts and sayings of Jesus, retold with the eyes of faith specifically...and widely read at all levels in her reign. Parker, however, authorized yet another... |
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Kingdom of God
Kingdom of God. The conception of...element in the teaching of Jesus Christ. Its origins lie in the OT. God's reign was expected to bring...15) the ministry of Jesus began with the proclamation...Throughout the Synoptics, Jesus ... |
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right hand
...said to be at the right hand of God when he was enthroned (Ps. 110). The ascension of Jesus to the right hand of God (Heb. 1: 3) implies that the...now possesses sovereignty: God reigns and judges through Jesus. |
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Church
...shepherd the Church of God that he obtained with the...Latin) ecclesia.Whether Jesus intended this...to be near; not even Jesus knows when the end will...future judgement, but Jesus says that God's saving...them new content. The ... |
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salvation
...salvation Initially, God's intention to rescue...resolve to establish his reign (Isa. 52: 10). In the NT Jesus (the name is from the Hebrew...salvation, by means of the reign or kingdom of God (Matt...and resurrection of ... |
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Christology
...the end cried, ‘My God, why have you forsaken me...Palestine at the end of the reign of Herod the Great is...assertion that the man Jesus came from God to inaugurate a new relationship...fiction. The account of Jesus' shining garments is ... |
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Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ (c.6 BC–c...followers to be the Son of God, of one essence with God...sources of information about Jesus. According to them, Jesus was born at Bethlehem to...tradition a virgin, in the reign of Augustus Caesar. ... |
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eschatology
...writers who maintained that God had revealed the future...descendant of David would reign (Isa. 11: 1).Israelites...God in the preaching of Jesus, the coming of the Son...it has been held that Jesus' expectations were wholly set...the life ... |
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alpha
...Greek alphabet; in Rev. 1: 8 God is called ‘Alpha and Omega...The combination is used also of Jesus in Rev. 22: 13, meaning that Jesus was present from the beginning of creation and will reign at the End. Cf. Isa. 44: 6. |
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Messiah
...eschatological hope is expected to reign with justice and in peace (Isa...fundamental reference is to God intervening in human history by...references in the synoptics to Jesus as Messiah are scarce...the known tradition of Jesus' reluctance to use such ... |
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Law
...of the covenant in the reign of Josiah (2 Kgs. 23...merely as the mouthpiece of God, whose commandments Moses...to infringe the will of God.After the Exile the...by means of allegory; Jesus did not ‘come to destroy...not to gain favour with ... |
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Jesus, Justice and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation
Jesus, Justice and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation by William...about the third quest of the historical Jesus, this study is a valuable and needed...to the continuing assertions of the Jesus seminar and its critics. He argues... |
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Seminary in the cellblock: hanging out with the prisoners and the...
...The leaders ordered them not to speak in Jesus' name. Then they let the apostles go...an honor to suffer shame for the name of Jesus" (5:40-41). Never doubt that Brian...innocent, that comes to my mind when I read Jesus' words: "Fathers, which of you would... |
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Missions must be modelled on the biblical Jesus [Beautiful Upon the...
...modelled on the biblical Jesus Schertz, Mary H...Peace, and the Reign of God. Elkhart, Ind...revealed and modelled by Jesus of Nazareth and illustrated...announcements about the reign of God are made in ... |
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Roots & Branches INAUGURATING GOD'S REIGN.(Brief Article)
...our vision. As followers of Jesus living toward the reign of God, we cannot be seduced into thinking...in the midst of the world--Jesus' wonderful, decentralized images...nation-state but to the way of Jesus. We are called to live by the... |
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Preaching the mysteries of the reign of God.(theology studies)
...experience the reign of God, this Gospel...in the desert, Jesus bursts onto the...to his death. Jesus is called "Teacher...Christ the Son of God" (1:1...of Mark mirrors Jesus' actions in Mark...mysteries of the ... |
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Jesus: A Portrait.(Salvation for All: God's Other Peoples)(Book review)
...discusses "The Beauty of Jesus"--a reflection guided...Chapters 2 and 3 explore how Jesus made present and enacted God's kingdom or reign in word and deed. Chapters 4 and 5 illumine how Jesus' miracles "manifested the... |
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The reign of God is such as these; a socio-literary analysis of daughters in...
9780567175311 The reign of God is such as these; a socio...woman from the crowd whom Jesus calls daughter and Jairus...what they have to say about Jesus as the Son of God and Mark...and the Reign of God, and ... |
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Jesus in the Power of the Spirit.
...is the third book of C.S. Song's trilogy on the person and message of Jesus (the first two being Jesus, the Crucified People, 1989, and Jesus and the Reign of God, 1993). After serving at the WCC with the secretariat of Faith and Order... |
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[Jesus & the victory of God]
...beginning have believed that Jesus' mission culminated in the Resurrection, God's own declaration that Jesus' mission has by no means...continuity between what Jesus proclaimed (the imminent arrival of God's reign) and what ... |
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Answers to the who-is-Jesus question are rich, diverse.(Knight Ridder...
...Mainstream Christianity calls Jesus the son of God and says he was both fully...says the creator is God, Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit...Christian view says God sent Jesus to preach the inauguration of ... |
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