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Christianity

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Abrahamic (Monotheistic)
Origin 30 to 50 CE

Christianity holds that God entered history as a particular man, Jesus of Nazareth, who was executed under Roman authority and raised from the dead, and that in doing so he reconciled humanity to God. From a movement within first-century Judaism it became the religion of the Roman Empire, the framework of medieval Europe, and through conquest, trade and mission the largest religion in the world, with roughly 2.3 billion adherents. It is also the most internally divided: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions differ on authority, sacrament and salvation while sharing a creed, and its centre of gravity has shifted decisively to Africa, Asia and Latin America.

History & Origin

Christianity traces its origin to the life, teaching, crucifixion and, in the faith of its adherents, resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth in Roman Judea in the first century.

Facts
Belief
Supreme Being
The triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one being in three persons. 1
Theology
Monotheistic: one God 1
Transgression Category
Sin, understood as thought, word, deed or omission contrary to the will of God, ranging in Catholic moral theology from venial to mortal sin. 1
Position on Sexuality
The body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it 2
Sourced to the subject's own accountChristianity has no single teaching authority, and its own major bodies already hold documented positions across the full range of this question. The Roman Catholic Church's own Catechism holds homosexual acts contrary to natural law while affirming that persons with homosexual tendencies must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity, and extends marriage to no same-sex couple. The Russian Orthodox Church's own Basis of the Social Concept names homosexuality a sinful distortion and bars anyone promoting it as a norm from work with children or youth or from military or reformatory positions. The United Methodist Church repealed its forty-year ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage at its 2024 General Conference. The Anglican Communion's own 2022 Lambeth Conference Call on Human Dignity states plainly that its forty-two provinces hold differing convictions and pastoral practices, some blessing same-sex unions and others holding marriage to be exclusively the lifelong union of a man and a woman.
Sexuality Position Detail
Christianity is governed by no single worldwide teaching authority, and its major bodies read at every point on this question today. The Roman Catholic Church's Catechism of the Catholic Church holds that homosexual acts are contrary to natural law while insisting that persons with homosexual tendencies must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity, and reserves marriage to a man and a woman. The Russian Orthodox Church's Basis of the Social Concept, adopted at its Jubilee Bishops Council in August 2000, names homosexuality a sinful distortion of human nature and bars anyone who promotes it as a norm from work with children or youth or from military or reformatory positions, reaching beyond ordination. The United Methodist Church, one of the tradition's largest global bodies, ended its forty-year ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage at its 2024 General Conference. The Anglican Communion, in its own 2022 Lambeth Conference Call on Human Dignity, states that its forty-two member provinces hold differing convictions and pastoral practices on this question, some blessing same-sex unions and others continuing to hold that marriage is exclusively the lifelong union of a man and a woman. No statement speaks for Christianity as a whole. 3
Status
Status Today
Living tradition, practised today 1
Reach
Adherents Today
2,300,000,000 4
Adherents Today
Pew Research Center's Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020 report puts the global Christian population at 2.3 billion as of 2020, about 28.8 percent of the world's population, up 122 million from 2010 even as its share of world population fell. 4
Trajectory
Membership Over Time
By 2020, the same Pew study found the global Christian population had risen by 122 million to 2.3 billion, even as its share of world population fell from 31 percent to 28.8 percent, as Sub-Saharan Africa overtook Europe as home to the largest share of the world's Christians. 7
Membership Over Time
In its December 19, 2011 Global Christianity report, Pew Research Center estimated 2.18 billion Christians worldwide as of 2010, nearly a third of the estimated 6.9 billion global population, compiled from a country-by-country analysis of about 2,400 sources including censuses and nationally representative surveys. 8
Membership Over Time
Pew's June 2025 update to its global religion modeling revised its own 2010 Christian estimate down slightly to 2.1 billion (31 percent of world population), a mild revision of the 2011 report's 2.18 billion figure for the same year, both recorded here side by side rather than one replacing the other. 7
Membership Figure As Of
2010-01-01 7
Membership Figure As Of
2011-12-19 8
Membership Figure As Of
2020-01-01 7
Basis of the Membership Figure
Independent Survey 7
Basis of the Membership Figure
Scholarly or Demographic Estimate 7
Origins
Origin Period
30 to 50 CE 1
Place of Origin
Roman Judaea and Galilee, spreading through the eastern Mediterranean 1
Founder
Jesus of Nazareth; the movement was organised by his followers after his death 1
Form of the Confession
The Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed are the two most widely shared credal statements across the branches of Christianity. 1
Practice
Practice Status
Living, and practised in varied local forms 5
Sourced to the subject's own accountChristian scripture, doctrine and worship are published and practised openly across its many branches, and most churches actively welcome outside visitors and inquirers. Some individual denominations restrict participation in specific rites, such as Communion, to their own members; that variation is recorded on the denominations themselves rather than on the religion as a whole.
Law and State
Establishment Status
Varies by Province 6
Christianity's constitutional status ranges across denominational lines from full establishment to strict separation: Costa Rica's constitution names the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Religion the religion of the State, Malta's constitution does the same, Denmark's constitution establishes the Evangelical Lutheran Church as the state supported national church, and England retains an established Church of England with the monarch as its Supreme Governor, while other Christian majority states including the United States and France maintain constitutional separation of church and state with no established Christian denomination at all.
Classification
Kind of TraditionSourced to the subject's own account
Abrahamic (Monotheistic) 5
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What Christians Hold

The claim at the centre is historical rather than philosophical: that a particular man, in a particular decade, under a named Roman governor, was executed and then raised. Almost everything else follows from what Christians make of that.

From it comes the doctrine of the incarnation, that Jesus is not a messenger about God but God present as a human being, and the Trinity, the insistence that Father, Son and Spirit are one God rather than three, which took the church four centuries and several councils to state in words most of it could accept. The Nicene Creed of 325, revised in 381, is still recited by Catholics, Orthodox and most Protestants alike, and remains the nearest thing to a shared text.

Salvation is understood as something done for humanity rather than achieved by it, though the traditions differ sharply on what is required in response: the Reformation turned on precisely that question. Scripture is the Old and New Testaments, though the canon is not identical across traditions, Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include books Protestants set aside at the Reformation.

Two rites are near-universal. Baptism marks entry; the Eucharist re-enacts the last meal Jesus ate before his death. What that meal is, a real presence, a memorial, something between, is one of the oldest and least resolved disagreements in the religion.

How It Divided

Christianity has never been one thing, and its divisions are old enough to be part of its structure rather than accidents within it.

The first came out of the christological councils. Churches that could not accept the formula agreed at Chalcedon in 451, the Coptic, Syriac, Armenian and Ethiopian traditions among them, have existed separately ever since, which makes them the oldest continuous division in the religion and considerably older than the ones Western histories usually lead with.

The second separated the Greek East from the Latin West. It is conventionally dated to 1054, when legates of the Roman see and the patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated one another, but that is a marker rather than a cause: the two halves had been drifting for centuries over the authority of the bishop of Rome, the wording of the creed, the language of worship, and the political fact of an empire that no longer held both. The sack of Constantinople by a Western crusade in 1204 did more lasting damage than the excommunications.

The third broke the Latin West itself. From 1517 the Reformation set scripture against the authority of the papacy and produced not one alternative but many, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Anabaptist, and those in turn produced more. Most of the several hundred denominations counted today descend from that fracture.

A fourth is still in progress and rarely gets a number. Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity, essentially a twentieth-century phenomenon, now claims a quarter of all Christians and cuts across the older divisions rather than adding another branch to them.

Where It Is Now

The map most people carry is a century out of date. Christianity is still the largest religion in the world at roughly 2.3 billion, but it is no longer a European one in any meaningful demographic sense.

Its growth through the twentieth century was overwhelmingly in sub-Saharan Africa, where the Christian population rose from a few million to several hundred million, and in Latin America and East and Southeast Asia. Over the same period observance collapsed across most of Western Europe, which had been its heartland for a thousand years. More Christians now live in Africa than on any other continent.

That shift is not only geographic. The forms growing fastest, Pentecostal, charismatic, and the African-initiated churches that answer to no Western body at all, are less institutional and less textual than the traditions that dominated the religion when Europe defined it, and their theological centre of gravity is markedly different.

The consequence for anyone reading about Christianity is that most general accounts describe a European religion that, statistically, no longer exists. The doctrine in the creeds is shared; the practice, the music, the authority structures and the arguments are increasingly set elsewhere.

The Mystical Tradition, and the Church's Long Unease With It

Christian mysticism is not a denomination and not a movement. It is a current running through every major branch of the religion, and it names the claim that the God spoken about in doctrine can be known directly, in this life, in a way that is not the same as reasoning correctly about him.

The vocabulary is largely settled by two figures. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, writing in Syria around 500 and taken for centuries to be an apostolic authority, gave the tradition its distinction between affirmative theology, which says what God is, and apophatic or negative theology, which proceeds by denying every predicate as inadequate and arrives at a darkness that is not ignorance. Augustine gave the Latin west its language of interiority and restlessness.

The main lines:

  • The Greek east made it doctrine rather than a specialism. Theosis, deification, is the ordinary goal of the Christian life, and hesychasm, the practice of inner stillness with the Jesus Prayer, was defended by Gregory Palamas in the fourteenth century with a distinction between God's unknowable essence and his uncreated energies, which the Orthodox churches subsequently affirmed as dogma.
  • Western monasticism produced Bernard of Clairvaux on the Song of Songs, and the Victorines, and then the fourteenth-century flowering: Meister Eckhart, whose preaching on the ground of the soul was posthumously condemned in part in 1329; Julian of Norwich, an anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love is the first book written in English by a woman; the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing; Jan van Ruusbroec in the Low Countries.
  • The Spanish sixteenth century produced Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, both of whom were investigated by the Inquisition and both of whom are now Doctors of the Church, which is a fair summary of the tradition's relationship with authority.
  • Protestantism kept it more often than is remembered: Jakob Boehme, the Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light, Pietism, and in the twentieth century Thomas Merton and Evelyn Underhill.
The recurring institutional anxiety is not hard to identify. If God can be known directly, the mediating structures (clergy, sacrament, doctrinal formulation), become in principle dispensable, and mystics have repeatedly said things that sound, out of context and sometimes in it, like a claim to be identical with God. Eckhart was condemned; Marguerite Porete was burned in Paris in 1310 for refusing to withdraw her book; Teresa was interrogated. The same church later canonised several of them and made Doctors of two.

A caution about the word. Twentieth-century writing on comparative religion, following William James, often treated mysticism as a single universal experience appearing in local costume. Recent scholarship has largely abandoned that: what a Carmelite nun and a Zen monk and a Sufi are doing are shaped by their traditions all the way down, and the resemblances are easier to assert than to demonstrate.

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Christianity Spread Map Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France French Polynesia Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guam Guatemala Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Laos Latvia Lebanon Libya Lithuania Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria North Macedonia Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Christianity Arrives in Roman Judea, Israel, 30, ArrivedChristianity Established In Rome, Italy, 40 to 313, EstablishedPauline Missions Through Asia Minor and Greece, Turkey, 46 to 57, EstablishedEdessa And Osrhoene, An Early Christian Kingdom, Turkey, 200, EstablishedThe Church of the East in Sasanian Persia, Persia, 200 to 410, EstablishedThe Decian and Diocletianic Persecutions Suppress Christianity in the Roman Empire, Italy, 250 to 311, SuppressedArmenia, The First State To Adopt Christianity, Armenia, 301, DominantThe Edict of Milan, Italy, 313, EstablishedChristianity Reaches Aksum, Ethiopia, 330, DominantThe Edict of Thessalonica, Greece, 380, DominantPatrick's Mission to Ireland, Ireland, 431 to 493, EstablishedThe Gregorian Mission To Kent, England, 597, ArrivedThe Church of the East Reaches Tang China, China, 635 to 781, ArrivedThe Huichang Suppression Of Christianity In Tang China, China, 841 to 845, SuppressedThe Cyrillo Methodian Mission to Great Moravia, Czech Republic, 863 to 885, ArrivedChristianity Reaches Scandinavia, Scandinavia, 965 to 1000, EstablishedThe Baptism of Vladimir and the Rus, Ukraine, 988, DominantTimur's Campaigns Nearly Extinguish the Church of the East, Mesopotamia, 1380 to 1405, ExtinctPortugal's Missionaries Baptize The King Of Kongo, Angola, 1491 to 1495, ArrivedIberia to the Americas, Mexico, 1492 to 1572, ArrivedAfonso I Establishes Christianity In Kongo, Angola, 1509 to 1518, EstablishedFrancis Xavier's Mission to Japan, Japan, 1549, ArrivedThe Jesuits Arrive In Brazil, Brazil, 1549, ArrivedThe Tokugawa Suppression of Christianity in Japan, Japan, 1587 to 1639, SuppressedCatholic Missions Establish New France, Canada, 1608 to 1625, EstablishedThe Pilgrims And Puritans Establish Christianity In New England, United States, 1620 to 1630, EstablishedThe Lay Founded Catholic Church In Korea, Korea, 1784 to 1785, EstablishedPersecution Suppresses Catholicism in Choson Korea, Korea, 1791 to 1886, SuppressedThe Russian Orthodox Mission Reaches Alaska, United States, 1794, ArrivedJoseph Smith Founds The Latter Day Saint Movement, United States, 1830, ArrivedThe Kakure Kirishitan Re-Emergence, Japan, 1865 to 1889, RevivedThe Church Missionary Society Arrives in Buganda, Buganda, 1877, EstablishedThe Azusa Street Revival and the Rise of Global Pentecostalism, United States, 1906 to 1915, ArrivedThe Global South Shift in Christianity's Center of Gravity, Africa, 1910 to 2010, DominantSoviet Persecution Suppresses the Russian Orthodox Church, Russia, 1917 to 1988, SuppressedPentecostalism Grows Across Latin America, Brazil, 1960, EstablishedThe Second Vatican Council Reshapes Global Catholicism, Vatican City, 1962 to 1965, EstablishedAlbania Bans All Religion Under Enver Hoxha, Albania, 1967 to 1990, SuppressedProtestant Christianity Revives In China, China, 1979, RevivedChristianity Revives In Post-Soviet Russia, Russia, 1991 to 2017, Revived

Marker size and shape show how established Christianity was there: a small filled dot for an arrival, a larger one for an established or dominant presence, and a hollow, distinct marker where it was suppressed or nearly disappeared, never simply absent.

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  1. Christianity Arrives in Roman JudeaIsrael, 30, Arrived
  2. Christianity Established In RomeItaly, 40 to 313, Established
  3. Pauline Missions Through Asia Minor and GreeceTurkey, 46 to 57, Established
  4. Edessa And Osrhoene, An Early Christian KingdomTurkey, 200, Established
  5. The Church of the East in Sasanian PersiaPersia, 200 to 410, Established
  6. The Decian and Diocletianic Persecutions Suppress Christianity in the Roman EmpireItaly, 250 to 311, Suppressed
  7. Armenia, The First State To Adopt ChristianityArmenia, 301, Dominant
  8. The Edict of MilanItaly, 313, Established
  9. Christianity Reaches AksumEthiopia, 330, Dominant
  10. The Edict of ThessalonicaGreece, 380, Dominant
  11. Patrick's Mission to IrelandIreland, 431 to 493, Established
  12. The Gregorian Mission To KentEngland, 597, Arrived
  13. The Church of the East Reaches Tang ChinaChina, 635 to 781, Arrived
  14. The Huichang Suppression Of Christianity In Tang ChinaChina, 841 to 845, Suppressed
  15. The Cyrillo Methodian Mission to Great MoraviaCzech Republic, 863 to 885, Arrived
  16. Christianity Reaches ScandinaviaScandinavia, 965 to 1000, Established
  17. The Baptism of Vladimir and the RusUkraine, 988, Dominant
  18. Timur's Campaigns Nearly Extinguish the Church of the EastMesopotamia, 1380 to 1405, Extinct
  19. Portugal's Missionaries Baptize The King Of KongoAngola, 1491 to 1495, Arrived
  20. Iberia to the AmericasMexico, 1492 to 1572, Arrived
  21. Afonso I Establishes Christianity In KongoAngola, 1509 to 1518, Established
  22. Francis Xavier's Mission to JapanJapan, 1549, Arrived
  23. The Jesuits Arrive In BrazilBrazil, 1549, Arrived
  24. The Tokugawa Suppression of Christianity in JapanJapan, 1587 to 1639, Suppressed
  25. Catholic Missions Establish New FranceCanada, 1608 to 1625, Established
  26. The Pilgrims And Puritans Establish Christianity In New EnglandUnited States, 1620 to 1630, Established
  27. The Lay Founded Catholic Church In KoreaKorea, 1784 to 1785, Established
  28. Persecution Suppresses Catholicism in Choson KoreaKorea, 1791 to 1886, Suppressed
  29. The Russian Orthodox Mission Reaches AlaskaUnited States, 1794, Arrived
  30. Joseph Smith Founds The Latter Day Saint MovementUnited States, 1830, Arrived
  31. The Kakure Kirishitan Re-EmergenceJapan, 1865 to 1889, Revived
  32. The Church Missionary Society Arrives in BugandaBuganda, 1877, Established
  33. The Azusa Street Revival and the Rise of Global PentecostalismUnited States, 1906 to 1915, Arrived
  34. The Global South Shift in Christianity's Center of GravityAfrica, 1910 to 2010, Dominant
  35. Soviet Persecution Suppresses the Russian Orthodox ChurchRussia, 1917 to 1988, Suppressed
  36. Pentecostalism Grows Across Latin AmericaBrazil, 1960, Established
  37. The Second Vatican Council Reshapes Global CatholicismVatican City, 1962 to 1965, Established
  38. Albania Bans All Religion Under Enver HoxhaAlbania, 1967 to 1990, Suppressed
  39. Protestant Christianity Revives In ChinaChina, 1979, Revived
  40. Christianity Revives In Post-Soviet RussiaRussia, 1991 to 2017, Revived
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In the Texts
1 Corinthians 13:4-7The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, love

Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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1 Corinthians 15:3-4The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionresurrection

For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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1 Enoch 1:1The Book of Enochapocalyptic

The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.

Quoted at Jude 14-15.

The Book of Enoch. translated by R. H. Charles.

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1 Enoch 6:1-2The Book of Enochthe fall of the angels

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'

The Book of Enoch. translated by R. H. Charles.

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1 John 4:8The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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1 Kings 19:11-12The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionrevelation

And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And, behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but Jehovah was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Acts 2:1-4The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionspirit and ecstasy

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Amos 5:24The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, justice

But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Daniel 7:13-14The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionapocalyptic

I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

The source of the gospel title Son of Man.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-2The Holy Bible, American Standard Versiontime and fate

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Ephesians 2:8-9The Holy Bible, American Standard Versiongrace and justification

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Exodus 20:2-3The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionlaw and commandment

I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Exodus 3:13-14The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionthe divine name

And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Galatians 3:28The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionequality

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Genesis 1:1-3The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncreation

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The opening of the Christian Bible.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Genesis 1:26-27The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncreation, humanity

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Read in Christian doctrine as the ground of human dignity and, traditionally, of the Trinity.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Genesis 12:1-3The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncovenant

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Genesis 2:7The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncreation, humanity

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Genesis 22:1-2The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionsacrifice and testing

And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Isaiah 6:1-3The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionvision and holiness

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Isaiah 7:14The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionprophecy, contested

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Quoted at Matthew 1:23 as prophecy of the virgin birth.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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James 2:17The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionfaith and works

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Jeremiah 31:33The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncovenant

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The verse from which the phrase New Testament is taken.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Job 38:4-7The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncreation, cosmos

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it? Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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John 1:1-3The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncreation, word

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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John 1:14The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionincarnation

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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John 14:6The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionsalvation

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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John 3:16The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionsalvation

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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John 8:58The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionthe divine name

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Leviticus 19:18The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, the golden rule

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Luke 10:33-34The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, compassion

But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion, and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on [them] oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Mark 1:14-15The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionkingdom and repentance

Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Matthew 22:37-39The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, love

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Matthew 28:19The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionmission and initiation

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Matthew 5:3-5The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, blessing

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

The opening of the Sermon on the Mount.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Matthew 6:9-10The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionprayer

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Matthew 7:12The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, the golden rule

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Micah 6:8The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionethics, justice

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Numbers 6:24-26The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionblessing

Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee: Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Philippians 2:6-7The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionincarnation

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Proverbs 8:22-23The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionwisdom

Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

The proof text of the Arian controversy over whether the Son is created.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Psalm 19:1The Holy Bible, American Standard Versioncreation, cosmos

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Psalm 23:1-4The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionconsolation

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Revelation 21:1-4The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionapocalyptic

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God: and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Romans 3:23-24The Holy Bible, American Standard Versiongrace and justification

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Romans 8:38-39The Holy Bible, American Standard Versionassurance

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Holy Bible, American Standard Version. translated by American Revision Committee.

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Also Functions As

Saut-d'Eau, Sacred Sites

The July pilgrimage to the waterfall is to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and to Ezili at the same time, and the doubling is the point rather than a confusion.

Source The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in HaitiLeslie G. Desmangles
The Pantheon, Sacred Sites

Consecrated as Santa Maria ad Martyres in 609, which is the reason the building survived intact when the other temples of Rome did not.

Source The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the PresentTod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones (eds.)
The Synagogues of Toledo, Sacred Sites

Both surviving synagogues of Toledo were taken as churches after the expulsions and are museums today.

Source Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd editionMichael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.)
The Umayyad Mosque, Sacred Sites

The mosque holds a shrine venerated as the tomb of John the Baptist, and Christian pilgrims visit it.

Source UNESCO World Heritage ListUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Associated With

The Garden of Eden, Realms
The Hatt-i Humayun of 1856, Religious Legal Instruments

The rescript's guarantees were addressed principally to the empire's Christian communities.

Source Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876Roderic H. Davison
The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate, Religious Events
The Imitation of Christ, Esoteric Texts
The Interior Castle, Esoteric Texts
The Law of 9 December 1905 on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Religious Legal Instruments
Source Loi du 9 decembre 1905 concernant la separation des Eglises et de l'EtatParlement de la Republique francaise
The Messianic Reading of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue, Prophecies

The reception tradition that read and preserved the messianic interpretation of the poem, from Lactantius through Constantine to Dante, distinct from the poem's own Roman origin.

Source Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones (Divine Institutes)Lactantius
The Mystical Theology, Esoteric Texts
The Pact of Umar, Religious Legal Instruments

The pact is framed as an undertaking by the conquered Christians of Syria.

Source The Caliphs and their Non-Muslim Subjects: A Critical Study of the Covenant of UmarA. S. Tritton
The Reichskonkordat, Religious Legal Instruments
Source The Catholic Church and Nazi GermanyGuenter Lewy
The Spiritual Exercises, Esoteric Texts
The Taiyuan Massacre (1900), Wars & Conflicts

The forty five victims beheaded at Yuxian's yamen were Western Protestant and Catholic missionaries and their family members, killed specifically as Christians.

Source Massacre in ShansiNat Brandt
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Religious Legal Instruments
Source Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787Thomas E. Buckley
The Walters Art Museum, Custodians & Museums
Source The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistReviel Netz and William Noel
Tituba, Historical Figures
Tonga, Countries

Almost the entire population; the monarch heads the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga and the constitution of 1875 declares the Sabbath sacred for ever.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Trinidad and Tobago, Countries

About 55 per cent of the population; the Spiritual Baptists were outlawed from 1917 to 1951 and the repeal is now marked by a public holiday.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Trinity Broadcasting Network, Organizations
Source The Story of TBN, 50 Years in the Making (Trinity Broadcasting Network)Trinity Broadcasting Network
Trinity College Dublin Library, Custodians & Museums

The library holds the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow, gospel books made in Irish monastic scriptoria.

Source The Book of KellsBernard Meehan
Uganda, Countries

About 84 per cent of the population, divided between Catholics and Anglicans with a growing Pentecostal sector; the Uganda Martyrs shrine at Namugongo draws over a million pilgrims each 3 June.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Ukraine, Countries

About two thirds Orthodox Christian, received from Byzantium in 988 through the baptism of Kievan Rus.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Unam Sanctam, Religious Legal Instruments

A papal bull defining submission to the Roman Pontiff as necessary for salvation.

Source The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300Brian Tierney
United Kingdom, Countries

The Church of England remains the state church in England, with Scotland's established church Presbyterian.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
United Religions Initiative, Organizations
Source United Religions Initiative (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
United States, Countries

Protestant affiliation below half the population; Catholics the largest single denomination at around 20%.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Uruguay, Countries

Around 40 per cent by identification with very low practice, following the complete separation of church and state enacted in 1917.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Vanuatu, Countries

About 82 per cent of the population, divided between Presbyterian, Anglican, Catholic and Seventh day Adventist churches roughly by which mission arrived first.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Vatican Apostolic Library, Organizations

The papal library of the Catholic Church, formally established by Sixtus IV in 1475 around the manuscript collections of the popes.

Source Vatican Library (New World Encyclopedia)New World Encyclopedia contributors
Vatican City, Countries

Effectively 100% Catholic; sovereign territory and administrative center of the Roman Catholic Church.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Vatican Museums, Secular Organizations
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Vatican Observatory, Secular Organizations

An institution of the Holy See.

Venezuela, Countries

Around 85 per cent by identification, with relations between the Catholic hierarchy and the state openly adversarial since 1999.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Vietnam, Countries

Catholicism, present since the seventeenth century, accounts for roughly 7 per cent of the population, one of the largest Catholic communities in Asia.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Viking Age, Historical Periods

The age closes with the conversion of the Scandinavian kingdoms.

World Congress of Faiths, Organizations
Source World Congress of Faiths (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
World Parliament of Religions, Organizations
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Worms, Cities

Site of the 1521 Diet of Worms, where Luther refused to recant.

Yale University, Secular Organizations

Yale was chartered by Connecticut Congregationalist ministers, and Yale Divinity School now trains ministers, scholars and chaplains across a wide range of Christian traditions.

Source History of the Divinity School (Yale University catalog)Yale Divinity School
Zambia, Countries

Above 95 per cent of the population; the constitutional preamble has declared Zambia a Christian nation since 1996.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
Zimbabwe, Countries

About 85% Christian, spanning Protestant, Catholic, Pentecostal and African Independent Churches.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center

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Central Rite Substances

Chrism, Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Coptic Holy Myron, Sacred Objects & Ritual Items

The myron is consecrated by the Coptic Orthodox patriarch and distributed to the churches.

Source Two Thousand Years of Coptic ChristianityOtto F. A. Meinardus
Eucharistic Bread and Wine, Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
Holy Water, Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Derived from This

Ant Hill Kids, New Religious Movements
Bogomilism, Religions

Bogomilism grew within Bulgarian Orthodox Christian society a century after Bulgaria's own conversion, and drew on Christian scripture and vocabulary, while rejecting the material creation, the Old Testament, church hierarchy and the sacraments as the work of an evil power; Byzantium answered it with formal trial and condemnation rather than treating it as an internal schism.

Source The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism (Obolensky, Cambridge, 1948)Dimitri Obolensky
Branch Davidians, New Religious Movements
Catharism, Religions

Catharism grew within Latin Christian society in the Rhineland and Languedoc and drew on Christian scripture and vocabulary, while rejecting the Old Testament creator God, the sacraments and the reality of Christ's incarnation in flesh; Rome answered it with crusade and inquisition rather than treating it as an internal schism.

Source The Cathars (Lambert, Blackwell, 1998)Malcolm Lambert
Colonia Dignidad, New Religious Movements
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, New Religious Movements
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, New Religious Movements
Peoples Temple, New Religious Movements
The Family International, New Religious Movements
The Way International, New Religious Movements
Twelve Tribes, New Religious Movements
Unification Church, New Religious Movements
Word of Faith Fellowship, New Religious Movements

Founded By

Jesus, Figures
Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)

Holidays Observed

Sunday, Days of the Week

Christian tradition keeps Sunday as the Lord's Day and the primary day of communal worship, in memory of the resurrection.

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
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F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005
  • s.v. Christianity
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Christian Liturgical Year
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Coptic Calendar
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gregorian Calendar
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Julian Calendar
  • Originated In: Galilee, Stored origin-place property on this entity, cited to this source: Roman Judaea and Galilee, spreading through the eastern Mediterranean
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2. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd edition
Holy See, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997the stated position on sexuality and its supporting detail, the Roman Catholic Church's readingthe holders' own accountView the Source
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Episcopal News Service, 2022Article body, Lambeth Conference 2022 Calls document
Quote, Article body, Lambeth Conference 2022 Calls document
As bishops we remain committed to listening and walking together to the maximum possible degree, despite our deep disagreement on these issues.
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Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 2025Report body, Christian population figures
Quote, Report body, Christian population figures
The number of Christians rose by 122 million, reaching 2.3 billion.
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5. Wikipedia, Christianity (source)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedialead paragraph
Quote, lead paragraph
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Bible and the teachings of Jesus.
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6. Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 2024
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gospel of Matthew, Stored parent-work property on this entity, cited to this source: New Testament (which belongs to Christianity)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gospel of Mark, Stored parent-work property on this entity, cited to this source: New Testament (which belongs to Christianity)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gospel of John, Stored parent-work property on this entity, cited to this source: New Testament (which belongs to Christianity)
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  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Ephesians, Stored parent-work property on this entity, cited to this source: New Testament (which belongs to Christianity)
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7. Countries with the Most Christians & Global Christian Population Change, 2010-2020
Pew Research Center, 2025
  • Membership Over Time: By 2020, the same Pew study found the global Christian population had risen by 122 million to 2.3 billion, even as its share of world population fell from 31 percent to 28.8 percent, as Sub-Saharan Africa overtook Europe as home to the largest share of the world's Christians.
  • Membership Over Time: Pew's June 2025 update to its global religion modeling revised its own 2010 Christian estimate down slightly to 2.1 billion (31 percent of world population), a mild revision of the 2011 report's 2.18 billion figure for the same year, both recorded here side by side rather than one replacing the other.
  • Membership Figure As Of: 2010-01-01
  • Membership Figure As Of: 2020-01-01
  • Basis of the Membership Figure: Independent Survey
  • Basis of the Membership Figure: Scholarly or Demographic Estimate
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Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 2011
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  • Membership Figure As Of: 2011-12-19
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Timothy Michael Law, Oxford University Press, 2013View the Source
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Christoph Baumer, I. B. Tauris, London, 2006
The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times
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Old Church Slavonic Grammar
Horace G. Lunt, Mouton de Gruyter, 2001View the Source
Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant: An Anthology
Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Peter Jeffery, A-R Editions, 1993
Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, Section XII.9: Problems of Bioethics (old.mospat.ru)
Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate, 2000Section XII.2, Non-acceptance of abortion
Quote, Section XII.2, Non-acceptance of abortion
Since the ancient time the Church has viewed deliberate abortion as a grave sin. The canons equate abortion with murder.
the holders' own accountView the Source
Church Ends 52-Year-Old Anti-Gay Stance (UM News)
Heather Hahn, UM News (United Methodist Communications), 2024the stated position on sexuality and its supporting detail, the United Methodist Church's readingthe holders' own accountView the Source
The Holy Bible
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Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005
  • s.v. Christianity
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Ethiopian Calendar
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The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
John Bowker (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997View the Source
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
David M. Eberhard, Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), SIL International, 2024View the Source
Opus Dei (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Opus DeiView the Source
Hillsong Church (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hillsong ChurchView the Source
Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ, accession 80.3.674 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 80.3.674), accession 80.3.674View the Source
Saint George and the Dragon, accession 1979.379 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint George and the Dragon (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979.379), accession 1979.379View the Source
The Raising of Lazarus, accession 1994.209 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Raising of Lazarus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.209), accession 1994.209View the Source
Joan of Arc, accession 89.21.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Joan of Arc (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 89.21.1), accession 89.21.1View the Source
Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order, accession 14.45 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14.45), accession 14.45View the Source
Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors, accession 35.31.1a-c (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.31.1a-c), accession 35.31.1a-cView the Source
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, accession 57.22 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.22), accession 57.22View the Source
Schism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious Movements
David B. Barrett, Oxford University Press, Nairobi, 1968Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Celestial Church of ChristView the Source
Saint Martin of Tours, accession 50.233.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Martin of Tours (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 50.233.2), accession 50.233.2View the Source
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata, accession 1975.1.34 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.34), accession 1975.1.34View the Source
Saint Veronica, accession 41.190.80 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Veronica (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.190.80), accession 41.190.80View the Source
Saint Michael the Archangel, accession 60.127.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Michael the Archangel (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 60.127.2), accession 60.127.2View the Source
Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel, accession 1999.520 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.520), accession 1999.520View the Source
Saint Cecilia, accession 29.100.14 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Cecilia (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.100.14), accession 29.100.14View the Source
Joseph of Arimathea from a Deposition Group, accession 17.190.769 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Joseph of Arimathea from a Deposition Group (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.190.769), accession 17.190.769View the Source
The Fall of Simon Magus, accession 66.77 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Fall of Simon Magus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 66.77), accession 66.77View the Source
Saint Joseph, accession 59.203.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Joseph (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.203.2), accession 59.203.2View the Source
Saint Stephen, accession 1981.57.2a, b (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Stephen (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.57.2a, b), accession 1981.57.2a, bView the Source
Saint Anthony of Padua, accession 43.98.13 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Anthony of Padua (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 43.98.13), accession 43.98.13View the Source
Roundel with Saint Basil the Great with a Donor, accession 32.24.39 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Roundel with Saint Basil the Great with a Donor (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 32.24.39), accession 32.24.39View the Source
Saint Ambrose, accession 1975.1.30 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Ambrose (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.30), accession 1975.1.30View the Source
The Mass of Saint Gregory, accession 1976.100.24 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Mass of Saint Gregory (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.100.24), accession 1976.100.24View the Source
Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini, accession 22.60.59 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.60.59), accession 22.60.59View the Source
The Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to Saint Clare, accession 1984.343 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to Saint Clare (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.343), accession 1984.343View the Source
The Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus, accession 21.28 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21.28), accession 21.28View the Source
Saint Benedict, accession 1976.100.21 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Benedict (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.100.21), accession 1976.100.21View the Source
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, accession 1975.1.70B (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.70B), accession 1975.1.70BView the Source
John Wesley, accession 33.30(133) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: John Wesley (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 33.30(133)), accession 33.30(133)View the Source
Pope St. Pius V, accession 09.194.26 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope St. Pius V (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 09.194.26), accession 09.194.26View the Source
King Louis IX Carrying the Crown of Thorns, accession 37.173.3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: King Louis IX Carrying the Crown of Thorns (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 37.173.3), accession 37.173.3View the Source
Pope Clement VII Besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo, accession 28.4(220) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Clement VII Besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 28.4(220)), accession 28.4(220)View the Source
George Whitefield, accession 41.88(19) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: George Whitefield (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.88(19)), accession 41.88(19)View the Source
Portrait of Menno Simons, accession 34.84.5 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Menno Simons (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 34.84.5), accession 34.84.5View the Source
Portrait of Pope Leo X, accession 51.501.7580 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Pope Leo X (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51.501.7580), accession 51.501.7580View the Source
Philip Melanchthon, accession 19.73.117 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Philip Melanchthon (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19.73.117), accession 19.73.117View the Source
Pope Pius IX Medallion, accession 2021.20.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Pius IX Portrait Medallion (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.20.1), accession 2021.20.1View the Source
John Knox, the Scottish Reformer, accession 17.3.756-1166 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: John Knox, the Scottish Reformer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.3.756-1166), accession 17.3.756-1166View the Source
S. Athanase, eveque, accession 17.50.17-371(146) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: S. Athanase, eveque (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.50.17-371(146)), accession 17.50.17-371(146)View the Source
Pope Gregory XIII, Promulger of the Gregorian Calendar, accession 12.140.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Gregory XIII, Promulger of the Gregorian Calendar (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.140.1), accession 12.140.1View the Source
Archbishop Cranmer, accession 17.3.756-1134 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Archbishop Cranmer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.3.756-1134), accession 17.3.756-1134View the Source
Ste. Patrice, eveque d'Irelande (St. Patrick, Bishop of Ireland), accession 17.50.17-371(89) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Ste. Patrice, eveque d'Irelande, St. Patrick, Bishop of Ireland (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.50.17-371(89)), accession 17.50.17-371(89)View the Source
S. Anselme, eveque de Cantorbery (St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury), accession 17.50.17-371(131) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: S. Anselme, eveque de Cantorbery, St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.50.17-371(131)), accession 17.50.17-371(131)View the Source
S. Jean Damascene (St. John of Damascus), accession 17.50.17-371(152) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: S. Jean Damascene, St. John of Damascus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.50.17-371(152)), accession 17.50.17-371(152)View the Source
Pope Pius X, accession 08.240 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Pius X (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 08.240), accession 08.240View the Source
Christ before Caiaphas, from The Small Passion, accession 19.73.183 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Christ before Caiaphas, from The Small Passion (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19.73.183), accession 19.73.183View the Source
Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll, accession 17.190.36 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Evangelist Saint Mark Writing the Gospel with His Symbol, the Lion (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.190.36), accession 17.190.36View the Source
S. Irenee et Ses Compagnons (St. Irenaeus and His Companions), accession 17.50.17-371(453) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: S. Irenee et Ses Compagnons, St. Irenaeus and His Companions (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.50.17-371(453)), accession 17.50.17-371(453)View the Source
Lucifer, accession 53.600.722 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Lucifer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 53.600.722), accession 53.600.722View the Source
Pope John Paul II, Art Institute of Chicago (Yousuf Karsh, 1979)
Art Institute of ChicagoObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope John Paul II (Art Institute of Chicago, Karsh, 1979), AIC object 186903View the Source
Virgin of Guadalupe Apparition Print, Metropolitan Museum of Art (30.82.244)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Virgin of Guadalupe with a Kneeling Man, Possibly Juan Diego (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30.82.244), accession 30.82.244View the Source
The Epiphany of the New Antichrist, Metropolitan Museum of Art (49.95.688)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Epiphany of the New Antichrist (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.95.688), accession 49.95.688View the Source
Saint Norbert and Nuns, Metropolitan Museum of Art (07.37)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Saint Norbert and Nuns (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 07.37), accession 07.37View the Source
Sanuti Showing Maps of the East to Pope John XXII, Metropolitan Museum of Art (46.58.42(70))
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Sanuti Showing Maps of the East to Pope John XXII (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 46.58.42(70)), accession 46.58.42(70)View the Source
Pope Leo XIII, Roman States, Metropolitan Museum of Art (63.350.206.126.39)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Leo XIII, Roman States (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 63.350.206.126.39), accession 63.350.206.126.39View the Source
Hildegard von Bingen, British Museum (William Marshall, 1642)
British MuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Hildegard von Bingen (British Museum, William Marshall, 1642), British Museum P_1873-0510-327View the Source
Uriel Observing Satan, British Museum (Bromley after Fuseli, 1802)
British MuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Uriel Observing Satan (British Museum, Bromley after Fuseli, 1802), British Museum P_1849-0512-241View the Source
Mir'at al-quds Folio 143, Cleveland Museum of Art (1602-4)
Cleveland Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Jesus Being Portrayed by King Abgar's Painter (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1602-4), Cleveland Museum of Art 2005.145.143.aView the Source
Portrait of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere, Cleveland Museum of Art (Berruguete, c. 1476-82)
Cleveland Museum of ArtObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (Cleveland Museum of Art, Berruguete, c. 1476-82), Cleveland Museum of Art 1916.815View the Source
Portret van Johann Heinrich Bullinger, Rijksmuseum (Desrochers, c. 1726)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Johann Heinrich Bullinger (Rijksmuseum, Desrochers, c. 1726), Rijksmuseum RP-P-1908-2698View the Source
Paus Gregorius VII, Rijksmuseum (Wolgemut Workshop, 1493)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Gregory VII (Rijksmuseum, Wolgemut Workshop, 1493), Rijksmuseum RP-P-2016-49-67-10View the Source
Paus Innocentius III ontheft Raymond VI, Rijksmuseum (Dauzats after Gue, 1842)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Innocent III Absolving Raymond VI of Toulouse (Rijksmuseum, Dauzats after Gue, 1842), Rijksmuseum RP-P-1941-216View the Source
Paus Urbanus II predikt de eerste kruistocht, Rijksmuseum (Luyken, 1683)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pope Urban II Preaching the First Crusade (Rijksmuseum, Luyken, 1683), Rijksmuseum RP-P-1896-A-19368-407View the Source
Kroning van Karel de Grote door paus Leo III, Rijksmuseum (Brend'amour, 1870)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Coronation of Charlemagne by Pope Leo III (Rijksmuseum, Brend'amour, 1870), Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-22.457View the Source
Portret van keizer Rudolf II, Rijksmuseum (Sadeler, 1609)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II (Rijksmuseum, Sadeler, 1609), Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-5031View the Source
Kroning van Paus Paulus VI, Rijksmuseum (Keystone Press Agency, 1963)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: The Coronation of Pope Paul VI (Rijksmuseum, Keystone Press Agency, 1963), Rijksmuseum RP-F-F04231View the Source
Triptych of St Cuthbert, British Museum (after Duez, 1879)
British MuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Triptych of St Cuthbert (British Museum, after Duez, 1879), British Museum P_1880-0214-188View the Source
Beda, Liber Chronicarum, Rijksmuseum (Wolgemut/Pleydenwurff workshop, 1493)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Beda, Liber Chronicarum (Rijksmuseum, Wolgemut/Pleydenwurff workshop, 1493), Rijksmuseum RP-P-2016-49-85-1View the Source
Sint Nicolaas, Rijksmuseum (S. & W. Koene, 1757-1830)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Sint Nicolaas (Rijksmuseum, S. & W. Koene, 1757-1830), Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-78.300View the Source
Thomas a Kempis Maria met het Christuskind aanbiddend, Rijksmuseum (Serwouters, 1626)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Thomas a Kempis Adoring Mary and the Christ Child (Rijksmuseum, Serwouters, 1626), Rijksmuseum RP-P-1886-A-10524View the Source
Portret van de heilige Johannes van het Kruis, Rijksmuseum (van Lochom, 1611-1647)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Saint John of the Cross (Rijksmuseum, van Lochom, 1611-1647), Rijksmuseum RP-P-1908-2143View the Source
Portret van paus Pius IV, Rijksmuseum (Frans Huys, 1559-1562)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of Pope Pius IV (Rijksmuseum, Frans Huys, 1559-1562), Rijksmuseum RP-P-1881-A-4800View the Source
Johannes Cassianus, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
RijksmuseumObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Portrait of John Cassian (Rijksmuseum, atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493), Rijksmuseum RP-P-2016-49-82-3View the Source
Reverend Jonathan Edwards, Art Institute of Chicago (Abner Reed, 1808)
Art Institute of ChicagoObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Reverend Jonathan Edwards (Art Institute of Chicago, Abner Reed, 1808), Art Institute of Chicago 2013.845View the Source
Kirishitan (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Japan's Kirishitan Persecution, 1614 to 1639View the Source
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Diana Preston, Walker & Company, 2000Opposed By: Boxer Rebellion
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation
Robert M. Utley, Yale University Press, 2004Opposed By: Wounded Knee Massacre
Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa
Angana P. Chatterji, Three Essays Collective, New Delhi, 2009Opposed By: Kandhamal (Odisha) Anti-Christian Violence (2007 to 2008)
Final Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday Attacks
Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks, Government of Sri Lanka, Government of Sri Lanka, 2021Opposed By: The 2019 Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Bombings
On Christian Martyrdom in Japan, 1597 to 1658 (Osswald)
Cristina Osswald, Hipogrifo: Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 927 to 947, 2021Opposed By: Japan's Kirishitan Persecution, 1614 to 1639
Massacre in Shansi
Nat Brandt, Syracuse University Press, 1994Opposed By: The Taiyuan Massacre (1900)
Gospel of Luke (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gospel of Luke, Lead states it is one of the New Testament canonical GospelsView the Source
Acts of the Apostles (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Acts of the Apostles, Lead pairs it with Luke as part of the New Testament two-volume workView the Source
Epistle to Titus (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Titus, Lead states it is one of the pastoral epistles in the New TestamentView the Source
Epistle to Philemon (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Philemon, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Epistle to the Hebrews (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hebrews, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Epistle of James (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: James, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
First Epistle of Peter (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: 1 Peter, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Second Epistle of Peter (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: 2 Peter, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
First Epistle of John (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: 1 John, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Second Epistle of John (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: 2 John, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Third Epistle of John (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: 3 John, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Epistle of Jude (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Jude, Lead states it is a New Testament epistleView the Source
Book of Revelation (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Revelation, Lead states it is the final book of the New TestamentView the Source
Simon Kimbangu (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Simon Kimbangu, Infobox: religion
Quote, Reveres: Simon Kimbangu, Infobox: religion
Kimbanguism, (Christianity)
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Wikipedia: Dorotheus of Gaza
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Dorotheus of Gaza, Infobox: venerated_in
    Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Churches
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Dorotheus of Gaza, Lead section
    was a Christian monk and abbot.
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Nilus of Sinai (Wikipedia)
  • Reveres: Nilus of Sinai, Infobox: venerated_in
    Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Nilus of Sinai, Infobox: venerated_in
    Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Armenian Apostolic Church
View the Source
Wikipedia: Macarius of Alexandria
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Macarius of Alexandria, Infobox: venerated_in
    Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Oriental Orthodoxy
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Macarius of Alexandria, Infobox: venerated_in
    Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Oriental Orthodoxy
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Wikipedia: Isidore of Pelusium
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Isidore of Pelusium, Infobox: venerated_in
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Isidore of Pelusium, Infobox: venerated_in
Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Catholic Churches Oriental Orthodox Churches
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Wikipedia: Jeremy Taylor
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Jeremy Taylor, Infobox: denomination
    Anglicanism
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Jeremy Taylor, Lead
    Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) was an English cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.
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Wikipedia: William Law
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: William Law, Infobox: venerated_in
    Anglican Communion
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: William Law, Lead section
    was a Church of England priest, spiritual writer, and theologian whose influence extended far beyond the circumstances that curtailed his ministry.
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Wikipedia: Faustina Kowalska
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Faustina Kowalska, Infobox: venerated_in
    Catholic Church
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Faustina Kowalska, Lead section
    was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic.
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Wikipedia: Mechthild of Hackeborn
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Mechthild of Hackeborn, Infobox: venerated_in
    Catholic Church, Anglican Communion
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Mechthild of Hackeborn, Lead section
    was a Saxon Benedictine nun known for her musical talents and spiritual revelations.
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John VIII of Constantinople (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: John VIII of Constantinople, Infobox: venerated
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: John VIII of Constantinople, Infobox: venerated
Eastern Orthodoxy
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Origen (Wikipedia)
  • Reveres: Origen of Alexandria, Infobox: school_tradition
    Neoplatonism Christian philosophy Alexandrian school
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Origen of Alexandria, Lead section
    was an early Christian theologian and ascetic.
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Clement of Rome (Wikipedia)
  • Reveres: Clement of Rome, Infobox: venerated
    Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Clement of Rome, Lead sentence
    Clement of Rome (Latin: Clemens Romanus; Ancient Greek: Κλήμης Ῥώμης, romanized: Klēmēs Rōmēs; died c. 100), also known as Pope Clement I, was the Bishop of Rome in the late first century.
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Wikipedia: Francois Fenelon
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Francois Fenelon, Lead section
    was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Francois Fenelon, Lead section
    was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
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Wikipedia: Pierre de Berulle
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Pierre de Berulle, Lead section
    was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Pierre de Berulle, Lead section
    was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman in 17th-century France.
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Wikipedia: Jeanne Guyon
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Madame Guyon, Lead section
    was a French mystic, spiritual writer, and lay teacher of prayer
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Madame Guyon, Lead sentence
    Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon, French: [gɥi.jɔ̃]; 13 April 1648-9 June 1717) was a French Christian accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Wikipedia: Blaise Pascal
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Blaise Pascal, Lead section
    and Catholic writer
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Blaise Pascal, Lead section
    was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
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Wikipedia: Thomas Muntzer
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Thomas Muntzer, Lead section
    was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Thomas Muntzer, Lead section
    was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany.
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Wikipedia: Caspar Schwenckfeld
Wikipedia
  • Reveres: Caspar Schwenckfeld, Lead section
    became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Caspar Schwenckfeld, Lead section
    Caspar (or Kaspar) Schwenckfeld (or Schwenkfeld) von Ossig (; 1489 or 1490-10 December 1561) was a German court adviser, theologian, writer, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist.
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Wikipedia: Conrad Grebel
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Conrad Grebel, Lead section
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Conrad Grebel, Lead section
was a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement
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Hesychasm (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hesychasm, Lead section
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hesychasm, Lead section
tradition in the Eastern Christian traditions of the Easter
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Christian Kabbalah (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Christian Kabbalah, Lead section
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Christian Kabbalah, Lead section
Christian Kabbalah arose during th
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Lead section
used by a Syrian or Greek monk, Christian theologian and Neoplaton
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Evagrius Ponticus (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Evagrius Ponticus, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: Evagrius Ponticus, Lead section
the Solitary (345-399 AD), was a Christian monk and ascetic from He
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Marguerite Porete (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Marguerite Porete, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: Marguerite Porete, Lead section
of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism dealing with t
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Wikipedia: Pope Innocent III
Reveres: Innocent III, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: Innocent III, Lead section
July 1216) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of
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Wikipedia: Pope Clement VII
Reveres: Clement VII, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: Clement VII, Lead section
September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the
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Johann Reuchlin (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Johannes Reuchlin, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: Johannes Reuchlin, Lead section
called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar o
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Medieval Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)
John Marenbon, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Scholasticism, Stored tradition property on this entity, cited to this source: ChristianityView the Source
The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning
Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford University Press, 1999Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Common Era, Stored associated-religion property on this entity, cited to this source: ChristianityView the Source
Athanasius Kircher (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Athanasius Kircher, Lead section
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Athanasius Kircher, Lead section
was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Martin Luther King Jr, Lead section
    was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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    King is also honored with a Lesser Feast on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church on April 4 or January 15, the anniversary of his birth.
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Antoine Court de Gebelin (reference article)
Wikipedia contributorsObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Antoine Court de Gebelin, Lead section
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was a Protestant pastor, born in Nîmes, who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom with imagined origins in Ancient Egypt in 1781.
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Venantius Fortunatus (Wikipedia)
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was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a Christian bishop who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
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John Newton (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: John Newton, Lead section
    was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist.
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    John Newton (; 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725-21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (Wikipedia)
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was an American Mainline Protestant theologian in the Reformed tradition, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.
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Rabanus Maurus (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Rabanus Maurus, Lead section
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was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia.
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Hermann of Reichenau (Wikipedia)
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was a German Benedictine monk and scholar.
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Nicetas of Remesiana (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Niceta of Remesiana, Lead section
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was an early Christian saint, writer, theologian and Bishop of Remesiana, which was then in the Roman province of Dacia Mediterranea.
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John Main (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: John Main, Lead section
    was an English Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who taught a form of Christian meditation which uses a prayer-phrase or mantra.
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    John Douglas Main OSB (born Douglas William Victor Main; 21 January 1926-30 December 1982) was an English Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who taught a form of Christian meditation which uses a prayer-phrase or mantra.
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Harold Camping (Wikipedia)
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was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist.
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Gregorio Allegri (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gregorio Allegri, Lead section
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was an Italian Catholic priest and composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer.
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Hal Lindsey (Wikipedia)
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was an American evangelical writer and television host.
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Søren Kierkegaard (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Soren Kierkegaard, Lead section
    was a Danish philosopher, Christian theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
  • Reveres: Soren Kierkegaard, Veneration
    Since Kierkegaard was raised as a Lutheran, he was commemorated as a teacher in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 11 November.
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Wikipedia, "Edward Hicks"
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was an American folk painter and distinguished Christian minister of the Society of Friends (a.k.a.
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Wikipedia: Macarius of Egypt
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Macarius of Egypt, Lead section
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was an Egyptian Christian monk and grazer hermit.
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Wikipedia: Syncletica of Alexandria
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was a Christian saint, ascetic, anchorite, and Desert Mother from Roman Egypt in the 4th century AD (c. 320-400).
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Poemen (Wikipedia)
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was a Christian monk and early Desert Father who is the most quoted Abba (Father) in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).
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Wikipedia: Serapion of Thmuis
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was an early Christian monk and bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt.
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Wikipedia: Theodore of Pherme
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Theodore of Pherme, Lead section
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was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived in the desert of Scetes in Lower Egypt during the 4th century.
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Wikipedia: C. S. Lewis
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was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian.
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Charbel Makhlouf (Wikipedia)
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was a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest.
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Bonaventure (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Bonaventure, Lead section
    was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.
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    He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV.
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Wikipedia: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Lead section
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was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher.
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Maximus the Confessor (Wikipedia)
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was a Christian monk, theologian, and Neoplatonic scholar.
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Wikipedia: Nicholas of Cusa
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was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer.
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Philip Neri (Wikipedia)
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was an Italian Catholic priest who founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a society of secular clergy dedicated to pastoral care and charitable work.
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Wikipedia: George Herbert
Wikipedia
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: George Herbert, Lead section
    was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England.
  • Reveres: George Herbert, Veneration
    In the liturgy Herbert is remembered in the Church of England and the Episcopal Church on 27 February;
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Wikipedia: Gertrude the Great
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was a German Benedictine nun and mystic who was a member of the Monastery of Helfta.
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Wikipedia: Brother Lawrence
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was a French Catholic religious brother who served at a Discalced Carmelite monastery, what is now Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes in Paris.
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Wikipedia: Sergei Bulgakov
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was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist.
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John Climacus (Wikipedia)
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was a 6th-7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.
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John Eudes (Wikipedia)
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    was a French Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as the Eudists, in 1643.
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    Eudes was canonised in 1925 and his supporters are now petitioning to have him named a Doctor of the Church.
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Wikipedia: Evelyn Underhill
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was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.
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Wikipedia: Pavel Florensky
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was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.
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Wikipedia: Thomas Traherne
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was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer.
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Angela of Foligno (Wikipedia)
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was an Italian Franciscan tertiary who became known as a mystic from her extensive writings about her mystical revelations.
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Wikipedia: Andreas Karlstadt
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was a German Protestant theologian, University of Wittenberg chancellor, a contemporary of Martin Luther and a reformer of the early Reformation.
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Wikipedia: Jean Gerson
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was a French Roman Catholic scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding influence of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance.
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Wikipedia: Bede Griffiths
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was a British Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted missionary.
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Wikipedia: John Woolman
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was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early abolitionist during the colonial era.
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Wikipedia: Balthasar Hubmaier
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was an influential German Anabaptist leader.
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Wikipedia: Miguel de Molinos
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was a Spanish Catholic priest, spiritual director, mystical writer, and the principal figure associated with the controversy later known as Quietism.
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Tikhon of Zadonsk (Wikipedia)
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was an 18th-century Russian Orthodox bishop and spiritual writer whom the Eastern Orthodox Church glorified (canonized) as a saint in 1861.
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Wikipedia: Geert Groote
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was a Dutch Catholic deacon, who was a popular preacher and the founder of the Brethren of the Common Life.
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Wikipedia: Felix Manz
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was an Anabaptist, a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, and an early martyr of the Radical Reformation.
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Wikipedia: Francisco de Osuna
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was a Spanish Franciscan friar and author of some of the most influential works on spirituality in Spain in the 16th century.
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Wikipedia: George Blaurock
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was an Anabaptist leader and evangelist.
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Wikipedia: Hans Denck
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Hans Denck, Lead section
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was a German theologian and Anabaptist leader during the Reformation.
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Wikipedia: David Joris
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was an important Anabaptist leader in the Netherlands before 1540.
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Isaac the Syrian (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Isaac of Nineveh, Lead section
    was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop of the Church of the East, and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism.
  • Reveres: Isaac of Nineveh, Lead
    Isḥaq of Nineveh (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܝܣܚܩ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: mār isḥāq d-ninwē; Arabic: إسحاق النينوي Ishaq an-Naynuwī; c. 613, c. 700), also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian (Ancient Greek: Ἰσαὰκ ὁ Σύρος), Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop of the Church of the East, and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism.
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Louis of Granada (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Louis of Granada, Lead section
    was a Dominican friar who was noted as theologian, writer and preacher.
  • Reveres: Louis of Granada, Veneration
    His beatification process has been long open with the Holy See, with his current status being venerable.
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Denis the Carthusian (Wikipedia)
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was a Roman Catholic theologian and mystic.
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John of Avila (Wikipedia)
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  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: John of Avila, Lead section
    was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church.
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    John of Ávila (Spanish: Juan de Ávila; 6 January 1499, 10 May 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church.
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Regino of Prüm (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Regino of Prüm, Lead section
was a Benedictine monk, who served as abbot of Prüm (892-99) and later of Saint Martin's at Trier, and chronicler, whose Chronicon is an important source for late Carolingian history.
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Auxentius of Milan (Wikipedia)
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was an Arian theologian and bishop of Milan.
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Paul of Thebes (Wikipedia)
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or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit and grazer, who was claimed to have lived alone
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Wikipedia: Sisoes the Great
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of Sceté or Shishoy; Coptic: ⲁⲡⲁ ϫⲓϫⲱⲓ; died 429 AD) was an early Christian desert father, a solitary monk pursuing asceticism in
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Wikipedia: Pambo
Wikipedia
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Pambo, Lead section
    day is July 18 among the Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
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    His feast day is July 18 among the Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
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Wikipedia: John the Prophet
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John the Prophet, known also as Venerable John, was an Eastern Christian hermit of the Monastery of Seridus and teacher of
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Wikipedia: Gregory of Narek
Wikipedia
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gregory of Narek, Lead section
    theologian. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic Churches and was declared a Doctor of the Church
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    He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic Churches and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis in 2015.
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Wikipedia: Richard of Saint Victor
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he was a prominent mystical theologian, and was prior of the famous Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris from 1162 until
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Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (Wikipedia)
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  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Lead section
    Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
  • Reveres: Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Lead
    She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Helena, mother of Constantine I (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Helena, Veneration
Quote, Reveres: Helena, Veneration
The Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church revere her as a saint.
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Cyril and Methodius, Wikipedia
WikipediaReveres: Cyril of Thessalonica, Veneration
Quote, Reveres: Cyril of Thessalonica, Veneration
In 1980, the first Slav pope, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia.
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Saint Malachy (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Malachy of Armagh, Veneration
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Malachy was the first native-born Irish saint to be formally canonised.
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Karel van Mander (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Karel van Mander I, Life section
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Karel van Mander had at some point become a Mennonite and was therefore a possible target of these zealots.
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Thomas of Celano (Wikipedia)
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Thomas of Celano (Italian: Tommaso da Celano; c. 1185, c. 1265) was an Italian friar of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) as well as a poet and the author of three hagiographies about Francis of Assisi.
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Charles Taze Russell (Wikipedia)
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  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Charles Taze Russell, Lead
    Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852, October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement.
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    Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852, October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement.
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Moses the Black (Wikipedia)
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Moses the Black (Coptic: Ⲙⲟⲥⲉⲥ; Greek: Μωϋσῆς ὁ Αἰθίοψ, romanized: Mōüsês ho Aithíops; Arabic: موسى الحبشي; 330-405), also known as Moses the Strong, Moses the Robber, and Moses the Nubian , was a Nubian ascetic hieromonk in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a Desert Father.
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Wikipedia: Hilarion
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Hilarion (c. 291-371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza and, in the Orthodox Church, as the Great, was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251-356).
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Wikipedia: Saint Amun
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Ammon, Amun (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ), Ammonas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμμώνας), Amoun (Ἀμοῦν), or Ammonius the Hermit (; Greek: Ἀμμώνιος) was a 4th-century Christian ascetic and the founder of one of the most celebrated monastic communities in Egypt.
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Wikipedia: Barsanuphius of Gaza
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Barsanuphius (Greek: Βαρσανούφιος, romanized: Barsanouphios; Arabic: برسانوف, romanized: Barsanūf; Italian: Barsonofio, Barsanofrio, Barsanorio; died after 543), also known as Barsanuphius of Palestine, Barsanuphius of Gaza or Barsanuphius the Great (in Eastern Orthodoxy), was a Christian hermit and writer of the sixth century.
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Wikipedia: Thomas Merton
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Louis, was an American Trappist monk, theologian, mystic, poet, and social activist.
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Wikipedia: John of Kronstadt
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John of Kronstadt or John Iliytch Sergieff (pre-reform Russian: Іоаннъ Кронштадтскій; post-reform Russian: Иоанн Кронштадтский; 31 October [O.S. 19 October] 1829-2 January 1909 [O.S. 20 December 1908]) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Wikipedia: Silouan the Athonite
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Silouan the Athonite (Russian: Силуан Афонский, romanized: Siluan Afonskiy; January 17, 1866, September 24, 1938) also sometimes referred to as Silouan of Athos, Saint Silvanus the Athonite or Staretz Silouan was an Eastern Orthodox monk of Russian origin, who was a poet and monk of the St.
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Wikipedia: Elizabeth of the Trinity
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Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), born Élisabeth Catez (18 July 1880-9 November 1906), was a French Discalced Carmelite, a mystic, and a spiritual writer.
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Wikipedia: Gerhard Tersteegen
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Gerhard Tersteegen (25 November 1697-3 April 1769) was a German Reformed lay preacher, spiritual writer, mystic, translator, and hymnist associated with Pietism on the Lower Rhine.
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Wikipedia, "Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg"
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Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg (1583-1631) was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1622 to 1631.
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Thomas Becket (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Becket ( ), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120-29 December 1170), was an English cleric and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170.
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Ezra (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Ezra, Lead
Quote, Reveres: Ezra, Lead
He is regarded as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church
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Jeremiah (Wikipedia)
Reveres: Jeremiah, Lead
Quote, Reveres: Jeremiah, Lead
he is quoted in the New Testament
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Luke the Evangelist (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Luke the Evangelist, Lead
    venerate him as Saint Luke the Evangelist
  • Reveres: Luke the Evangelist, Lead
    Since the early years of the faith, Christians have regarded him as a saint.
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John the Evangelist (Wikipedia)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: John the Evangelist, Lead
    Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle
  • Reveres: John the Evangelist, Feast day
    The feast day of Saint John in the Catholic Church
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Montanus (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Montanus, Life section
Montanus used to be a pagan priest, but converted into Christianity.
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Sabellianism (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Sabellius, Lead section
In Christian theology, Sabellianism is the belief that there is only one Person
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Wikipedia: Arsenius the Great
Wikipedia
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Arsenius the Great, Lead section
    His feast day is celebrated on May 8 in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Roman Catholic Church, though Roman Catholics kept his date on July 19 prior to the revision of the Roman Martyrology after the Second Vatican Council.
  • Reveres: Arsenius the Great, Lead
    His feast day is celebrated on May 8 in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Roman Catholic Church, though Roman Catholics kept his date on July 19 prior to the revision of the Roman Martyrology after the Second Vatican Council.
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Wikipedia: Hugh of Saint Victor
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Hugh of Saint Victor, Lead section
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1096-11 February 1141) was a German canon regular and a leading theologian and writer on mystical theology.
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Andrei Rublev (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Andrei Rublev, Lead section
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1430) was a Russian artist considered to be one of the greatest medieval Russian painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescoes.
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George Fox (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026Reveres: George Fox, Lead section
Quote, Reveres: George Fox, Lead section
George Fox (July 1624 O.S. (July-August 1624 N.S.), 13 January 1691 O.S. (23 January 1692 N.S.)) was a Christian mystic and an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
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Giordano Bruno (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Giordano Bruno, Lead sentence
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Giordano Bruno ( jor-DAH-noh BROO-noh; Italian: [dʒorˈdaːno ˈbruːno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno; February 1548-17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, Dominican friar and priest, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.
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Wikipedia: Mary of Egypt
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Mary of Egypt, Lead sentence
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Mary of Egypt, Lead sentence
Mary of Egypt (Greek: Μαρία ἡ Αἰγυπτία; Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ Ⲛⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ; Egyptian Arabic: مريم المصرية/ماريا المصرية; Amharic/Geez: ቅድስት ማርያም ግብፃዊት; Latin: Maria Aegyptiaca) was an Egyptian grazer saint said to have dwelled in Byzantine-era Palestine in the 5th century AD (in late antiquity / Early Middle Ages).
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Wikipedia: Zosimas of Palestine
WikipediaObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Zosimas of Palestine, Lead sentence
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Zosimas of Palestine (Greek: Ζωσιμᾶς; Arabic: زوسيماس الفلسطيني, romanized: Zōsīmas al-Falesṭīnī), is commemorated as a Palestinian saint.
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Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1874-24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.
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Hermas the Freedman (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hermas the Freedman, Lead sentence
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Hermas (Greek: Ερμάς) was a freedman and Christian born in Aquileia, who lived in Ancient Rome.
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CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Germany
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Principal Tradition Of: Germany, Religions
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Religions.text: Roman Catholic 24.8%, Protestant 22.6%, Muslim 3.7%, other 5.1%, none 43.8% (2022 est.)
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CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Mexico
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Principal Tradition Of: Mexico, Religions
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Religions.text: Catholic 77.7%, no religion 10.6%, other Evangelical Churches 7.5%, Jehovah Witness 1.2%; less than 1 percent: Pentecostal, Seventh Day Adventist, Historics, not specified, Latter Day Saints, other religions
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CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Brazil
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Principal Tradition Of: Brazil, Religions
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Religions.text: Roman Catholic 56.8%, Evangelical 26.9%, none 9.3%, other 4%
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CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: Ethiopia
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Principal Tradition Of: Ethiopia, Religions
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Religions.text: Ethiopian Orthodox 43.8%, Muslim 31.3%, Protestant 22.8%, Catholic 0.7%, traditional 0.6%, other 0.8% (2016 est.)
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CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive): CIA World Factbook: United States
CIA World Factbook (public-domain archive)Principal Tradition Of: United States, Religions
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Religions.text: Protestant 46.5%, Roman Catholic 20.8%, Jewish 1.9%, Church of Jesus Christ 1.6%, other Christian 0.9%, Muslim 0.9%, Jehovah's Witness 0.8%, Buddhist 0.7%, Hindu 0.7%, other 1.8%, unaffiliated 22.8%, don't know/refused 0.6% (2014 est.)
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Nicodemus (The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent)
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Nicodemus, Defence in the Sanhedrin
    He next appears ( John 7:50-51 ) in the Sanhedrim offering a word in defence of the accused Galilean ; and we may infer from this passage that he embraced the truth as soon as it was fully made known to him.
  • Reveres: Nicodemus, Relics
    The Roman Martyrology commemorates the finding of his relics, together with those of Sts. Stephen, Gamaliel, and Abibo, on 3 August.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent): Rome
The Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent)Principal Tradition Of: Rome, Significance of Rome
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The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact that it is the city of the pope .
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas
Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyObjects and Practices of This Tradition: Thomism, Introduction
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Thomism, Introduction
It is fair to say that, as a theologian, Thomas is one of the most important in the history of Western civilization, given the extent of his influence on the development of Roman Catholic theology since the 14th century.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Augustine
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Branches: Augustinianism, Introduction
    He integrated ideas from Platonic philosophy with Christian theology, using both reason and faith to articulate an ethics for loving God and neighbor.
  • Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Augustinianism, Introduction
    He integrated ideas from Platonic philosophy with Christian theology, using both reason and faith to articulate an ethics for loving God and neighbor.
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John Coltrane (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026Reveres: John Coltrane, Lead
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Decades after his death, Coltrane remains influential, and he has received numerous posthumous awards, including a special Pulitzer Prize, and he was canonized by the African Orthodox Church.
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Peter Abelard (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Peter Abelard, Lead, third paragraph
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In Catholic theology, Abelard was condemned for his teaching on the Trinity.
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Gustaf Aulén (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Gustaf Aulén, Lead, first sentence
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Gustaf Emanuel Hildebrand Aulén (15 May 1879-16 December 1977) was the Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden, a Lutheran theologian, and the author of Christus Victor, a work which still exerts considerable influence on contemporary theological thinking on the atonement.
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William Paley (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: William Paley, Lead, first sentence
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William Paley (July 1743-25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, philosopher, abolitionist and utilitarian.
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Avvakum (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Avvakum, Lead, first sentence
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Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/1621-14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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David Lipscomb (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: David Lipscomb, Lead, first sentence
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David Lipscomb (January 21, 1831, November 11, 1917) was a minister, editor, and educator in the American Restoration Movement and one of the leaders of that movement, which, by 1906, had formalized a division into the Church of Christ (with which Lipscomb was affiliated) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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Wikipedia (Russian): Аввакум Петров
Wikipedia (Russian)Reveres: Avvakum, Lead, sentence beginning В старообрядчестве на протяжении
Quote, Reveres: Avvakum, Lead, sentence beginning В старообрядчестве на протяжении
В старообрядчестве на протяжении всей его истории являлся авторитетной и знаковой фигурой и почитается как священномученик и исповедник .
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Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Lead, first sentence, sentence beginning Nikon (Russian: Ни́кон, Old spelling:
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Lead, first sentence, sentence beginning Nikon (Russian: Ни́кон, Old spelling:
Nikon (Russian: Ни́кон, Old spelling: Нїконъ), born Nikita Minin (Никита Минин; 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1605-17 August [O.S. 7 August] 1681) was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from 1652 to 1666.
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Hugo Grotius (Wikipedia)
Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hugo Grotius, Lead, second paragraph, sentence beginning Additionally, his contributions to Arminian
Quote, Objects and Practices of This Tradition: Hugo Grotius, Lead, second paragraph, sentence beginning Additionally, his contributions to Arminian
Additionally, his contributions to Arminian theology helped provide the seeds for later Arminian-based movements, such as Methodism and Pentecostalism; Grotius is acknowledged as a significant figure in the Arminian-Calvinist debate.
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