Posted in A, tagged aggression, ahimsa, augustine, battle, buddhism, catholic, catholicism, christianity, conflict, confrontation, dharma, Gandhi, ghandi, harmony, hinduism, jainism, just war, non-violence, non-violent, peace, religion, violence, war on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Mahatma Ghandi
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Ahimsa Mohandas Gandhi’s life exemplified this Jain ideal of non-violence.
Himsa means “harming.” The prefix a implies the opposite, “not-harming.”
Ahimsa is based on respect for all life. It’s believed that violence to the living merely harms self and others, binding the doer to undesirable future incarnations on Earth.
The ideal is central to [...]
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Posted in C, tagged campbell, catholicism, dogmatic, Eliade, hero, jung, myth, religion, scholarship, star wars on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987) Influential scholar and educator in world religions and mythology.
Campbell’s books and videos have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. He was well ahead of most of his peers by immediately recognizing the film Star Wars as a contemporary variant, par excellence, of the age-old hero myth.
With others like Mircea Eliade and Carl Jung, Campbell helped [...]
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Posted in C, tagged catholicism, christ, religion on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Catholicism A term used to denote the entire body of Catholic faithful along with their creeds, churches, institutions, clergy and hierarchy.
Contemporary Catholics believe that the Catholic faith follows the authentic teachings of Christ as given to the apostles and recorded in scripture, these teachings being preserved, present and developed through a legitimate and holy apostolic tradition. » Dogma, Infallibility
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Posted in C, tagged catholicism, feminism, religion, sexism on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Church Fathers The title usually given to the brightest male lights of the early Christian Church.
Influential and often learned Christian thinkers contributing to the formation of Church dogma, aspects of their writings are often cited as items of truth within the contemporary Roman Catholic Catechism.
The Church Fathers are considered exemplars of holiness and are usually beatified.
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Eucharist (Greek eucharistia = thanksgiving) A sacrament, also called Holy Communion (Catholic) and the Lord’s Supper (Protestant), in which Jesus is present under bread and wine. It is based on the New Testament account of the Last Supper, in which Jesus asks his disciples to take and eat bread and wine in order to remember [...]
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Posted in E, tagged catholicism, religion, theology on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Ex opere operato » Donatism, Eucharist
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Posted in E, tagged catholicism, Excommunication, pope on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Excommunication In Catholicism this is a separation of an individual from the saving power of the Catholic Church due to a serious theological idea or practice deemed contrary to the Church. The excommunicated may not participate in the sacraments nor associate with the community of believers. Minor excom-munications were historically conducted by local bishops for [...]
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Four Noble Truths These are the core of Buddhist teaching, said to have been outlined by the Buddha in his first discourse at Benares. They are: (1) All of life is suffering (dukkha) (2) The cause of suffering is wrongful desire, craving or thirst (tanha) (3) Suffering can be overcome by eliminating these causes (4) [...]
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Posted in F, tagged catholicism, Francis of Assisi, holy, life, medieval, mystic, poverty, religion, saint, spirit on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Francis of Assisi, St. (1181-1226) Originally Giovanni Bernadone, the son of a wealthy Italian cloth merchant, Francis was next in line to take over his father’s prosperous business. In his youth he was a popular dilettante, enjoying both friends and parties. In keeping with expectations for young upper-class men of the day, he fought in [...]
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Posted in G, tagged beauty, catholicism, God, grace, religion on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Grace The word grace has worldly and religious meanings. In everyday terms grace refers to elegance, beauty, refinement and decency. In religion it has different, often related meanings. Generally speaking, in world religions grace is some kind of favorable disposition and spiritual action of God towards a person. In Catholicism it is seen as a [...]
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