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The Abyss
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Abyss (Greek, abyssos, Latin abyssus). Myths about an abyss or bottomless pit are found in most cultures.
In Judaism the abyss lies deep within the earth, a place where evil spirits of the dead are banished (Job 32:22, Psalm 6:5, 143:7).
In ancient Greece the majority of the dead retire to a gloomy [...]
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Adi Da (aka Free-John, Da 1939- ) Originally Franklin Jones, Adi Da is an American guru born in Jamaica, New York. He has also gone under the names of Da Free-John, Bubba Free-John and Heartmaster Da.
Adi Da claims to have reached enlightenment at age three years. In their Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, agape, belief, bread, bread and wine, c. s. lewis, catholic, Christian, communion, Eucharist, feast, Greece, heaven, Holy Communion, jesus christ, life, love, religion, rome, sacrament, sacraments, soul, spirit, wine on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Agape In literary circles the Greek term agapē (Latin: caritas) refers to the ideal of universal love, particularly, charitable Christian love among brothers and sisters of the human family.
As C. S. Lewis suggests in The Four Loves (1960), this is distinct from matrimonial, emotional, passionate-erotic and friendly love.
For many Christians, agape also refers to the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Apostle, apostles, Bible, christianity, freedom, jesus christ, life, religion, salvation on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Apostle (Greek: Apostolos, derived from apo [away] + stellein [to send])
The Apostles were, for the most part, ordinary folk transformed by Jesus Christ to assist and continue in his spiritual mission.
For Christians, the number twelve suggests that the apostles are a divinely chosen group since this number parallels the twelve tribes of Israel, as outlined [...]
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Posted in A, tagged aquinas, Aristotle, belief, catholic, Christian, God, Italy, jesus christ, medieval, Philosophy, reason, religion, scholastics, schoolmen, St. Thomas Aquinas, theology on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Aquinas, St. Thomas (1225-74) Italian theologian born in his family’s castle near Aquino.
While in a Dominican monastery his family members were unwilling to accept his decision and abducted him, taking him prisoner for two years.
He fled to Germany where he taught in 1248 after studying under Albertus Magnus.
His theological work borrows heavily from Aristotle, recasting [...]
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Posted in A, tagged ancient, Aramaic, assyrian, dialects, gallilean, greek, Hebrew, jesus christ, language, middle east, speech, syriac, writing on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Aramaic [from Greek Aramaios] A group of Semitic languages as old as 2,000 BCE.
Jesus Christ apparently spoke a Gallilean dialect of Old Aramaic, related to Hebrew.
In modern times the Eastern Aramaic language of Syriac (or Assyrian) is still spoken in regions of the Middle East.
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Cropped from original, “Aramaic scrıpt at Mor Ibrahim in Midyat” [...]
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Posted in A, tagged arius, catholic, christianity, God, heresy, Jesus, jesus christ, religion, spirit, theology, trinity on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Arius (c.250-c.336) Libyan Christian theologian responsible for the heresy of Arianism.
Around 319 CE he created controversy by saying that Christ is ‘divinized’ but remains subordinate to God.
For Arius, God is absolutely transcendent and cannot be present in a human being.
Although he gained some support, Arius was excommunicated in 321 by a synod of bishops at [...]
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Posted in A, tagged augustine, christianity, Cicero, cosmology, devil, discourse, ethics, God, insight, intuition, jesus christ, just war, memory, morality, Philosophy, plato, precognition, psychology, religion, saints, Satan, sin, theology, time on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Augustine of Hippo, St. (354-430) St. Augustine is one of the most influential figures in Christian history and one of the four Latin Doctors of the Catholic Church. Another theological luminary, St. Thomas Aquinas, often refers to Augustine.
In his Confessions Augustine says that prior to his conversion he was a libertine, flatterer, hedonist and dabbler in [...]
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Clairaudience is the alleged inner hearing of sound beyond the range of normal human hearing.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley notes that the term comes from the French, “clear-hearing” (Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience, 1991, p. 109).
The spiritually-inclined see clairaudience as a phenomenon well-known to saints, mystics and seers throughout the ages. Joan of Arc (1412-1431), for [...]
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Dismemberment The theme of dismemberment occurs throughout comparative mythology.
In the Hindu Artharva Veda the world is created from the sacrifice and dismemberment of the “cosmic man” (Skt. purusa). Some interpret this as the “universal self” that we ultimately must return to, past the fragmented splinters of many false and deceptive personalities and personas.
In Egyptian mythology [...]
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