kiss of peace,pax- (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary,Immaculate Conception- (Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the mom...
Oriental religions were particularly successful, particularly with the Roman matrons, and gave rise to great temples such as that of the Egyptian god Isis. There was a very famous temple to Isis near the Pantheon of which the huge bronze pine cone (symbol of longevity) stands in the Vatican ...
Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously ...
Persephone is the daughter of the god Zeus and the goddess Demeter. Legend has it that she was kidnapped by Hades and also forced to marry him for what, in addition to being a goddess, she is also known as the queen of the underworld. This legend has been illustrated in numerous works ...
"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send th...
Thanatos was the ancient Greek god or personified spirit (daimon) of non-violent death. His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos (Sleep). Violent death was the domain of Thanatos' blood-craving sisters, the Keres, spirits of slaug
Aletheia (Truth) clad all in white is there and the gate of dreams (pylê oneirôn)--for those who consult the oracle must sleep--and Oneiros (God of Dreams) himself is depicted in relaxed attitude . . . ain his hands he carries a horn, showing that he brings up his dreams ...
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 ...
Logic is the art of reasoning well. In this classic logic curriculum, the authors lay the proper foundation for reasoning from the truth of God, then train students in the crucial skills of defining terms, determining the truth of statements, discerning and constructing valid arguments, identifying...
I don’t remember when I first read the book of Ecclesiastes. I first taught it at the Catholic Stonehill College. There we were free to teach Intro to Religion however we wanted, so to follow my own intellectual curiosity I made it “God in the West”. The one thing we were required...