It is not possible that the Gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are. For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is scattered throughout all the world, and the "pillar and ground" of the Church is th...
Each time I readBlood Meridian, I seem to notice a new theme or motif. Upon this close read, I was struck by the repeated use of the number eight in the text — and the conspicuous absence of any mention of eight inA Reader’s Guideor any other analysis I am familiar with, so I ...
William Tyndale was important because he translated the Bible into English so that others could read it and understand it. He was an important part of the Protestant Reformation and contributed a significant number of words and phrases to the English language that are still in use today.William...
Tetragrammatonby Francisco Goya: “The Name of God”, YHWH in triangle, detail from fresco Adoration of the Name of God, 1772 Three is the first number to which the meaning “all” was given. It is The Triad, being the number of the whole as it contains the beginning, a middle and ...
We've considered resurrection in the Old and New Testaments, studied the events of Jesus' resurrection on the third day, and examined the convincing proofs that Jesus is indeed risen from the dead. But those things are past events. What does the resurrection mean to us now?
“Their theories on the one hand admit the status of the author and the original text, and on the other hand they also confront the personal involvement of translator in his or her work.”(陈燕敏,13) But how to keep balance between the authors’ authorities and translators’ freedom is ...
The Expo has finally come to China. A largely forgotten event in most parts of the world, it has been rejuvenated, on a scale in which no other country could even dream of. A record number of 192 countries and 50 organizations have registered, the highest in the Expo’...
A.With careful conservation of the ships and their contents, shipwreck should always be recovered. B.The Swedish warship Vasa at Stockholm and the Mary Rose at Portsmouth are good examples to reveal ship design and building. C.In exceptional cases, the excavations of wrecks which are not under...
of thedoctrineof Mary can be traced through titles that have been ascribed to her in the history of theChristiancommunions—guarantee of theIncarnation, virgin mother, secondEve, mother of God, ever virgin, immaculate, and assumed intoheaven. She has a number of feast days in various ...
The subject matter of the discipline is treated in a number of other articles. For a survey of systematic interpretations of thedivineor sacred,seeagnosticism;atheism;deism;dualism;monotheism;nature worship;pantheism;polytheism;theism; andtotemism. For a survey of major theological concerns within part...