but there is an important distinction to make - a company that owns the rights to this media may produce official additional media that may not canon because the author of the original work didn't have any contribution or say in it, but it is still official because it is produced ...
"Canon" now (often, but not always) is a distinct subset of the former, although a canon can be so large as to seem (or even be) identical, depending on how questions of quality, scope, and reach are applied. A canon need not include all writing that gets over a basic definitional...
Even texts and writers who are not specifically considered canonical are measured against the broader canon for determining their literary value. What makes an author part of the literary canon? Though broadly debated, a "canonical author" is a writer whose work is stylistically excellent, is ...
“[In Philippians 1:1 Paul says,] ‘To the co-bishops and deacons.’ What does this mean? Were there plural bishops of some city? Certainly not! It is the presbyters that [Paul] calls by this title; for these titles were then interchangeable, and the bishop is even called a deacon....
and certainly not what justifies such a significantly higher price tag when compared to a photography lens of a comparable focal length and aperture. For instance, the Canon CN-E 50mm T1.3 cinema lens goes for almost $4,000, while the EF-mount 50mm f/1.4 is just about a tenth of that...
maintains that such non-traditional applications of mindfulness are acceptable and even admirable on the ground that they help alleviate human suffering, but he also cautions against a reductionist understanding of mindfulness and urges that investigators respect the religious tradition in which it is ...
Reddit threads help introverts banter like the pros or suggest ways one can boost a conversation’s banter quotient. The fictional dating app in Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso” is even called Bantr. But what is banter really? And what is it good for? Sex educator Shan Boodram, Bumble’s ...
Nibbāna is extremely subtle and hard to describe. It is not a place like heaven or paradise. The Arahants and Buddhas do not enter nibbāna when they die. Nibbāna is not annihilation of the self, since the so-called 'self' does not exist — though atta
A canon is a clergy member who serves in a cathedral or collegiate church, focusing on administrative duties and religious services, while a prebendary is a type of canon receiving a stipend known as a prebend from the church's estate. ...
False information, disinformation, and misinformation are all very easy to define as something that disagrees with conventional wisdom or a societal norm. For a long time, people used the words “politically correct.” That doesn’t mean it is correct, but that it is the acceptable position of...