In the order they appear in the New Testament, the Pauline epistles are:NameGreekLatinAbbreviationsFull Min.Romans Προ? Ρωμα?ου? Epistola ad Romanos Rom RoFirst Corinthians Προ? Κορ ...
The synoptic gospels are similar to John from a broad view. All are compositions in Koine Greek, of roughly similar length, completed within a century of Jesus' death. Unlike, say, the Gospel of Thoma ...
The writing of Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE ) was the first place where the word logos was given special attention in ancient Greek philosophy, although Heraclitus seems to use the word with a mea ...
The gospel identifies its author as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." Although the text does not name this disciple, by the beginning of the 2nd century, a tradition had begun to form which identified ...
The English word gloss is derived from the Latin glossa, a transcript of the Greek glossa. In classical Greek it means a tongue or language. In the course of time it was used to designate first a word ...
The central figure in the 16th-century history of the Comma Johanneum is the humanist Erasmus, and his efforts leading to the publication of the Greek New Testament. The Comma was omitted in the first ...
The bold print is the Johannine Comma. 1 John 5:7-8 Authorized King James Version7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.8. ...
One who practices exegesis is called an exegete (/??ks??d?i?t/; from Greek ?ξηγητ??). The plural of exegesis is exegeses (/?ks??d?i??si?z/). Adjectives are exegetic or exegetical ...
Originally, the Shema consisted of only one verse: Deuteronomy 6:4 (see Talmud Sukkah 42a and Berachot 13b). The recitation of the Shema in the liturgy, however, consists of three portions: Deuteronom ...
The teachings of the Bahá'í Faith hold that the love of God (philanthropia) is the primary reason for human creation, and one of the primary purposes of life. The love of God purifies human hearts a ...
Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) do not believe in the baptism of either children or adults with water, rejecting all forms of outward sacraments in their religious life. Robert B ...
Since the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist and Lutheran churches teach that baptism is a sacrament that has actual spiritual and salvific effects, certain key criteria must be complied with for ...
The English word "baptism" is derived indirectly through Latin from the neuter Greek concept noun baptisma (Greek β?πτισμα, "washing-ism"), which is a neologism in the New Testament derived fr ...
The term "disciple" is derived from the Koine Greek word mathetes, which means a pupil (of a teacher) or an apprentice (to a master craftsman), coming to English by way of the Latin discipulus meaning ...
There is near consensus among historians and Christian theologians that Paul is the author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, typically classifying its authorship as "undisputed" (see Authorship ...
