Oneness Pentecostals claim to hold to strict Biblical Monotheism, the belief that God is uni-personal, one single divine eternal person, although manifesting Himself in various modes or faces, in give ...
According to Sunni Islam, the orthodox understanding of theology is taken directly from the teachings of the Prophet with the understanding and methodology of his companions, sourced directly from the ...
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 ...
Larry W. Hurtado of University of Edinburgh uses the word binitarian to describe the position of early Christian devotion to God, which ascribes to the Son (Jesus) an exaltedness that in Judaism would ...
The Christian Apologists and other Church Fathers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, having adopted and formulated the Logos Christology, considered the Son of God as the instrument used by the supreme God ...
Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase elleh toledot, meaning "these are the generations," with the first use of the phrase referring to the "generations of heaven and earth" and ...
In each of Western and Eastern Christianity, four Fathers are called the "Great Church Fathers" as follows:Western Church: Ambrose (340-397), Jerome (347-420), Augustine (354-430) and Saint Gregory th ...
Since the Latin language lacks a present active participle for the verb "to be," Tertullian and other Latin authors rendered the Greek noun "ousia" (being) as "substantia," and the Greek adjective "ho ...
Pope Innocent III had always planned to gather an ecumenical council because of the limited results of the Third Crusade and the bitter results of the Fourth Crusade, which had led to the capture by L ...
The word "faith", translated from the Greek πιστι? (pi'stis), was primarily used in the New Testament with the Greek perfect tense and translates as a noun-verb hybrid; which is not adequately c ...
Pre-Christian religious mysteries Main article: Greco-Roman mysteriesThe mystery religions of antiquity were religious cults which required initiation of a "initiate" or new member before they were ac ...
The protests in Bahrain started on 14 February, and were initially aimed at achieving greater political freedom and respect for human rights; they were not intended to directly threaten the monarchy.( ...
t regime, which has been ruling Syria since 1963.Thousands of protestors gathered in Damascus, Aleppo, al-Hasakah, Daraa, Deir ez-Zor, and Hama on 15 March, with recently released politician Suhair At ...
The series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa that commenced in 2010 has become known as the "Arab Spring", and sometimes as the "Arab Spring and Winter", "Arab Awa ...
The term "Arab Spring" is an allusion to the Revolutions of 1848, which is sometimes referred to as "Springtime of the People", and the Prague Spring in 1968. In the aftermath of the Iraq War it was u ...
