According to Suidas, Lucian was born at Samosata, Kommagene, Syria, to Christian parents, and was educated in the neighbouring city of Edessa, Mesopotamia, at the school of Macarius. However, this tra ...
Reconstructing the life and doctrine of Arius has been proved to be a difficult task, as none of his original writings survive. Emperor Constantine ordered their burning while Arius was still living, ...
In the humanities and in the social sciences, the term discourse describes a formal way of thinking that can be expressed through language, a social boundary that defines what can be said about a spec ...
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hedge was the son of Harvard University professor of logic and metaphysics Levi Hedge. At the age of 12, he traveled to Germany and studied music for five years under ...
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. He was named after his mother's brother Ralph and the father's great ...
Theodore Parker was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the youngest child in a large farming family. His paternal grandfather was John Parker, the leader of the Lexington militia at the Battle of Lexin ...
Born in Breslau in the Prussian Silesia as the grandson of Daniel Schleiermacher, a pastor at one time associated with the Zionites, and the son of a Reformed Church chaplain in the Prussian army, Sch ...
Transcendentalism first arose among New England congregationalists, who differed from orthodox Calvinism on two issues. They rejected predestination, and they emphasized the unity instead of the trini ...
The eldest son of Richard Wright, he was born at Blakeney, Norfolk, on 7 February 1764. His father was a labourer; his mother, Anne (d. 11 October 1810), claimed cousinship with Sir John Fenn. A relat ...
Palaeologus was born on the Aegean island of Chios, just of the coast of Smyrna (modern Izmir in Turkey), of a Greek father and an Italian mother. Chios had been, since 1347 under the rule of the repu ...
Little is known about his place of birth. Though the common assumption is that he was born in Budne, Podlaskie Voivodeship, it's known that there were over 140 places with a similar name on the territ ...
Little is known about the life of Eusebius. His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, a work that has since been lost. Eusebius' own surviving works probably only repres ...
Origen's Greek name ?rigénēs (?ριγ?νη?) probably means "child of Horus" (from ?ρο?, "Horus", and γ?νο?, "born"). His nickname or cognomen Adamantios (?δαμ?ντιο?) derives ...
The term Ebionites derives from the common adjective for "poor" in Hebrew (singular: ???????? ev·yōn, plural: ??????? ev·yōn·im), which occurs fifteen times in the Psalms and was t ...
The seventh of eight children, James Martineau was born in Norwich, England, where his father Thomas (1764–1826) was a cloth manufacturer and merchant. His mother, Elizabeth Rankin, was the eldest da ...
