Gregory of Nyssa - Trinity. Gregory is remembered above all for two major contributions to theology. The first is his doctrine of the Trinity, a development of the theology of Basil and their mutual friend Gregory Nazianzus. Following Basil's lead, Gregory argues that the three Persons of the Trinity can be understood along the model of three members of a single class: thus, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three in the same way that Peter, Paul, and Timothy are three men. So why do we not say there are three ...

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Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nyssa - Biography, Gregory of Nyssa - Theology, Gregory of Nyssa - Trinity, Gregory of Nyssa - Infinity, Gregory of Nyssa - Stages, Gregory of Nyssa - Epektasis, Gregory of Nyssa - Writings

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Gregory, Gregory - Translations, Gregory - People, Gregory - Others

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Atonement - 1 - Christus Victor. Irenaeus, Eastern Orthodox Church, some Lutherans Origen, Gregory of Nyssa Atonement - 2 - Moral Influence. Pierre Abélard & Atonement (Moral influence view) Atonement - 3 - Satisfaction. Substitutionary atonement & Atonement (Satisfaction view) Anselm of Canterbury & Salvation in Catholicism

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Atonement, Atonement - Atonement theories in Christianity, Atonement - 1 - Christus Victor, Atonement - 2 - Moral Influence, Atonement - 3 - Satisfaction, Atonement - 4 - Governmental

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Events November 7 - Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the corn fleet from sailing to Constantinople. Synod of Tyre. Samudragupta succeeds Chandragupta as king of the Gupta Empire. Tuoba Hena ousts Tuoba Yihuai as chieftain of Tuoba Clan. Constantine I of the Roman Empire begins construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Births Theon of Alexandria Gregory of Nyssa Deaths Chandragupta I ...

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Events Emperor Fei is dethroned as emperor of China. Emperor Jianwen is installed. Emperor Xiaowu succeeds Emperor Jianwen as emperor of China Gregory of Nyssa becomes bishop National academy of Chinese learning, called Taehak, established in the kingdom of Goguryeo. First diplomatic ties established between the Korean kingdom of Baekje and the court of Eastern Jin. Births Deaths

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Basil (ca. 330 - January 1, 379), also called Basil the Great, was bishop of Caesarea, a leading churchman in the 4th century. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers him a saint and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, together with Gregory Nazianzus and John Chrysostom. Basil, Gregory Nazianzus, and Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa are called the Cappadocian Fathers. The Roman Catholic Church considers him a saint and a Doctor of the Church. The Basilian Fathers, also known as The Congregation of St. Basil, is an international order of Roman Ca ...

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The Cappadocians are significant figures in the history of Hellenistic Christian philosophies. They were a 4th-century monastic family, led by St Makrina to provide a central place for her brothers to study and meditate, and also to provide a peaceful shelter for their mother. Abbess Makrina fostered the formation and development of three men who collectively became designated the Cappadocian Fathers, Basil the Great who was the older of Makrina's brothers and eventually became a bishop, Gregory Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa who was

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Basil was born about 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia. He came from a wealthy and pious family which gave a number of saints, including his father, also named Basil, his mother Emmelia, grandmother Macrina the Elder, sister Macrina the Younger and brothers Gregory of Nyssa and Peter, who became Bishop of Sebaste. Some church historian presumed Theosebia was his youngest sister, who is also a saint among the Eastern Orthodox. While still a child, the family moved to Pontus; but he soon returned to Cappadocia to live with his mother's rela ...

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Basil of Caesarea, Basil of Caesarea - Life, Basil of Caesarea - Writings, Basil of Caesarea - Reference

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In the Bible, mammon is personified in Matthew, vi, 24, and Luke, xvi, 13, the latter verse repeating Matthew, vi, 24. In some translations, Luke, xvi, 9, 11 also personifies mammon; but in others, it is translated as 'dishonest wealth' or equivalent. In some spanish versions, it is said as "Mamón", but in others, as "Dinero". Early mentions of mammon appear to stem from the personification in the Gospels, e.g. Didascalia, "Do solo Mammona cogitant, quorum Deus est sacculus"; and Saint Augustine, "Lucrum Punice Mammon dicitur" (Serm. on Mt., ii). Gregory of Nyssa also asserted ...

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To Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Jews there were male and female demons (Jewish demons were mostly male, but Lilith was female). In Christian demonology and theology, although the belief in incubi and succubi is accepted, the matter of the sexuality of the demons is not so easy. Gregory of Nyssa (4th century), as well as Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (17th century), believed in male and female demons. Authors who believed in demons of opposite sex assigned them a heterosexual tendency, even adult men seducing adolescent boys by means of pederasty; the only de ...

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Sexuality in Christian demonology, Sexuality in Christian demonology - The sexuality of demons, Sexuality in Christian demonology - Lust in demons, Sexuality in Christian demonology - Demons and sexual relations

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Most world religions condemn abortion on demand, though most do consider abortion acceptable under very limited circumstances: Anglicanism: [1]. Buddhism: [2] Catholicism:[3] (abortion is always morally prohibited and laws that permit abortion are unjust) Hinduism:[4] Islam: [5] Judaism: [6][7] Sikhism:[8] Likewise, some atheists are also opposed to abortion.[9][10] Abortion, Abortion Law, Morality and legality of ab ...

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• Religion and abortion - Eastern Orthodox
• Religion and abortion - Protestant
• Religion and abortion - Mormonism
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• Religion and abortion - Islam
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• Religion and abortion - Orthodox Judaism
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In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon or demoness is a supernatural being that has generally been described as a malevolent spirit but outside Christian circles was viewed as a sort of elemental spirit: compare daemon and djinn. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may be conjured and insecurely controlled. The "good" demon in recent use is largely a literary device (eg: Maxwell's demon). In common language, "demonizing" one's opponent is an aspersion. As the Indo-Iranian Avestan and Vedic traditions and also other branches of Indo-European mythologies show, the not ...

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• Demon - The King and Queen of Demons
• Demon - In the New Testament and Christianity
• Demon - In Christian myth and legend
• Demon - War in Heaven
• Demon - Demonologies
• Demon - In pre-Islamic Arab culture
• Demon - In Islam
• Demon - In Hinduism
• Demon - Demons in other cultures and religions
• Demon - Demons in Hellenistic Neopaganism
• Demon - In art literature and television
• Demon - In science
• Demon - In games
• Demon - External link

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This article is about the history of Christianity and anti-Semitism. Anti-Jewish sentiment has been expressed by many Christians over the last 2000 years, but many other Christians, increasingly in recent years, have also condemned these sentiments. Christianity and anti-Semitism - Early origins. There have been philosophical differences between Christianity and Rabbinical Judaism since the outset. Debates between the early Christians - who at first were all Jews - and other Jews initially revolved around the ques ...

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• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Early origins
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Assimilation
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the New Testament
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Church Fathers
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Later Christian writers
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Jews' expulsion from England
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Jews' expulsion from Spain
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Christians in Nazi Germany
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Collaborating Christians
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Opposition to the Holocaust
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Comparisons between Nazi Germany and early Christian states' policies with regards to Jews
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Reasons that anti-Semitism continued
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - 19th- and 20th-century Christian anti-Semitism
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The White Power movement
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in modern-day nations
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Current attempts to convert Jews to Christianity
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Reconciliation between Judaism and Christian groups
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Kevin MacDonald's theory of Christian anti-Semitism

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Chris ...

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• Trinity - Scripture and tradition
• Trinity - Baptism as the beginning lesson
• Trinity - Key scriptural texts cited by trinitarians
• Trinity - Ontology of the Trinity
• Trinity - Historical view and usage
• Trinity - One God
• Trinity - God exists in three persons
• Trinity - Orthodox Roman Catholic and Protestant distinctions
• Trinity - Historical development
• Trinity - Dissent from the doctrine
• Trinity - Other views of the Trinity
• Trinity - Theory of pagan origin and influence
• Trinity - Christian life and the Blessed Trinity
• Trinity - Similarities in the 16th-century Jewish Kabbalah
• Trinity - In popular culture

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Apocatastasis is a Greek word that means: 1) Restoration, re-establishment, renovation 2) Return to a previous condition 3) (Astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution. Apocatastasis has a special meaning in the Christian theology: it is the doctrine of the ultimate reconciliation of good and evil. Apocatastasis maintains that all moral creatures -- angels, humans, and devils -- will eventually come to a harmony in God's kingdom. It is based on the ...

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The term purgatory is generally defined as "the means by which the elect reach perfection before entering into the Kingdom of Heaven". The term purgatory in accordance with Catholic teaching, is "a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions." [1] Among many theories on purgatory are: the main Catholic theory, discussed below; the main Protestant belief in ...

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• Purgatory - Christian spirituality
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• Purgatory - Eastern Orthodox theology
• Purgatory - Jewish theology
• Purgatory - Zoroastrian view
• Purgatory - Islamic view
• Purgatory - Purgatory in literature
• Purgatory - Footnotes
• Purgatory - Sources
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The Atonement is the central doctrine of Christianity: everything else derives from it. It is reconciliation with God, of people who have sinned. It is a concept of forgiveness and repair, based on the mercy of God, the central idea of Christianity. It attempts to explain why the sinless human being Jesus died, and in terms of the Trinity, why God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity, incarnated in human flesh as Jesus, suffered horribly and died on the cross. Especially prominent in western Christianity is the conc ...

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• Atonement - Atonement theories in Christianity
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• Atonement - 2 - Moral Influence
• Atonement - 3 - Satisfaction
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Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, "God", + λογος, logos, "word" or "reason"). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. A theologian is a person learned in theology. Theology - History of the term. The word "Theology" is derived from Hellenistic Greek, but its meaning has changed significantly through its use in the European Christian thought of the Middle ages and Enlightenment The term theologia is us ...

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• Theology - A brief history of Theologies
• Theology - Theology and religions other than Christianity
• Theology - Theology and the Academy
• Theology - Theological studies in different institutions
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The Council of Sirmium is the name primarily given to the third Council of Sirmium which marked a temporary compromise between Arianism and the Western bishops of the Christian church. In all, there were four councils held at Sirmium (now Sremska Mitrovica in the Vojvodina province of Serbia and Montenegro) between 347 AD and 359 AD of which at least three dealt primarily with the Arian issue. All of these councils were held under the rule of Constantius II who was sympathetic to the Arians. Council of Sirmium - Backgrou ...

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• Council of Sirmium - Background
• Council of Sirmium - The First and Second Councils of Sirmium
• Council of Sirmium - Third and Fourth Councils
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Constantinian shift is a term used by Anabaptist and Post-Christendom theologians to describe the gradual shift towards Christendom. This shift began in 312 when Emperor Constantine I adopted Christianity as his imperial cult after the Battle of Milvian Bridge. His legions, who were victorious, fought under the Labarum, the first two Greek letters of Christ's name. In 313 the Edict of Milan legitimized Christianity alongside other religions practiced in the Roman Empire. In 325, the First Council of Nicaea signalled consolidati ...

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