Righteousness in this article refers to the important theological concept in Judaism and Christianity. In one sense, it is an attribute of God whereby he is said to be holy and righteous. In another sense it refers to the righteousness of man; either his inherent righteousness (or the lack thereof), or his potential right standing before God or as being "judged" or "reckoned" as righteous by God (as the patriarch Abraham was in Genesis). Righteousness - Etymology. The English word ri ...

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• Righteousness - Etymology
• Righteousness - Righteousness in the Hebrew Bible
• Righteousness - Hebrew Definition of Righteousness
• Righteousness - Righteousness in the New Testament

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Righteousness, Righteousness - Etymology, Righteousness - Righteousness in the Hebrew Bible, Righteousness - Hebrew Definition of Righteousness, Righteousness - Righteousness in the New Testament

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The New Testament continues the Hebrew Bible's tradition of the ethical (1 Thessalonians 2:10) and legal (1 Corinthians 4:4) aspects of righteousness, but adds the element that Jesus embodies righteousness, (Acts 3:14). According to the NT, Jesus came to the world to address the needs, not of "the righteous", but of "sinners," (Mark 2:17). Righteousness, like the Kingdom of Heaven, is God's gift through grace, (Matthew 5:6, 6:33). Paul of Tarsus speaks of two ways, at least in theory, to achieve righteousness: through the Torah, the l ...

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Righteousness, Righteousness - Etymology, Righteousness - Righteousness in the Hebrew Bible, Righteousness - Hebrew Definition of Righteousness, Righteousness - Righteousness in the New Testament

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Tzadik - צדיק (plural: Tzadikkim) is the Hebrew word for "righteous one", and is a title which is generally given to those whom are considered to be righteous such as a spiritual master or Rebbe. The root of the word Tzadik, is Tzedek (צדק), which means justice or righteousness. Tzadik - Characteristics of a Tzadik. In classic Jewish thought, there are various definitions of a Tzadik. According to Maimonides (based on Tractate Yevamot of the Babylonian Talmud, 49b-5 ...

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• Tzadik - Characteristics of a Tzadik
• Tzadik - The hidden Tzadik or Lamedvavnik
• Tzadik - Miracle workers
• Tzadik - Becoming a Tzadik
• Tzadik - The relationship between God and a Tzaddik

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• Christian perfection - The Doctrine in Scripture
• Christian perfection - The Doctrine in Church History
• Christian perfection - The Doctrine in Wesley
• Christian perfection - The Doctrine in Hymnody
• Christian perfection - Post-Wesley developments

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This article is concerned with Biblical poetry, specifically poetry in the Hebrew Bible. The question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the ancient Hebrews themselves. That the ancient Hebrews perceived there were poetical portions in their literature is shown by their entitling songs or chants such passages as Exodus 15:1-19 and Numbers 21:17-20; and a song or chant ("shir") is, according to the primary meaning of the term, poetry. Biblical po ...

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• Biblical poetry - Characteristics of Ancient Hebrew Poetry
• Biblical poetry - Rhyme
• Biblical poetry - Unusual forms
• Biblical poetry - Parallelism
• Biblical poetry - Quantitative rhythm
• Biblical poetry - Accentual rhythm
• Biblical poetry - The Dirges
• Biblical poetry - Anadiplosis
• Biblical poetry - Acrostics
• Biblical poetry - Division of the poetical portions of the Hebrew Bible
• Biblical poetry - Poems that deal with events
• Biblical poetry - Didactic poems
• Biblical poetry - Lyrics
• Biblical poetry - Poems that urge action
• Biblical poetry - Extent of Poetry in the Old Testament

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• Salvation - Christian views of salvation
• Salvation - Catholicism
• Salvation - Protestantism
• Salvation - Evangelical Christians
• Salvation - Eastern Christianity
• Salvation - New Testament passages
• Salvation - Other passages
• Salvation - Islam
• Salvation - Hinduism
• Salvation - Buddhism
• Salvation - Pagan

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Repentance is the feeling and act in which one recognizes and tries to right a wrong, or gain forgiveness from someone that they wronged. In religious contexts it usually refers to repenting for a sin against God. It always includes an admission of guilt, and also includes at least one of: a solemn promise or resolve not to repeat the offense; an attempt to make restitution for the wrong, or in some way to reverse the harmful effects of the wrong where possible. In Biblical Hebrew, the idea of repentance is represented by two verbs: שוב shuv (to r ...

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• Repentance - In the Hebrew Bible
• Repentance - The view of the Biblical prophets
• Repentance - In Judaism
• Repentance - In Christianity
• Repentance - The nature of repentance
• Repentance - How repentance is produced
• Repentance - In Islam

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Who is a Jew? (Hebrew: ?מיהו יהודי) is the name of the religious, social and political debate on the exact definition of which person can be called Jewish. As Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, a religion, an ethnicity, and a culture, the definition of who is a Jew may vary, depending on whether a religious, sociological, or national approach to identity is used. "Who is a Jew?" has also become a well-known rhetorical question within Judaism, referring to a cultural and religious battle to define who ...

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• Who is a Jew? - Perspectives
• Who is a Jew? - Within the Jewish community
• Who is a Jew? - In liberal secular societies
• Who is a Jew? - In societies with race laws or traditions
• Who is a Jew? - In modern Israel
• Who is a Jew? - The controversy
• Who is a Jew? - Three basic disputes
• Who is a Jew? - Religious definitions
• Who is a Jew? - Traditional Halakhic perspective
• Who is a Jew? - Perspective of Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism
• Who is a Jew? - Jews who have practiced another faith
• Who is a Jew? - Conversion to Judaism
• Who is a Jew? - Definitions in the State of Israel
• Who is a Jew? - Israeli rules for aliyah creates Israelis but not Jews
• Who is a Jew? - Israeli laws governing marriage and divorce
• Who is a Jew? - Israeli definition of nationality
• Who is a Jew? - Secular Israeli views
• Who is a Jew? - Other approaches to Jewish identity
• Who is a Jew? - Anti-Semitism and the definition of Jew
• Who is a Jew? - Views of secular philosophers
• Who is a Jew? - Sociological and anthropological approaches
• Who is a Jew? - Non-religious ethnic definition
• Who is a Jew? - Half-Jewish

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Roughly one third of the Bible is widely regarded to contain passages which claim to foretell events and mandate conditions on future activities, focused primarily on the people and nations of the Middle East, and on the Messiah. This foretelling, or prophecy, is widely distributed within the King James Version for example, including the Torah and New Testament. Bible prophecy can be categorized into either declarations of actions God ...

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• Bible prophecy - Views of Bible prophecy
• Bible prophecy - Modern perspectives
• Bible prophecy - Classifications of Biblical prophecy

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• Paul of Tarsus - Life
• Paul of Tarsus - Early life
• Paul of Tarsus - Conversion and early teachings
• Paul of Tarsus - Consultations with the Apostles
• Paul of Tarsus - Founding of churches
• Paul of Tarsus - Arrest Rome and later life
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul's trip to Rome imprisonment and death
• Paul of Tarsus - Theological teachings
• Paul of Tarsus - Social views
• Paul of Tarsus - Writings
• Paul of Tarsus - The Legendary tradition
• Paul of Tarsus - Alternative views
• Paul of Tarsus - Christianity as mystery religion
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul as usurper of the Apostles
• Paul of Tarsus - Gnostic
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul as inclusionist
• Paul of Tarsus - New Perspective on Paul
• Paul of Tarsus - Agent of Rome?
• Paul of Tarsus - Notes

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God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being ascribed by many religions to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. Conceptions of God vary widely, despite the common use of the same term for them all. God - Definition. God - Concept of God. In many Western religions, God is usually said to have a specific and clearly defined relationship to, and interest in, the happenings of this world and the lives of those in it. Metaphors for God's relationship t ...

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• God - Definition
• God - Concept of God
• God - Attributes of God
• God - Etymology
• God - Capitalization
• God - Names of God
• God - History of monotheism
• God - Theology
• God - Conceptions of God
• God - Abrahamic conceptions
• God - Conceptions of God in Hinduism
• God - Christian Monism
• God - The Ultimate
• God - Aristotelian definition of God
• God - Modern views
• God - Notes and references
• God - Popular Culture

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There are a number of basic Jewish principles of faith that one is expected to uphold in order to be said to be in consonance with the Jewish faith. However, unlike most Christian denominations, the Jewish community has never developed any one binding catechism. A number of formulations of Jewish beliefs have appeared, though there is some dispute over how many basic principles there are. Rabbi Joseph Albo, for instance, in Sefer Ha-Ikkarim counts three principles of faith, while Maimonides lists thirteen. While some lat ...

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• Jewish principles of faith - Jewish principles of faith
• Jewish principles of faith - Monotheism
• Jewish principles of faith - God as Creator of the universe
• Jewish principles of faith - God is One
• Jewish principles of faith - God is all-powerful
• Jewish principles of faith - God is personal and cares about humanity
• Jewish principles of faith - Names of God
• Jewish principles of faith - The Nature of God
• Jewish principles of faith - To God alone may one offer prayer
• Jewish principles of faith - Scripture
• Jewish principles of faith - The words of the prophets are true
• Jewish principles of faith - The status of Moses
• Jewish principles of faith - The origin of the Torah
• Jewish principles of faith - Holy Books
• Jewish principles of faith - Reward and punishment
• Jewish principles of faith - Israel chosen for a purpose
• Jewish principles of faith - The messianic age
• Jewish principles of faith - The soul is pure at birth
• Jewish principles of faith - History and development
• Jewish principles of faith - No formal text canonized
• Jewish principles of faith - Gaining converts
• Jewish principles of faith - Is faith necessary?
• Jewish principles of faith - Belief in the Oral Law
• Jewish principles of faith - Belief in the Medieval era
• Jewish principles of faith - Maimonides' 13 principles of faith
• Jewish principles of faith - Principles of faith after Maimonides
• Jewish principles of faith - The Enlightenment
• Jewish principles of faith - Holocaust theology
• Jewish principles of faith - Dogma in Judaism

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The Amidah ("Standing"), also called the Shemoneh Esreh ("The Eighteen"), is the central prayer in the Jewish liturgy that observant Jews recite each morning, afternoon, and evening. It is also part of the additional ( Musaf) service, which is held after the morning Torah reading every Shabbat and on Biblical holidays. As the prayer par excellence, it is sometimes designated as simply "Tefillah" (prayer) and consists of a series of blessings, originally 18 in number for daily worship, hence "Shemoneh Esreh." The n ...

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• Amidah - Prayers in the weekday Amidah
• Amidah - Concluding Benedictions
• Amidah - Changes to the Amidah
• Amidah - Ancient changes
• Amidah - Modern changes
• Amidah - Shorter form used on the Sabbath
• Amidah - Mode of prayer
• Amidah - Changes in winter
• Amidah - Linguistic sources
• Amidah - Biblical sources
• Amidah - Apocrypha of Ben Sira
• Amidah - History of the Amidah
• Amidah - Edited by Gamaliel II.

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Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה; also transliterated as Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is the collective corpus of Jewish rabbinic law, custom and tradition. Like the religious laws in many other cultures, Judaism classically drew no distinction in its laws between religious and non-religious life. Hence, Halakha guides not only religious practices and beliefs, but numerous aspects of day-to-day life. Historically, Halakha served many Jewish communities as an enforceable avenue of civil and religious law. In the mo ...

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• Halakha - Terminology
• Halakha - The scope of Halakha
• Halakha - The laws of the Torah
• Halakha - Categories of law
• Halakha - Sin: violation of Jewish law
• Halakha - Gentiles and Jewish law
• Halakha - The sources and process of Halakha
• Halakha - Eras of history important in Jewish law
• Halakha - The thirteen rules by which Jewish law was derived
• Halakha - How Halakha is viewed today
• Halakha - Flexibility within the Halakha
• Halakha - Codes of Jewish law

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The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. Such traditions often consider the soul both immortal and innately aware of its immortal nature, as well as the true basis for sentience in each living being. The concept of the soul has strong links with notions of an afterlife, but opinions may vary wildly, even within a given religion, as to what happens to the soul after death. Many wi ...

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• Soul - Etymologies
• Soul - Philosophical views
• Soul - Socrates and Plato
• Soul - Aristotle
• Soul - Religious views
• Soul - Bahá'í beliefs
• Soul - Buddhist beliefs
• Soul - Christian beliefs
• Soul - Hindu beliefs
• Soul - Islamic beliefs
• Soul - Jainist beliefs
• Soul - Jewish beliefs
• Soul - Other religious beliefs and views
• Soul - Science and the soul
• Soul - Materialistic Science and the Soul
• Soul - Scientific approaches for study of a non-material soul
• Soul - Other uses of the term
• Soul - Movie
• Soul - External references and links

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A mantra is a religious syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language. Their use varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra. They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words and vibrations that instill one-pointed concentration in the devotee. Other purposes have included religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or eliminate enemies. Mantras originated in India with Vedic Hinduism and were later adopted by Buddhists and Jains, now popular in various modern forms of spiritual practice which are loosely b ...

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• Mantra - Introduction
• Mantra - Mantra in Hinduism
• Mantra - Mantra Japa
• Mantra - Some Hindu mantras
• Mantra - Lead me from Ignorance to Truth
• Mantra - Hare Krishna Maha Mantra
• Mantra - The shanti mantras
• Mantra - Universal prayer
• Mantra - Other examples
• Mantra - The Hindu Bija Mantra
• Mantra - Remarks
• Mantra - What is Dharma?
• Mantra - The Significance of the Symbol Om
• Mantra - Mantras and Prayers
• Mantra - Kirtan and Bhajan
• Mantra - Vedic Conception of Sound
• Mantra - Mantra in Buddhism
• Mantra - Mantra in Shingon Buddhism
• Mantra - Mantra in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
• Mantra - Om mani padme hum
• Mantra - Some other mantras used by Tibetan Buddhists
• Mantra - Mantra in other traditions or contexts

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• Protestant Reformation - History and origins
• Protestant Reformation - Roots and precursors: 14th Century and 15th Century
• Protestant Reformation - 16th century
• Protestant Reformation - Humanism to Protestantism
• Protestant Reformation - Religious Influences for the Reformation
• Protestant Reformation - The Radical Reformation
• Protestant Reformation - Lutheranism adopted by the German Territorial Princes
• Protestant Reformation - English Reformation
• Protestant Reformation - Political Reformation
• Protestant Reformation - Early Puritan Movement
• Protestant Reformation - Resources
• Protestant Reformation - Scholarly secondary resources
• Protestant Reformation - Primary sources in translation
• Protestant Reformation - Online Resources

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Religion (see etymology below) —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine; and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken ...

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• Religion - Etymology
• Religion - Religion and science
• Religion - Philosophy and metaphysics
• Religion - Esotericism and mysticism
• Religion - Spirituality
• Religion - Myth
• Religion - Approaches to the study of individual religions
• Religion - Methods of studying religion subjectively in relation to one's own beliefs
• Religion - Methods of studying religion objectively in a scientific and religiously neutral fashion
• Religion - Development of religion
• Religion - Religion today
• Religion - Approaches to relating to the beliefs of others
• Religion - Exclusivism
• Religion - Inclusivism
• Religion - Pluralism
• Religion - Syncretism
• Religion - Universalism
• Religion - Systemization
• Religion - Religion and other approaches to forming beliefs about the nature of the universe
• Religion - Related philosophical stances
• Religion - Compare with

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The article Judaism and Christianity compares and contrasts two closely related Abrahamic religions that are in some ways parallel to each other and in other ways fundamentally divergent in theology and practice. Whereas the article on the Judeo-Christian tradition emphasizes continuities and convergences between the two religions, this article emphasizes that Judaism and Christianity each have widely diverging views of their respective relationship to the other, and of elements they have in common, such as the Bible and God. Including:

• Judaism and Christianity - Neither religion is monolithic
• Judaism and Christianity - Raison d'être of the religion
• Judaism and Christianity - The nature of religion: national versus universal
• Judaism and Christianity - Concepts of God
• Judaism and Christianity - Understanding of the Bible
• Judaism and Christianity - Sin and Original Sin
• Judaism and Christianity - Faith versus good deeds
• Judaism and Christianity - Love
• Judaism and Christianity - Abortion
• Judaism and Christianity - War violence and pacifism
• Judaism and Christianity - Judgement
• Judaism and Christianity - Capital punishment
• Judaism and Christianity - Heaven and Hell
• Judaism and Christianity - The Messiah
• Judaism and Christianity - Catholic views
• Judaism and Christianity - Eastern Orthodox views
• Judaism and Christianity - Jewish views
• Judaism and Christianity - Evangelism
• Judaism and Christianity - Miscellaneous
• Judaism and Christianity - Mutual views
• Judaism and Christianity - Common Jewish views of Christianity
• Judaism and Christianity - Common Christian views of Judaism

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