Thomas

Thomas was not a Biblical given name, but originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin", and in the New Testament the designation was applied to Judas Thomas, "Jude the Twin" who was venerated as Saint Thomas the Apostle. The name "Thomas" was not very popular until the 12th century, after the martyrdom of Thomas à Becket. However, in recent centuries the name has lost what religious sense that it held. All the notable people who had the first name or last name of "Thomas" are too numerous to list here, see ...

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Thomas: Encyclopedia - Albert Thomas Albert Thomas may be: Albert Thomas (France), (1878-1932), French politician Albert Richard Thomas, (1898-1966), American politician Albert Thomas (Malcolm X), (1938-1986), American alleged assassin Other related archivesAlbert Thomas (France)

Thomas: Encyclopedia II - Gospel of Thomas - The philosophy of the Gospel of Thomas

The Gospel of Thomas is mystical — it emphasizes a direct and unmediated experience of the Divine. Jesus is presented as a mystagogue, a teacher of divine mysteries, though never the "saviour" as in the Gospel of John. While the emphasis in John is a balance between his miracles and his words, the emphasis here is exclusively the words of Jesus. A discovery of the interpretation of those words is what brings about enlightenment. The Gospel of Thomas records this as one of Jesus' sayings: "He who discovers the interpretations ...

Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts to a highly-educated but not rich Bostonian merchant family. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Thomas Bulfinch, who reorganized Psalms to illustrate the history of the Hebrews, is best known as the author of The Age of Fable, first published in 1855, and known since the 1880s as Bulfinch's Mythology, a ...

Thomas: Encyclopedia - Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas (born December 21, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee) is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. At the age of 17, she recorded a duet with her father Rufus Thomas, “Because I Love You,” which became a Southern hit and gave the Satellite label (later Stax Records) its first real success. In 1961 she rose to national prominence with “Gee Whiz (Look in His Eyes),” which reached the Top Ten in both the R&B and Pop categories, becoming the first Memphis soul record to have an impact nationwide and insuring the su

Thomas: Encyclopedia - Ambroise Thomas

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (Metz August 5, 1811 - ParisFebruary 12, 1896) was a French opera composer. He is best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and his Shakespearean Hamlet (1868). Thomas' father was a musician and Ambroise learned to play the piano and violin as a child. He studied under Jean-François Le Sueur at the Paris Conservatoire, and won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1832 for his cantata, Hermann et Ketty. His first opera, "La Doubl ...

Thomas: Encyclopedia - Acts of Thomas

The early 3rd century text called Acts of Thomas is arguably the most Gnostic of the New Testament apocrypha, portraying Christ as the "Heavenly Redeemer", independent of and beyond creation, who can free souls from the darkness of the world. References to the work by Epiphanius show that it was in circulation in the 4th century. The complete versions that survive are Syriac and Greek. There are many surviving fragments of the text. Scholars detect from the Greek that its original was written in Syriac, which places the Acts ...

Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Bowdler

Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, is best known as the source of the eponym bowdlerize (or bowdlerise[1]), the process of censorship by arbitrary deletion of "objectionable" material from a work of literature to "purify" it. Although the term is consistently used disapprovingly, some defend the process, either as a means of exposing children to works which might otherwise be co ...

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Thomas: Encyclopedia - Dave Thomas physicist

Dave Thomas is a physicist and mathematician, mostly known for his writings and research on the paranormal (such as UFO citings in Roswell, New Mexico and Aztec culture, as well as finding codings in other texts that dispute the credibility of the Bible Code). Thomas is currently president of the NMSR (New Mexicans for Science and Reason) and NMAS (New Mexico Academy of Science), and is also a member of the CSICOP (Commit ...

Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis. He is the most famous classical proponent of natural theology. He gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Catholic Church. He is considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest theologian and one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church. The ...

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Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk and author, born in Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales département of France. Merton wrote more than 50 books, 2000 poems, and a countless number of essays, reviews, and lectures that have been recorded and published. Thomas Merton - Background. Merton was educated in the United States and France before attending Oakham School in England. His father was an artist from New Zealand and his mother, a Quaker, was from ...

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Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian faith. Nevertheless Calvinist values remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victo ...

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Thomas: Encyclopedia - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founders of the United States. He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). A political philosopher who promoted classical liberalism, republicanism, and the separation of churc ...

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Thomas: Encyclopedia II - Thomas Cajetan - Life

Cajetan was born in Gaeta in the kingdom of Naples, Italy on February 20, 1469 as Jacopo Vio. The name Thomas (Italian: Tommaso) was taken as a monastic name, while the surname Cajetan derives from "Gaeta". At the age of fifteen he entered the Dominican order, and, devoting himself to studies in philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, became, before the age of thirty, a doctor of theology at Padua, where he was ...

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