Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, whom adherents believe to be the son of God. According to Christianity Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity phophesied in the Old Testament.

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Apocrypha

Religion; Christianity

The scope of this article takes in those compositions which profess to have been written either by Biblical personages or men in intimate relations with them.

Antipodes

Religion; Christianity

Speculations concerning the rotundity of the earth and the possible existence of human beings "with their feet turned towards ours" were of interest to the Fathers of the Early Church only in so far ...

Antiphone

Religion; Christianity

As at present commonly understood, an antiphon consists of one or more psalm verses or sentences from Holy Scripture which are sung or simply recited before and after each psalm and the Magnificat ...

Apostasy

Religion; Christianity

The word itself in its etymological sense, signifies the desertion of a post, the giving up of a state of life; he who voluntarily embraces a definite state of life cannot leave it, therefore, ...

Antiphonary

Religion; Christianity

One of the present liturgical books intended for use in choro, and originally characterized, as its name implies, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the ...

Apollinarianism

Religion; Christianity

A Christological theory, according to which Christ had a human body and a human sensitive soul, but no human rational mind, the Divine Logos taking the place of this last.

Apologetic

Religion; Christianity

It is a theological science which has for its purpose the explanation and defence of the Christian religion. Apologetics means, broadly speaking, a form of apology.