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• Obedience

  [Christian Life]

  Obedience is hearing God's will and word and acting accordingly. Protestants generally understand it as a believer's response in life that flows from faith.

• Shaashgaz

  [People]

  Shaashgaz was a eunuch of the Persian king Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther. He had charge of the "second house of the women," where the women who had spent a night with the king resided.

• Mediator

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A mediator is one who stands between two estranged parties and restores the relationship between them. Protestants confess Jesus Christ as the one Mediator between God and humanity.

• Hospitality

  [Christian Life]

  Hospitality is the practice of welcoming guests or unfamiliar strangers into one's home and church and providing them with food and a place to rest. Scripture commends it as a virtue of believers and as an expression of the life of faith.

• Reconciliation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Reconciliation is the restoration of a relationship that has become hostile or estranged. In Christian theology, it refers both to the restoration of the relationship between God and humanity through Christ and to the resulting restoration of relationships among people.

• Hermann Gunkel

  [People]

  Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar. He is regarded as the founder of form criticism, a method that analyzes biblical texts according to their literary genres and the settings in life in which they arose.

• Via Egnatia

  [History]

  The Via Egnatia was a trunk road that Rome built across the Balkan Peninsula in the late second century BC. It is known as the route the apostle Paul traveled on his way to Philippi and Thessalonica.

• Cappadocian Fathers

  [History]

  A collective name for three fourth-century theologians from Cappadocia in Asia Minor: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus. They articulated the Trinitarian formula that God exists as one essence in three persons.

• Genesis 9

  [Bible]

  Genesis 9 is the chapter in which, after the Flood, God blesses Noah and his sons and establishes a covenant with the rainbow as its sign. It also recounts Noah's drunkenness, the curse on Canaan, and Noah's death.

• Thomas Merton

  [People]

  Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was an American Catholic Trappist monk and priest. He was also a poet and spiritual writer and is widely known for his spiritual autobiography *The Seven Storey Mountain*, published in 1948.

• Leviticus 6

  [Bible]

  Leviticus 6 contains regulations for the trespass offering that makes restitution for wrongs against a neighbor's property, together with the ordinances the priests were to observe when presenting the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the sin offering.

• Numbers 26

  [Bible]

  Numbers 26 records the second census of Israel, taken on the plains of Moab after the plague at Baal-peor. It gives the totals by tribe (601,730 in all), the principles for dividing the land, and the census of the Levites, and it notes that of the wilderness generation only Caleb and Joshua remained.

• Numbers 29

  [Bible]

  Numbers 29 is a legal text that prescribes the kinds and numbers of offerings for the feasts of the seventh month: the day of blowing the trumpets (the first day), the Day of Atonement (the tenth day), the Feast of Tabernacles (seven days beginning on the fifteenth), and the solemn assembly on the eighth day.

• 2 Samuel 6

  [Bible]

  This chapter recounts how David brings the ark of God (the Ark of the Covenant) to the City of David. The procession halts when Uzzah dies, and the ark rests at the house of Obed-edom before being brought up with rejoicing. Michal despises David for dancing.

• Job 27

  [Bible]

  Job 27 is the chapter in which Job swears an oath by God and declares that he will never abandon his integrity, then describes the portion that the wicked will ultimately receive.

• Christian Education

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Christian education is the activity by which a faith community teaches Scripture and its faith tradition in order to nurture people in the faith. The term also refers to the academic discipline that studies this activity.

• Holiness of God

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The holiness of God is the divine attribute by which God is set apart from all creatures and is perfectly pure, unmixed with sin. On the basis of this holiness, Scripture calls God's people to live holy lives as well.

• Radical Orthodoxy

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Radical Orthodoxy is a theological movement that emerged in the 1990s, centered in Cambridge, England. It contends that the modern realm of the "secular" is not neutral, and it seeks to return to patristic and medieval theology in order to reinterpret all of reality through the lens of theology.

• Sharon

  [Bible]

  Sharon is a plain along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, extending south of Mount Carmel. In Scripture it serves as a symbol of fertility and beauty.

• Mustard Seed

  [Bible]

  The mustard seed is the seed of the mustard plant. In the Gospels, Jesus uses it as the classic example of something very small when teaching about the growth of the kingdom of God and about faith.