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• Works of the Flesh

  [Bible]

  The works of the flesh are a catalog of sins that the apostle Paul lists in Galatians 5:19–21 in contrast to the fruit of the Spirit. The list includes sexual immorality, idolatry, strife, and drunkenness, among other items, and closes with "and such like." The New Korean Revised Version renders it as fifteen items.

• Armenian Apostolic Church

  [Denominations]

  The Armenian Apostolic Church is the traditional church of the Armenian people. It belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which did not accept the Christological definition of the Council of Chalcedon. It traces its origins to the tradition that the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew founded it.

• Nathan's Parable

  [Bible]

  Nathan's parable is the story of a poor man's ewe lamb, told by the prophet Nathan to convict David of his sin after David lay with Bathsheba and caused the death of her husband Uriah (2 Samuel 12:1-4).

• Theodicy

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Theodicy is the theological and philosophical discussion that seeks to vindicate the righteousness of God by answering why evil and suffering exist in the world if God is good and omnipotent.

• Acts of Peter

  [Bible]

  The Acts of Peter is a New Testament apocryphal work generally dated to the late second century. It recounts how the apostle Peter contended with Simon Magus in Rome and was martyred by being crucified upside down.

• Song of Simeon

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Song of Simeon is Simeon's hymn of praise recorded in Luke 2:29–32. Also known as the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin, it has been sung in many church traditions at evening prayer and in Communion and funeral services.

• Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

  [Bible]

  Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin is the Aramaic inscription that the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the palace wall during the feast of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, in Daniel 5. Daniel interpreted it as God's declaration of judgment: the kingdom had come to an end and would be divided.

• Discipleship

  [Christian Life]

  Discipleship is the path of following and learning from Jesus Christ as his disciple and living according to his teaching, or the way of life that results from doing so.

• Antiochene School

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Antiochene School was an early church theological tradition centered in Antioch in Syria during the fourth and fifth centuries that emphasized the literal and historical meaning of Scripture and the true humanity of Christ.

• Monophysitism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Monophysitism is the Christological position that in the incarnate Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united into a single nature. The Council of Chalcedon rejected it in 451 and confessed "two natures, one person" as orthodox teaching.

• Apostolic Succession

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Apostolic succession is the teaching that the authority and offices of the Church have been handed down without interruption from the apostles of Jesus Christ. Denominations differ on whether this succession is primarily a succession of office or a succession of teaching.

• Preterism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Preterism is an interpretive approach holding that most of the prophecies of Revelation and of Jesus' end-time discourse were already fulfilled in the first century, particularly around the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.

• Liberation Theology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Liberation theology is a theological movement that arose in the Latin American Catholic Church in the late 1960s. It reads the Bible from the standpoint of the poor and oppressed and understands salvation as encompassing social and political liberation.

• Martyrdom

  [Christian Life]

  Martyrdom is being put to death for keeping the faith or for refusing to renounce it. A person who dies in this way is called a martyr, and from its earliest days the church has remembered martyrs as examples of faith.

• Biblical Hermeneutics

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Biblical hermeneutics is the field of theology concerned with the principles and methods by which the meaning of the biblical text is determined and applied to faith and life today.

• Coptic Orthodox Church

  [Denominations]

  The Coptic Orthodox Church is a church of the Oriental Orthodox family centered in Egypt. It regards Mark the Evangelist as its founder and is known for not accepting the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

• Redemptive-Historical Preaching

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Redemptive-historical preaching is a method of preaching that reads and proclaims biblical texts within the history of redemption, that is, the history of God's work of saving humanity through Christ.

• New Testament Apocrypha

  [Bible]

  The New Testament Apocrypha is a collective term for early Christian writings that tell stories about Jesus and the apostles or bear an apostle's name but were not included among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon.

• Allegorical Interpretation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Allegorical interpretation is a method of reading Scripture that assumes a hidden spiritual and symbolic meaning lies beyond the literal and historical sense of the text, and it matches the text's persons, objects, and events one by one to other realities.

• Healing of the Blind Man at Bethsaida

  [Bible]

  The healing of the blind man at Bethsaida is a miracle in which Jesus spat on the eyes of a blind man at Bethsaida and laid his hands on him twice, restoring his sight in stages. Of the four Gospels, it appears only in Mark 8:22–26.