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• Romans 11

  Romans 11 contains Paul's argument that God has not cast away Israel. It speaks of a remnant chosen by grace, uses the image of branches grafted into an olive tree, and addresses the salvation of "all Israel," closing with a doxology that praises the wisdom of God.

• Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

  The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard is a parable of Jesus recorded in Matthew 20:1–16. In it, laborers who worked from early morning and laborers who arrived near sundown all receive the same wage. The parable conveys the grace of the kingdom of God and the teaching that "the last shall be first."

• Psalm 32

  Psalm 32 is an eleven-verse psalm titled "A Psalm of David, Maschil." It describes the anguish of concealing sin and the joy of forgiveness after confession. Church tradition counts it among the seven Penitential Psalms.

• Psalm 63

  Psalm 63 is an eleven-verse prayer psalm whose superscription attributes it to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. In it the psalmist thirsts for God in a dry land and confesses that God's lovingkindness is better than life.

• 1 Kings

  1 Kings is the eleventh book of the Old Testament. It is a historical book that records the final years of David, the reign of Solomon and his construction of the temple, the division of the kingdom, and the ministry of the prophet Elijah.

• Philippians

  Philippians is the eleventh book of the New Testament, a letter the apostle Paul sent while imprisoned to the church at Philippi in Macedonia. It consists of four chapters, and because its exhortation to "rejoice" recurs throughout, it is also called the "Epistle of Joy."

• Jehoahaz

  Jehoahaz was the eleventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jehu. According to 2 Kings 13, he suffered long oppression at the hands of Hazael king of Aram and then sought the LORD. A king of Judah also bore the same name.

• Crusades

  The Crusades were a series of military expeditions undertaken by Catholic Western Europe from the late eleventh to the late thirteenth century at the call of the popes, with the stated aim of recovering Jerusalem and the other holy places from Muslim powers.

• Investiture Controversy

  The Investiture Controversy was a conflict in eleventh- and twelfth-century Western Europe between the Roman popes and secular rulers, especially the Holy Roman Emperor, over who had the right to appoint bishops and abbots. It was largely settled by the Concordat of Worms in 1122.

• Psalm 58

  Psalm 58 is a Michtam of David, an eleven-verse psalm of lament that rebukes those who judge unjustly, asks God to break the power of the wicked, and confesses that there is a God who judges in the earth.

• Matthias

  Matthias was chosen by lot to fill the place left vacant by Judas Iscariot and was numbered with the eleven apostles. In Scripture he appears only in Acts 1.

• Matthew 28:18–20

  The closing verses of the Gospel of Matthew, in which the risen Jesus commands the eleven disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching them. Known as the "Great Commission," the passage is frequently cited as a basis for missions, for baptism, and for the Trinitarian baptismal formula.

• Scholasticism

  Scholasticism was a method of learning that developed in the schools and universities of Western Europe from around the eleventh century to the end of the Middle Ages. Accepting the authority of Scripture and the Church Fathers, it sought to explain the content of the faith systematically through logical questioning and disputation.

• Cluniac Reforms

  The Cluniac Reforms were a monastic renewal movement that spread across Western Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries, centered on the Abbey of Cluny, founded in 910 in Burgundy, France. The movement emphasized independence from secular power and strict observance of the Rule of Saint Benedict.

• Writings (Ketuvim)

  The Writings are the third of the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), following the Law and the Prophets. Called Ketuvim ("things written") in Hebrew, the division comprises eleven books by Jewish reckoning, including Psalms, Job, and Proverbs.

• Matthew 28

  The final chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. It records the resurrection of Jesus and the empty tomb, the chief priests' bribing of the guards, and the Great Commission given to the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee.

• Luke 24

  Luke 24 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Luke. It recounts the women's discovery of the empty tomb, Jesus' appearance to two disciples on the road to Emmaus, his appearance to the eleven apostles, in which he opens the Scriptures to them and appoints them as witnesses, and his departure as he blesses them near Bethany.

• Satisfaction Theory

  The satisfaction theory is a theory of the atonement that explains the death of Christ as rendering the "satisfaction" (reparation) rightly owed for the glory (honor) of God that has been injured by sin. It was systematized by Anselm of Canterbury in the late eleventh century.

• Sons of Korah

  The sons of Korah were the descendants of Korah, a member of the Kohathite family of the tribe of Levi. Although their ancestor Korah was judged for rebelling in the wilderness, his descendants survived and later served as singers and gatekeepers in the temple, and their name appears in the titles of eleven psalms.

• Walk to Canossa

  The Walk to Canossa was the event of January 1077 in which the excommunicated German king Henry IV sought forgiveness from Pope Gregory VII at the castle of Canossa in northern Italy and received absolution. It is regarded as an emblematic episode of the Investiture Controversy, the medieval conflict between the papacy and secular rulers.