Constantius Chlorus requests leave for his son Constantine I who remains at Galerius's court in Nicomedia, as a virtual hostage.

Galerius's mother, Romula, was bitterly anti-Christian, for she had been a pagan priestess in Dacia, and loathed the Christians for avoiding her festivals.

The document seems only to have been promulgated in Galerius's provinces. Among all the other arrangements that we are always making for the benefit and utility of the state, we have heretofore wished to repair all things in accordance with the laws and public discipline of the Romans, and to ensure that even the Christians, who abandoned the practice of their ancestors, should return to good sense.

Other late 20th-century historians, like Graeme Clark and David S. Potter, assert that, for all its hedging, Galerius's issuance of the edict was a landmark event in the histories of Christianity and the Roman empire.

Galerius's law was not effective for long in Maximinus's district.

The oracle's reply was read as an endorsement of Galerius's position, and a general persecution was called on February 24, 303.

Within seven months of Galerius's proclamation, Maximinus resumed persecution.

Galerius's sister gave birth to a son, Maximinus Daia, and Galerius's daughter by his first wife, Valeria Maximilla, married Maxentius, son of Maximian by his wife Eutropia ; Eutropia's first marriage ( to Afranius Hannibalianus ) had produced a daughter, Theodora, who became the second wife of Constantius Chlorus (" the Pale ") in 289 ( adopted by Maximian on March 1, 293 ).

Constantine and Licinius, Severus's successor, signed the " Edict of Milan " in 313, which offered a more comprehensive acceptance of Christianity than Galerius's edict had provided.

However, they are quoted at length in Lactantius ' On the Deaths of the Persecutors ( De mortibus persecutorum ), which gives the Latin text of both Galerius's Edict of Toleration as posted at Nicomedia on 30 April 311, and of Licinius's letter of toleration and restitution addressed to the governor of Bithynia, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313.

His version of the letter of Licinius must derive from a copy as posted up in Palestine ( probably at Caesarea ) in the late summer or early autumn of 313, but the origin of his copy of Galerius's Edict of 311 is unknown, since that does not seem to have been promulgated in Palestine.

After Galerius's death in 311, he was buried at Gamzigrad ( Felix Romuliana ) near Zajecar, Serbia.

Since it was Galerius's army that would have been purged — Diocletian had left his in Egypt to quell continuing unrest — Antiochenes would understandably have believed Galerius to be its instigator.

Diocletian requested that the edict be pursued " without bloodshed ", against Galerius's demands that all those refusing to sacrifice be burned alive.

Galerius's recommendation — burning alive — became a common method of executing Christians in the East.

Constantine, against Galerius's will, succeeded his father on July 25, 306.

Certain early 20th-century historians have declared that Galerius's edict definitively nullified the old " legal formula " non licet esse Christianos, made Christianity a religio licita, " on a par with Judaism ", and secured Christians ' property, among other things.

Barnes notes that Galerius's legislation only brought to the East rights Christians already possessed in Italy and Africa.

Slang is an ever changing set of colloquial words and phrases that speakers use to establish or reinforce social identity or cohesiveness within a group or with a trend in society at large.

His audiences often used his words to reinforce brutality against jew when the opportunity arose.

In other words, all emitted radiation can reinforce itself perfectly whereby wave crests and wave troughs are always superimposed on one another in the best possible way.

John Mendelsohn of Rolling Stone called the album " uniformly excellent " and commented that producer Tony Visconti's " use of echo, phasing, and other techniques on Bowie's voice [...] serves to reinforce the jaggedness of Bowie's words and music ", which he interpreted as " oblique and fragmented images that are almost impenetrable separately but which convey with effectiveness an ironic and bitter sense of the world when considered together ".

Although theological differences and various modes of worship divide Christians, according to Fuller Seminary professor Clayton Schmit, " there is a sense of solidarity in knowing that Christians around the globe are praying together ..., and these words always unite us.

However, it has been pointed out that in the words of Jesus in " If there is one theological issue that both Jews and Christians should be able to agree on, it is that " salvation is from the Jews ".

In academic theological circles there is some debate as to whether theology is an activity peculiar to the Christian religion, such that the word " theology " should be reserved for Christian theology, and other words used to name analogous discourses within other religious traditions.

There Greek loan words occur everywhere in Coptic literature, be it Biblical, liturgical, theological, or non-literary, i. e. legal documents and personal letters.

Thence, however, he continued to govern his diocese, while he found leisure for the preparation of two of the most important of his contributions to dogmatic and polemical theology: the De synodis or De fide Orientalium, an epistle addressed in 358 to the Semi-Arian bishops in Gaul, Germany and Britain, expounding the true views ( sometimes veiled in ambiguous words ) of the Eastern bishops on the Nicene controversy ; and the De trinitate libri XII, composed in 359 and 360, in which, for the first time, a successful attempt was made to express in Latin the theological subtleties elaborated in the original Greek.

* Edmund Sears, 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ".

Nearly ten years later, when Zen and the Birds of Appetite was published, Merton wrote in his postface that “ any attempt to handle Zen in theological language is bound to miss the point ”, calling his final statements “ an example of how not to approach Zen .” Merton struggled to reconcile the Western and Christian impulse to catalog and put into words every experience with the ideas of Christian apophatic theology and the unspeakable nature of the Zen experience.

But Reimarus ' main contribution to theological science was his analysis of the historical Jesus, Apologie oder Schutzschrift für die vernünftigen Verehrer Gottes (“ An apology for, or some words in defense of, reasoning worshipers of God ” — only read by a few intimate friends during his lifetime ), which he left unpublished.

ʿIlm al-Kalām (, literally the study of " speech " or " words ") is the Islamic philosophical discipline of seeking theological principles through dialectic.

* Greek words: scientific and medical terminology ( for instance-phobias and-ologies ), Christian theological terminology.

The seminary's commitment to what it calls its " theological distinctives " is spelled out in the following words taken from the current Catalog:

The book's title derives from Schmitt's assertion ( in chapter 3 ) that " all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts " — in other words, that political theory addresses the state ( and sovereignty ) in much the same manner as theology does God.

He urged his hearers to believe that “ whatever the Bible says is so ,” even if its words did not fit a particular theological system.

It considers that its doctrine has a developmental history and that its teaching about matters such as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the union of his two natures in a single person developed as the result of drawing out from the original revealed truth consequences that were not obvious at first: " Thanks to the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the understanding of both the realities and the words of the heritage of faith is able to grow in the life of the Church ' through the contemplation and study of believers who ponder these things in their hearts '; it is in particular ' theological research deepens knowledge of revealed truth '".

The theological connotations of the title got a pastoral sense, evoking the words of Christ to the Apostle Peter, regarded by the first Catholic Pope in John 21: 16-17, " Feed my lambs ... Feed my sheep ", so Christ made Peter his vicar and pastor with the responsibility to feed his flock ( i. e. the Church ) in his own place.

Gray denied that investigation of physical causes stood opposed to the theological view and the study of the harmonies between mind and Nature, and thought it " most presumable that an intellectual conception realized in Nature would be realized through natural agencies ".. Thomas Huxley, who strongly promoted Darwin's ideas while campaigning to end the dominance of science by the clergy, coined the term agnostic to describe his position that God's existence is unknowable, and Darwin also took this position, but evolution was also taken up by prominent atheists including Edward Aveling and Ludwig Büchner and it was criticised, in the words of one reviewer, as " tantamount to atheism ".

The committee was also concerned about the theological changes proposed in the document, taking special issue with the claim, " the scriptures are nevertheless the words of men ...".

In 1842, Holyoake became the last person convicted for blasphemy in a public lecture, held in April 1842 at the Cheltenham Mechanics ' Institute, though this had no theological character and the incriminating words were merely a reply to a question addressed to him from the body of the meeting.

Little musical patterns are musical words that express not only emotive ideas such as joy but theological meanings as well in the Gregorian.

It may be conducted by examination ( part one in three biblical studies subjects, part two in four doctrine and optional subjects ) or, since 1913, by a 30, 000-40, 000 words thesis for suitably qualified candidates ( originally with a theology degree but, since 1969, other suitable theological qualifications ).

The theological opinion about the necessity and sufficiency of pronouncing certain parts of the Words of Institution ( the eight words bolded in the English translation given above ) is not included in, for instance, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, published in definitive form in 1997.

In other words, a saint is nothing other than to speak with God as a friend speaks with a friend ... the Only One who can really make the world both good and happy ," according to the theological analysis of the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

He says the words Karma, dharma, paap, maya, samsara and moksha are the most common Sanskritic theological ideas which become common in the talk of people who are sanskritized.

In addition, the theological and poetic language of Hebrew is filled with words with dual connotations, which are both literal references to elements of Temple architecture or ritual, and also have metaphorical theological and poetic meanings regarding the relationship between the worshipper and God.