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" In a letter to the Pope defending himself he stated that " This free will is in all good works always assisted by divine help ," and in an accompanying confession of faith, " Free-will we do so own, as to say that we always stand in need of God ’ s help ," However, he affirmed that " We do also abhor the blasphemy of those who say that any impossible thing is commanded to man by God ; or that the commandments of God cannot be performed by any one man " ( which the pope approved of upon receiving the letter ), whereas Augustine famously stated " non possum non peccare " (" It is not possible to not sin ").
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McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia.
Tomislav was the first ruler of Croatia who was styled a king in a letter from the Pope John X, dating kingdom of Croatia to year 925.
At the request of the king, he wrote a letter to Pope Boniface on the debated subject of " The Three Chapters ".
About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.
Pope Cyril I of Alexandria, supported by the entire See, sent a letter to Nestorius known as " The Third Epistle of Saint Cyril to Nestorius.
As soon as he heard of the murder, the Pope ordered the legates to preach a crusade against the Cathars and wrote a letter to Phillip Augustus, King of France, appealing for his intervention — or an intervention led by his son, Louis.
It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defending Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked.
Pope Gelasius I was the first pope recorded as enjoying diplomatic immunity, as it is noted in his letter Duo sunt to emperor Anastasius.
" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.
Evidence for an explicit Frankish overlordship of Kent comes from a letter written by Pope Gregory the Great to Theuderic, king of Orléans, and Theudebert, king of Metz.
The Catholic Church also has taught that faith and reason can and must work together, in the Papal encyclical letter issued by Pope John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (" Faith and Reason ").
In 1533 he was allowed to accompany Dom Martinho de Portugal to Rome on an embassy to Pope Clement VII, to whom Father Álvares delivered the letter Lebna Dengel had written to the Pope.
According to Philip Schaff, " To the Greek acts was afterwards added a ( pretended ) letter of Pope John VIII.
A letter of Pope Urban IV suggests that by " immemorial custom ", seven princes had the right to elect the King and future Emperor.
The clergy of that city, many of whom were suffering imprisonment for the faith, sent him in 177 to Rome with a letter to Pope Eleuterus concerning the heresy Montanism, and that occasion bore emphatic testimony to his merits.
The letter of Pope Leo I to Flavian of Constantinople was widely considered in the East as the work of Satan ; so that nobody cared to hear of the Church of Rome.
During the Middle Ages, Saint Jerome was considered the author of all the biographies up until those of Pope Damasus I ( 366 – 383 ), based on an apocryphal letter between Saint Jerome and Pope Damasus published as a preface to the Medieval manuscripts.
Pope Gregory IX asked the Brothers to defend Finland from the Novgorodian attacks in his letter of November 24, 1232 ;
The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carry a letter with questions for the pope.
In early February 2005, during the Pope's illness, Ağca sent a letter to the Pope wishing him well and also warning him that the world would end soon.
Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually, integrating pagan rituals and customs.
* Epistola ad Mellitum on Wikisource – complete Latin text of the letter to Mellitus from Pope Gregory I.
In his apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem (" On the dignity and vocation of women ", part 67-69 ) dated 15 August 1988, Pope John Paul II dealt with the Easter events in relation to the women being present at the tomb after the Resurrection, in a section entitled ' First Witness of the Resurrection ': " The women are the first at the tomb.
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Following the Responsio ad Sadoletum, Calvin wrote an open letter at the request of Bucer to Charles V in 1543, Supplex exhortatio ad Caesarem, defending the reformed faith.
" In response to these accusations of anti-Semitism, composer and Oberlin College professor Conrad Cummings wrote a letter to the editor defending " Klinghoffer " as " the closest analogue to the experience of Bach's audience attending his most demanding works ," and noted that, as someone of half-Jewish heritage, he " found nothing anti-Semitic about the work.
For example, in a letter to the rector of Freiburg University of November 4, 1945, Heidegger, inspired by Jünger, tries to explain the notion of “ God is dead ” as the “ reality of the Will to Power .” Heidegger also praises Jünger for defending Nietzsche against a too biological or anthropological reading during the Third Reich.
The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.
In 1823, he wrote his first article — a letter to the journal Le corsaire defending Spontini's La vestale.
He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter / poem " Letter to an American Visitor " under the pseudonym " Obadiah Hornbrooke.
Leadbeater was not interested in defending his position, but in a letter to Annie Besant wrote: " a natural function exists, which in itself is no more wrong than eating or drinking.
The letter of Maximian announcing to the pope his succession is lost, but that to Saint Cyril of Alexandria remains, with its high eulogium on Cyril's constancy in defending the cause of Jesus.
On January 10, 1821, an open letter directed to Earl Spencer, the president of the Institution, appeared in The Times defending Accum.
Duke also posted a letter written by Traficant stating that he was targeted by the U. S. Department of Justice for, among other things, defending John Demjanjuk.
Pheiffer says: “ This fanciful story of the origin of the Septuagint is merely a pretext for defending Judaism against its heathen denigrators, for extolling its nobility and reasonableness, and first striving to convert Greek speaking Gentiles to it .” Schürer classes the letter with a special kind of literature, “ Jewish propaganda in Pagan disguise ,” whose works are “ directed to the pagan reader, in order to make propaganda for Judaism among the Gentiles .” Andrews, too, believes that the role of a Greek was assumed by Aristeas in order “ to strengthen the force of the argument and commend it to non-Jewish readers.
In 200, Cao Cao was locked in a stalemate against Yuan Shao at the Battle of Guandu for months, eventually exhausting his food supply ; while contemplating retreat he sent a letter to Xun Yu ( who was then defending Xu ) for advice.
In a 2000 follow-up letter to distributors, the company cited changing market conditions and the costs of defending lawsuits, as the reasons for the discontinuation of the Python line as well as a number of other models.
* 2004 October ' SaveKPVolleyball ' campaign group sends an open letter to Lambeth Council defending the use of the park for Ecuadorian community volleyball.
In response to Sir William Draper's letter defending one of Junius ' targets and attacking their anonymous critics, Junius wrote:
He condemned the Nazi worship of race in a pastoral letter on January 29, 1934, and assumed responsibility for the publication of a pamphlet of essays criticizing the ideology of Alfred Rosenberg and defending the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Michizane, defending the court scholars sent a letter of censure to Mototsune, and gained the favor of Emperor Uda.
In a ' Documents on Irish Foreign Policy 1941-1945 ' a letter from de Valera is quoted defending his contentious visit to Hempel following the death of Hitler.
He replied with a long letter defending a pure meritocracy in terms of hiring practices.
" " Taylor shifted between defending the Bush administration and refusing to answer questions, claiming executive privilege via a letter from White House counsel Fred Fielding.
" His gay son, Peter Shalit, wrote a letter to GLAAD defending his father and said GLAAD had defamed him by " falsely accusing him of a repellent form of bigotry.
Liceti sent a copy of his book to Galileo, who, in response, wrote a polemical letter to Prince Leopoldo de ' Medici of Tuscany defending his views ; this letter is the last scientific work produced by Galileo before his death.
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