The writings always have the central message of the bible ; Cyril doesn ’ t try to add his own beliefs in reference to religious interpretation and remains grounded in true biblical teachings.

His writings are permeated with " religious good sense ," and he used uncomplicated language that could edify even the weakest member.

His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances-Philochristus ( 1891 ), where he tried to raise interest in Gospels reading, Onesimus ( 1882 ), and Silanus the Christian ( 1908 ).

It left behind numerous religious writings and monuments, along with significant influences on cultures both ancient and modern.

However, the pharaoh's real-life influence and prestige could differ from that depicted in official writings and depictions, and beginning in the late New Kingdom his religious importance declined drastically.

While the Egyptians had no unified religious scripture, they produced many religious writings of various types.

In 1998, Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq, issued a fatwā prohibiting University of Virginia professor Abdulaziz Sachedina from ever again teaching Islam due in part to Sachedina's writings encouraging acceptance of religious pluralism in the Muslim world.

Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilised his writings in their own belief systems.

The religious and mythical themes in Star Wars were inspired by Lucas ' interest in the writings of mythologist Joseph Campbell, and he would eventually come to identify strongly with the Eastern religious philosophies he studied and incorporated into his films, which were a major inspiration for " the Force.

In his religious and philosophical writings he defended the faithful Christian's right for freedom of thought.

" Although tradition ascribes the biblical writings to times and authors contemporaneous with events, they were in fact pseudonymous, written in many cases after the times they describe and by authors with a religious and nationalist agenda, and it is therefore important to treat them with circumspection.

His Rabbinic writings are still fundamental and unparalleled resources for religious Jews today.

The Old Testament is a Christian term for a collection of religious writings of ancient Israel that form the major and first section of Christian Bibles, in contrast to the Christian New Testament which deals explicitly with the 1st century Christianity.

Excerpts from Cromwell's religious writings.

Through his missionary activity and writings he eventually transformed religious belief and philosophy around the Mediterranean Basin.

Tertullian's writings cover the whole theological field of the time — apologetics against paganism and Judaism, polemics, polity, discipline, and morals, or the whole reorganization of human life on a Christian basis ; they gave a picture of the religious life and thought of the time which is of the greatest interest to the church historian.

Catholic baroque works span two types: religious poetry such as that of Adam Michna z Otradovic, Fridrich Bridel and Václav Jan Rosa, and religious prose writings ( i. e. homiletic prose and hagiographies ), and historical accounts ( Bohuslav Balbín ), as well as the Jesuit St. Wenceslas Bible.

" They encouraged women in local convents and surrounding towns to find mystical inspiration in his example, and, by preserving many of his sermons and writings, they helped keep his political as well as his religious ideas alive.

At the Restoration of the king in 1660 he was favourably received at court, and in 1665 would have received the provostship of Eton College, if he would have taken orders ; but this he refused to do on the ground that his writings on religious subjects would have greater weight coming from a layman than a paid minister of the Church.

Among his religious and philosophical writings were:

He compiled a number of books of religious writings, including A Year of Grace, From Darkness to Light, God of a Hundred Names and The New Year of Grace.

During the late 18th century, under the influence of a religious climate of Millenarianism, British Israelism emerged as a distinct ideology, based on the preaching and writings of Richard Brothers.

Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

During this resurgence in the United Kingdom, Neo-druidism and various Western occult groups emerged, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis, who attempted to syncretize " exotic " elements like Egyptian cosmology and Kabbalah into their belief systems, although not necessarily for purely religious purposes.

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.

There are people of religions besides Judaism, or even those without religious affiliation, who delve in the Zohar out of curiosity, or as a technology for people who are seeking meaningful and practical answers about the meaning of their lives, the purpose of creation and existence and their relationships with the laws of nature, and so forth ; however from the perspective of traditional, rabbinic Judaism, and by the Zohar's own statements, the purpose of the Zohar is to help the Jewish people through and out of the Exile and to infuse the Torah and mitzvot ( Judaic commandments ) with the wisdom of Kabbalah for its Jewish readers.

It has been associated with the esoteric methodologies of Jewish mysticism's interpretations of Hebrew religious texts as in the Kabbalah.

Although the word " Torah " refers specifically to the Five Books of Moses, in Judaism the word also refers to the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), the Talmud and other religious works, even including the study of Kabbalah, Hasidism, Mussar and much more.

Therefore, most Hasidic Jews, for whom Kabbalah plays an important role in their religious practice, traditionally do not remove or even trim their beards.

* Glory ( religion ), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence ; see also Hod ( Kabbalah )

This problem is compounded in the teachings of Isaac Luria as found in the writings of Ḥayim Vital, where it is held that as a result of some catastrophe in Heaven, the Sefirot vessels have fractured and their channels re-formed into six or twelve inter-relating personalised aspects within God's Manifestation known as Partzufim ( from Greek προσωπα, faces ), teaching that the purpose of each religious observance is to assist their unification, a theme also found in Medieval Kabbalah, through the Lurianic redemption of the fallen fragments.

The modern-day presentation of Kabbalah was developed by its current leader, Philip Berg ( a traditionally trained orthodox rabbi who had left the religious clergy and became an insurance salesman before learning Kabbalah ) and his wife, Karen Berg.

Some other books for which the Ramak is known are Tomer Devorah (" Palm Tree of Deborah "), in which he utilizes the Kabbalistic concepts of the Sephirot (" Divine attributes ") to illuminate a system of morals and ethics ; Ohr Neerav, a justification of and insistence upon the importance of Kabbalah study and an introduction to the methods explicated in Pardes Rimonim ; Elimah Rabbati, a highly abstract treatise on kabbalistic concerns revolving around the Godhead and His relationship to the Sefirot ; and Sefer Gerushin, a short and intimate composition which features the highly devotional slant of Ramak, as well as his asceticism and religious piety.

The Orthodox Kabbalist rabbi Yehuda Ashlag believed in a religious version of libertarian communism, based on principles of Kabbalah, which he called altruist communism.

He was " an acknowledged genius " in at least three separate areas of Jewish religious creativity: Talmud and Jewish law ( halakhah ); homiletics ( derush ) and popular preaching ; and Kabbalah.

* A religious term used in Western Initiatory Kabbalah

* 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( d. 1788 )

Adam also presents idolatry, human sacrifice as religious practice: For all their gods there are appointed priests to offer sacrifices for the people.

Some religious communities regard sin as a crime ; some may even highlight the crime of sin very early in legendary or mythological accounts of origins — note the tale of Adam and Eve and the theory of original sin.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

Written around 1080, one of the oldest written sources on pre-Christian Scandinavian religious practices is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

* June 18 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( b. 1714 )

* April 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( d. 1788 )

He has attracted celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch.

The Historiated Bible, the Letter from Heaven, the Wanderings through Heaven and Hell, the numerous Adam and Cross legends, the religious poems of the " Kaliki perehozhie " and other similar productions owe their dissemination to a large extent to the activity of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, and their successors in other lands.

He has attracted celebrity religious followers such as Richard Gere and Adam Yauch.

Stratford ( formerly known as Cupheag Plantation, and prior to that, Pequonnocke ) was founded in 1639 by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman ( pronounced Blackman ), William Beardsley, and either 16 families — according to legend — or approximately 35 families — suggested by later research — who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom.

Interestingly, his stance in this case was considered to be quite radical in its time, because it went against the more orthodox and standard reading of the Bible in his time which implied all human stock descended from a single couple ( Adam and Eve ), and in his defense Agassiz often used what now sounds like a very " modern " argument about the need for independence between science and religion ; though Agassiz, unlike many polygeneticists, maintained his religious beliefs and was not anti-Biblical in general.

* A certain Adam, 1213 – 1229 List of religious leaders in 1220

The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in Norse paganism once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala ( Swedish " Old Uppsala "), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.

Along with Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, The Creation of Adam and the other Sistine Chapel panels are the most replicated religious paintings of all time.

He was the first also to advance that argument in favour of religious establishments which meets upon its own ground the doctrine of Adam Smith, that religion-like other things-should be left to the operation of the natural law of supply and demand.

Adam Gib ( April 14, 1714 – June 18, 1788 ) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church.

* The religious dramas called Mysteries and Miracles which often took several days to perform, and included spectacular stage effects, such as Le Jeu d ' Adam Of Adam ; La Résurrection du Sauveur Savior's Resurrection ; Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas Of Saint Nicolas by Jean Bodel d ' Arras and the monumental Le Mystère de la Passion Of The Passion, or Passion Play by Arnoul Gréban, organist and choirmaster of Notre Dame de Paris.

Reports of religious sacrifice are given by Tacitus, Saxo Grammaticus and Adam of Bremen.

The Magus in his first incarnation is the evil, alternate future incarnation of Adam Warlock and rules a religious empire called the Universal Church of Truth.

The resultant increase in religious tolerance even enabled the summoning and subsequent appointment of the famous physician, Carl Caspar von Siebold, under Schönborn's successor, Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim.