* Unger, Harlow G .. " The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness " ( 2009 ), a new biography.

Thus (" The Father of Greatness ", the highest Manichaean deity of Light ), in Middle Persian texts might either be translated literally as pīd ī wuzurgīh, or substituted with the name of the deity Zurwān.

The First Creation: Originally, good and evil existed in two completely separate realms, one the World of Light, ruled by the Father of Greatness together with his five Shekhinas ( divine attributes of light ), and the other the World of Darkness, ruled by the King of Darkness.

The Second Creation: Then the Father of Greatness begins the Second Creation, calling to the Living Spirit, who calls to his five sons, and sends a call to the Original Man ( Call then becomes a Manichaean deity ).

The Third Creation: Great demons ( called archons in bar-Khonai's account ) are hung out over the heavens, and then the Father of Greatness begins the Third Creation.

The Father of Greatness then sends the Radiant Jesus to awaken Adam, and to enlighten him to the true source of the light that is trapped in his material body.

This process began in Mani's lifetime, with " The Father of Greatness ", for example, being translated into Middle Persian as Zurvan, a Zoroastrian supreme being.

* The Father of Greatness ( Syriac: ܐܒܐ ܕܪܒܘܬܐ Abbā dəRabbūṯā ; Middle Persian: pīd ī wuzurgīh, or the Zoroastrian deity Zurwān ; Parthian: Pidar wuzurgift, Pidar roshn )

In Manichaeism, the name Ohrmazd Bay (" god Ahura Mazda ") was used for the primal figure, the " original man " and emanation of the Father of Greatness ( in Manicheism called Zurvan ) through whom after he sacrificed himself to defend the world of light was consumed by the forces of darkness.

Manichaens believed in a " Father of Greatness " ( Aramaic:, Persian: pīd ī wuzurgīh ) and observed Him to be the highest deity ( of light ).

In the Acts of Thomas, Chapter 27, during an anointing ceremony, the apostle implores, " Come, elder of the five members of mind, communicate with these young men ;" the five words for ' mind ' according to Theodore bar Khoni ( www. gnosis. org / library / actthom. htm ) are the equivalents of hauna ( sanity ), mad ' a ( reason ), re ' yana ( mindfulness ), mahshebhatha ( imagination ), tar ' itha ( intention )-considered the Five Manifestations of the Father of Greatness which may provide the clue to the meaning of the five trees.

`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

In the system described by Irenaeus, " the Unbegotten Father " is the progenitor of Nous, and from Nous Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, from Sophia and Dynamis principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create " the first heaven.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

Enumerating the three persons of the Trinity ( i. e., Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit ), the first section of the creed ascribes the divine attributes to each individually.

* Father Michael Griffin ( first hand account and photos from Galway )

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

In 325, the first ecumenical council ( First Council of Nicaea ) determined that Jesus Christ was God, " consubstantial " with the Father, and rejected the Arian contention that Jesus was a created being.

Headrick, who is now regarded as the " Father of Disc Golf ", designed and installed the first standardized target course in what was then known as Oak Grove Park in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

Founded in 1805 by Father Edward Fenwick, afterwards first Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1821 – 1832 ), this province has developed slowly, but now ranks among the most flourishing and active provinces of the order.

Eddie Cochems, " Father of the Forward Pass ", 19071906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Bradbury Robinson | Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass

Ironically, the first new film released in Soviet Russia did not exactly fit this mold: this was Father Sergius, a religious film completed during the last weeks of the Russian Empire but not yet exhibited.

In Cangoxima, the first place Father Master Francisco stopped at, there were a good number of Christians, although there was no one there to teach them ; the shortage of laborers prevented the whole kingdom from becoming Christian.

Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Trinitarian issue of the nature of The Son and his relationship to God the Father, the construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea, settling the calculation of the date of Easter, and promulgation of early canon law.

In this regard, Gregory is the first to use the idea of procession to describe the relationship between the Spirit and the Godhead: " The Holy Spirit is truly Spirit, coming forth from the Father indeed but not after the manner of the Son, for it is not by generation but by procession, since I must coin a word for the sake of clearness.

* 1341: Petrarch, the " Father of Humanism ", becomes the first Poet Laureate since antiquity.

Little Wars is recognised today as the first recreational wargame and Wells is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as " the Father of Miniature War Gaming ".

He has been called the " Father of History ", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.

He has been called " List of people known as the father or mother of something # H | The Father of History " ( first conferred by Cicero ) and " The Father of Lies ".

It is Imhotep, says Sir William Osler, who was the real " Father of Medicine ", " the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity.

* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

He is notable for drafting the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and thus is known as the " Father of the Bill of Rights ".

* 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.

The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three separate and distinct entities, with the Father and the Son possessing physical bodies of flesh and bone but the Holy Ghost existing only as a spirit, enabling it to dwell within us.

* Wendelin discovers a compound of the initial letters, amounting to 365 in numerical value, of four Hebrew and three Greek words, all written with Greek characters: ab, ben, rouach, hakadōs ; sōtēria apo xylou (“ Father, Son, Spirit, holy ; salvation from the cross ”).

Modern botany traces its roots back more than twenty three centuries, to the Father of Botany, Theophrastus ( c. 371 – 287 BC ), a student of Aristotle.

In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).

Trinity refers to the teaching that the one God comprises three distinct, eternally co-existing persons ; the Father, the Son ( incarnate in Jesus Christ ), and the Holy Spirit.

In the words of the Athanasian Creed, an early statement of Christian belief, " the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God ".

Also, the burial and Resurrection which occurred three days later proving the divinity of Jesus Christ and the loving nature of the Father.

In those three there is one, and in that one there are three ; the one God is indivisible, while the three persons are distinct and unconfused, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

The Cappadocian Fathers asserted that God's nature is unknowable to man ; helped to develop the framework of hypostases, or three persons united in a single Godhead ; illustrated how Jesus is the eikon of the Father ; and explained the concept of theosis, the belief that all Christians can be assimilated with God in " imitation of the incarnate Son as the divine model.

Trinitarianism held that the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit were all strictly one being with three hypostases or persons.

For the majority of Christians, the belief in the Holy Trinity implies the existence of three distinct Holy Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit being One Eternal Triune God.

In contrast to other branches of Christianity, Mormon theology considers God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit to be three separate gods united in will and purpose, ( see social trinitarianism ) as opposed to the orthodox view of three hypostases sharing in one Divine nature or essence ( ousia ), with the three members of the Godhead co-eternal and co-equal, together adored ( worshiped, given latria ) and glorified.

Cryptography historian David Kahn titles him the " Father of Western Cryptography ", pointing to three significant advances in the field which can be attributed to Alberti: " the earliest Western exposition of cryptanalysis, the invention of polyalphabetic substitution, and the invention of enciphered code " ().

* Trinitarian monotheism is the Christian doctrine of belief in one God who is three distinct persons ; God the Father ( Yahweh ), God the Son ( Christ Jesus ) and God the Holy Spirit ( Holy Ghost ).

According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father.

Since the Oneness position claims that the Name of " Jesus " and the concept of " Person " are common to all three manifestations of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and yet the manifestations of Father, Son and Holy Ghost are distinct from each other, Oneness theology proposes that Jesus suffered on the cross as Son, but not as Father.