Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons.

He also studied both the Latin and the Greek Fathers of the Church.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

religio-philosophical systems of knowledge, as opposed to authentic gnosis ( see below, Gnosis among the Greek Fathers ).

A Catholic mission was conducted in the Ottoman days by Assumpionist Fathers ; there are also a number of Armenian and Greek Catholics, with priests of their respective rites.

According to the entries in Lampe's A Patristic Greek Lexicon, the basic terms hesychia and hesychazo appear as early as the 4th Century in such Fathers as St John Chrysostom and the Cappadocians.

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1910 ) states, " The Greek Fathers, as a whole, distinguish the three persons: the " sinner " of ; the sister of Martha and Lazarus, and ; and Mary Magdalen.

* New Testament Byzantine Greek Original Side by side with the English ( King James ) and Russian ( Synodal ) translation Commentary by the Greek Fathers – Icons from Mount Athos

He is important chiefly because of his influence on Eusebius, on all the later writers of Church history among the Fathers, and on the whole Greek school of chroniclers.

The Catholic Church recognizes that the addition of " and the Son " to the Greek form of the Creed would be wrong, because of the specific meaning of the Greek verb that is translated as " proceeds ", but it holds that both forms of the text, with and without " Filioque ", are orthodox in other languages, where " proceeds " can also represent a different Greek verb, used by Greek Fathers when saying that the Holy Spirit " proceeds " ( in that sense ) from the Son.

Upon the request of a high official named Sporacius, Theodoret compiled a Compendium of Heretical Accounts ( Haereticarum fabularum compendium ), including a heresiology ( books i-iv ) and a " compendium of divine dogmas " ( book v ), which, apart from Origen's De principiis and the theological work of John of Damascus, is the only systematic representation of the theology of the Greek Fathers.

He had considerable familiarity with the Greek language, and translated many works into Latin, affording access to the Cappadocian Fathers and the Greek theological tradition.

The early Fathers of the Egyptian Church, such as Anthony the Great, Pachomius, Macarius and Athanasius, who otherwise usually wrote in Greek, addressed some of their works to the Egyptian monks in Egyptian.

Dating from 1675, this document envisaged hundreds of works, including the Bible in Greek, editions of the Coptic Gospels and works of the Church Fathers, texts in Arabic and Syriac, comprehensive editions of classical philosophy, poetry, and mathematics, a wide range of medieval scholarship, and also " a history of insects, more perfect than any yet Extant.

* The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus ' reign.

He may be identical with the subdeacon John who made a collection of extracts from the Greek Fathers and completed the translation of the Vitae patrum into Latin which Pope Pelagius I had begun.

The characteristic mark of the vow, as the Suda and the Greek Church Fathers remark, was that it was a promise either of things to be offered to God in the future and at once consecrated to Him in view of their being so offered, or of austerities to be undergone.

For a complete list of his numerous works, consisting of translations from Greek into Latin ( Plato, Aristotle and the Fathers ) and original essays in Greek ( chiefly theological ) and Latin ( grammatical and rhetorical ), see Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca ( ed.

Sapir emphasized language study in his college years at Columbia, studying Latin, Greek and French for eight semesters.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

Some scholars note the similarity between Machiavellian and the Greek historian Thucydides, since both emphasized power politics.

In Wicca, ( especially Dianic Wicca ) the concept of an Earth or Mother Goddess, similar to the Greek Gaia, is emphasized.

Greek philosophy emphasized the distinction between " nature " ( physis, φúσις ) on the one hand and " law ", " custom ", or " convention " ( nomos, νóμος ) on the other.

He championed the learning of Greek ( and Greek rhetoric ), contributed to Roman ethics, linguistics, philosophy, and politics, and emphasized the importance of all forms of appeal ( emotion, humor, stylistic range, irony and digression in addition to pure reasoning ) in oratory.

Nestorius emphasized the dual natures of Christ, trying to find a middle ground between those that emphasized the fact that in Christ God had been born as a man, insisted on calling the Virgin Mary Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος, " God-bearer "), and those that rejected that title because God as an eternal being could not have been born.

Nestorius tried to find a middle ground between those that emphasized the fact that in Christ God had been born as a man, insisted on calling the Virgin Mary Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος, " God-bearer "), and those that rejected that title because God as an eternal being could not have been born.

Although he related various miraculous feats of Apollonius, he emphasized at the same time that his hero was not a magician, but a serious philosopher and a champion of traditional Greek values.

This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is " from the Night's Plutonian shore ", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld ( also known as Hades in Greek mythology ).

Byzantine architecture emphasized a Greek cross layout, the Byzantine capitol style of column ( a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian capitols ) and a central dome surrounded by several smaller domes.

Furthermore, the ascendency of Heraclius in 610, in Constantinople, who truly emphasized the Laventine, and Greek nature of what remained of the Roman Empire, may have contributed to turning the Eastern Roman Empire into the medieval Byzantine Empire.

Concerning liturgical reforms, Emperor Otto I already emphasized the need for a reform of monasticism in Southern Italy and to abandon local liturgies in favour of the Roman rite, a kind of second Carolingian reform, and he already wished to " liberate " Arab Sicily and to organize church provinces of the island which was mainly populated by Muslims and by a Greek Christians.

Pauline writings further established the various theological consequences of the Lord / Kyrios concept among early Christians, and emphasized the attributes of Jesus as not only referring to his eschatological victory, but to him as the " divine image " ( Greek eikōn ) in whose face the glory of God shines forth.

Because the perfect in late Indo-European was no longer simply stative, but began to be used especially of stative actions whose source was a completed action in the past ( e. g. Greek ), this anterior aspect of it was emphasized in a couple of Indo-European daughter languages ( e. g. Latin ), and so it was with Germanic that the perfect came to be used as a simple past tense.

While Classical philosophies rarely took upon a task of developing a specific theory of organizations, some had used implicit conceptions of general organization in construct views on politics and virtue ; the Greek philosopher Plato, for example, wrote about the essence of leadership, emphasized the importance of specialization and discussed a primordial form of incentive structures in speculating how to get people to embody the goal of the just city in The Republic.

Spatiality of the composition is emphasized by different Greek column orders: the outside porticos of the mint vaults as well as the entrance pavilions are styled in the monumental and heavy Doric order, and the six-column portico of the office building is of a more elegant Corinthian order.

Becker, as did several others, emphasized the " crisis " in Greek mathematics occasioned by the discovery of incommensurability of the side of the pentagon ( or in the later, simpler proofs, the triangle ) by Hippasus of Metapontum, and the threat of ( literally ) " irrational " numbers.

When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, hāgâ became the Greek melete which emphasized meditation's movement in the depth of the human heart.

In painting, the greatest representative of this style is Jacques Louis David, who, mirroring the profiles of Greek vases, emphasized the use of the profile.

In painting, the greatest representative of this style is Jacques Louis David who, mirroring the profiles of Greek vases, emphasized the use of the profile ; his subject matter often involved classical history ( the death of Socrates, Brutus ).

A term from Greek philosophy, it meant the principle of cosmic reason.

Panentheism ( from Greek ( pân ) " all "; ( en ) " in "; and ( theós ) " God "; " all-in-God ") is a belief system which posits that the divine ( be it a monotheistic God, polytheistic gods, or an eternal cosmic animating force ), interpenetrates every part of nature and timelessly extends beyond it.

Apart from its Gothic elements, Wuthering Heights moves like a Greek tragedy and possesses its music, the cosmic dimensions of the epics of John Milton, and the power of the Shakespearian theatre.

" Borrowing ideas from Greek philosophers who held that reason bound the universe together, the Wisdom tradition taught that God's Wisdom, Word and Spirit were the ground of cosmic unity.

It reportedly comes from an obsolete Middle English philosophical word that Gamow's assistant Ralph Alpher came across while thumbing through a dictionary, which means something along the lines of " primordial substance from which all matter is formed " ( that in ancient mythology of many different cultures was called the cosmic egg ), and derives from the Greek hylem, " matter ".

The cosmic egg of Orphism was taken as the raw material for the alchemical magnum opus in early Greek alchemy.

In the Greek myth of the Titanomachy, the Olympian gods defeat the Titans, an older and more primitive divine race, and establish cosmic order.

In Greek mythology, Gigantomachy ( from, from gigas Giant and makhē battle ) was the symbolic struggle between the cosmic order of the Olympians led by Zeus and the nether forces of Chaos led by the giant Alcyoneus.