The greatest influences in the 19th century that propelled " Amazing Grace " to spread across the U. S. and become a staple of religious services in many denominations and regions were the Second Great Awakening and the development of shape note singing communities.

*" A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Diocletian was conservative in matters of religion, a man faithful to the traditional Roman pantheon and understanding of demands for religious purification, but Eusebius, Lactantius and Constantine state that it was Galerius, not Diocletian, who was the prime supporter of the purge, and its greatest beneficiary.

Historic sites of religious importance which have been destroyed by the Saudis include five of the renowned " Seven Mosques " initially built by Muhammad's daughter and four of his " greatest Companions ": Masjid Abu Bakr, Masjid Salman al-Farsi, Masjid Umar ibn al-Khattab, Masjid Sayyida Fatima bint Rasulullah and Masjid Ali ibn Abu Talib.

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.

The Emperor Justinian, renewer of the greatness of Rome's empire and patron of the world's greatest religious building, the Hagia Sophia, contracts the disease but recovers.

If Iona was the greatest religious centre in Dál Riata, it was far from unique.

The abbeys of England, Wales and Ireland had been among the greatest landowners and the largest institutions in the kingdoms ; although, by the early 16th century, religious donors increasingly tended to favour parish churches, collegiate churches, university colleges and grammar schools, and these were now the predominant centres for learning and the arts.

From the time he located here in 1864 until the time of his death he was pre-eminently the town's greatest leader, occupying the foremost ranks of those who promoted its industrial, commercial and religious enterprises.

While these specific failings came back to haunt the Empire in subsequent decades, perhaps the greatest weakness of the Peace of Augsburg was its failure to take into account the growing diversity of religious expression emerging in the so-called evangelical and reformed traditions.

The Pennsylvania Dutch maintained numerous religious affiliations, with the greatest number being Lutheran or Reformed, but many Anabaptists as well.

According to Eileen Barker, the greatest worry of potential harm concerns the central and most dedicated followers of a new religious movement.

Two years later, Niebuhr defended King ’ s decision to speak out against the Vietnam War, calling him ‘‘ one of the greatest religious leaders of our time .’’ Niebuhr asserted: ‘‘ Dr.

The question of the religious institutions of the Greeks, which Schömann considered an essential part of their public life, soon attracted his attention, and he took the view that everything really religious was akin to Christianity, and that the greatest intellects of Greece produced intuitively Christian, dogmatic ideas.

The concept has been included in many religious text such as this quote from the Christian New Testament ( Authorized King James ): " But ye not so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve " or this quote from Islam's texts: " the leader of a people is their servant ".

He is renowned as possibly the greatest sculptor of religious subject matter since the Renaissance, the first living person to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Perhaps the greatest weakness of the Peace of Augsburg was its failure to take into account the growing diversity of religious expression emerging in the so-called evangelical and reformed traditions.

Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in almost all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues.

Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and secular poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy.

If one may speak of religious geniuses, then Judah ha-Levi must certainly be regarded among the greatest produced by medieval Judaism.

The largest religious edifice in the world, Angkor Wat is considered the greatest single architectural work in Southeast Asia.

She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama, The Rapture ( 1991 ), with critic Robin Wood applauding that she " gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema.

The mirror is the central device in some of the greatest of European paintings:

Azuchi Castle on the shores of Lake Biwa is said to have been the greatest castle in the history of Japan, covered with gold and statues on the outside and decorated with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by his subject Kano Eitoku on the inside.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.

Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting.

And in 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings.

The subject retaining the greatest power on all of these men remained the maternal bond, even though other subjects, especially the Annunciation, and later the Immaculate Conception, led to a greater number of paintings that represented Mary alone, without her son.

:* Canaletto-24 paintings ( View of the Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal, c. 1732-one of Canaletto's greatest works )

With this endless supply of money he bought some of the greatest art collections that were available at the time – at a point, in one single occasion, over 80 paintings by great Italian masters were taken in to the royal palace in Lisbon.

Paris, the final work of Delius's apprentice years, is described by Foss as " one of the most complete, if not the greatest, of Delius's musical paintings ".

This was his period of greatest activity, and he received numerous important commissions, among them the altarpieces for the Augustinian monastery, the paintings for Santa María la Blanca ( completed in 1665 ), and others.

Becoming an official painter for Hideyoshi, producing some of his greatest and most elegant paintings.

He was a great connoisseur of painting, but argued for the destruction of all paintings of nudes: " the finest paintings are the greatest threat: burn the best of them ".

This museum houses one of the world's greatest Picasso collections: 24 paintings, 44 drawings, 32 lithographs, 11 oils on paper, 80 pieces of ceramics, 2 sculptures and 5 tapestries.

The Flemish Primitive School culminates in the Prado's collection with the superb collection of panel paintings by Hieronymous Bosch, the largest in any single public collection and, most importantly, the collection that includes the greatest number of major works by this painter from s ’ Hertogenbosch.

Many of the greatest paintings in Europe, like Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are executed in fresco, meaning they are painted on a thin layer of wet plaster, called intonaco ( in fact the general term for plaster in Italian ); the pigments sink into this layer so that the plaster itself becomes the medium holding them, which accounts for the excellent durability of fresco.

The " greatest surviving monument of Romanesque wall painting ", much reduced from what was originally there, is in the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe near Poitiers, where the rounded barrel vault of the nave, the crypt, portico and other areas retain most of their paintings.

In 2011 the Felton Bequest gifted one of the greatest collections of Western Desert and Central Desert paintings to the National Gallery of Victoria.

The Museum's collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings includes a version of Ford Madox Brown's The Last of England, voted 8th greatest painting in Britain in 2005's Radio 4 poll, the Greatest Painting in Britain Vote.

Nolan's Ned Kelly series is one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings of the 20th century.

Viseu was the birthplace of one of the greatest Portuguese painters of the sixteenth century, Vasco Fernandes ( 1475 – 1540 ), known as Grão Vasco, who today lends his name to a museum that houses most of his paintings ( the Grão Vasco Museum ), a hotel, a school, and even a wine label.

Her greatest impact was on figural painting, especially portraits and paintings of typical people's lives in rustic or urban places.

Although Locatelli would choose to stay in Rio Grande do Sul and make many other important works in Brazil, including paintings and murals, this is considered his greatest work, together with the passion at the Church of São Pelegrino in Caxias do Sul.

The paintings depicted the greatest players, teams, and moments from Auburn's football history to that date.