The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

In Futurism, parallels may be drawn with historical events, but most eschatological prophecies are chiefly referring to events which have not been fulfilled, but will take place at the end of the age and the end of the world.

Stories include detail about military technology, procedure, ritual, and history ; military stories may use parallels with historical conflicts.

The policies adopted by these states often have parallels with multicultural-ist policies in the Western world, but the historical background is different, and the goal may be a mono-cultural or mono-ethnic nation-building-for instance in the Malaysian government's attempt to create a ' Malaysian race ' by 2020.

Some ideas in the play recall Goethe's novella Elective Affinities: Stoppard's characters " Thomasina " and " Septimus " have parallels in Goethe's " Ottalie " and " Eduard ", and the historical section of the play is set in 1809, the year of the novella.

John T. Koch proposes a number of parallels between the mythological Bendigeidfran and the historical Celtic chieftain Brennus, who invaded the Balkans in the 3rd century BC.

Via the study of history, the military seeks to avoid past mistakes, and improve upon its current performance by instilling an ability in commanders to perceive historical parallels during battle, so as to capitalize on the lessons learned.

Instructive historical parallels can be found in the annals of Zen Buddhism, where teachers employed a variety of methods ( sometimes highly unorthodox ) to bring about the arising of insight in the student.

The meaning ( and historical origin ) of the phrase " Internet time " strongly parallels that of " New York minute ".

Ties with the Fretilin of East Timor ( occupied by Indonesia in 1975 ) were exceptionally strong and remain so after that country's independence ; both POLISARIO and Fretilin have argued that there are numerous historical parallels between the two conflicts.

While television commentators and fans have noted associations with the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, some academics have noted parallels between the portrayal of the Dominion War and other historical conflicts.

* The Sarantine Mosaic ( 1998, 2000 ) by Guy Gavriel Kay is a fantasy novel based on the 6th century Mediterranean world ; the two-novel series closely parallels the historical events of the Nika riots.

Like all themes within Star Wars, the Clone Wars borrows from multiple mythical, literary, and historical influences and parallels.

There is a variety of opinions on the historical parallels between the political aspects of the Clone Wars and the War in Iraq.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

Following similar methodology, and drawing parallels with the structure of other, related Indo-European mythologies ( particularly Baltic mythology ), and occasionally using some hints found in historical records of Slavic paganism, some of the ancient myths could be reconstructed.

In addition, Lucas himself has drawn parallels between Palpatine and his rise to power to historical dictators such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler.

The " Time of Awakening " and its " ironic violence " noted by Surak, which ends in nuclear holocaust but philosophical maturity, was written by Star Trek creators with intentional parallels to modern human society — particularly its historical progression toward cultural enlightenment, reason and tolerance interrupted by extreme bouts of cultural regression, irrationalism and fanatical violence.

In keeping with the Foundation series being based on the Roman Empire, the Mule has historical parallels with Attila the Hun, Tamerlane, and Charlemagne ; he has also been compared to both the Roman Emperor Augustus and Adolf Hitler.

Further historical lists such as The 72 Names of the Lord show parallels in the history and interpretation of the Name of God amongst Kabbalah, Christianity, and Hebrew scholarship in various parts of the Mediterranean world.

", and the second was on Babylon 5 during a fight with Ulkesh in episode Falling Toward Apotheosis further solidifying his parallels with a mythical or historical messiah.

Using the macroscope, observers were able to look into one race's historical records, finding numerous parallels with human life on Earth.

* The story takes place in a secondary world with specific and recognizable parallels to a known place ( or places ) and a definite historical period, rather than taking the geographic and historical " mix and match " favored by other works of secondary world fantasy.

Three elements have been important in holding the Communion together: First, the shared ecclesial structure of the component churches, manifested in an episcopal polity maintained through the apostolic succession of bishops and synodical government ; second, the principle of belief expressed in worship, investing importance in approved prayer books and their rubrics ; and third, the historical documents and standard divines that have influenced the ethos of the Communion.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

Under the particular historical circumstances of the growing Church in the early centuries, the succession of bishops became one of the ways, together with the transmission of the Gospel and the life of the community, in which the apostolic tradition of the Church was expressed.

A purely historical or mechanical succession of ministers, bishops or pastors would not mean ipso facto true apostolic succession in the church, Reformed tradition, following authentic Catholic tradition, distinguishes four realities which make up the true apostolic succession, symbolized, but not absolutely guaranteed, by ministerial succession.

Some Protestant charismatic and British New Church Movement churches include " apostles " among the offices that should be evident into modern times in a true church, though they never trace an historical line of succession.

It was later calculated ( from the historical record of the succession of Roman consuls ) that the year 1 AD corresponds to the Roman year DCCLIV ab urbe condita, based on Varro's epoch.

Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Old Catholic, Independent Catholic Churches, and in the Assyrian Church of the East, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles.

Due to what these churches perceive as the errors of modernism and ecumenism in mainstream Orthodoxy, they refrain from concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with them while maintaining that they remain fully within the canonical boundaries of the Church: i. e., professing Orthodox belief, retaining legitimate episcopal succession, and existing in communities with historical continuity.

Yet, like the " Churches in Resistance " above they remain fully within the canonical boundaries of the Church: i. e., professing Orthodox belief, retaining what they believe to be legitimate episcopal succession, and existing in communities with historical continuity.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

However, the delivering of the consolamentum, on which historical Catharism was based, required a linear succession by a bon homme in good standing.

" Other scholars and historians disagree, citing the historical records of St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Irenaeus who recorded the linear succession of Bishops of Rome ( the popes ) up until their own times.

Secondly, it reaffirmed the dynastic legitimacy of the person of Juan Carlos I, not so much to end old historical dynastic struggles — namely those historically embraced by the Carlist movement — but as a consequence of the renunciation to all rights of succession that his father, Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, made in 1977.

There followed a succession of novels over the next five years, each with a Scottish historical setting.

: The bishops, Greek: Episkopos, elders or overseers, of the long-established churches claim Apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles.

It was argued that Anglicanism had preserved the historical apostolic succession of priests and bishops and thus the Catholic sacraments.

The first historical mention of " Pamphylians " is among the group of nations subdued by the Mermnad kings of Lydia ; they afterwards passed in succession under the dominion of the Persian and Hellenistic monarchs.

He then, for some years, devoted himself to historical writing, and published in succession the Historical Library ( Történeti Könyvtár ), 6 vols., 1843 – 1845 ; the Modern Plutarch ( Uj Plutarch ), 1845 – 1847 ; and the Universal History ( Világtörténet ), 1847.

After being referred to by a long succession of different names in ancient documents, they appear in historical records as the Tujia from about 14th century onwards.

At this period the historical school of jurisprudence was coming to the front, and Gans, his Hegelian tendencies predisposing him to treat law historically, applied the method to one special branch — the right of succession.