According to this world view, over time " priests " had succeeded in encrusting the original simple, rational religion with all kinds of superstitions and " mysteries " irrational theological doctrines.

The library's biblical and theological contents were more impressive: Origen's Hexapla and Tetrapla, a copy of the original Hebrew Version of the Gospel of MattitYahu, and many of Origen's own writings.

The first was not very original in its concept, nor one called to meet a pressing theological question.

By the 5th century, this authentic collection had been enlarged by spurious letters, and some of the original letters had been changed with interpolations, created to posthumously enlist Ignatius as an unwitting witness in theological disputes of that age, while the purported eye-witness account of his martyrdom is also thought to be a forgery from around the same time.

Rousseau's idea of the volonté générale (" general will ") was not original with him but rather belonged to a well-established technical vocabulary of juridical and theological writings in use at the time.

Christians who hold these beliefs tend to consider themselves the true Unitarians or Universalists and heirs of the theological legacy of the original American Unitarian Association or Universalist Church of America, and they do not wish to be confused with UUs and UUism.

Jansenism was a Christian theological movement, primarily in France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination.

Thence, however, he continued to govern his diocese, while he found leisure for the preparation of two of the most important of his contributions to dogmatic and polemical theology: the De synodis or De fide Orientalium, an epistle addressed in 358 to the Semi-Arian bishops in Gaul, Germany and Britain, expounding the true views ( sometimes veiled in ambiguous words ) of the Eastern bishops on the Nicene controversy ; and the De trinitate libri XII, composed in 359 and 360, in which, for the first time, a successful attempt was made to express in Latin the theological subtleties elaborated in the original Greek.

Total depravity ( also called absolute inability, radical corruption, total corruption, or Augustinianism ) is a theological doctrine derived from the Augustinian concept of original sin.

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.

Sozzini's theological difficulties turned on the resurrection of the body, predestination, the ground of salvation ( on these points he corresponded with Calvin ), the doctrinal basis of the original gospel ( his queries to Bullinger ), the nature of repentance ( to Rudolph Gualther ), the sacraments ( to Johann Wolff ).

Price rejected traditional Christian notions of original sin and moral punishment, preaching the perfectibility of human nature, and he wrote on theological questions.

By the 13th century there was concern that the Arabic versions had distorted the original meaning of Aristotle, and that the possible influence of the rationalist Averroes could be a source of philosophical and theological errors.

In 1923, in his theological thesis, German priest Winfried Hümpfner, who had compared Brentano's original notes to the published books, wrote that Clemens Brentano had fabricated much of the material he had attributed to Emmerich.

The reign of Simeon also witnessed the production of a number of original theological and secular works, such as John Exarch's Six Days ( Šestodnev ), Constantine of Preslav's Alphabetical Prayer and Proclamation of the Holy Gospels, and Černorizec Hrabǎr's An Account of Letters.

" In the original Greek, Logos ( λόγος ) is used for " Word ," and in theological discourse, this is often left untranslated.

In early Christian theological usage apocatastasis meant the ultimate restoration of all things to their original state, which early exponents believed would still entail a purgatorial state, Both Origen and Gregory of Nyssa hoped that all creatures would be saved.

" Ever since Plato's original discussion, this question has presented a problem for some theists ( believers ), though others have thought it a false dilemma, and it continues to be an object of theological and philosophical discussion today.

Epigenesis is the philosophical / theological / esoteric idea that since the mind was given to the human being, it is the original creative impulse, epigenesis, which has been the cause of all of mankind's development.

The Second Ecumenical Council whose additions to the Nicene Creed # The original Nicene Creed of 325 | original Nicene Creed lay at the heart of one of the theological disputes associated with the East – West Schism.

Nondualism also refers to a theological doctrine derived from the Upanisads which posits that the original essence of the human soul is indistinguishable from and thus identical with the Absolute or Godhead, Brahman.

The Renaissance yielded scholars the ability to read the scriptures in their original languages and this in part stimulated the Reformation, a theological movement that protested the outlawing of their faith at the Second Diet of Speyer.

The college has an extensive Biblical Studies program in which the understanding, interpretation, and application of biblical literature are studied in original historical context and applied to the theological and cultural issues of the modern age.

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

Many translations are written by people with a foundation in Chinese language and philosophy who are trying to render the original meaning of the text as faithfully as possible into English.

Drawing from the original shape of the Fort Thüngen walls where the museum was located, Pei planned to remove a portion of the original foundation.

The size of the building was halved, and it was set back from the original wall segments to preserve the foundation.

He worked to rebuild the original Nation of Islam upon the foundation established by Wallace Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad.

The original foundation, Ostrów Tumski, became the religious center.

At the University's foundation in 1451, there were four original faculties: Arts, Divinity, Law and Medicine.

Increased endowments supported a community increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum about eighty monks, although there was also a large community of lay brothers who supported the Monastery's extensive property and activities.

One boarding house, College, is reserved for seventy King's Scholars, who attend Eton on scholarships provided by the original foundation and awarded by examination each year ; King's Scholars pay up to 90 % of full fees, depending on their means.

The area now referred to as " Downtown ", between South and North Streets, and bordered by River Street and Wilkes-Barre Boulevard to the West and East respectively is the original foundation of Wilkes-Barre, the 16 blocks claimed by the Connecticut settlers who founded the city.

St. Luke's Church, built in 1632, is the nation's only original Gothic church and the oldest existing church of English foundation.

According to Roman tradition, the Aventine was not included within Rome's original foundation, and lay outside the city's ancient sacred boundary ( pomerium ).

In 2001 the foundation also established the Sackler Center for Arts Education on the campus of the original New York building.

The collection includes locomotives and rolling stock, as well as vintage railroad buildings and a six-stall roundhouse reconstructed on the original foundation.

It sits on a high stone foundation sheathed in brick ( a traditional English cellar ) and still retains its original windows, front door, and semicircle arched fanlight.

Harold's links with the area, ( although only his connection with the original foundation can be proven ) persist.

The Thomas Cadmus House was originally built in 1763 by Revolutionary War Lt. Col. Thomas Cadmus, and reconstructed in 1915 using the stones and foundation that had been used to build the original home.

The original church building in the cemetery burned down in 1791, and new building was erected in 1792 on the original foundation.

The original church building in the cemetery burned down in 1791, and another was erected in 1792 on the same foundation.

Under active study, archaeologist Gerard Scharfenberger is working to excavate the foundation of the original Old Scots Meeting House as well as any unmarked graves on the property.

A replica, built from the original plans and on the original foundation, is now maintained as a historic site and tourist attraction.