Like other religious terms, such as " Trinity ", the term " Limbo " does not appear in the Bible.

The doctrine expressed by the term " Limbo of the Fathers " was taught, for instance, by Clement of Alexandria, who maintained: " It is not right that these should be condemned without trial, and that those alone who lived after the coming ( of Christ ) should have the advantage of the divine righteousness.

This theory was associated with but independent of the term " Limbo of Infants ", which was forged about the year 1300.

The villains are deposited into an interdimensional rift known as Limbo for lack of a better term.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

A term originally coined by Ivan Turgenev in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons, Nihilists favoured the destruction of human institutions and laws, based on the idea that such institutions and laws are artificial and corrupt.

The term Hesychast is used sparingly in Christian ascetical writings emanating from Egypt from the 4th century on, although the writings of Evagrius and the Sayings of the Desert Fathers do attest to it.

Hesychasm itself is not recorded in Lampe, which indicates that it is a later usage, and the term Jesus Prayer is not found in any of the Fathers of the Church.

Though the term nihilism was first popularized by the novelist Ivan Turgenev ( 1818 – 1883 ) in his novel Fathers and Sons, </ i > it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ( 1743 – 1819 ).

It, and an account of The Martyrdom of Polycarp that takes the form of a circular letter from the church of Smyrna to the churches of Pontus, form part of the collection of writings Roman Catholics term " The Apostolic Fathers " to emphasize their particular closeness to the apostles in Church traditions.

Hence the term supersessionism does not come from the Latin Church Fathers ' description of their own views but as the application of a modern term to older views.

* In scholastic Latin sources, the term came to denote the rational study of the doctrines of the Christian religion, or ( more precisely ) the academic discipline which investigated the coherence and implications of the language and claims of the Bible and of the theological tradition ( the latter often as represented in Peter Lombard's Sentences, a book of extracts from the Church Fathers ).

Harriet Vaughan Cheney used it in her 1824 novel A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six, and the term also gained popularity with the 1825 publication of Felicia Hemans ' classic poem, " The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Atanatári is a Quenya term which means " Fathers of Men " and is used to describe the forefathers of the Edain.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

The term confederation is now often used to describe Canada in an abstract way, " the Fathers of Confederation " itself being one such usage.

The name Des Peres is a French term which means " of the Fathers ".

Reverence for Roman republicanism was strong among the Founding Fathers of the United States and the Latin American revolutionaries ; the Americans described their new government as a republic ( from res publica ) and gave it a Senate and a President ( another Latin term ), rather than make use of available English terms like commonwealth or parliament.

This tradition was prominent in the intellectual life of 16th-century Italy, as well as seventeenth-and 18th-century Britain and America ; indeed the term " virtue " appears frequently in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, David Hume, the republicans of the English Civil War period, the 18th-century English Whigs, and the prominent figures among the Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding Fathers.

All of the Fathers of Confederation agreed to use the term as an alternative to " Kingdom " which was seen as provocative to the United States.

Pope Benedict XVI in his book Jesus of Nazareth, says there are " three dimensions " to the Church Fathers ' interpretation of the term kingdom of God.

Ryken prepared for a journey to Rome to receive the permission and blessing of Pope Gregory XVI by going through a term of probation in the novitiate of the Redemptorist Fathers.

Rehnquist's opinion asserts the term " under God " does not endorse or establish religion but it actually asserts that the term merely acknowledges the nation's religious heritage, in particular the role of religion for the Founding Fathers of the United States.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the use of the term " Apostolic Fathers " can be traced to a 1672 title of Jean-Baptiste Cotelier, his SS.

Not all Christians employ the term " Apostolic Fathers ".

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.