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The Horus Heresy is a series of science fantasy novels set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop.Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000.
After the 1987 release of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 wargame, a military and [1] science fantasy [2] universe set in the far future, the company began publishing background literature to expand on existing material, introduce new content, and provide detailed descriptions of the universe, its characters, and its events.
The Grail Movement is a millenarian new religious movement [1] which originated in central Europe in the early 1920s, revolving around the teachings of self-proclaimed messiah figure Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (also known by his pen name Abd-ru-shin 1875-1941), principally In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message.
In his 1993 book Christianity in Crisis, Hanegraaff charged the Word of Faith movement with heretical teachings, saying that many of the Word of Faith groups were cults, and that those who knowingly accepted the movement's theology were "clearly embracing a different gospel, which is in reality no gospel at all."
The cards from the previous Horus Heresy collectible card game (which was also produced by Sabertooth Games) are usable with Dark Millennium, although the Horus Heresy cards only represent two of the factions within Dark Millennium. Players playing Chaos decks or Imperial decks can freely use Traitor and Loyalist cards in their decks, respectively.
The book is also seen as a primary text regarding the medieval Heresy of the Free Spirit. [8] Study of Eckhart has shown a similarity between his and Porete's ideas about union with God. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ b ] Porete has also been of interest to those studying medieval women's writing .
The Brazen Serpent (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by Providence Lithograph Company). Pseudo-Tertullian (probably the Latin translation of Hippolytus's lost Syntagma, written c. 220) is the earliest source to mention Ophites, and the first source to discuss the connection with serpents.
The story follows Aurelian and John of Pannonia, who compete with one another as theologians. Though much of their work is a thinly veiled criticism of one another, the topic of their writing is regarding the heretical factions that appear around them such as the Monotoni, whose heresy is to preach that "history is a circle, and that all things have existed and will exist again", and the ...