enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Precepts of the Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precepts_of_the_Church

    A century later (1470) the catechism of Dietrick Coelde, the first, it is said, to be written in German, explicitly set forth that there were five Commandments of the Church. [5] In his Summa Theologica (part I, tit. xvii, p. 12) Antoninus of Florence (1439) enumerates ten precepts of the Church universally binding on the faithful. These are: [5]

  3. Five precepts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_precepts

    The five precepts are part of the right speech, action and livelihood aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path, the core teaching of Buddhism. [4] [18] [note 2] Moreover, the practice of the five precepts and other parts of śīla are described as forms of merit-making, means to create good karma.

  4. Peace churches - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_churches

    The Christadelphians are one of only a small number of churches whose identity as a denomination is directly linked to the issue of Christian pacifism. [32] Although the grouping which later took the name "Christadelphian" had largely separated from the Campbellite movement in Scotland and America after 1848, it was conscription in the American Civil War which caused their local church in Ogle ...

  5. Buddhist ethics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_ethics

    The foundation of Buddhist ethics for laypeople is The Five Precepts which are common to all Buddhist schools. The precepts or "five moral virtues" (pañca-silani) are not commands but a set of voluntary commitments or guidelines, [23] to help one live a life in which one is happy, without worries, and able to meditate well. The precepts are ...

  6. 1983 Code of Canon Law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Code_of_Canon_Law

    Book III. The Teaching Function of the Church (Cann. 747–833) Christian ministry, missionary activity, education, and social communication. Book IV. The Sanctifying Function of the Church (Cann. 834–1253) Sacraments and other acts of worship; places of worship; feast-days and fast-days. Book V. the Temporal Goods of the Church (Cann. 1254 ...

  7. Rule of Saint Benedict - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict

    The oldest copy of the Rule of Saint Benedict, from the eighth century (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 48, fols. 6v–7r). The Rule of Saint Benedict (Latin: Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written in Latin c. 530 by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.

  8. Amitāyus Contemplation Sūtra - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitāyus_Contemplation_Sūtra

    The middle level of the middle grade: those who follow various Buddhist precepts, even for a single day. Upon their death, they are welcomed by Amitābha and a multitude of sages. Their lotus buds open after seven days, immediately becoming stream-enterers and attaining arhatship half a kalpa later.

  9. Peace and Justice Support Network - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Justice_Support...

    The Peace and Justice Support Network (PJSN) is the peace and justice office of Mennonite Church USA.The goal of PJSN is to strengthen Mennonite Church USA's commitment to peace and justice by equipping persons across the church called to this ministry and by encouraging the church to embody and communicate Christ's reconciling way. [1]