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After his death, Romulus was defined as the god Quirinus, the divine persona of the Roman people. Romulus ascension to heaven and deification as god Quirinus is mentioned in Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses, Book 14 (written shortly before 8 AD). Ovid depicts god Jupiter promising Mars the right to translate his son Romulus to immortality. [22]
The Godly Man's Picture is a work of systematic theology by Thomas Watson, a 17th century English Puritan preacher. The full title is The Godly Man's Picture Drawn with a Scripture Pencil, or, Some Characteristic Marks of a Man who is Going to Heaven .
The Old Saxon Heliand similarly dates from the Christian mission to and the conversion of the Germanosphere, but is much longer and also takes in the whole of Jesus' life and ministry. In Armenian literature , by far the most important Christian poet is St. Gregory of Narek , who was a priest and monk at Narek Monastery near Lake Van during the ...
Prudentius, writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues. His poem Psychomachia depicts a battle between female personifications of virtues and vices, with each virtue confronting and defeating a particular vice. [ 9 ]
Christian monasticism is a religious way of life of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship. It began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church , modeled upon scriptural examples and ideals, including those in the Old Testament .
the Fates (goddesses who preside over the fates of men) A464. Gods of Justice; A465. Gods of the Arts; A472. Gods of Sleep; A473. Gods of Wealth; A475. Gods of Love and Lust; A484. Gods of Oaths; A485. Gods of War; A486. the Furies (goddesses of vengeance) A487. Gods of Death; A490. Miscellaneous Gods of the Earth A491. God of Travellers; A493 ...
Mormons hold a belief in the divine potential of humanity; Smith taught a form of divinization where mortal men and women can become like god through salvation and exaltation. Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized this using a couplet, which is often repeated within the LDS Church: "As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be." [16] [17]
Statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School.Hughes's 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days did much to promote muscular Christianity throughout the English-speaking world.. Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterized by a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism.