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The Classical Greek philosopher Protagoras (c. 490 – c. 420 BC) was a proponent of agnosticism, writing in a now lost work titled On the Gods: "Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life.
Matthew Kelly was born on 12 July 1973 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and is the fourth of eight boys. He was raised Catholic, but was "restless and discontent" in his faith until his later teen years, when a family friend encouraged him to look deeper into his faith. This family friend, a physician, challenged him to spend ten minutes ...
The novel was self-published but became a USA Today bestseller, having sold 1 million copies as of June 8, 2008. [2] It was the No. 1 paperback trade fiction seller on The New York Times Best Seller list from June 2008 to early 2010, [ 3 ] in a publishing partnership with Hachette Book Group USA's FaithWords imprint (Hodder & Stoughton in the UK).
978-1-62707-533-6 (2016 edition) My Utmost for His Highest is a daily Christian devotional by Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) that compiles his preaching to students and soldiers. Chambers' widow self-published the book with Alden in Oxford circa 1924 (Lukabyo, "From a Ministry for Youth to a Ministry of Youth", 2020, p. 154).
ISBN. 978-0-224-01735-0. OCLC. 79037955. Followed by. The Messianic Legacy. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (published as Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. [ 1] The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unofficial follow-up to three BBC Two ...
The Epistles of Wisdom ( Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanized : Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze faith native to the Levant, which has currently close to a million practitioners. [1] The text revolves around the acknowledgement and worship of al-Hakim bi-Amr ...
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: Index of Forbidden Books) was a changing list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia ); Catholics were forbidden to print or read them, subject to the local bishop. [ 1] Catholic states could enact laws to ...
Most Protestant Bibles include the Hebrew Bible's 24 books (the protocanonical books) divided differently (into 39 books) and the 27-book New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some denominations (e.g. Anglicanism) also include the 14 books of the biblical apocrypha between the Old Testament and the New Testament, for a total of 80 books.