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In Christian theology, good works, or simply works, are a person's (exterior) actions and deeds that align with the moral teachings, emphasizing compassion, charity, kindness and adherence to biblical principles, in contrast to inner qualities such as grace or faith.
Works based on the Bible. Subcategories. This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. * Cultural depictions of biblical people (6 C, 1 P)
Scholion by Theodore Bar Konai (8th century, Church of the East); The Book of Proof and the Book of Questions and Answers by Ammar al-Basri (9th century, Church of the East); On the Proof of the Christian Religion and other works by Abu Raita al-Takriti (9th century, Syriac Orthodox)
Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. [1] Some of these works may have originated among Jewish Hellenizers, others may have Christian authorship in character and origin. [2]
Letters, theological treatises and other instructive and devotional works have been produced by Christian authors since the times of Jesus. For early Christian times almost all writing would be non-fiction, including letters, biblical commentaries, doctrinal works and hagiography.
The non-canonical books referenced in the Bible includes non-Biblical cultures and lost works of known or unknown status. By the "Bible" is meant those books recognized by Christians and Jews as being part of Old Testament (or Tanakh) as well as those recognized by most Christians as being part of the Biblical apocrypha or of the Deuterocanon.
The earliest lists of canonical works of the New Testament were not quite the same as modern lists; for example, the Book of Revelation was regarded as disputed by some Christians (see Antilegomena), while the Shepherd of Hermas was considered genuine by others, and appears (after the Book of Revelation) in the Codex Sinaiticus. [citation needed]
Jerome, trained in the classical Latin rhetoric of Cicero, observed that dismay over the quality of existing Latin Bible translations was a major motivating factor that induced Pope Damasus I to order him to translate the Vulgate, which went on to become the standard Latin Bible, and was used by the Roman Catholic Church in the Tridentine Mass ...
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