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Views on women. Aristotle[A] (‹See Tfd› Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; [B] 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of ...
Christian engagement with Hellenistic philosophy is reported in the New Testament in Acts 17:18 describing the Apostle Paul's discussions with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers. Christian assimilation of Hellenistic philosophy was anticipated by Philo and other Greek-speaking Alexandrian Jews. Philo's blend of Judaism, Platonism, and Stoicism ...
t. e. The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible 's relationship to history —covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative. [1] Questions on biblical historicity are typically separated into evaluations of whether the Old Testament and Hebrew ...
Look up firmament in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In English, the word "firmament" is recorded as early as 1250, in the Middle English Story of Genesis and Exodus. It later appeared in the King James Bible. The same word is found in French and German Bible translations, all from Latin firmamentum (a firm object), used in the Vulgate (4th ...
Biblical cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws in the Bible. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Bible was formed over many centuries, involving many authors, and reflects shifting patterns of religious belief; consequently, its cosmology is not always consistent. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Nor do the biblical texts necessarily represent the beliefs of all Jews or ...
Aristotle theorized that aether did not exist anywhere on Earth, but that it was an element exclusive to the heavens. As substances, celestial bodies have matter (aether) and form (a given period of uniform rotation). Sometimes Aristotle seems to regard them as living beings with a rational soul as their form [1] (see also Metaphysics, bk. XII).
Historically, Christianity has been and still is a patron of sciences. [1] It has been prolific in the foundation of schools, universities and hospitals, [2][3][4][5][6] and many Christian clergy have been active in the sciences and have made significant contributions to the development of science. [7]
v. t. e. The eternity of the world is the question of whether the world has a beginning in time or has existed for eternity. It was a concern for ancient philosophers as well as theologians and philosophers of the 13th century, and is also of interest to modern philosophers and scientists. The problem became a focus of a dispute in the 13th ...