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The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter. In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός [1] homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng" [2]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. [1]
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C. F. W. Walther was born a pastor's son in Langenchursdorf in the Kingdom of Saxony (part of modern-day Germany). Out of a strong religious commitment, he immigrated to the United States in 1838, initially as a follower of Martin Stephan.
The editorial work on the WA began in 1883, on Luther's 400th birthday. The work was completed in 2009 [1] in 127 volumes in quarto format with approximately 80,000 pages. It was undertaken under the direction of a commission appointed by the Prussian Ministry of Education: a supervisory role was continued by the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften after the demise of the government of ...
Eckhart von Hochheim OP (c. 1260 – c. 1328), [1] commonly known as Meister Eckhart (pronounced [ˈmaɪstɐ ʔˈɛkaʁt]), Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, [2] was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic.
Store bededag was one of three original fast- and prayer days that were introduced by Hans Bagger, the bishop of Zealand in 1686. Store bededag was a statutory holiday in Denmark. It was one of the few holidays that survived in the great holiday reform carried out in 1771 during the reign of Christian VII , when his Prime Minister , Count ...
Sir John Steell, Rev Thomas Chalmers, 1883, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Thomas Chalmers FRSE (17 March 1780 – 31 May 1847), was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. [2]
A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of ancient Panini Sutra, a treatise on grammar, [11] found in Kashmir The Sanskrit word Sūtra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, Pali: sutta, Ardha Magadhi: sūya) means "string, thread".