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Ancrene Wisse - MS Cleopatra in the British Library. Ancrene Wisse (/ ˌ æ ŋ k r ɛ n ˈ w ɪ s /; also known as the Ancrene Riwle [note 1] / ˌ æ ŋ k r ɛ n ˈ r iː ʊ l i / [1] or Guide for Anchoresses) is an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses written in the early 13th century.
In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, rule books contain all the elements of playing the game: rules to the game, how to play, options for gameplay, stat blocks and lore of monsters, and tables the Dungeon Master or player would roll dice for to add more of a random effect to the game. Options for gameplay mostly involve ...
It is an Ancient Church Order, a collection of ancient ecclesiastical canons concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, allegedly written by the Apostles. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This text is an appendix to the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions .
Books 1 to 6 are a free re-wording of the Didascalia Apostolorum, an earlier work of the same genre. Book 7 is partially based on the Didache. Chapters 33-45 of book 7 contain prayers similar to Jewish prayers used in synagogues. Book 8 is a more complex section composed as follows: chapters 1-2 contain an extract of a lost treatise on the ...
How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture is a Christian cultural and historical documentary film series and book. The book was written by presuppositionalist theologian Francis A. Schaeffer and first published in 1976. The book served as the basis for a series of ten films.
Through his Tennessee Baptist newspaper, James R. Graves popularized Landmarkism, [8] building for it a virtual hegemony among Baptists west of the Appalachians.He and Amos C. Dayton, who was also influential, were members of the First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee.
Thomas Cromwell in 1532/1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger. Following the secession of the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome in 1530, and the designation of the monarch, Henry VIII of England, as the chief power in both the civil and ecclesiastical estates of the realm, it was needed for the establishment of the English Reformation that the reformed Christian ...
Phyllis Natalie Tickle (née Alexander; March 12, 1934 – September 22, 2015) was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues.. After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writ