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On the most official levels Christian peace necessitated its defense against the attacks of external enemies. Christian peace involved the monastic or ascetic peace of a pure heart and life devoted to prayer; the episcopal peace, or pax ecclesiae, of a properly functioning free and unified church; and the social or imperial peace of the world. [30]
The motif is rooted in Psalm 85:10, 'Mercy and Truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other'. The use in Christian thought seems to have been inspired an eleventh-century Jewish Midrash, in which Truth, Justice, Mercy and Peace were the four standards of the Throne of God. [3] [1]: 290
The phrase "image of God" is found in three passages in the Hebrew Bible, all in the Book of Genesis 1–11: . And God said: 'Let us make man in our image/b'tsalmeinu, after our likeness/kid'muteinu; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
[4] [16] [12] In the Book of Acts (Acts 17:24–27), [38] during the Areopagus sermon given by Paul, he further characterizes the early Christian understanding: [39] The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth. Paul also reflects on the relationship between God and Christians: [39]
The Network of Christian Peace Organisations (NCPO) is a UK-based ecumenical peace network of 28 organizations. [112] Some of these organizations do not take strictly pacifist positions, describing themselves instead as advocating nonviolence, and some either have members who would not consider themselves Christians or are explicitly interfaith.
Kramarik has said Prince of Peace is her "favorite portrait" and one of her most memorable paintings. [11] [12] At age eight she had long been seeking the right face to help her paint an image from her dreams and visions when a family friend brought to her a carpenter as a possible subject. The man's face closely resembled what Kramarik ...
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The Peace of God was first proclaimed in 989 at the Council of Charroux.It sought to protect ecclesiastical property, agricultural resources, and unarmed clerics. [6] After the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, the areas formerly under its control degenerated into many small counties and lordships, in which local lords and knights frequently fought each other for control.