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A child dedication or baby presentation is an act of consecration of children to God practiced in evangelical churches, such as those of the Baptist tradition. [1] [2]Child dedication is practiced by organisations, such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in which parents promise to help their child live a life free from alcohol and other drugs.
Kelber, drawing on various fields such as communications media and cultural studies and applying them to the Bible, opposed form-critical views of a steady evolution of the Jesus traditions, arguing instead that the transition from oral tradition to the written gospels, namely the Gospel of Mark, represented a disruption of transmission.
Science and Health encapsulates the teachings of Christian Science and adherents often call it their "textbook." [11] [12] At Sunday services, the sermon consists of passages from the Bible with correlative passages from Science and Health. [11] Eddy called the two books Christian Science's "dual and impersonal pastor." [13]
Children's Bibles, or Bibles for children, are often collections of Bible stories rather than actual translations of the Bible and are aimed at children. [1] These adaptations of the Bible are written to be more understandable and entertaining for younger audiences. [2] There is a range of simplicity across various children's Bible publications.
Meeting of the Lord, Russian Orthodox icon, 15th century. The event is described in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40).According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the Infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days (inclusive) after his birth to complete Mary's ritual purification after childbirth, and to perform the redemption of the firstborn son, in obedience to the Torah (Leviticus ...
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