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John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec ( pronounced [ˈjɑn vɑn ˈryzbruk]; 1293/1294 – 2 December 1381), sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries. Some of his main literary works include The Kingdom of the Divine Lovers, The Twelve Beguines, The ...
Spiritual Baptist. The Spiritual Baptist faith is a religion created by persons of African ancestry in the plantations they came to in the former British West Indies countries predominantly in the islands of a Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago and the Virgin Islands. It is syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that combines elements ...
The main source describing the tabernacle is the biblical Book of Exodus, specifically Exodus 25–31 and 35–40. Those passages describe an inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, created by the veil suspended by four pillars. This sanctuary contained the Ark of the Covenant, with its cherubim -covered mercy seat.
John in the Bible. The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Against Heresies, placing its composition before 180 AD.
John in the Bible. John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation ( Revelation 1 :9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ( verse 13 ). The Son of Man is portrayed in this vision as having a robe with a ...
The Gospel of John [a] ( Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, romanized : Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the New Testament 's four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "signs" culminating in the raising of Lazarus (foreshadowing the resurrection ...
Oahspe: A New Bible is a book published in 1882, purporting to contain "new revelations" from "...the Embassadors of the angel hosts of heaven prepared and revealed unto man in the name of Jehovih..." [1] It was produced by an American dentist, John Ballou Newbrough (1828–1891), [2] who reported it to have been written by automatic writing ...
The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: apokalypsis, meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'. The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic book in the New Testament canon.