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5 days ago · Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission , to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
5 days ago · Biblical accounts Map of Israel as it was in the 9th century BC. Blue is the Kingdom of Israel.Golden yellow is the Kingdom of Judah.. According to the Bible, by the 9th century BC, the Kingdom of Israel, once united under Solomon, had been divided into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah (which retained the historical capital of Jerusalem along with its Temple).
5 days ago · The Huguenots ( / ˈhjuːɡənɒts / HEW-gə-nots, UK also /- noʊz / -nohz, French: [yɡ (ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed ( Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues (1491–1532), was ...
May 20, 2024 · Justification and Reason for Changing the Bible To justify this rejection of books that had been in the Bible since before the days of the apostles (for the Septuagint was written before the apostles), the early Protestants cited as their chief reason the fact that the Jews of their day did not honor these books, going back to the council of ...
2 days ago · Practical Tip #1: Don’t assume or rely on common language. Roman Catholics share much of our vocabulary, but they understand it differently. For example, if you think of words such as salvation, cross, sin, and grace, they are all the same terms that the Bible uses, but Roman Catholics understand them very differently.
2 days ago · The Catholic position is that justification is ongoing, and can be by faith or by faith plus works (where works are mentioned as the cause, while assuming the presence of faith also). Abraham was justified in Genesis 12, again in Genesis 15, and in Genesis 22, “by works.”
May 1, 2024 · May 1, 2024. 228. The Filioque and Christian Unity. Filioque (“and from the Son”) is the Latin expression that the Western church added to the article of the Nicene Creed concerning the Holy Spirit: “The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son” ( Filioque ). The point that was intended to be made by the insertion was twofold.
