The true pinnacle of the illuminated manuscript genre is the Book of Kells, created around 800 in an Irish monastery.
The first public gas streetlight in the United States is lit in Baltimore, Maryland.
To declare that all those things must have been the work not of men but of angels.16
Where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted to his island-exile!
Limited government that protects rights and freedoms is another important ingredient. For example, it is government’s job to protect property rights, keep markets as free and fair as possible, and opp...
Like Irenaeus, Tertullian defended the apostolic line of succession as the principle for determining true Christian doctrine, claiming that only those churches that were founded and perpetuated in the...
By Tertullian’s time, the catholic (universal) church was recognized as a collection of any churches that had an affection for each other based on a shared theology passed down from apostolic times.
In 250, Decius required that all citizens of the empire must perform a public sacrifice to the emperor. This sacrifice had to be performed with a Roman magistrate as an eyewitness, and a certificate (...
American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because th...
To God alone we render worship, but in other things we gladly serve you, acknowledging you as kings and rulers of men, and praying that with your kingly power you be found to possess also sound judgme...
Mao would hardly be deterred by the universal condemnation of the civilized world. He saw Stalin as his model. In the agrarian reforms, Stalin had killed seven million; Mao himself killed an estimated...
The Montanists claimed that they were receiving direct revelation, or prophecy, from the Holy Spirit,
The enraged proconsul who heard this ordered him stretched on a wheel, by which all his bones were broken, and then beheaded.
The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the...
And line of cases. Justice Byron R. Whizzer White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of raw judicial power, as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in...
Lastly, Callistus granted church membership to individuals from breakaway sects who desired to be part of the Catholic Church but had not performed penance first.
Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make...
Fabian, the bishop of Rome, was decapitated. Julian, a Christian in Cilicia, in Turkey, was stuffed into a leather bag with a number of serpents and scorpions and then thrown into the ocean.
The tradition holds that Hippolytus was torn in half by wild horses at this time, as was Martina, a noble and beautiful young woman.36 A presbyter named Calepodius was drowned in the Tiber.
People who have no trouble advocating that cigarette commercials be banned from the airwaves on the grounds that they encourage young people to smoke should think again about the degree to which all p...
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