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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Relics
The justification of Catholic practice, which is indirectly suggested here by the reference to the bodies of the saints as formerly temples of the Holy Ghost and as destined hereafter to be eternally glorified, is further developed in the authoritative "Roman Catechism" drawn up at the instance of the same council.
After he had been burnt at the stake, we are told that his faithful disciples wished to carry off his remains, but the Jews urged the Roman officer to refuse his consent for fear that the Christians "would only abandon the Crucified One and begin to worship this man".
Harnack's tone in referring to this development is that of an unwilling witness overwhelmed by evidence which it is useless to resist.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12734a.htm   (3710 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Nazi Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In one notable example on March 31, 1937, huge crowds stood in line to view a special display of "degenerate art" in Munich, while a concurrent exhibition of 900 works personally approved by Adolf Hitler attracted a tiny, unenthusiastic gathering.
The Nazi Party pursued its aims through persecution and killing of those considered impure, targeted especially against minority groups such as Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals.
By the Nuremberg Laws passed in 1935, Jews were stripped of their German citizenship and denied government employment.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Nazi_Germany   (3814 words)

  
 English Deism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Newton and Boyle succeeded in reconciling the creed of the Church with their mechanical metaphysics; and this union remained characteristic of England, so that even men like Priestley and Hartley did not shrink from supporting their materialistic theories by theological arguments.
We have here the blending of a sensualistic epistemology, a mechanical-teleological metaphysics, a historical criticism, and an a prioristic ethics whose product in the shape of natural religion was destined first to undermine Christianity, then to compete with it, and finally to supplant it.
When the Christian apologists substituted for the argument from miracles the argument from personal witness and the credibility of Biblical evidence, Peter Annet (d.
www.iep.utm.edu /d/deismeng.htm   (3113 words)

  
 ChristianWitness
They witnessed to me about God's mercy, and told me that they were sure that God had a plan for me. In spite of several failed surgeries, I somehow kept my faith in God.
Some of us were pre-destined (destined before we were born) to be called to God.
Some of us are also chosen, as the Israelites were chosen to be the race from which Jesus came.
www.trmichels.com /ChristianWitness.htm   (17877 words)

  
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The Perennial Struggle : Race, Ethnicity and Minority Group Relations in the United States (2nd Edition)
Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White Lies)
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