practical+piety

  • 11Christoph von Schmid — Christoph von Schmid. Rosa von Tannenburg by Christoph von Schmid Christoph von S …

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  • 12James Foster (Baptist minister) — James Foster (6 September 1697, Exeter – 5 November 1753, Pinners Hall, Middlesex) was an English Baptist minister.Foster was born and baptized at Exeter, 6 September 1697. Most of our biographical knowledge of him comes from memoirs attached to… …

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  • 13Hannah More — Grabado de Hannah More por H.W. Pickersgill en la National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century. Hannah More (2 de febrero de 1745 – 7 de septiembre de 1833) fue una escritora y filántropa inglesa… …

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  • 14Mahendra — /mah hen drah /, n. (Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva) 1920 72, king of Nepal 1955 72. * * * ▪ Buddhist missionary Pāli  Mahinda   born c. 270 BC, , Pāṭaliputra, India died c. 204 BC, , Anurādhapura, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]       propagator of… …

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  • 15Armella Nicolas —     Armella Nicolas     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Armella Nicolas     Popularly known as La bonne Armelle , a saintly French serving maid held in high veneration among the people, though never canonized by the Church, b. at Campeneac in Brittanny …

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  • 16Guilio Carlo De' Toschi Di —     Giulio Carlo de Toschi di Fagnano     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giulio Carlo de Toschi di Fagnano     Mathematician, born at Sinigaglia, Italy, 26 September, 1682; died there 18 May, 1766. He made his higher studies at the Collegio Clementino …

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  • 17Louis Jouin —     Louis Jouin     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Louis Jouin     Linguist, philosopher, author, b. at Berlin, 14 June, 1818, d. at New York, 10 June, 1899. He was descended from a French Huguenot family, which had been forced by the Edict of Nantes… …

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  • 18Godliness —    The whole of practical piety (1 Tim. 4:8; 2 Pet. 1:6). It supposes knowledge, veneration, affection, dependence, submission, gratitude, and obedience. In 1 Tim. 3:16 it denotes the substance of revealed religion …

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  • 19TAULER, JOHANN —    a German mystic, born in Strasburg, bred a monk of the Dominican order, had, along with the rest of his order, to flee the city, and settled in Basel, became a centre of religious life there, and acquired repute as one of the most eloquent… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 20Christianity — /kris chee an i tee/, n., pl. Christianities. 1. the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches. 2. Christian beliefs or practices; Christian quality or character: Christianity mixed with pagan elements; …

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