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1Islamic view of Jesus' death — The issue of Jesus death is important to Muslims because Muslims believe in Jesus s return at the end of time. Muslims believe Jesus was not crucified but was raised bodily to heaven by God. Depending on the interpretation of the following verse …
2Neoplatonism — Philosophical system (or group of systems) derived from the ancient Athenian philosopher Plato (428 348 B.C.); it is called Neoplatonism rather than Platonism because it tends to vary consider ably from the actual teachings of Plato and his… …
3Palmieri, Matteo — (1406 1475) Florentine humanist, identi fied like his older friend Leonardo Bruni with exaltation of the active life of the citizen as superior (except for persons embracing a monas tic career) to a life of contemplation. Born into a middle… …
4Datta Yoga Center — (est. 1986) The Datta Yoga Center in West Sunbury, Penn sylvania, is a center of KRIYA YOGA practice and teaching. It was founded in 1986 by Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swami (b. May 26, 1942) as the American branch of Avadhoota Datta Peetham… …
5Lozowick, Lee — (1943– ) Western Baul teacher Lee Lozowick is an American teacher of the YOGA practices and syncretic Buddhist Hindu philoso phy of the BAUL SECT of Bengal. He is a prolific poet and writer, whose practice strongly empha sizes music he and… …
6Sen, Keshab Chunder — (1838–1884) social reformer and philosopher Keshab Chunder Sen was a philosopher and social reformer, whose career reflected the variety of responses to the modern world that emerged in Hindu society. Sen was born on November 19, 1838,… …
7HOTMAN, Francois — (1524 1590) Francois Hotman was a French legal scholar and historian who strengthened the case for resistance to kings by writing about the elective nature of the early Frankish monarchy. A native Parisian who received his doctorate in law at… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
8SKELTON, John — (c. 1460 1529) Primarily known as a poet and satirist of unusual technique, the flamboyant John Skelton was also a scholar and clergyman during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.* Born around 1460 in Yorkshire, Skelton was laureated by… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
9Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …
10nellie — I. nelly n British 1. an ineffectual, weak, effete or senti mental person. Often given more empha sis by phrases like big soft nellie or great wet nellie . Nellie was used until the late 1940s in the USA and Britain as a humorous or contemptuous… …
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