Questions tagged [history]
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The right to read a Catholic church's sacramental register
In the era of handwritten parish registers, when a diocesan or missionary priest performed a sacramental rite, he wrote it up in a semi-structured form in a record book. Sometimes that priest was the ...
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How many people were killed by Protestant Inquisition style tribunals? Asking for references
It's relatively easy to find estimates for the number of people killed during the Catholic Inquisition; one just needs to check the Wikipedia page, to see several estimates of the number of people ...
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What was the socioeconomic makeup of early Christian Gnostic sects?
There is ample evidence that early Christianity was socioeconomically very inclusive, being made up of the poor, the wealthy, men, women, the educated, uneducated, etc.
For example, Pliny the ...
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What happened with the schools of Luther and Melanchthon?
I know that Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon tried to oppose the school system introduced by the Catholic Church (according to Luther, Oxford and Cambridge model was influenced by the Paris ...
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Which prophecies does Justin Martyr claim predict Jesus' Advent? Please identify them
In his First Apology Justin Martyr writes:
We find it also predicted that certain persons should be sent by Him into every nation to publish these things, and that rather among the Gentiles [than ...
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What's the Greek manuscripts of John with the oldest discovery date?
I'm trying to figure out what are the oldest complete manuscripts of the Gospel of John in Greek.
New Testament (Wikipedia)
For example, papyrus 66
They say 66 is the oldest and nearly complete; ...
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Has a pope ever been corrected publicly by a non-cleric in the presence of cardinals because of his immoral conduct?
Has a pope ever been corrected publicly by a non-cleric in the presence of cardinals because of his immoral behavior?
As we all know, popes are not immune to living sinful lives. In fact, several ...
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How were the quarter-millennium anniversaries of the resurrection of Jesus commemorated?
I am wondering how the 2034 Easter celebration will look like from the perspective of various Christian churches. I am mostly interested in the Roman Catholics. Since we can only guess, I would like ...
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How do Catholics traditionally understand the divine omnipotence?
You have Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century saying that God cannot do what is intrinsically impossible, but I would like to know what Catholics believed about the divine omnipotence before ...
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Annals of John Hyrcanus
1 Maccabees 16:23-24
The rest of John's acts, the battles he fought and the exploits he
performed, the city walls he built, and all his other achievements,
from the day he succeeded his father ...
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Tombs of Mattathias and Sons
From 1 Maccabees 13:25–30:
Simon sent and recovered the bones of his brother Jonathan, and
buried him in Modein, the town of his ancestors.
All Israel kept solemn mourning for him and long bewailed ...
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Does the concept of Godhead (one God, but multiple persons) predate Christianity? Can we find evidence of this concept in Judaism before 0 A.D.?
Was the concept of Godhead (one God, but multiple persons) known by the Jews prior to the advent of Christianity? Were there Jews that held a Binitarian, Trinitarian or similar "Godhead" ...
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Is there a script of St. Francis' "famous" speach in Bologna, the 15th of August of 1222?
I was reading a book about St. Francis and there is a mention about a "famous" speech he gave in the piazza of Bologna, the 15th of August of 1222. There are several descriptions around of this speech....
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Do the Edomites, Moabites and Ammonites exist today?
I'm not sure if this is the right site for this type of question but I'm asking this because the Bible makes frequent references to these nations in prophecies, some of which pertain to the future, ...
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Ties between the Jesuits and the Byzantine?
I am reading into Society of Jesus, seeking to uncover its parallels and differences with Orthodox Christianity. It is attested the Jesuit order was formed in France on August 15th 1534, by Ignatius ...
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Does any denomination have records of performing exorcisms on atheists?
Has an atheist, an agnostic, a naturalist or anyone lacking a belief in the supernatural for that matter ever been demon possessed or had a demonic experience of any kind? Is this even possible to ...
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Looking for orthodox movies about St. Francis and St. Clare
There are tons of movies about St. Francis and St. Clare, is there a complete list of movies that, I don't know, rank by historicity and orthodoxy? I've seen a few movies about them but can't ...
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Do we know more details about the act of Jesus' birth beyond Luke 2?
Luke's Gospel tells us simply that Jesus was born to Mary and placed in a manger. It doesn't say if it was an easy or difficult birth, who helped deliver the baby, and so on.
I want to write a ...
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Are these Messages between Pontius Pilate and Herod real?
Are the messages between Pontius Pilate and Herod real or are there no real epistles found between Herod and Pilate?
The source, here is the exact part that I am talking about:
From Pilate to ...
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Are there any Eastern-Orthodox theologians who question the historicity of, for example, Moses and Joshua?
Some of the early church fathers seem to condone allegorical interpretations of certain part of scripture (for example Gregory of Nyssa concerning God's killing of the firstborn in Egypt). Are there ...
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Are there any extra-biblical documented cases of readily visible ailments or diseases that have been miraculously healed?
By readily visible ailment or disease I mean any malady of the body whose presence is quite obvious to the naked eye. For example: leprosy, visible bone fractures, severe cases of scoliosis where the ...