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This list of Protestant authors presents a group of authors who have expressed membership in a Protestant denominational church or adherence to spiritual beliefs which are in alignment with Protestantism as a religion, culture, or identity. The list does not include authors who, while considered or thought to be Protestant in faith, have rarely ...
Protestant Bibles comprise 39 books of the Old Testament (according to the Jewish Hebrew Bible canon, known especially to non-Protestants as the protocanonical books) and the 27 books of the New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some Protestant Bibles, such as the original King James Version, include 14 additional books known as the Apocrypha ...
The Luther Bible (German: Lutherbibel) is a German language Bible translation by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther.A New Testament translation by Luther was first published in September 1522; the completed Bible contained 75 books, including the Old Testament, Apocrypha and New Testament, which was printed in 1534.
Pagan honorifics and titles; Role Description Volkhvy: Heathen priests among the pre-Christian Rus' people. Zhrets: Sacrificial and divinatory priests within the Slavic Religion: Gothi/Gythia A title sometimes used by adherents of Heathenism, referring to a priest or ceremonial leader. Witch (Ldy./Lrd.) A title used by someone who practices ...
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s / DEZ-i-DEER-ee-əs irr-AZ-məs; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːrijʏs eːˈrɑsmʏs]; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
In this work, one of his most emphatic statements on faith, he argued that every good work designed to attract God's favor is a sin. [89] All humans are sinners by nature, he explained, and God's grace alone (which cannot be earned) can make them just. On 1 August 1521, Luther wrote to Melanchthon on the same theme: "Be a sinner, and let your ...
Robert Estienne was born in Paris in 1503. The second son of the famous humanist printer Henri Estienne, [6] he became knowledgeable in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. [6] After his father's death in 1520, the Estienne printing establishment was maintained by his father's former partner Simon de Colines who also married Estienne's mother, the widow Estienne. [7]
The Book of Job in the Bible (c. 1500 –1000 BC) – unknown author; Psalms in the Bible, hymns, poems (c. 1000 BC) – David; Life of St. Anthony English translation from Greek (c. 360) – Athanasius of Alexandria; The Life of Paulus the First Hermit English translation from Latin (c. 374 –375) – St. Jerome