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Young monk in meditation retreat, Yerpa, Tibet in 1993 A retreat can either be a time of solitude or a community experience. Some retreats are held in silence, and on others there may be a great deal of conversation, depending on the understanding and accepted practices of the host facility and/or the participant(s).
Christian Bible; Christianese – Terms and jargon used within many of the branches and denominations of Christianity as a functional lexicon of religious terminology, characterized by the use in everyday conversation of certain words, theological terms, puns, and catchphrases, assumed to be familiar but in ways that may be only comprehensible ...
Harper's Bible Dictionary: 1952 Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller The New Bible Dictionary: 1962 J. D. Douglas Second Edition 1982, Third Edition 1996 Dictionary of the Bible: 1965 John L. McKenzie, SJ [clarification needed] The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible: 1970 Henry Snyder Gehman LDS Bible Dictionary: 1979 Harper's Bible Dictionary ...
A. Ablution in Christianity; Abundant life; Acacians; Accommodation (religion) Active obedience of Christ; Actual sin; Adelphopoiesis; Adiaphora; Adoption (theology)
This is a glossary of terms used within the Catholic Church. Some terms used in everyday English have a different meaning in the context of the Catholic faith, including brother, confession, confirmation, exemption, faithful, father, ordinary, religious, sister, venerable, and vow.
This allows the user of the concordance to look up the meaning of the original language word in the associated dictionary in the back, thereby showing how the original language word was translated into the English word in the KJV Bible. Strong's Concordance includes: The 8,674 Hebrew root words used in the Old Testament.
A born-again virgin (also known as a secondary) is a person who, after having engaged in sexual intercourse, makes some type of commitment not to be sexually active again until marriage.
Purity culture had been a facet of Christian writing for a while but purity culture as a youth movement took hold in the 1990s. [3] A whole industry selling books, rings, and other products emerged around the movement. [2] The first purity ball was held in 1998. [10] Purity culture faded out of popularity after the end of the 2000s. [2]