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In Christian theology, the incarnation is the belief that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the Logos (Koine Greek for 'word') was "made flesh," [1] "conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary," [2] also known as the Theotokos (Greek for "God-bearer" or "Mother of God").
Incarnations of Immortality is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony.The books each focus on one of eight supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ours, with the exception that society has advanced both magic and modern technology.
30: The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31: And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32: He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David.
Anne, the mother of Mary, first appears in the 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of James.The author of the gospel borrowed from Greek tales of the childhood of heroes. For Jesus' grandmother the author drew on the more benign biblical story of Hannah—hence Anna—who conceived Samuel in her old age, thus reprising the miraculous birth of Jesus with a merely remarkable one for his mother. [14]
It further says that Jesus's conception was announced when John's mother was sixth months pregnant. [128] English suggests that John was conceived on Yom Kippur, and dates this to the autumn equinox the year before Jesus's birth. [128] He thus dates Jesus's conception to the following spring equinox and concludes that Jesus was born on 25 ...
The Fire Next Time is a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin, containing two essays: "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind". The book's title comes from a couplet in some versions of "Mary Don't You Weep", an African-American spiritual.
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In a 1410 French Mass book, Anne and Joachim are depicted in front of a castlelike structure representing the Golden Gate. The image precedes the Mass for the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary. [4] Gradually more allegorical depictions of the Immaculate Conception, featuring an adult Mary, replace this scene in representing the ...