When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Concupiscence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concupiscence

    He taught that Adam's sin [a] is transmitted by concupiscence, or "hurtful desire", [7] [8] resulting in humanity becoming a massa damnāta (mass of perdition, condemned crowd), with much enfeebled, though not destroyed, freedom of will. [9] Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a ...

  3. Désirée (given name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Désirée_(given_name)

    Désirée, Desiree or Desirée (with other variations possible) is a feminine given name of French origin ultimately derived from the Latin word desiderata, meaning desired. [2] Desideria, an early version of the name and a feminine form of Desiderius, was in use in Europe as early as the 800s. [3] The Puritans used the name Desire as a virtue ...

  4. Chesed - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesed

    The root chasad has a primary meaning of 'eager and ardent desire', used both in the sense 'good, kind' and 'shame, contempt'. [2] The noun chesed inherits both senses, on one hand 'zeal, love, kindness towards someone' and on the other 'zeal, ardour against someone; envy, reproach'. In its positive sense it is used to describe mutual ...

  5. Baptism of desire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_of_desire

    In Christian theology, baptism of desire (Latin: baptismus flaminis, lit. 'baptism of the breath', due to the belief that the Holy Spirit is the breath of God [1]), also called baptism by desire, is a doctrine according to which a person is able to attain the grace of justification through faith, perfect contrition and the desire for baptism, without the water baptism having been received.

  6. Christian views on sin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_sin

    Accordingly Augustine includes two things in the definition of sin; one, pertaining to the substance of a human act, and which is the matter, so to speak, of sin, when he says, word, deed, or desire; the other, pertaining to the nature of evil, and which is the form, as it were, of sin, when he says, contrary to the eternal law.

  7. Argument from desire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_desire

    The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of the immortality of the soul. [1] The best-known defender of the argument is the Christian writer C. S. Lewis . Briefly and roughly, the argument states that humans' natural desire for eternal happiness must be capable of satisfaction, because all natural desires are capable of ...

  8. Apostasy in Christianity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Christianity

    Later he writes: "I desire to guard you beforehand, that you fall not upon the hooks of vain doctrine, but that you attain to full assurance in regard to the birth, and passion, and resurrection which took place in the time of the government of Pontius Pilate, being truly and certainly accomplished by Jesus Christ, who is our hope, from which ...

  9. Eros - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros

    Eros was called "Protogonos" meaning "first-born" because he was the first of the immortals that could be conceived by man, and was thought of as the creator of all other beings and the first ruler of the universe. Nyx bore to Eros the gods Gaia and Ouranos. Eros passes his scepter of power to Nyx, who then passes it to Ouranos.