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The full text of The Acts of Paul at Wikisource, translation by M. R. James in the 1924 book The Apocryphal New Testament; section II of the full Acts are the Acts of Paul and Thecla; Acts of Paul and Thecla, translated probably by Jeremiah Jones (1693–1724) "Acts of Paul and Thecla". ANF08.
The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a 2nd-century text (c. AD 180) which forms part of the Acts of Paul, but was also circulated separately.According to the text, Thecla was a young noble virgin from Iconium who chose to leave her fiancé so she could convert to Christianity and follow Paul.
The Three-Chapter Controversy, a phase in the Chalcedonian controversy, was an attempt to reconcile the non-Chalcedonians of Syria and Egypt with Chalcedonian Christianity, following the failure of the Henotikon. The Three Chapters (τρία κεφάλαια, tría kephálaia) that Emperor Justinian I anathematized were:
Only one work in this genre is included in the New Testament canon, entitled the Acts of the Apostles, sometimes called the Book of Acts or simply Acts, and primarily concerns the activities of Saint Peter, John the Apostle, and Paul the Apostle, who converts to Christianity in chapter 9 and becomes the main character. [3]: 3:05 It is ...
Thekla (Greek: Θέκλα; early 820s or 830s – after 870), Latinized as Thecla, was a princess of the Amorian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The eldest child of Byzantine emperor Theophilos and empress Theodora , she was proclaimed augusta in the late 830s.
The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. [1] This chapter records the healing of a disabled person by the apostles Peter and John , and Peter's preaching at Solomon's Porch in the Second Temple .
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Life and Miracles of Saint Thecla (Latin: De vita et miraculis sanctae Theclae) is a Greek hagiography of Thecla, the reputed follower of Paul of Tarsus. [1] The text was composed between 445 and 474. [2] It consists of two books, the first a biography and the second an account of 46 posthumous miracles wrought by Thecla.