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- Hosea: covenant infidelity and mercy
Hosea uses covenant and family imagery to portray Israel's infidelity and God's persistent mercy. - Hoshea
Last king of the northern kingdom. - Households, hosts, and the infrastructure of mission
The New Testament mission depends on people who welcome travelers, offer meeting places, support prisoners, carry gifts, and connect communities. Cornelius gathers relatives and friends; Lydia welcomes the… - How can we paint a face we never saw?
An icon identifies its subject through received features, name, and theological context; it is not presented as a forensic photograph. - How could a saint know a request?
Even if saints pray in heaven, what warrants confidence that a particular saint perceives each spoken or silent request? Avoiding the word omniscience does not explain the basis for that confidence. - How to Evaluate the Moral Claims
Use two audits in sequence. The historical audit asks what a source actually says, when and how it was transmitted, whether independent evidence corroborates it, and how confidently it can be attributed to Muhammad.… - Huldah
Prophet consulted during Josiah's reform. - Hunger overtakes Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege
Second Kings describes an exhausted food supply before Jerusalem's wall is breached. Siege warfare reaches civilian households as well as the army. - Hyginus of Rome
Irenaeus places Hyginus after Telesphorus in the Roman succession. - I and the Father are one—and the gods quotation
Jesus quotes a text applying gods to others, then distinguishes himself as the one the Father sanctified and sent. The speech ends with Father in me, and I in the Father. - I search minds and hearts
The Son of God speaks in language closely resembling Yahweh’s searching and recompensing declaration in Jeremiah. - Ibzan
Judge associated with Bethlehem. - Icon Stand
An analogion is a stand that can hold an icon or liturgical book. A central icon stand offers a place to approach and venerate an icon. - Icon with the Triumph of Orthodoxy
This later Byzantine icon commemorates the restoration of icons in 843. Its image within the image makes the act of receiving and honoring sacred images visible. - Iconoclasm
Orthodox teaching receives Nicaea II's distinction between veneration offered through an image to its prototype and worship owed to God alone. - Iconoclasm and the restoration of icons
Imperial campaigns against icons met theological and monastic resistance. The Second Council of Nicaea in 787 defended honorable veneration of images, and the final restoration of icons in Constantinople in 843 is… - Iconostasis
The iconostasis stands between the nave and sanctuary and bears icons of Christ, the Theotokos, and the saints. It may be a low screen or an elaborate structure with several rows. - Icons
Orthodox teaching grounds icons in the Incarnation and distinguishes veneration from worship due to God alone. - Icons — The Visible Gospel
An Orthodox learning world with primary evidence, opposing arguments, and clear limits. Debate transcripts are question prompts, not historical authorities. All source summaries are paraphrases. - Ignatius of Antioch
Bishop and martyr whose seven widely accepted letters witness to the real humanity of Christ, the Eucharist, and unity around the bishop, presbyters, and deacons. - Ignatius of Antioch's letters
On the way to martyrdom, Ignatius writes about Christ, episcopal unity, and the Eucharist. - Ignatius: bishop, presbyters, and deacons
Ignatius's early second-century letters distinguish the bishop, presbytery, and deacons and connect the local bishop to Eucharistic order and communal unity. - Images and Devotion
Protestant churches differ in their use of religious art. Many reject devotional veneration of images, yet some display pictures, stained glass, or crosses for teaching and remembrance; other churches prefer sparse… - Images in Solomon's temple
The temple has cherubim, palm trees, flowers, lions, and oxen. - Images, icons, and veneration
Orthodox Christians venerate icons of Christ and the saints, distinguishing honor offered to the person depicted from worship due to God alone. Icons witness to the Incarnation and are integral to Orthodox worship. - Incense Altar
The gold-covered acacia incense altar measures 1 × 1 × 2 cubits and stands before the veil. Its horns are made with the altar; Aaron burns incense there morning and evening (Exodus 30:1–8). - Inner Veil
Blue, purple, and scarlet linen woven with cherubim hangs from four gold-covered pillars on silver sockets. This inner veil divides the two holy rooms (Exodus 26:31–33). - Innocent's Alaskan mission and translation
Innocent's missionary work includes language learning, translation, pastoral care, and education. - Irenaeus of Lyons
Bishop of Lyons who opposed rival claims to secret saving knowledge by appealing to the public apostolic proclamation, Scripture, and the faith of the churches. - Irenaeus responds to Gnosticism
Irenaeus appeals to Scripture, the rule of faith, and the public succession of apostolic churches against secret-teaching claims. - Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.25.6
Describes Carpocratians honoring images of Christ alongside philosophers in a pagan-style setting. - Irenaeus: public succession and doctrine
Against secret Gnostic teaching, Irenaeus asks readers to inspect the publicly handed-down teaching and succession of apostolic churches. He chooses Rome as an example and also refers to Polycarp of Smyrna. - Is latreia versus proskynesis a word trick?
The defense depends on a real distinction between honor and divine worship, not on assigning a magic meaning to one Greek word. - Is the Eucharist the only image Christ authorized?
Orthodoxy distinguishes a sacramental gift from a pictorial likeness; one need not replace the other. - Is this apostolic tradition or later development?
Continuity of faith and historical elaboration must be distinguished; neither label can replace historical evidence. - Isaac
Son of Abraham and Sarah; father of Esau and Jacob. - Isaac and Rebekah
The covenant promise continues through Isaac and Rebekah's family. - Isaiah
Isaiah holds judgment, holiness, consolation, servant songs, and the hope of renewed creation within one received book. Assyrian crisis, exile, and restoration supply different literary horizons; New Testament… - Isaiah
Jerusalem prophet associated with judgment and hope. - Isaiah saw his glory
John explicitly quotes Isaiah’s commission and connects Isaiah’s vision of glory with his account of responses to Jesus.