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- A voice prepares the LORD's road
The Gospels use Isaiah's wilderness road to explain John's preparation for Jesus. - Aaron
Moses' brother and Israel's first high priest. - Abdon
Judge from Pirathon. - Abel
The brother killed by Cain. - Abigail
Woman whose intervention prevents David's bloodshed. - Abijah of Judah
King of Judah between Rehoboam and Asa. - Abimelech
Gideon's son who seizes power at Shechem. - Abraham
Called to leave his land and receives covenant promises. - Abraham and the covenant promise
God calls Abram, promises land and descendants, and makes a covenant that shapes the rest of Israel's story. - Absalom
David's son who rebels against him. - Acts
Acts continues Luke's narrative with the Spirit's coming, the Jerusalem community, mission beyond Judea, and Paul's journey toward Rome. Its speeches, summary scenes, and travel accounts are different literary forms.… - Acts 19:11–12
God works extraordinary healings through cloths associated with Paul. - Acts and Galatians: compare before harmonizing
Galatians is Paul's first-person argument about his gospel, call, and relationship with Jerusalem. Acts is a connected narrative with speeches, journeys, and a wider cast. The two sources overlap without providing an… - Adam
The first human in the garden narrative. - Addis Ababa conference
Heads of Oriental Orthodox churches gathered in Addis Ababa to strengthen their common witness and cooperation after long periods of limited contact. The conference reaffirmed their shared faith and discussed… - Adoptionism
Orthodox Christology confesses the eternal Word as the subject of the Incarnation, with complete divine and human natures. - Adult Breastfeeding
Sahih Muslim reports Muhammad instructing Sahla to nurse the adult Salim so that he would become unmarriageable kin and could enter the household. Aisha appealed to the episode more broadly; the other wives rejected… - After Acts: how early Christians remembered the apostles
Early Christian letters preserve communities remembering apostolic teaching and reading apostolic correspondence. 1 Clement recalls Paul's letter to Corinth and describes apostolic appointments; Ignatius invokes… - Agabus and Antioch's relief for Judea
Acts describes Agabus predicting a famine and the Antioch disciples arranging help for believers in Judea. Barnabas and Saul carry the assistance to the elders. - Agrippa I dies at Caesarea: comparing accounts
Acts and Josephus both recount Agrippa I's death after public acclamation in language appropriate to a god. Their descriptions differ in setting, sequence, and symptoms. - Ahab
Northern king confronted by Elijah. - Ahaz
King of Judah addressed by Isaiah in a crisis. - Ahaziah of Israel
Ahab's son and northern king. - Ahaziah of Judah
Judahite king killed during Jehu's revolt. - Aidan begins a mission from Lindisfarne
Oswald obtains a bishop from the monastic network associated with Iona. Aidan receives Lindisfarne as a base, and the king assists communication while the missionary learns the language. - Aisha's Reported Age and Child Marriage
Several canonical Sunni hadith report that Muhammad contracted marriage with Aisha when she was six or seven and consummated it when she was nine. That is the traditional Sunni chronology and the basis of the modern… - Aisha, the Wives, and Household Reports
Aisha, Hafsa, the wives, domestic disputes, marriage, intimacy, inheritance, and household practice. - Aleppo consultation proposes a common calculation of Easter
A World Council of Churches and Middle East Council of Churches consultation recommends retaining the received paschal principles while using precise astronomical calculation and the meridian of Jerusalem. - Alexander of Rome
Irenaeus places Alexander after Evaristus in his Roman episcopal list. - Alexander's conquest and Hellenistic rule
Alexander's conquest begins a long Hellenistic period that reshapes languages, politics, and the setting of later Jewish literature. - Alexandria
Alexandria connects biblical learning, the development of regional episcopal authority, and the controversies over the Trinity and Christ. Acts identifies Apollos as an Alexandrian, but does not narrate the city's… - Alexandria: Mark and Annianus
Eusebius reports that Annianus succeeded Mark the Evangelist in the administration of the Alexandrian church during Nero's reign. This is an early see tradition reported by a fourth-century historian. - Alexandrian Christians nurse neighbors during epidemic
Dionysius describes Christians caring for the sick and burying the dead during a devastating epidemic. Eusebius preserves his account in a discussion of Alexandria's successive crises. - Ali's Cumulative Authority Case
Sunni collections preserve several unusually strong statements about Ali: the Aaron-to-Moses analogy with prophethood excepted, divine and prophetic love at Khaybar, inclusion with Fatima, Hasan, and Husayn as… - Ali, Fatima, and Ahl al-Bayt
Reports concerning Ali, Fatima, Hasan, Husayn, the Prophet's family, and their claimed authority. - All authority and the one baptismal name
Jesus joins the Father and Holy Spirit in the singular baptismal name, claims authority in heaven and earth, and promises continuing presence. - All the fullness of the Deity
The claim is not merely that Christ has divine help or a spiritual gift: the passage names all the fullness of the Deity dwelling bodily in him. - Allah, Tawhid, and Divine Attributes
Divine body-language, throne, descent, speech, action, unity, and theological interpretation. - Altar
The altar serves the Lord's Supper. Lutheran worship connects the proclaimed Gospel with Christ's gifts received in the sacrament. - Altar
The Eucharist is celebrated at the altar, shown here freestanding and as the assembly's focus. Items placed on it depend on the part of Mass being celebrated.