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- Roman gifts support distant churches and prisoners
Dionysius of Corinth thanks the Roman church for assistance sent to other communities and to Christians working in the mines. He also describes reading its letter publicly. - Romans
Paul writes to a community he had not founded, setting out his account of God's righteousness, the gospel, Israel, and a transformed common life. The letter's theological argument culminates in practical exhortation… - Romans destroy the Second Temple
The destruction of Jerusalem's Temple reshapes Jewish and Christian history and the setting of early Christian interpretation. - Rome
Rome is the see associated with Peter and Paul and the center of Catholic communion with the pope. Catholic teaching connects the Roman succession with a universal Petrine office; Paul's letter, 1 Clement, and… - Rome and Constantinople lift 1054 anathemas
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, with his synod, remove the memory of the 1054 excommunications from their churches; this does not restore full communion. - Rome enters Judean politics
Pompey's intervention ends Hasmonean independence and establishes Roman dominance in Judea. - Rome establishes the Congregation de Propaganda Fide
Gregory XV creates a permanent congregation to coordinate missionary activity from Rome. - Rome from Evaristus to Eleutherus
After Clement, Irenaeus lists Evaristus, Alexander, Sixtus, Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius, Anicetus, Soter, and Eleutherus, whom he describes as holding the episcopate in his own day. - Rublev and Daniel paint the cathedral at Vladimir
Rublev and Daniel the Black work together on the cathedral at Vladimir. Their painting belongs to a network of monastic and episcopal commissions in northeastern Rus. - Rudolf preserves women's memories of Leoba
Rudolf compiles a Life of Leoba using earlier notes and recollections associated with nuns from Bischofsheim. The text preserves women's learning and leadership within the Anglo-Saxon continental mission. - Ruth
Ruth tells a compact story of migration, bereavement, loyal care, and restored belonging. A Moabite widow becomes part of David's ancestry through ordinary acts of provision and a publicly negotiated family obligation. - Ruth
Moabite woman whose loyalty leads to David's ancestry. - Ruth and the family of David
Ruth's loyalty, incorporation into Israel, and family line lead toward David; the book's composition date is distinct from its setting. - Sacraments and holy mysteries
The Catholic Church teaches seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. The Eucharist occupies a distinctive central place. - Sacraments, mysteries, and ordinances
Catholic teaching names seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. It groups them as initiation, healing, and service of communion. - Sacred Images
Catholic churches use images of Christ and the saints in prayer, teaching, and remembrance. Catholic teaching distinguishes honor directed to the person depicted from adoration of God; the material object is not… - Sacred Images
Catholic teaching permits sacred images because of the Incarnation and distinguishes their veneration from adoration of God. - Sacrifice, supper, and the festival clock
The Torah distinguishes the Passover sacrifice and meal from the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread. Josephus supplies a first-century description of that distinction. Later rabbinic material distinguishes… - Sacristy
Vestments and items needed for Mass are prepared in the sacristy. Its location depends on the church plan. - Sahih Hadith Body-Language Corpus
This dossier isolates body-related language found in Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or a report explicitly graded Sahih in the linked edition. It includes face or countenance, the denial that the Lord is one-eyed,… - Saints
Catholics honor canonized saints as members of Christ's body, seek their prayers, and reserve worship for God alone. - Salvation
Catholic teaching describes salvation as God's grace in Christ, received in faith and lived through love, sacramental communion, and perseverance. - Salvation as a light for the nations
Simeon describes the child Jesus as salvation and light for the nations, echoing Isaiah's servant mission. - Samson
Nazirite judge in conflict with the Philistines. - Samuel
Prophet and judge who anoints Saul and David. - Samuel and the transition to kingship
Samuel serves as prophet and judge during Israel's transition from tribal leadership to monarchy. - Sanctuary
The sanctuary is the area for the altar, ambo, and ministers. Elevation or another architectural feature distinguishes it from the nave. - Sarah
Abraham's wife and Isaac's mother. - Saul
Israel's first king in Samuel's account. - Saul becomes king
Israel's first king begins the monarchy, though the biblical account also portrays tension between kingship and covenant fidelity. - Sava and Simeon renew Hilandar as a Serbian monastery
Sava and his father Simeon, the former ruler Stefan Nemanja, establish a Serbian monastic community on an older Athonite site. Hilandar joins Serbian patronage with the wider life of Mount Athos. - Sava is consecrated for the Serbian Church
Sava receives consecration as archbishop at Nicaea, where the Constantinopolitan patriarchate is operating in exile. He organizes a Serbian ecclesiastical center at Žiča. - Scripture and Tradition
Catholics receive the inspired Scriptures within the apostolic Tradition by which the Church hands on the gospel. Tradition is more than old customs, and the teaching office of the bishops in communion with the pope… - Scripture Confirmation Dilemma
This focused form of the Islamic Dilemma asks what the Qur'an confirms when it speaks of the Torah, the Gospel, and prior Scripture. If the referent includes the texts read by Jews and Christians in the seventh… - Scripture, public reading, and the canon
The New Testament texts describe Israel's Scriptures and the public circulation of apostolic letters. The later process of naming a complete Christian book collection appears in writers such as Eusebius and… - Scripture, tradition, and church authority
Catholic teaching understands Scripture and Tradition as one sacred deposit of faith interpreted authentically by the Church's teaching office, with bishops in communion with the pope. - Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium
Catholic teaching says Scripture and apostolic Tradition transmit one deposit of faith served by the Church's teaching office. - Sealed with the Spirit, pledged an inheritance
The passage locates the Spirit within a coordinated account of salvation, after the Father’s election and redemption in Christ. - Second Council of Constantinople
The council addressed the Three Chapters and interpreted Chalcedon in a strongly Cyrilline direction, insisting that the incarnate Lord is the one divine Word. - Second Council of Nicaea
The council defended the place of holy images in Christian life, distinguishing honorable veneration given to icons from worship owed to God alone.