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- 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 Authority
Most Protestant churches treat the canonical Scriptures as the final norm for doctrine. Creeds, councils, pastors, and confessions can guide interpretation but are judged by Scripture. Sola scriptura does not mean… - Scripture and Confessions
Most Protestant churches receive Scripture as the final norm and treat creeds, confessions, and teachers as subordinate authorities. - 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
Most Protestant traditions treat Scripture as the final norm for doctrine and test church traditions against it. Confessions, councils, and ministers may have real but subordinate authority; churches differ in polity… - 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. - Second Temple completed
The rebuilt sanctuary anchors worship in the Persian-period community, though it differs from Solomon's Temple. - Seeing God and the Speech of God
Qur'an 75:22-23 is read by Sunni theologians as promising that radiant faces will look toward their Lord, and Sahih al-Bukhari 7434 compares the clarity of seeing God with seeing the full moon. Qur'an 6:103 says… - Semi-Pelagianism
Protestant accounts range from monergist to synergist explanations, but classical confessions reject the claim that fallen humanity can begin saving faith without grace. - Seoul
Seoul is a major setting for modern Korean Protestant congregations, theological education, ecumenical activity, and overseas mission. The history includes Korean Christian initiative, international missions,… - Separate them for me: the Spirit sends
Luke directly attributes both the commissioning speech and the sending to the Holy Spirit, not simply to an unnamed human initiative. - Serampore prints a Bengali New Testament
The Serampore mission completes a bound Bengali New Testament, joining translation with the practical work of printing and distribution. - Serapion investigates the Gospel of Peter
Serapion revisits his initial permission to read a text attributed to Peter after learning more about its teaching. Eusebius quotes part of his letter to the community at Rhossus. - Sergius's forest retreat develops into a monastic community
Sergius's solitary retreat and small Trinity church draw other monks into a community. The tradition emphasizes manual work, ascetic discipline, and a gradual transition from solitude to shared life. - Seth
Son of Adam and Eve after Abel's death. - Shallum
Northern king whose reign lasts one month. - Shamgar
Deliverer named briefly between Ehud and Deborah. - Shem
Son of Noah in the ancestral line of Abram. - Silas (Silvanus)
Silas is chosen by the Jerusalem church to carry the council's letter, accompanies Paul on mission, suffers imprisonment, and is named in several epistolary greetings. - Simeon
Jacob and Leah's second son; with Levi he attacks Shechem after the violation of their sister Dinah, an act Jacob later condemns. - Simon Maccabeus
Brother of Judas and founder of Hasmonean rule. - Sinai covenant and the Law
At Sinai, Israel receives covenant commandments and instructions for worship and communal holiness. - Sirach
Sirach offers extended practical instruction on speech, wealth, friendship, worship, care, and the pursuit of wisdom. Its praise of Israel's ancestors locates wise living within a remembered community and its worship. - Sixtus of Rome
Sixtus follows Alexander in Irenaeus's Roman list. - Slavery, Ownership, and Manumission
The Qur'an addressed a slaveholding society, regulated slavery, repeatedly praised or required manumission, and improved some protections, but it did not abolish slave ownership. Early Islamic sources portray… - Solomon
King associated with wisdom and the first Temple. - Solomon and wisdom traditions
Solomon's reign is associated with royal administration, wisdom, and Temple building; Proverbs and other wisdom books took shape over time. - Something greater than Solomon
Jesus explicitly contrasts the queen of the south's response to Solomon with the response to the greater wisdom present in his own ministry. - Song of Songs
Song of Songs is a collection of love poetry with alternating voices, desire, absence, searching, and delight. Jewish and Christian readers have also read it figuratively; those receptions should be identified… - Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: seventh song
The available excerpt praises God and addresses exalted heavenly beings. It is liturgical praise, not an individual petition to a departed saint. The online excerpt is partial and cannot establish the complete song… - Soter of Rome
Soter follows Anicetus in Irenaeus's Roman list. - Spiritual Life: Prayer, Repentance, and Love
Christian spiritual writing connects prayer with repentance, the formation of desire, and concrete love of God and neighbor. In the Orthodox writers gathered here, ascetic practices serve communion with God rather… - Stephen and the spread beyond Jerusalem
Stephen's martyrdom and the scattering of believers widen the mission described in Acts. - Stephen the Protomartyr
Stephen is appointed among the Seven, performs signs, disputes with opponents, testifies before the council, sees the Son of Man in glory, and is killed while praying for his persecutors.