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- Second Temple completed
The rebuilt sanctuary anchors worship in the Persian-period community, though it differs from Solomon's Temple. - Second Vatican Council
The council addresses the Church's life and mission, liturgy, revelation, ecumenism, and relations with the modern world. - 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
Catholic teaching affirms real cooperation with grace while denying that the initiative of saving grace is earned or generated by unaided nature. - 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. - 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… - Society of Jesus receives papal approval
Papal approval of the Society of Jesus supports a new community devoted to mission, education, and service. - Sollicitudo Rei Socialis develops the theme of solidarity
John Paul II's encyclical examines development, international inequalities, and solidarity as a moral response to interdependence. - 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… - Stained Glass
Many churches include windows depicting biblical scenes, saints, or Christian symbols. Their subjects and styles are local artistic choices. - Stations of the Cross
A traditional set of fourteen stations recalls Christ's Passion and death. Other approved devotional forms also exist. - 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. - Strasbourg's Jewish community is attacked amid plague accusations
False accusations of well poisoning contribute to violence against Jews. The Strasbourg chronicle describes the destruction of a community and the appropriation of property and debts. - Sulpicius writes the Life of Martin of Tours
Sulpicius portrays Martin as a monk and bishop, combining accounts of charity, ascetic practice, conflict, and wonders. The author also describes personal contact with his subject. - Susanna
Woman vindicated by Daniel in the Greek addition to Daniel. - Symeon of Jerusalem
Eusebius reports that Symeon son of Clopas succeeded James in Jerusalem and later suffered martyrdom. The report preserves a local succession claim but comes through later historiography. - Symeon the New Theologian
Symeon's writings emphasize repentance, spiritual fatherhood, and conscious participation in the Holy Spirit. - Synod of 424 and Church of the East autonomy
The synod under Catholicos Dādīšōʿ barred appeals to churches west of the Sasanian realm, consolidating the Persian church's self-government. This preceded the Council of Ephesus in 431; reception of Antiochene… - Synod of Jassy (Iași)
The synod examined Peter Mogila's Orthodox Confession and made corrections before the confession's wider circulation and patriarchal approval. - Synod of Jerusalem
Convened under Patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem, the synod answered Calvinizing propositions in the confession attributed to Cyril Lucaris and issued the Confession of Dositheus on Scripture, the Church, grace, and… - Synods of Antioch and Paul of Samosata
Regional bishops address teachings attributed to Paul of Samosata and depose him from the see of Antioch.