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- 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. - Swiss Brethren formulate the Schleitheim Articles
The Schleitheim agreement sets out seven articles concerning baptism, discipline, communion, separation, ministers, violence, and oaths. - 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 Dort
An international Reformed synod addresses disputes over election and grace and produces the Canons of Dort. Its conclusions do not represent every Protestant church. - 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. - Tahrif: Text, Meaning, Concealment, or Mixture?
The debates repeatedly use 'corruption' for different claims. Qur'an 3:78 speaks of some people twisting their tongues so that something is mistaken for Scripture; 4:46 and 5:41 describe moving words from their… - Tamar
Mother of Perez and Zerah in Judah's family story. - Targeted Killings, Blasphemy, and Wartime Deception
Canonical hadith attribute to Muhammad authorization of the killings of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf and Abu Rafi, figures portrayed in the sources as active wartime enemies or organizers. The Ka'b narrative includes deceptive… - Tatian combines Gospel narratives in the Diatessaron
Tatian arranges Gospel material into a combined narrative known as the Diatessaron. Eusebius later reports that copies of this compilation were still circulating in his own time. - Taught by God and drawn to Jesus
Jesus quotes the promise that Zion's children will be taught by God and applies it to hearing the Father and coming to him. - Tawhid and the Metaphysics of Allah
Tawhid is the Islamic confession of God's oneness and exclusive right to worship. At the metaphysical level it raises a linked set of questions: how one God can possess many attributes without composition, how… - Telesphorus of Rome
Irenaeus lists Telesphorus after Sixtus and says he suffered a glorious martyrdom. - Temple confrontation and Jerusalem teaching
Jesus challenges the temple's commerce with Isaiah and Jeremiah; final-Jerusalem parables, debates, and reflections on his public ministry are grouped with this phase. - Temple rededicated; Hanukkah
The sanctuary is purified and rededicated after Seleucid profanation. - Tertullian describes a community fund and common meals
In his Apology, Tertullian describes Christian assemblies, voluntary contributions, and meals framed by prayer. He presents shared resources as assistance for people in need rather than payment for religious membership. - Testament of Levi 5: an angel says he intercedes
Levi asks the angel for his name so that he may call on him in tribulation. The angel says he intercedes for Israel. This is an angelic role in a Jewish testamentary work; the extant passage does not name the angel… - The angel and the pillar at the sea
The divine presence moves between Israel and its pursuers. - The angel of God's presence
A prayer recalls Israel's redemption through the angel of God's presence and the guiding work of his Spirit. - The angel over Jerusalem
David sees an angel with an outstretched sword as judgment is restrained. - The angel who bears God's name
Israel is promised a guiding messenger in whom God's name is present. - The angel who is the God of Bethel
An angel in Jacob's dream identifies himself with the God of his earlier vow. - The angel who redeemed Jacob
Jacob's final blessing remembers God as shepherd and an angel as redeemer. - The angel with the drawn sword
A heavenly opponent blocks Balaam's journey before his eyes are opened. - The annunciation and conception
Gabriel announces Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit and his royal identity as David's heir. - The Apostolic Church in Jerusalem
Acts traces the praying apostolic community through Pentecost, common worship, diaconal service, persecution, mission, and the Council of Jerusalem. - The apostolic proclamation
The earliest Christian preaching centered on Jesus' death, resurrection, and lordship. Acts presents several speeches in narrative form, while Paul explicitly describes a message he received and handed on. Read both… - The Barmen synod rejects the church's ideological capture
Lutheran, Reformed, and United church representatives issue the Barmen Declaration against the theology and church government of the pro-Nazi German Christians. - The blind see and the lame walk
Jesus answers John's question with works that echo Isaiah's signs of restoration. - The blood of the covenant
The supper's covenant-blood language recalls Sinai, and Hebrews compares covenant inauguration through blood with Christ's saving work. - The Booths begin the East London mission
William and Catherine Booth begin the work that becomes the Christian Mission and, later, the Salvation Army. - The burning bush
The angel appears in flame; God calls Moses and reveals the divine name. - The children God has given and Christ's solidarity
Hebrews places Isaiah's words of trust and God-given children in its account of Jesus sharing humanity and overcoming death. - The Chinese Union Version is published
The Chinese Union Version emerges from a cooperative translation undertaking backed by several Bible societies. - The Church
Protestant churches gather believers for Word, baptism, the Lord's Supper, prayer, discipleship, and mission. They differ over whether bishops, presbyteries, congregations, or combinations of these should govern a…