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- Revelation
Revelation is a prophetic apocalypse addressed to seven churches in Asia. It uses dense images drawn from Israel's Scriptures to call communities to faithful witness amid pressure and compromise. Its visions should… - Revelation 5 and 8: prayers represented in heavenly liturgy
Revelation depicts bowls of incense identified with the prayers of the holy ones and an angel offering incense with those prayers before God. This is visionary liturgy, not a narrated request to a departed saint. - Revelation and Prophetic Reliability
Revelation, memory, perception, miracles, illness, and claims about Muhammad's protected conduct. - Revelation and Protection Arguments
Three pressure tests examine what can honestly be claimed about canonical authenticity, prophetic perception, memory, and protected transmission. - Revelation, Personal Benefit, and Conflict of Interest
Critics observe that some Qur'anic revelations resolved Muhammad's household problems, granted distinctive marriage permissions, regulated access to his home, allocated a share or administrative control over spoils,… - Revolt against Rome breaks out in Judea
Conflict with Roman authorities develops into revolt. Josephus follows disputes at Caesarea, violence under Florus, divisions within Jerusalem, and the ending of sacrifices on behalf of the emperor. - Roman census and the resistance of Judas
After Archelaus loses his rule, Roman officials assess Judean property. Josephus describes Judas and Saddok resisting the assessment; Acts later remembers Judas as a failed leader associated with a census. - 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. - Romanian lands
Wallachia and Moldavia developed enduring Orthodox church and monastic traditions. Northern Moldavia's painted churches preserve cycles of biblical and sacred subjects in Byzantine-inspired art. In the eighteenth… - 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
Paul wrote to an existing Roman Christian community before his arrival narrated in Acts. Later witnesses connect Rome especially with Peter and Paul, and the Roman church's letter to Corinth shows concern beyond its… - 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 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. - Russian Church enters synodal era
The Russian patriarchate is replaced by a governing Holy Synod under Peter I's reforms, reshaping Church–state relations. - 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
Orthodox Christians commonly name seven holy mysteries, while also understanding the Church's whole life as sacramental. Treating seven as an exhaustive boundary can misstate that broader view. - Sacraments, mysteries, and ordinances
Orthodox Christians ordinarily call these rites holy mysteries. Seven are commonly listed, but the Church's whole life in Christ is understood sacramentally; the number seven is not an exhaustive boundary. - 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… - 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
Saints are Christians whose lives bear notable witness to Christ and the work of grace. - Saints & Theotokos
The saints are living members of Christ's Body whose holiness is God's work in human persons. The Church honors them, asks their prayers, imitates their faith, and celebrates God's victory in them. Mary is Theotokos… - Salvation
Salvation is God's work in Christ, joining forgiveness, new life, and restoration to communion with God. - Salvation & Theosis
Salvation is deliverance from sin, corruption, and death; forgiveness and reconciliation; healing and transformation; adoption in Christ; and participation by grace in God's uncreated life. Theosis does not mean… - 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 holy area behind the iconostasis and contains the Holy Table. Those serving there enter for their appointed responsibilities. - 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.