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- Athanasius of Alexandria
Alexandrian bishop and defender of the Nicene confession that the Son is truly divine and not a creature; his writings tie the incarnation to the restoration of human life. - Athenagoras asks emperors to examine Christian beliefs
Athenagoras's Plea asks imperial readers to assess Christians by their teaching and conduct rather than their name. He answers accusations against Christian worship and describes belief in the Father, Son, and Holy… - Athenagoras, Plea for the Christians 10 and 24
Athenagoras describes angels and ministers whom God appoints to posts around the elements, heavens, world, and its ordering. They are created ministers under God’s providence, not independent powers. - Audit of Viral 'Body of Allah' Charts
The supplied images are polemical composites, not quotations from one Islamic source. A fair audit separates citation from inference. Several labels point to genuine texts, but the assembled humanoid body, assigned… - Augsburg
Augsburg was the setting for the presentation of the Augsburg Confession in 1530. Its articles make the Lutheran case on justification, the Church, ministry, and the sacraments. A confession presented at an imperial… - Augsburg Confession presented
Lutheran representatives present a confession of faith to Emperor Charles V at Augsburg. - Augustine advises a teacher of Christian beginners
Deogratias asks Augustine for help introducing newcomers to the Christian faith. Augustine addresses the order of an explanation and the difficulty of teaching with attention, patience, and genuine engagement. - Augustine of Hippo
North African bishop whose writings on the Trinity, grace, Scripture, and Christian life profoundly influenced later Western theology. - Augustine turns remembered life into the Confessions
Augustine addresses God while recalling childhood, ambition, religious searching, and conversion. The opening book presents memory as a setting for praise and moral examination. - Augustine's mission meets the king of Kent
A mission sent from Rome reaches Kent and receives permission to preach. Bede describes a meeting with Æthelberht and the subsequent establishment of the missionaries at Canterbury. - Azusa Street revival and Pentecostal expansion
The Los Angeles revival becomes a major point of connection in early Pentecostal networks. Pentecostal histories have multiple origins and later develop across many regions. - Baasha
Northern king who overthrows Nadab. - Babel and the nations
Genesis 11 depicts the scattering of peoples and languages before the call of Abram. - Babylon defeats Egypt at Carchemish
The Babylonian Chronicle describes Nebuchadnezzar, still crown prince, defeating Egyptian forces at Carchemish and pursuing them toward Hamath. - Banu Qurayza: Execution and Enslavement
After the Battle of the Trench, the Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza surrendered. Qur'an 33:26-27 alludes to killing and captivity without a number. Canonical hadith say that Sa'd ibn Mu'adh judged that fighting men be… - Baptism
Lutheran and many Reformed churches baptize infants and speak of God's promise in baptism. Baptists baptize professing believers, ordinarily by immersion, as an act of obedience and witness. Other Protestant churches… - Baptism and Christian initiation
Protestant churches agree on Christ's command to baptize but differ sharply on recipients and effects. Lutheran and many Reformed churches baptize infants and speak of God's promise in baptism; Baptist churches… - Baptism and public ministry of Jesus
Jesus is baptized by John and begins proclaiming the Kingdom, teaching, healing, and gathering disciples. - Baptism and the Supper
Baptism and the Lord's Supper are central rites across Protestant churches, but their meaning is not uniform. Lutherans, Reformed churches, Anglicans, and Methodists commonly baptize infants; Baptists generally… - Baptism of Kievan Rus
The conversion associated with Vladimir and Kyiv marks a major phase in the spread of Orthodox Christianity among eastern Slavs. - Baptism: command, response, and early practice
Matthew's commission names Father, Son, and Spirit; Acts connects baptism with response to the proclamation; Romans 6 interprets it in relation to Christ's death and resurrection. The Didache later gives practical… - Baptismal Font
A visible font is used in many Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, and Reformed churches. Baptist and other immersion traditions may use a baptistery instead. - Baptist World Alliance founded
Baptists from different countries form a worldwide fellowship for cooperation while recognizing the independence of member churches. - Barak
Commander summoned by Deborah against Sisera. - Barnabas
Joseph called Barnabas supports the Jerusalem church, introduces Saul to the apostles, helps establish Antioch, is sent with Paul, and later continues mission with Mark. - Baruch
Baruch frames confession, wisdom, and consolation through the experience of exile and the voice associated with Jeremiah's scribe. Its promise of divine instruction and return should be read before later… - Baruch
Jeremiah's scribe in the scroll narrative. - Baruch reads Jeremiah's scroll; Jehoiakim burns it
Jeremiah dictates a scroll to Baruch, who reads it publicly. When it reaches the palace, the king destroys it; Jeremiah dictates a replacement with further material. - Basil advises young readers on Greek literature
Basil advises young Christians to approach Greek literary education selectively. He treats useful moral examples as preparation while warning readers not to imitate everything admired in a text. - Basil defends a complex for travelers and the sick
Basil explains to the governor why accommodation for travelers and people needing treatment benefits the city. He describes medical personnel, transport, and buildings alongside the church. - Basil organizes food relief during a Cappadocian famine
Gregory recalls Basil persuading people with supplies to share them and organizing meals for those suffering hunger. Infants, older people, and entire households appear in the account. - Basil the Great
Cappadocian bishop whose work on the Holy Spirit and letters helped clarify Trinitarian language while his pastoral activity shaped communal Christian life. - Basil the Great and the Spirit
Basil defends the Holy Spirit's divine dignity and helps articulate one divine essence and three hypostases. - Bathsheba
Mother of Solomon and a figure in David's court. - Bede finishes his history of the English churches
Bede brings his Ecclesiastical History to his own day and lists his writings. His account preserves letters, local memories, biographies, and a chronological framework for the English churches. - Before Abraham was, I AM
Jesus makes an extraordinary claim in a dispute about Abraham, using an unqualified I am after before Abraham came into existence. - Before all things; through him and for him
The passage places every visible and invisible power within the all things created through and for the Son, then says he is before all things. - Beginnings & ancestors
Creation, the primeval narratives, covenant ancestors, the twelve-tribe family, Joseph, and Job form the opening cluster. - Belhar confesses unity, reconciliation, and justice
The Dutch Reformed Mission Church adopts the Belhar Confession, rejecting a theology that sanctifies racial separation and injustice. - Belshazzar
Babylonian court figure in the writing-on-the-wall narrative.