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- Bede the Venerable
Northumbrian monk, biblical commentator, historian, and teacher whose scholarship helped transmit Scripture and Christian learning in early medieval England. - 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. - Belshazzar
Babylonian court figure in the writing-on-the-wall narrative. - Benedict's Rule orders a community's daily life
The Rule arranges prayer, work, leadership, discipline, and shared possessions within a monastery. Its chapters on sickness and hospitality connect order with attention to vulnerability. - Benjamin
Jacob and Rachel's youngest son. - Berakhot 60b and Ta’anit 16a: later rabbinic witnesses
These are separate passages. Berakhot gives a bathroom-entry formula referring to accompanying angels. Ta’anit preserves alternative explanations for going to a cemetery in a drought fast, including asking the… - Bernard challenges monastic luxury and neglected poverty
In his Apology, Bernard criticizes elaborate monastic buildings and decoration while the poor lack necessities. He asks whether costly display encourages devotion or merely attracts further donations. - Bernard of Clairvaux
Cistercian abbot and preacher whose works unite biblical meditation, love of God, monastic reform, and an affective focus on Christ. - Bessarion gives Greek and Latin manuscripts to Venice
Bessarion donates his collection to St Mark's in Venice with conditions for its protection and use. Greek and Latin manuscripts become the foundation of an enduring public scholarly collection. - Betrayal by a trusted table companion
Jesus applies the psalm's betrayal by a trusted companion to the betrayal within his table fellowship. - Betrayal, arrest, and the scattered disciples
Jesus is betrayed and arrested while his disciples flee; he interprets the crisis through the shepherd and suffering-servant texts. - Beyond Jerusalem: Samaria and the Ethiopian official
After Stephen's death, Acts follows scattered believers who proclaim the word beyond Jerusalem. Philip preaches in Samaria; Peter and John subsequently visit, pray, and lay hands on the believers. A second scene… - Bezalel
Craftsman called for the tabernacle work. - Biblical images and final purification
Revelation's water of life and Daniel's fiery court express life and judgment in distinct visions. Catholic doctrine does not require identifying them as one river. The Catechism cautions that biblical images cannot… - Birth of Jesus before the Common Era
The Gospel infancy narratives place Jesus's birth under Herod the Great; the conventional calendar begins later than the historical birth it commemorates. - Blandina and the martyrs of Lyons and Vienne
A letter from churches in Gaul describes exclusion, arrests, interrogation, and deaths during a local persecution. Blandina's endurance becomes a central part of the community's remembrance. - Blessing for the nations through Abraham
The New Testament identifies Jesus within Abraham's line and reads the promise of blessing for nations through Christ. - Boaz
Kinsman who marries Ruth. - Boccaccio describes prayer and social disruption during plague
Boccaccio opens the Decameron with an account of plague in Florence. Public prayers, attempted precautions, disrupted care, and changes to burial customs appear within his portrait of the crisis. - Bonaventure
Franciscan theologian who presented creation, Scripture, and the spiritual life as a journey through Christ toward the triune God. - Boniface and companions are killed near Dokkum
Boniface's final Frisian mission ends in a fatal attack. Willibald describes the missionary refusing armed resistance and later traces the transfer of his remains to Fulda. - Bonn Agreement
The Bonn Agreement provided the basis for full communion between the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and Anglican churches. It became a major expression of Old Catholic ecumenical engagement. - Boris's questions bring everyday conversion into view
Nicholas I answers questions from Boris about Christian practice, discipline, marriage, fasting, and government. The responses reveal how adopting Christianity generated practical problems beyond a ruler's baptism. - Caesarea's completed harbor city is dedicated
Herod celebrates the completion of Caesarea with games, public hospitality, and a festival honoring Caesar. The coastal city becomes a major setting for later Roman and Christian history. - Cain
Adam and Eve's son who kills Abel. - Caleb
Faithful scout alongside Joshua. - Calling on the Lord’s name
Paul explicitly quotes Joel’s salvation promise in a paragraph about faith in the risen Jesus and confessing him as Lord. Joel names Yahweh; Paul’s Greek quotation uses Lord. - Can the departed pray or hear?
Ecclesiastes 9 describes the dead as lacking knowledge and a share under the sun. Why infer that they can pray for us, much less perceive our particular requests? - Canon and historical context
1 Enoch 9 depicts a request for heavenly advocacy. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church lists Enoch among its biblical books. Byzantine Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Reformed canons do not include it.… - Canons and Pastoral Discipline
Church canons regulate matters such as ministry, ecclesial order, reconciliation, and communal conduct. They are distinct from a council's doctrinal definition and from the canon of biblical books. Reading a… - Canterbury
Canterbury became Augustine's episcopal seat following the Gregorian mission to Kent in 597. Bede's later history preserves the mission narrative and related letters. It is a shared medieval inheritance whose later… - Cassian transmits Egyptian monastic instruction to Gaul
Cassian presents conversations with Egyptian elders for readers in the Latin West. The first conference distinguishes the immediate aim of purity of heart from the ultimate goal of God's kingdom. - Catechism of the Catholic Church published
The Church publishes a universal reference for Catholic teaching in the light of Vatican II. - Catherine of Siena
Dominican tertiary, spiritual writer, and public counselor whose teaching emphasizes divine providence, Christ as bridge, reform, and charity within the Church. - Catholic missions expand across continents
Missionaries and local Christian communities carry Catholic Christianity through Asia, the Americas, and Africa. Expansion occurs amid trade, colonial power, cultural exchange, and coercion that require careful study. - Catholic reform and the Council of Trent
The Council of Trent clarifies disputed Catholic teaching and mandates pastoral reform. New and renewed communities, including Jesuits and reformed Carmelites, shape education, mission, and prayer. - Catholic understanding of episcopal continuity
Vatican II teaches that bishops succeed the apostles as pastors and describes episcopal consecration and communion with the college of bishops and its head, the bishop of Rome. - Chalcedon and the Eastern–Oriental Orthodox division
Disputes over the Council of Chalcedon's Christological definition and its reception contributed to a durable rupture between churches that accepted the council and communities now known as the Oriental Orthodox…