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- 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. - 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. - Bible
The Bible supplies the texts read and preached in worship. Its physical placement differs; it may rest at the pulpit, lectern, or another stand. - 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. - Black Methodist congregations form the AME Church
Richard Allen and other Black Methodist leaders form the African Methodist Episcopal Church, establishing independent ecclesial leadership. - 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. - Bodily resurrection; differing intermediate states
The named historic confessions affirm bodily resurrection. Westminster XXXII teaches conscious souls awaiting reunion with their bodies. Adventist Belief 26 instead teaches unconscious rest until resurrection, with… - 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. - Book of Concord published
A collection of Lutheran confessional writings is published to articulate shared teaching after Reformation disputes. - 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. - Calvin's Institutes first published
Calvin's theological work becomes influential in Reformed Protestantism and expands through later editions. - 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 connects an older episcopal see with the English Reformation and the later worldwide Anglican Communion. Anglican accounts stress both continuity with the early Church and the changes of the sixteenth… - 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. - 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. - Central Aisle
An aisle provides access through the seating and may support processions or coming forward for Communion. Other churches arrange the room without a central aisle. - 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… - Chalcedon — Fourth Ecumenical Council
Chalcedon confesses one and the same Christ in two natures, without confusion, change, division, or separation. - Charlemagne's imperial coronation in Rome
Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. Einhard connects the event to the king's intervention after violence against the pope and describes tensions with the eastern imperial court. - Child praise and humanity crowned with glory
Jesus appeals to the psalm's praise from children; Hebrews and Paul apply its account of human rule to Jesus' suffering, glory, and victory. - Choir & Singers
Many Protestant churches use a choir to support hymnody and sung worship. Others use smaller ensembles, bands, or unaccompanied congregational song. - Chrismation and Confirmation
Anglicans and United Methodists practice confirmation as a baptized person's public affirmation of faith, while the Southern Baptist confession names Baptism and the Lord's Supper—not confirmation—as church… - Christ
Classical Protestant Christology receives the creedal confession of one Person in two complete natures.