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• Canon
  [[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Canonical.jpg|right|frame]] '''''Canonical''''' is an adjective derived from canon. ''Canon'' comes from the Greek wo
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• Sutras
  ...phorism] (or line, rule, formula) or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a [[text]] in Hinduism or Buddhism. Literally ...rit: ''svādhyāya''). Since each line is highly condensed, another literary form arose in which commentaries (Sanskrit: bhāṣya) on the sutras were added,
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• Infamy
  ...ich he has, even among prudent men. It constitutes an irregularity, i.e. a canonical impediment which prevents one being [[ordained]] or exercising such orders ...sort, [[heresy]], real simony, etc. Infamy of law may be removed either by canonical purging or by application to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See Ho
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• Hebrew Prophets
  ...riesthood: it was a mystical craft-guild with apprentices and recruitment. Canonical prophets were not organised this way. The similar term "ben-navi" ("son of ...a voice to the plundered poor, to the profane riches of the world. It is a form of living, a crossing point of God and man. God is raging in the prophet's
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• Folly
  ...uctures]] to call [[attention]] to themselves through unusual details or [[form]]. * There is often an element of fakery in their construction. The [[canonical]] example of this is the sham ruin: a folly which pretends to be the remain
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• New Testament
  ...Modern scholarship differs on precisely by whom, when, or in what original form the various gospels were written. ...l books. They also can help establish linguistic conventions common in the canonical texts. Examples of early apocryphal works are the [[Gospel of Thomas]], the
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• Last Judgment
  ...] [[judgment]] by God of every [[nation]]. The concept is found in all the Canonical [[gospels]], particularly the [[Gospel of Matthew]]. [https://en.wikipedia. ...Judgment as inconsistent with an all-just and loving God, in favor of some form of universal salvation.
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• Prayer of Manasseh
  ...Clementine Vg printed it as a supplement (after Trent failed to list it as canonical). Protestants count it as one of 'the Apocrypha.'" (The Jerome Biblical Com
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• Palm Sunday
  ...' triumphal entry into Jerusalem]], an event mentioned in each of the four canonical [[Gospels]]. ...ptic Gospels and the [[Gospel of John]] report that people gave Jesus this form of honour. In the synoptics the people are described as laying their garmen
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• Absolution
  ...ty) Suspension], in the context of the formula for absolution, refers to a canonical penalty which can be incurred only by clerics; therefore, it is omitted whe Some priests use, in both the ancient and the more recent form, a short prayer for the spiritual well-being of the penitent: <blockquote>P
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• Parable
  ...the Prodigal Son" are central to [[Jesus]]' teaching method in both the [[canonical]] and [[apocrypha]]l narratives. ...by [[Greek]] [[Rhetoric|rhetorician]]s to any fictive illustration in the form of a brief narrative. Later it came to mean a fictitious [[narrative]], gen
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• Evangelism
  ...ον (transliterated as "euangelion") via Latin "Evangelium", as used in the canonical titles of the four Gospels, authored by [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Go The verb form of euangelion, euangelizo (transliterated "evangelism"), was used rarely in
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  ...is sometimes considered pejorative by those who consider such works to be canonical parts of their scripture. ...Books of the Maccabees]], that the Church "has not received them among the canonical scriptures".
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• Prophecy
  ...y's god. Ecstatic oracular [[behavior]] seems to have been the most common form of intermediation among figures not connected with recognized sanctuaries ( ...accepted part of religious life. However, once prophecy became written and canonical, the revelation of these same prophets attained a special status that inevi
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• Upanishads
  ...ryan periods. The Muktika Upanishad (predates 1656) contains a list of 108 canonical Upanishads. ...s between the two principal sects of Srividya upasana (a major [[Tantric]] form of Shaktism). As a result, the many extant listings of "authentic" Shakta U
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...Αποκαλυψις Ιωαννου, ''Apokalupsis Iōannou'') is the last [[Biblical canon|canonical book]] of the [[New Testament]] in the [[Bible]]. It is the only biblical b ...nonical status, except for the [[2 Esdras]] (Apocalypse of Ezra), which is canonical in the [[Russian Orthodox]] and [[Ethiopian Orthodox]] Churches.
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• Languages and Literature
  ...turalistic.'' One such language, [[Latino Sine Flexione]], is a simplified form of Latin. Another, [[Occidental language|Occidental]], was drawn from sever ...ge]]s, and some that are more theoretical in nature). These often take the form of [[character string]]s, produced by some combination of [[formal grammar]
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• Dance
  ...ic and to music [https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110116/] used as a form of [[Emotional expression|expression]], [[social]] [[social interaction|int ...es]] danced in the [[wind]]''), and certain [[dance (musical form)|musical form]]s or [[music|genre]]s.
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• Heresy
  ...icitly traced back to a founder or that did not have their own [[Scripture|canonical document]] containing a [[revelation]] (as, for example, do [https://en.wik ...[groups]] and associations found in the religions of illiterate [[tribes]] form an exception to this rule. When there are no fixed [[standard|norms]] set d
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• Compassion
  ...Though all life is considered [[sacred]], human life is deemed the highest form of earthly [[existence]]. To kill any [[person]], no matter their crime, is ...foremost among God's attributes are [[mercy]] and compassion or, in the [[canonical]] [[language]] of Arabic, Rahman and Rahim. Each of the 114 chapters of [[t
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