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• Secularism
  ...and with secularization as a sociological or historical process. Twentieth-century scholars whose work has contributed to the understanding of these matters i ...ck, Owen (1975). The Secularization of the European mind in the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...f the book Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century by Bruce F. Pauley, ISBN 088295993X # Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) ISBN 0-393-04818-7, page 74
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• Translation
  ...arly literary translation. These two ideals are often at odds. Thus a 17th-century French critic coined the phrase, "les belles infidèles," to suggest that t ...There have been periods, especially in pre-Classical Rome and in the 18th century, when many translators stepped beyond the bounds of translation proper into
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• Theology
  ...re, ''Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology'' 2nd ed.(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)</ref> ...Gregory 1006/Hoskier 215; the title was however in circulation by the 6th century - see Allen Brent ‘John as theologos: the imperial mysteries and the Apoc
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• Chosen People
  ...[[Deuteronomy]] (7:6, 14:2), a biblical text not written until the seventh century BCE. Underlying God's promises to [[Abraham]] and his descendants in [[Gene ...l be punished by God for their transgressions. Nevertheless, as the eighth-century prophet [[Hosea]] insists, punishment does not negate their election. Compa
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• Nazareth
  ...etymology of ''Nazareth'' from as early as [[Eusebius]] up until the 20th century has been said to derive from ''netser'', a "shoot" or "sprout", while the [ ..., pp. 272-310.) attesting to unambiguous human presence there from the 2nd century AD onward.
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...Apocalypse of John are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the 1st century. ...se in the Ancient Church, (c. 1929), pp. 139-142, esp. p. 138 In the [[9th century]], it was included with the ''[[Apocalypse of Peter]]'' among "disputed" bo
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...jīng "classic." According to [[tradition]], it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zho ...in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopte
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• Genesis
  ...Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century - these are the oldest surviving nearly-complete manuscripts of the [[Old T ...the documentary hypothesis advanced by Julius Wellhausen in the late 19th century. This sees Genesis as a composite work assembled from various sources: the
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• Satan
  The 2nd Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references For the Chasidic Jews of the eighteenth century, Ha-satan was ''Baal Davar''.
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• Atheism
  ...word began to indicate more-[[intention]]al, active godlessness in the 5th century [[BCE]], acquiring definitions of "severing relations with the gods" or "de ...ally denoting disbelief in the monotheistic [[Abraham]]ic god. In the 20th century, globalization contributed to the expansion of the term to refer to disbeli
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• El
  A Phoenician inscribed amulet of the 7th century BCE from Arslan Tash may refer to ʼĒl. Rosenthal (1969, p. 658) translate ...including a late inscription at Leptis Magna in Tripolitania dating to 2nd century (KAI. 129). In Hittite texts the expression becomes the single name Ilkunir
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• Civilization
  ...re''. ''Civilization'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor] ...to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue &mdash; until the 18th century.
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...]] was a semi-legendary Indian monk who traveled to [[China]] in the [[5th century]]. There, at the [[Shaolin Temple]], he began the Ch'an school of Buddhism, ...irst in Arabia, first appears in Egypt (and North Africa) beginning in the 2nd millennium BC.
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• Romance
  ...ose out of more or less spontaneous relationships. But also after the 18th century, illicit relationships took on a more independent role. In bourgeois marria ...'The Art of Courtly Love'', as it is known in English) written in the 12th century lists such rules as "''Marriage is no real excuse for not loving''", "''He
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• Astronomy
  ...often considered to be synonymous with '''astrophysics'''. Since the 20th century, the field of professional astronomy split into observational and theoretic ...gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros.html Eclipses and the Saros saros]. In the 2nd century BC, the size and distance of the Moon were estimated by [https://www-groups
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• Atlantis
  ...t to [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] by the Athenian lawgiver [[Solon]] in the 6th century BC. In Egypt, Solon met a priest of [[Sais, Egypt|Sais]], who translated th Another passage from Proclus' 5th century AD commentary on the ''Timaeus'' gives a description of the geography of At
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• Logic
  ...nsisted of [[grammar]], logic, and [[rhetoric]]. Since the mid-nineteenth century ''formal logic'' has been studied in the context of [[foundations of mathem ...han two millennia, while symbolic logic is comparatively new, only about a century old.
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...tic illness, there is virtually no argument about this problem in the 21st century. ...tic theory began with [[Otto Rank]] and [[Alfred Adler]] (turn of the 20th century), continued with behaviorists (e.g. Joseph Wolpe) into the 1940s and '50s,
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• Garden of Eden
  .... ''The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan''. Wine Pr. Publishing, 2nd edition (1997). ISBN 1579210074</ref> (though this claim has been disputed) ...at similar to the Christian concept of the Garden of Eden, and by the 16th century a larger intellectual association was made in a Cranach painting. In his p
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