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• Libertine
  ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade ...Divinity in the University of St. Andrews, and Christian minister in 17th Century Scotland) offered a rigorous treatment of "Libertinism" in his polemical wo
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• Fallen angel
  ...taken to identify the "sons of God" of Gen 6:1 and 4 as angels. By the 3rd century, there is [[evidence]] that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enoc
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• Conundrum
  ..., such as a conflict known as Buridan’s ass, which was posed by fourteenth-century philosopher Jean Buridan. An ass forced to choose between two equally lusci ...uch as the problem faced by economists in the second half of the twentieth century of how to achieve full employment without inflation.
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• University
  ...ult of manifold [[change]]s occurring in the second half of the nineteenth century. Demographic and urban growth, industrialization, democracy, and religious ...and encourage [[religious]] [[belief]]. Until approximately the nineteenth century, most graduates of universities entered clerical careers, and most academic
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• Holy
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] The [[English]] [[word]] holy dates back to at least the 11th Century with the Old English word '''hālig''', an adjective derived from ''hāl''
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• Wheel
  *Date: before [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...us_Valley_Civilization Indus Valley] by the 3rd millennium BCE. During the 2nd millennium BCE, the spoke-wheeled chariot spread at an increased pace, reac
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• Dialogue
  ...cily|Sicilian]] poets [[Sophron]] and [[Epicharmus]] had cultivated half a century earlier. The works of these writers, which Plato admired and imitated, hav In the [[2nd century|2nd century AD]]. [[Lucian of Samosata]] achieved a brilliant success with his ironic d
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• Hebrews
  ...in Jewish holy scriptures, study, speech and prayer. Since the late 19th century, Hebrew has undergone a secular revival, to become the primary everyday lan
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• Immortal
  * [[Melchizedek]] (18th century BC), a priest. According to some [[translation]]s of [[Hebrews]] 7:3: "With * The Wandering Jew (b. 1st century BC), a Jewish shoemaker. According to legend, he taunted [[Jesus]] on his w
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• Ratio
  ...ios delayed the full acceptance of fractions as alternative until the 16th century.[11] * "Proportion" New International Encyclopedia, Vol. 19 2nd ed. (1916) Dodd Mead & Co. pp270-271
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• Yoga
  ...ced by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pata%C3%B1jali Patañjali] in the 2nd century BC. Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy with a high l
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• Mirror
  ...a ray coming from one point is reflected to another point.[4] By the 11th century, clear glass mirrors were being produced in Moorish Spain.[5] ...e exact date and location of the [[discovery]] is unknown, but in the 16th century, [[Venice]], a city famed for its glass-making expertise, became a centre o
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• Reconciliation
  ...meaning]] in the [[context]] of the [[war]]s and violence of the twentieth century. But the wars of the twentieth century and the many situations of transitional [[justice]] (the restoration of civ
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• Christ as Logos
  ...nism]]. The debate about the [[nature]] of [[Jesus|Christ]] from the first century through the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE must be understood in light of t ...ginning of the second century AD, Pre-Gnosticism was present in the second century BC. This syncretism is clearly seen in the parallelism of the Rabbinic writ
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• Rest
  ...re [[thought]] to have emerged in Victorian Britain in the late nineteenth century, late in the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Early factories required workers to # The “u” first appeared in the early sixteenth century, probably by analogy with words such as pleasure.[1]
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• Paper
  ...e early 12th century. [[Mechanized]] production of paper in the early 19th century caused significant cultural changes worldwide, allowing for relatively chea
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...gical evolutionary ideas began to appear towards the end of the eighteenth century. A prominent exponent in England was the physician and naturalist Erasmus D ...ovidence, where all depends on God's grace. Although by the mid nineteenth century religious worries were still much in evidence, Charles Darwin met this chal
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• Jurors
  The modern jury trial evolved out of this custom in the mid 12th century during the reign of Henry II. [1] Juries, usually 6 or 12 men, were an "anc ==18th Century England==
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• Adolf von Harnack
  In the 19th century, [[higher criticism]] flourished in Germany, establishing the [[historical- ...ritative]] doctrinal system of the church and its development from the 4th century down to the Protestant Reformation. He considered that from its earliest or
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...eachings of [[Buddha|Gautama Buddha]], a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama (c. [[5th century BCE]]). Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in [[metaphysic ...rocess took shape from about the [[2nd century BCE]] to probably the [[2nd century CE]].
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