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Scientific Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Theology - Historic Theology, Ecclesiastical History, grade: note, , course: patristics, language: English, abstract: The following work provides a quick overview over all 21 ecumenical councils as of today held by the Catholic Church. Every several hundred years, cardinals, bishops, priests, theologians and other Catholic leaders, get together under the leadership of the Pope to discuss doctrine and the future of the Church. These are called ecumenical councils. So far, there have been 21 councils in the history of the Church since 325 A.D. (Prior to that, serious persecution prevented widespread meetings. There were, however, less organize...
Scientific Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, , course: Moral Theology, language: English, abstract: This works discusses the Christian Ethic Moral Responsibility in Marriage. From the perspective of Canon Law, the term ‘‘marriage’’ designates both the act by which a man and a woman mutually give and accept each other permanently and exclusively, with the right to each other’s bodies regarding the acts ordered to procreation; and the permanent society that arises between them as a consequence of the earlier commitment. Marriage is the matrimonial covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, and w...
Scientific Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: note, , course: Spiritual Theology, language: English, abstract: The following essay aims to give an overview of the capital sins as listed by Saint Thomas Aquinas and its respective remedies. God has given us free will, reason, and a sense of responsibility. We are to use these gifts to live by His law. Sinning is what we do when we use our gifts of reason and free will in deviation from God’s law. Then, the seven capital sins are perilous tendencies which threaten the life of charity and the grace of God within us. It is seen as the roof of all sin, and John terms it to be “the lust of the flesh and the...
Scientific Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Theology - Historic Theology, Ecclesiastical History, , course: patristics, language: English, abstract: Saint Asterius of Amasea is the name of a little known man, but important. He is the fourth or fifth century Christian bishop whose work has been cited from the Second Council of Nicea onwards on the subject of religious icons and ecclesiastical art work. He is a treasure; a source of important information around the religious practices of polytheists in the later years of the Roman Empire. We have barely one fact concerning his early education. His principal teacher was a Scythian, who in his youth had been sold as a slave to a citizen o...
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110th Congress, 2nd Session. Jacket 41-228PDF or 41-228 PDF. The promotion of human rights is an essential piece of our foreign policy. This effort will be a global one that reaches beyond government alone. The reports in this volume will be used as a resource for shaping policy, conducting diplomacy, and arranging assistance, training, and other resource allocations. The reports will also serve as a basis for the U.S. Government’s cooperation with private groups to promote the observance of internationally-recognized human rights. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices cover internationally-recognized civil, political and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These rights include freedom from torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; from prolonged detention without charges; from disappearance or clandestine detention; and from other flagrant violations of the right to life, liberty and the security of the person.