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  2. New Testament athletic metaphors - Wikipedia

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    New Testament athletic metaphors. Ancient Greek race at the Panathenaic Games, illustrated on a Greek vase. Like the Isthmian Games of Corinth, the Panathenaic Games continued into early Christian times. [1] The New Testament uses a number of athletic metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles and the Epistle to ...

  3. Muscular Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Hughes's 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days did much to promote muscular Christianity throughout the English-speaking world. Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterized by a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of ...

  4. Chivalry - Wikipedia

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    Chivalry. Konrad von Limpurg as a knight being armed by his lady in the Codex Manesse (early 14th century) Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval Christian institution of knighthood, with knights being members of various ...

  5. Cafeteria Christians - Wikipedia

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    The related term "cafeteria Catholicism" is a pejorative term applied to Catholics who dissent from Roman Catholic moral teaching on issues such as abortion, birth control, premarital sex, masturbation or homosexuality. The term is less frequently applied to those who dissent from other Catholic moral teaching on issues such as social justice ...

  6. Code of Justinian - Wikipedia

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    The Code of Justinian ( Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus [2] or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople. Two other units, the Digest and the Institutes, were created during his reign.

  7. List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

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    240 Christian practice and observance. 240 Christian moral and devotional theology; 241 Christian ethics; 242 Devotional literature; 243 Evangelistic writings for individuals and families; 244 No longer used—formerly Religious fiction; 245 No longer used—formerly Hymnology; 246 Use of art in Christianity; 247 Church furnishings and related ...

  8. Christianity and association football - Wikipedia

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    There has been an extremely long history of the involvement of Christianity and association football. In 16th-century England, Puritan Christians opposed the contemporary forms of football, due to its violence and its practice on Sunday, the Sabbath day of rest. However, from the 19th century, Christians espousing the movement of "Muscular ...

  9. Codex Theodosianus - Wikipedia

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    A bust of Theodosius II in the Louvre. The Codex Theodosianus ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Emperor Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 [1] [2] and the compilation was published by a constitution of 15 ...