Thursday, July 16, 2009

Exegesis

Sin of Pride:
"A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pride

"Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity."
http://www.deadlysins.com/sins/index.htm

Seninary School:
"A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is a specialized and often live-in higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in philosophy, theology, spirituality and the religious life, usually in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminary

Book of Leviticus:
Leviticus (Greek: Λευιτικός, "relating to the Levites") or Vayikra (Hebrew: ויקרא, literally "and He called") is the third book of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, and the third of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch.
Leviticus contains laws and priestly rituals, but in a wider sense is about the working out of God's covenant with Israel set out in Genesis and Exodus - what is seen in the Torah as the consequences of entering into a special relationship with God (specifically, Yahweh). These consequences are set out in terms of community relationships and behaviour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus

Shriner's Posters:
"The first Shriners Burns Hospital for Children opened its doors in 1966 in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Truman Blocker and Mr. Harvey Beffa worked with the Shrine philanthropy to establish hospitals to treat burned children and support burn related research. Shriners Hospitals for Children also had many hospitals that cared for children with orthopedic disabilities. With their four burn hospitals, Shriners cares for children with burn injuries from the time of acute injury through rehabilitation and individual reconstructive needs throughout their childhood.
Shriners Hospitals for Children at Galveston is a 30 bed hospital. It has an ICU with 15 acute beds, a reconstruction and plastic surgery unit with 15 reconstructive beds, three operating rooms, a multi-bed recovery room, clinics and a large outpatient population. The Galveston Shriners Hospital has treated patients from around the country and around the world."
http://www.totalburncare.com/shrinepage.htm

Fornicate:
Voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fornication

Rites of Purification:
Traditionally, Christianity adhered to the biblical regulation requiring the purification of women after childbirth; this practice, was adapted into a special ritual known as the churching of women, for which there exists liturgy in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer, but its use is now rare in Western Christianity. The churching of women is still performed in a number of Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and High church Anglicans are also traditionally required to regularly attend confession, as a form of ritual purification from sin, especially as preparation before receiving the Eucharist. However, this is only required once a year or if a mortal sin has been committed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purification#Christianity

Blasphemer:
"To speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things)."
"To speak evil of; slander; abuse."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blasphemer

Queer:
"mentally unbalanced or deranged."
"Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. "
"homosexual. "
"effeminate; unmanly."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/queer

Sistine Ceiling:
"The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV after whom it is named the Sistine Chapel. The chapel is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services[1]
The ceiling's various painted elements comprise part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Sistine Chapel which includes the large fresco of The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by a team of the most highly regarded painters of the late 15th century including Botticelli and Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.[2][3] (Main article:Sistine Chapel)
Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which the Creation of Adam is the best known, having an iconic standing equalled only by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling

Infallible Truth:
"absolutely trustworthy or sure"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/infallible

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