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This one's tailor-made for jim, but fools rush in, etcGood Friday, origin of the term, from the Catholic Encyclopaedia.BTW jim, I know much in the work will have been superseded by new research, but...
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No, New Advent is a good and trustworthy site. Amazing these days how Catholics and Protestants have moved toward each other in many things at least here in the US. But the site you're citing is the...
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"Good" has a specialized sense, applied to dates and events celebrated by the church. It simply means holy. "Good Friday" is the best known example of this usage, by far. "Good Friday" has been called...
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I am Lutheran. I find the Catholic Encyclopedia frequently useful, but it has to be used with its origin in mind. Saints' lives are examples of entries which I would take with a grain of salt. Then...
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"Good Friday" has been called that since c.1290.In what language, Dave? If in English, what source? We're only 124 years into Middle English at that point (if 1066 is the dividing line, arbitrary as...
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English. As far as I know, "Good Friday" is a construction peculiar to English:c.1290 South English Legendary, I. 403/27, "A-morewe, ase one guode friday: ase he deide one rod"
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I'll risk venturing a little off-topic, although it does involve words.Jim's mention of the filioque clause reminded me of the tumult that shook the early church over the presence or absence of one...
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The words in question were homoousian and homoiousian, and (correct me if I'm wrong, jim) it had to do with whether the Son proceeded from the Father, or was co-eternal with the Father. It's in the...
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the "iota" issue had to do with God the Father and Son being either "of the same substance" or "of like substance." The Arians perferred the latter as I remember. You remembered correctly, Jim. The...
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Gibbon, Decline and Fall.The single iota separating them (Arians and Athanasians) marked a distinction invisible to all but the nicest theological eye.
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