Word: augustinian
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...Scripture," said Thomas a Kempis sought to be read in the spirit in which it was written." This statement taken from the writings of an Augustinian monk holds true today as much as it ever did in the fifteenth century...
...dividing these Laws into Ten have been a bitter problem. Jews have one method (the Talmudic) ; Reformed (Calvinistic) churches and the Orthodox Eastern Church another (the Philonic, after Phile Judaeus, 20 B. C. to 54 A. D.) ; and the Church of Rome and the Lutherans a third (the Augustinian, after St. Augustine...
...fine monuments dating from the thirteenth century and illustrating the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic period. The monuments which have been added to the group of similar status already in the Museum, are the figures of Abraham and Melchisedec from the Transept of the former Augustinian Church of Wechselburg in Saxony. Both of these figures, mediaeval symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same...
...framed in bands of color with a plain background, usually of gold. Herbert, in his "Illuminated Manuscripts", says that the book is one of the finest of extant Bestiaries. It was executed about 1170, and in 1187 Phillip, Canon of Lincoln, gave the book with others to the Augustinian Priory of Radford, now called Workshop. At one time the manuscript belonged to William Morris...
...KING'S CHAPEL LECTURES. "The Augustinian Theology." Professor J. Y. Platner. King's Chapel, Boston...