Ambrosius von Mailand (* 339 in Augusta Treverorum, Römische Provinz Gallia Belgica; † 4. April 397 in Mediolanum, Gallia cisalpina) war der jüngere Bruder der Heiligen Marcellina und Satyrus von Mailand.Er wurde als römischer Politiker zum Bischof von Mailand gewählt. Er gilt als einer der vier lateinischen Kirchenlehrer der Spätantike der Westkirche und trägt seit 1295 den …

Lollardy was a religion of vernacular scripture. Lollards opposed many practices of the Catholic church. Anne Hudson has written that a form of sola scriptura underpinned Wycliffe's beliefs, but distinguished it from the more radical ideology that anything not permitted by scripture is forbidden. Instead, Hudson notes that Wycliffe's sola scriptura held the Bible to be "the only …

Result: Victory of the moderate Hussites (Utraquists or Calixtines) and Roman Catholics over the radical Hussites: . Compromise between moderate Hussites and the Catholic Church; both join forces to fight the radical Hussites; The moderate Hussites are recognized by the Catholic Church and allowed to practice their own rite

The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, and Jude, and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph (2) sons of the Mary named in Mark 15:40 as "mother …

Most modern knowledge of the medieval history of the Waldensians originates almost exclusively from the records and writings of the Roman Catholic Church, the same body that was condemning them as heretics.: 66 Because of "the documentary scarcity and unconnectedness from which we must draw the description of Waldensian beliefs",: 87 much of what is known about the early …

Dziewictwo, również prawictwo – termin określający stan osoby, która nigdy nie podejmowała stosunków seksualnych.Istnieją tradycje kulturowe i religijne, które przywiązują szczególną wartość i znaczenie temu stanowi, zwłaszcza wobec niezamężnych kobiet, kojarzonemu z pojęciami czystości osobistej, honoru i wartości. Utrata dziewictwa bywa nazywana defloracją.

The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following. It is the earliest surviving assertion of the perpetual virginity of Mary, meaning her virginity not just prior …

Peter Waldo (/ ˈ w ɔː l d oʊ, ˈ w ɒ l-/; c. 1140 – c. 1205; also Valdo, Valdes, Waldes; French: Pierre Vaudès, de Vaux, Latin: Petrus Waldus, Valdus) was the leader of the Waldensians, a Christian spiritual movement of the Middle Ages.. The tradition that his first name was "Peter" can only be traced back to the fourteenth century. This has caused some historians, such as Jana ...

Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English: John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice; c. 1360 – 11 October 1424) was a Czech general – a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and a Radical Hussite who led the Taborites.Žižka was a successful military leader and is now a Czech national hero.He was nicknamed "One-eyed Žižka", having lost one and then both eyes.

Jan Hus (/ h ʊ s /; Czech: [ˈjan ˈɦus] (); c. 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation.

Pelagianism is a Christian theological position that holds that the original sin did not taint human nature and that humans by divine grace have free will to achieve human perfection. Pelagius (c. 355 – c. 420 AD), an ascetic and philosopher from the British Isles, taught that God could not command believers to do the impossible, and therefore it must be possible to satisfy all divine ...

Origins. Protestants generally trace to the 16th century their separation from the Catholic Church. Mainstream Protestantism began with the Magisterial Reformation, so called because it received support from the magistrates (that is, the civil authorities).The Radical Reformation, had no state sponsorship.Older Protestant churches, such as the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren), …

John Wycliffe (/ ˈ w ɪ k l ɪ f /; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; c. 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, Catholic priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford.He became an influential dissident within the Catholic priesthood during the 14th century and is considered an important ...

Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus (geboren 347 in Stridon, Dalmatia; gestorben am 30. September 420 in Bethlehem, Syria Palaestina) war ein Gelehrter und Theologe der alten Kirche.Er war Kirchenlehrer und wird in verschiedenen christlichen Konfessionen als Heiliger und als Kirchenvater verehrt. Er gehört in der katholischen Kirche mit Ambrosius von Mailand, …