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recalling that model (the emphasis on his blood is not called for by the literal mode of his execution, for crucifixion shed little blood); this language pertains to the religious or cultic sphere. * Henri Blocher is Knoedler professor of systematic theology at Wheaton College Graduate School, 501 E. College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187. 1 Histoire de la rhétorique oles Grecs à nos jours (éd. Michel Meyer; Biblio Essais 4283; [Paris]: Livre de Poche, 1999) 249 (my translation). 2 "Christ's Atonement: A Multi-Dimensional

being a religious organization. It offers as proof that its members are free to participate in the church, synagogue, temple, or mosque of their choice. Nevertheless, Freemasonry requires belief in a Supreme Being, promotes a liberal universalist theology, teaches righteousness by character, and engages in secret religious rituals. Doctrinally, it denies the deity of Christ, the truth of the Gospel, and the authority of the Bible. How did Freemasonry begin? In medieval Europe (900-1600 A.D.),

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a society governed by segregation and racism. In the fifties he joined the N.A.A.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), an association founded in 1909. He succeeded in his studies : Graduated in literature in 1948, in Theology in 1951.(*), his studies ended when he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1955 and became pastor in his father's church and married Coretta Scott on the same year whom he had 4 children. On December, 1st 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman was arrested

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being accepted. In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline converted to Jansenism. His father died in 1651. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his "second conversion", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. In this year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetic of triangles. Between 1658

philosophie, l'Afrique appartient aux africains, c’est-à-dire à ceux du continent. Les Blancs peuvent y avoir leur place mais c'est aux Noirs d'en prendre la direction. Au niveau religieux, le Black Consciousness Movement se prolongeait dans la Black theology (théologie noire)1, elle-même influencée par la théologie de la libération, et qui faisait alors son apparition aux États-Unis. Les réformes de Vatican II permirent au clergé officiel d'Afrique du Sud de s'impliquer plus avant dans la lutte pour

Château-Thierry, Champagne, in central France, the son of a government official. In his youth he read such writers as François Rabelais (1494?-1553), François de Malherbe (1555-1628), and Honoré d'Urfé (1568-1625). He went to Paris to study medicine and theology, but was drawn to the whirls of social life. It was not until the end of his life that he became interested in religion: religious rituals bored him. La Fontaine was qualified as a lawyer but he returned home in 1647 and assisted his father, a superintendent

deux siècles, comme étant la preuve de l’existence de Dieu. Conséquence : la théologie n’est pas séparée de la philosophie/ science. (et, bien entendu, la foi et la raison sont pensées en continuité, non en discontinuité) c3) W. Paley, Natural theology ; or Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity collected from the Apparences of nature (1802). Objet : prouver l’existence d’un dessein divin et montrer que le monde se trouve agencé pour assurer du mieux possible, le bonheur des êtres