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  • 31BELIEF — The Bible In the Bible there are no articles of faith or dogmas in the Christian or Islamic sense of the terms. Although trust in God is regarded as a paramount religious virtue (Gen. 15:6; Isa. 7:9; cf. Job 2:9), there is nowhere in Scripture an …

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  • 32Islamic philosophy — This article is part of the series …

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  • 33John Toland — (November 30, 1670 March 11, 1722) was an Irish philosopher.BiographyVery little is known about his true origins other than the fact that he was born in Ardagh (Ballyliffin) on the Inishowen Peninsula, a predominantly Catholic and Irish speaking… …

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  • 34Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800 - 1400) — This article covers the influence of Jewish and Islamic philosophy on each other, focusing especially on the period from 800 1400 CE. Early philosophy A century had hardly elapsed after the Qur an was released, when numerous elements of religious …

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  • 35Middle Ages in history — The Middle Ages in history is an overview of how previous periods have both romanticised and disparaged the Middle Ages. After the period came to an end with the Renaissance, subsequent cultural movements such as the Enlightenment and Romantics… …

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  • 36irrational — [i rash′ə nəl] adj. [ME < L irrationalis: see IN 2 & RATIONAL] 1. lacking the power to reason 2. contrary to reason; senseless; unreasonable; absurd 3. Math. designating a real number not expressible as an integer or as a quotient of two… …

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  • 37custom — cus·tom n 1: a practice common to many or to a particular place or institution; esp: a long established practice that is generally recognized as having the force of law see also section 1983 compare usage 2 pl …

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  • 38Christian apologetics — Part of a series on Christianity   …

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  • 39Catholic Enlightenment — The term Catholic Enlightenment refers to a heterogeneous phenomenon in Ancien Régime Europe and Latin America. It stands for the Church policy pursued by a Catholic enlightened monarch and/or his ministers as well as for a reform movement (which …

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  • 40contradictory — I adjective abjuratory, absonant, adversative, adverse, antagonistic, antithetical, asserting the contrary, asserting the opposite, at odds, at variance, clashing, conflicting, confutative, confuting, contradicting, contradistinct,… …

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