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  2. The Lord’s Prayer

    Christians throughout the world recite the Lord’s Prayer in their personal devotions and in liturgical settings. Its universality and authority stem from its origin in the very words of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Thus, Cyprian of Carthage (210–258) could write: ‘For what can be...
    Author
    John Gavin
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Spiritual life and practices

  3. New Creation in the Christian Scriptures and Tradition

    This entry analyses biblical and subsequent Christian approaches to new creation, under the rubrics ‘the good’, ‘the new’, and ‘the beautiful’. The introduction sketches points of debate: ‘new creation’ as realized or eschatological, renewed or utterly new, as heaven or New Jerusalem, and...
    Author
    Edith M. Humphrey
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Sacred texts

  4. The Temple in the Christian Bible

    The temple of Jerusalem was a monumental structure of the Middle East from the tenth century BCE until the year 70 CE. It passed through phases of renovation, demise, and reconstruction. In scripture, and in the faiths of Judaism and Christianity, the Jerusalem temple is more than merely a ...
    Author
    Stephen L. Cook
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Sacred texts

  5. Gospel, Good News

    The New Testament gospel, or ‘good news’, is especially the announcement of Jesus’ saving death and resurrection. The New Testament explains that it is ‘according to the scriptures.’ This means that this good news must be understood in light of the backstory of God’s saving acts in history.
    Author
    Craig Keener
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Sacred texts

  6. Purgatory in Historical Perspective

    Purgatory is a place, state, or stage in the Christian afterlife where, after death, the soul is purged of minor, unexpiated sin so that it can be fit for heaven. ‘Purgatory’ derives from the Latin purgare (to purge) and hence as the noun purgatorium it is a place of purgation and purific...
    Author
    Isabel Moreira
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Being and existence

  7. Millenarianism

    The word ‘millenarianism’ is used narrowly to describe the idea, expressed in Rev 20:1–10, of a thousand-year kingdom of the saints before the last judgment, and broadly to describe general expectations of imminent radical betterment on Earth that this idea has sparked throughout Christia...
    Author
    Jayne Svenungsson
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Theological movements

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