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Anbert in Hindu mythology, is the fruit of eternal life from the tree of Parajeti, which grows on the Meru Mountain. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Anbeheh in Hindu mythology, is the boundless ocean, which arose of itself. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Anazarbus Anazarbus, a titular metropolitan see of Cilicia (Lesser Armenia), suffragan of Antioch, known also to the ancients as Nova Troas, to the crusaders as Naversa, and to the Arabs as Aïn-Zarba. Councils were held there in 431 and 435. ———————————– SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 139; LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ. (1740), III, … Continue reading “Anazarbus”

Anazarba, Councils Of (Concilium Anazarbicum). I. Held in A.D. 431, to confirm the deposition of St. Cyril and those who believed with him. II. Held in 433 or 435. In this council many bishops, following the example of Theodoret, put themselves in communion with John of Antioch. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Anaya y Maldonado, Don Diego a Spanish prelate, was born at Salamanca about 1360. He was bishop of Salamanca when he was sent as ambassador to the Council of Constance with Martin Fernandez of Cordova. Appointed bishop of Salamanca in 1401, Anaya founded there a college designed to afford gratuitous instruction, and to this he … Continue reading “Anaya y Maldonado, Don Diego”

Anaximenes (6th Cent. B.C.) With Thales and Anaximander he belongs to the Milesian School of Greek Philosophy; as an Ionian he sought a cosmic material element which would explain the manifold processes of the natural world and declared this to be air. Air, he felt, had the attribute of Infinity which would account for the … Continue reading “Anaximenes”

Anaximander (6th Cent. B.C.) With Thales and Anaximenes he formed the Milesian School of Greek Philosophy; with these and the other thinkers of the cosmological period he sought the ground of the manifold processes of nature in a single world-principle or cosmic stuff which he identified with “the Infinite”. He was the first to step … Continue reading “Anaximander”

Anaxagoras, of Klazomene (about 430 B.C.) As a middle-aged man he settled in Athens; later he was accused of impiety and forced to leave the city. Anaxagoras taught that there is an infinity of simple substances, that is, such as are only divisible into parts of the same nature as the whole. These “seeds” are … Continue reading “Anaxagoras, of Klazomene”

Anaxagoras an eminent Greek philosopher, was born at Clazomenae, in Ionia, about B.C. 500. Inheriting wealth, he was able to give his time wholly to study. When twenty years old he went to Athens, where among his pupils were Pericles, Euripides, and Socrates. Accounts differ somewhat as to the nature of the persecution which drove … Continue reading “Anaxagoras”

Anatta-vada (Pali) Theory (vada) of the non-existence of soul (anatta) one of the fundamental teachings of Gautama Buddha (q.v.) who regarded all ideas about the soul or self wrong, inadequate or illusory. — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy