Visit ad Limina (Sc. Apostolorum) The visit ad limina means, technically, the obligation incumbent on certain members of the hierarchy of visiting, at stated times, the “thresholds of the Apostles”, Sts. Peter and Paul, and of presenting themselves before the pope to give an account of the state of their dioceses. The object of the … Continue reading “Visit ad Limina”
Visit
Visit (, ). Little mention is made in the Bible of ceremonies or complimentary visits of a social character. SEE COURTESY. Guests were welcomed with water to wash their feet (Gen 18:4; Gen 24:32; Jdg 19:21; 1Sa 25:41; Luk 7:44, etc.; comp.; Shaw, Travels, p. 208); just as in modern times coffee, tobacco, and frequently … Continue reading “Visit”
Visistadvaita
Visistadvaita (Skr.) “Qualified non-duality”, the Vedantic (q.v.) doctrine of qualified monism advocated by Ramanuja (q.v.) which holds the Absolute to be personal, world and individuals to be real and distinct (visista), and salvation attainable only by grace of God earned through bhakti (q.v.). — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Visions
Visions This article will deal not with natural but with supernatural visions, that is, visions due to the direct intervention of a power superior to man. Cardinal Bona (De discret. spir., xv, n. 2) distinguishes between visions and apparitions. There is an apparition when we do not know that the figure which we see relates … Continue reading “Visions”
Vision
VISION A supernatural presentation of certain scenery or circumstances to the mind of a person either while awake or asleep, Isa 6:1-13 Eze 1:1-28 Dan 8:1-27 Mal 26:13 . See DREAM. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Vision In modern English, vision, from Lat. videre, to see. is almost synonymous with sight, but in the … Continue reading “Vision”
Visigoths
Visigoths One of the two principal branches of the Goths. Until 375 their history is combined with that of the Ostrogoths. Ulfilas (Wulfila) laboured among the Visigoths, translated the Bible into their language, and preached Arianism with great success until prince Athanaric obliged him to withdraw (348). At the invasion of the Huns some of … Continue reading “Visigoths”
Visible Church
Visible Church designates the whole body of the professed believers in divine truth united in one body, as distinguished from those who are true believers, united with the former, yet not to be distinguished from them, and hence called the invisible Church. SEE CHURCH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Visible
Visible from horao, “to see,” occurs in Col 1:16. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Vishnuism
Vishnuism (Visnuism) One of the major philosophico-religious groups into which Hinduism has articulated itself. It glorifies Vishnu as the supreme being who creates and maintains the world periodically by means of his bhuti and kriya saktis (q.v.) or powers of becoming and producing, corresponding to the causae materialis et efficiens. The place of man’s soul … Continue reading “Vishnuism”
Vishnu
Vishnu (Sanskrit, vish, encompass, or vis, to penetrate), the second god of the Hindu Trimfirti, and considered, by his worshippers the supreme god of the pantheon. In the Rig-Veda Vishnu is a representation of the sun, who strides through the seven regions of the earth, and in three ways plants his step. According to one … Continue reading “Vishnu”