Adam Of Barking Cistercian monk and a doctor of Oxford, who lived in the beginning of the 13th century, wrote Commentaries on the Old and New Testaments.- Landon, Eccles. Diet. s.v. Adam, a Scottish bishop, was promoted to the see OF BRECHIN in 1328, and was employed in several embassies to England towards the facilitating … Continue reading “Adam Of Barking”
Adam Of Arras
Adam Of Arras called after his native place, was bishop of Terouenne in 1213. In 1229 he became a monk at Clairvaux, where he died. He left a history of that order.-Landon, Eccles. Dict. s. . Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Adam, Nicholas
Adam, Nicholas Linguist and writer, b. in Paris, 1716; d. 1792. He achieved distinction by a peculiar grammar of which he was the author. It bore the title: “La vraie manière d’apprendre une langue quelconque, vivante ou morte, par le moyen de la langue française.” It consisted of five grammars: French, Latin, Italian, German, and … Continue reading “Adam, Nicholas”
Adam, Melchior
Adam, Melchior born in Silesia, obtained about 1600 the headship of a college, and finally a professorship in the University of Heidelberg. His chief works are Vitae Germanorum Philosophorum, Theologorum, etc. (Heidelberg, 1615-’20, 4 vols. 8vo), and Decades duae continentes vitas Theologorum exterorum Principum (Franc. 1618, 8vo), published together, under the title Dignarumn laude virorum … Continue reading “Adam, Melchior”
Adam Kadmion
Adam Kadmion is the name of a primitive emanation in the Cabalistic philosophy of the Jews’ which is regarded as at once the image of God and the type of man, and from which proceed decreasing signs of emanations called Sephirothi. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Adam, John
Adam, John A distinguished preacher and a strenuous opponent of Calvinists and Jansenists, born at Limoges in 1608; died at Bordeaux, 12 May, 1684. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1622. He wrote “The Triumph of the Blessed Eucharist”; “A Week’s Controversy on the Sacrament of the Altar”; “Calvin Defeated by Himself”; “The Tomb … Continue reading “Adam, John”
Adam, Johannes
Adam, Johannes a Jesuit, was born at Limoges in 1608. He made himself known by his controversial writings against the Huguenots and Jansenists. For forty years he preached at Paris, Poitiers, Sedan, Bordeaux, and other cities, making proselytes wherever he could. His work, Calvin Defait par Soy- mesme et par les Armes de St. Augustin … Continue reading “Adam, Johannes”
Adam, Jean
Adam, Jean a French preacher, was born at Limoges in 1608. He was superior of the House of the Jesuits at Bordeaux. He distinguished himself by his ridiculous zeal against the new disciples of St. Augustine. He called ‘the bishop of Hippo ” L’Africain ichauffe et le Docteur Bouillant ;” but to make amends he … Continue reading “Adam, Jean”
Adam, in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha
Adam, in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha adam, (, ‘adham; Septuagint , Adam). 1. Usage and Etymology The Hebrew word occurs some 560 times in the Old Testament with the meaning man, mankind. Outside Gen 1 through 5 the only case where it is unquestionably a proper name is 1Ch 1:1. Ambiguous are Deu … Continue reading “Adam, in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha”
Adam in the Old Testament
Adam in the Old Testament (Evolutionary Interpretation): (NOTE: It ought to be superfluous to say that the unfolding or development of the human personality here identified with evolution is something far higher, deeper, and other than anything that can be fathered upon Darwin or Herbert Spencer. Evolution (unfolding) is the great process or movement; natural … Continue reading “Adam in the Old Testament”