Stories transmitted by contemporary media can also be understood in terms of canon and apocrypha. |
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The essays that commanded my sustained attention ranged from one end of the century to the other, from the canon to the apocrypha and back. |
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Once Kipling got his Nobel, he was kicked upstairs to the more respectable niche of assistant editor, as per the Pioneer apocrypha. |
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Religion is founded upon the oral tradition, the passing down of myths and fact and apocrypha until they cohere into something with a central doctrine. |
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In its broadest sense apocrypha has come to mean any writings of dubious authority. |
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The work is a compilation of several authors and is the only work among the apocrypha that was consciously modeled after the prophetic writings of the Old Testament. |
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Based on Bacon's apocrypha, he is also portrayed as a visionary who predicted the invention of the submarine, aircraft, and automobile. |
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Among these apocrypha is the Gospel of Judas, a gnostic text of the 2nd century ad that portrays Judas as an important collaborator of Jesus and not his betrayer. |
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Other books, called apocrypha, can present a historic interest. |
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His edition of Chaucer's Works in 1561 brought the apocrypha to more than 50 titles. |
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Other books were held in high esteem but were gradually relegated to the status of New Testament apocrypha. |
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As a result, various church authorities labeled different books as apocrypha, treating them with varying levels of regard. |
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Artists and theologians have drawn upon the New Testament apocrypha for such matters as the names of Dismas and Gestas and details about the Three Wise Men. |
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Many recent commentators simply acknowledge the New Testament's use of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha and explain the text without addressing it as a theological problem. |
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A notable strength of the opening chapter is the author's summary of ecclesiastical uses of the Apocrypha. |
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It is difficult to find a Father who does not quote the Apocrypha and treat it as Scripture. |
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They had all completed their sections by 1608, the Apocrypha committee finishing first. |
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Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. |
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Lessons from the Apocrypha are regularly appointed to be read in the daily, Sunday, and special services of Morning and Evening Prayer. |
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Two of the hymns used in the American Prayer Book office of Morning Prayer, the Benedictus es and Benedicite, are taken from the Apocrypha. |
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Protestants accept none of these additional books as canon either, but see them having roughly the same status as the other Apocrypha. |
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