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  • 71Mother of God —     The Blessed Virgin Mary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed Virgin Mary     The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.     In general, the theology and history of Mary the M …

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  • 72The Blessed Virgin Mary —     The Blessed Virgin Mary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed Virgin Mary     The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.     In general, the theology and history of Mary the Mother of God follow the… …

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  • 73Essay — An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author s personal point of view. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of… …

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  • 74Metonymy — or Metronomy (  /mɨˈt …

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  • 75Understanding Poetry — was an influential American college textbook and poetry anthology by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1938. The book influenced New Criticism and went through its fourth edition in 1976.The textbook widely influenced ...… …

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  • 76Gospel of Thomas — For a similarly titled work, see Infancy Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non canonical sayings gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in… …

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  • 77Thomism — St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 1274), the eponym of Thomism. Picture by Fra Angelico (c. 1395 1455) …

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  • 78Eugene Nida — Infobox Person name = Eugene Nida image size = caption = birth date = November 11 1914 birth place = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma death date = death place = occupation = Linguist spouse = Althea Sprague (1943 1993) Dr. Elena Fernadez (1997 to present) …

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  • 79new criticism — new critic, New Critic. (often caps.) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a… …

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  • 80MALBIM, MEIR LOEB BEN JEHIEL MICHAEL WEISSER — (1809–1879), rabbi, preacher, and biblical exegete. The name Malbim is an acronym formed from Meir Loeb ben Jehiel Michael. Born in Volochisk (Volhynia), Malbim was a child when his father died. He studied in his native town until the age of 13,… …

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