Vulgate Bible

(noun)

A late fourth-century Latin translation of the Bible that became, during the 16th century, the Catholic Church's officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible.

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Examples of Vulgate Bible in the following topics:

  • Swedish-French Intervention

    • There, they captured many valuable treasures, including the Codex Gigas, which contains the Vulgate Bible as well as many historical documents all written in Latin, and is still today preserved in Stockholm as the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world.

  • Timeline

    • 405 CE: Saint Jerome completes the Vulgate, the first Latin translation of the Bible.

  • Romanesque Illustrated Books

    • Alban's Psalter, Hunterian Psalter, Winchester Bible (the "Morgan Leaf"), Fécamp Bible, Stavelot Bible, and Parc Abbey Bible.
    • The Winchester Bible is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript produced in Winchester between 1160 and 1175.
    • The Fécamp Bible is an illuminated Latin Bible produced in Paris during the third quarter of the 13th century.
    • The Fécamp Bible is an illuminated Latin Bible produced in Paris during the late 13th century.
    • Identify the most well-known examples of illuminated bibles and psalters during the Romanesque period.

  • Christian Fundamentalism

    • One school of thought was Dispensationalism, a new interpretation of the Bible developed in the 1830s in England.
    • Princeton Theology provided the doctrine of inerrancy in response to higher criticism of the Bible.
    • Much of the enthusiasm for mobilizing Fundamentalism came from "Bible Colleges," particularly those modeled after the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.
    • The Bible Colleges prepared ministers who lacked university or seminary experience with intense study of the Bible, often using the Scofield Reference Bible of 1909, which was the King James version of the Bible with detailed notes explaining how to interpret Dispensationalist passages.
    • Moody, evangelical preacher and founder of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

  • Career Development: Vocation and Identity

    • Use of the word "vocation" before the sixteenth century referred firstly to the "call" by God to the individual, or calling of all humankind to salvation, particularly in the Vulgate, and more specifically to the "vocation to the priesthood," which is still the usual sense in Roman Catholicism.

  • The Christian Church

    • They seek to base doctrine and practice on the Bible alone, and seek to be New Testament congregations as originally established by the authority of Christ.
    • They seek to base doctrine and practice on the Bible alone, and seek to be New Testament congregations as originally established by the authority of Christ.
    • Members of Churches of Christ believe that Jesus founded only one church, that the current divisions between Christians are not God's will—the only basis for restoring Christian unity is the Bible.
    • Many Protestants believe that the Church, as described in the Bible, has a twofold character that can be described as the visible and invisible church.

  • The Act of Translating: Hijacking Authority

    • *The Bible is probably the most obvious target for translations based on a "hidden agenda".
    • It is interesting to watch the current efforts to "desex" references to God in the Bible and in Bible-derived materials like hymns.
    • In the case of the Bible, for example, it seems at least conceivable that the meanings added via deliberate mistranslation constitute a constantly improving approximation of the divine mind.

  • The Elements of Religion

    • The Torah and Bible are considered holy books and are treated with reverence and respect and are considered sacred books in their religions.
    • This distinction makes sense when we think about western religious traditions where, for example, the Torah and Bible are considered holy books treated with reverence and respect.

  • Deism

    • Another major contributor to Deism was Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), who wrote the "Bible" of American deism in his (1801) and attempted to organize Deism by forming the "Deistical Society of New York.
    • Another major contributor to Deism was Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), who wrote the "Bible" of American deism in his Principles of Nature (1801) and attempted to organize Deism by forming the "Deistical Society of New York. "

  • Historical Records

    • The high quality and relatively low price of the Gutenberg Bible (1455) established the superiority of movable type, and printing presses rapidly spread across Europe, leading up to the Renaissance.
    • Within a year of printing the Gutenberg Bible, Gutenberg also published the first colored prints.