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virtue

(Encyclopedia)virtue [Lat.,=manliness], in philosophy, quality of good in human conduct. The cardinal virtues, as presented by Plato, were wisdom (or prudence), courage, temperance, and justice. They are to be inte...

Y, the

(Encyclopedia)Y, the: see Young Men's Christian Association. ...

YMCA

(Encyclopedia)YMCA: see Young Men's Christian Association. ...

YWCA

(Encyclopedia)YWCA: see Young Women's Christian Association. ...

Church of Christ, Scientist

(Encyclopedia)Church of Christ, Scientist: see Christian Science. ...

Tübingen School

(Encyclopedia)Tübingen School: see Baur, Ferdinand Christian. ...

Frederick VI, king of Denmark and Norway

(Encyclopedia)Frederick VI, 1768–1839, king of Denmark (1808–39) and Norway (1808–14), son and successor of Christian VII. After the court party had executed Struensee, expelled Frederick's mother, Caroline M...

Judgment Day

(Encyclopedia)Judgment Day or Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bible are numerous. The Christian bel...

Armenian Church

(Encyclopedia)Armenian Church, autonomous Christian church, sometimes also called the Gregorian Church. Its head, a primate of honor only, is the catholicos of Yejmiadzin, Armenia; Karekin II became catholicos in 1...

Disciples of Christ

(Encyclopedia)Disciples of Christ: see Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). ...