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Ghose, Aurobindo (Hindu philosopher and teacher) :
see AUROBINDO .
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Ghta
(Skt.). Clarified butter, in modern Hindi ghi , often transliterated ‘ghee’. It is a summary of the illumination which comes from Indra , the light of divine knowledge become form.
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Ghwath-al-Aam (supposed founder of Sforder) :
see ABD AL-QDIR AL-JL .
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Gideon .
One of the biblical judges . His activities are recorded in the Book of Judges (6. 11–8. 32).
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Gifts :
see ALMSGIVING .
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Gij .
Jap. for I Ching .
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Giku (Chinese Ch’an/Zen master) :
see I-K’UNG .
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Gilbert of Sempringham
( c. 1083–1189).
Founder of the Gilbertine Order of monks and nuns. While parish priest of his native Sempringham in Lincolnshire, he encouraged seven women of his congregation to form a community on the Cistercian model. Other foundations followed. When the Cistercians refused to accept communities of nuns under their aegis, Gilbert arranged for the direction of his nuns by priests following the Augustinian Rule, who together with the nuns, and the lay-brothers and lay-sisters, formed a double community, sharing their liturgical life. It was the only purely English medieval order.
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Gill, Eric
(1882–1940).
Artist and type-designer. From 1907 to 1924 he was associated with the Ditchling community and with its press. In the last decade of his life he wrote a number of influential books defending the goodness of natural things, and, in life, even ‘its Rabelaisian buffoonery and pig-style coarseness. All these things are good and holy.’ His expression of this in his personal life created strain for those close to him.
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Ginsberg, Asher Hirsh (Jewish Zionist leader) :
see AHD HA-‘AM .
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Ginzberg, Louis
(1873–1953).
Talmudic scholar, an important figure in the Conservative movement. His major work was the 7-vol. Legends of the Jews (1909–38) in which he collected and combined hundreds of legends into a continuous narrative; and he was also the rabbinics editor for the Jewish Encyclopaedia .
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Giotto di Bondone
(1266/7–1337).
Italian fresco painter, often regarded as ‘the founder of modern art’. His stature was recognized especially by his attention to perspective, and by making recognizable human figures and landscapes the bearers of Christian meaning. His most famous (undisputed) work is in the Arena Chapel in Padua. The better-known frescos on the life of St Francis in Assisi may not be by him.
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Giralda (Muslim dynasty in N. Africa and Spain) :
see ALMOHADS .
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Girdle :
see HABIT, RELIGIOUS .
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Girsah (plain meaning) :
see PILPUL .
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Gt (Hindu text) :
see BHAGAVAD-GT .
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Gita .
A Maronite Christian veil, used to cover the paten, chalice, or oblation in the liturgy.
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Gitanjali (poem by Indian poet Tagore) :
see TAGORE, R.
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Glebe .
Land which belongs to the endowment of a parish and which provides an income from farming by the priest himself or a tenant.
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Glossolalia
(Gk., glossa , ‘tongue’, + lalia , ‘speaking’). ‘Speaking in tongues’, the phenomenon, common in many religions, of a person speaking in words or word-like sounds which form a language unknown to the speaker. Related phenomena are xenoglossolalia , speaking in a foreign language unknown to the speaker but known to the hearer; and heteroglossolalia , speaking in a language known to the speaker which the hearer hears in his/her own
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Ghose, Aurobindo (Hindu philosopher and teacher) :
see AUROBINDO .
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Ghta
(Skt.). Clarified butter, in modern Hindi ghi , often transliterated ‘ghee’. It is a summary of the illumination which comes from Indra , the light of divine knowledge become form.
Back -
New Search
Ghwath-al-Aam (supposed founder of Sforder) :
see ABD AL-QDIR AL-JL .
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Gideon .
One of the biblical judges . His activities are recorded in the Book of Judges (6. 11–8. 32).
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Gifts :
see ALMSGIVING .
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Gij .
Jap. for I Ching .
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Giku (Chinese Ch’an/Zen master) :
see I-K’UNG .
Back -
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Gilbert of Sempringham
( c. 1083–1189).
Founder of the Gilbertine Order of monks and nuns. While parish priest of his native Sempringham in Lincolnshire, he encouraged seven women of his congregation to form a community on the Cistercian model. Other foundations followed. When the Cistercians refused to accept communities of nuns under their aegis, Gilbert arranged for the direction of his nuns by priests following the Augustinian Rule, who together with the nuns, and the lay-brothers and lay-sisters, formed a double community, sharing their liturgical life. It was the only purely English medieval order.
Back -
New Search
Gill, Eric
(1882–1940).
Artist and type-designer. From 1907 to 1924 he was associated with the Ditchling community and with its press. In the last decade of his life he wrote a number of influential books defending the goodness of natural things, and, in life, even ‘its Rabelaisian buffoonery and pig-style coarseness. All these things are good and holy.’ His expression of this in his personal life created strain for those close to him.
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Ginsberg, Asher Hirsh (Jewish Zionist leader) :
see AHD HA-‘AM .
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Ginzberg, Louis
(1873–1953).
Talmudic scholar, an important figure in the Conservative movement. His major work was the 7-vol. Legends of the Jews (1909–38) in which he collected and combined hundreds of legends into a continuous narrative; and he was also the rabbinics editor for the Jewish Encyclopaedia .
Back -
New Search
Giotto di Bondone
(1266/7–1337).
Italian fresco painter, often regarded as ‘the founder of modern art’. His stature was recognized especially by his attention to perspective, and by making recognizable human figures and landscapes the bearers of Christian meaning. His most famous (undisputed) work is in the Arena Chapel in Padua. The better-known frescos on the life of St Francis in Assisi may not be by him.
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Giralda (Muslim dynasty in N. Africa and Spain) :
see ALMOHADS .
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Girdle :
see HABIT, RELIGIOUS .
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Girsah (plain meaning) :
see PILPUL .
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Gt (Hindu text) :
see BHAGAVAD-GT .
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Gita .
A Maronite Christian veil, used to cover the paten, chalice, or oblation in the liturgy.
Back -
New Search
Gitanjali (poem by Indian poet Tagore) :
see TAGORE, R.
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Glebe .
Land which belongs to the endowment of a parish and which provides an income from farming by the priest himself or a tenant.
Back -
New Search
Glossolalia
(Gk., glossa , ‘tongue’, + lalia , ‘speaking’). ‘Speaking in tongues’, the phenomenon, common in many religions, of a person speaking in words or word-like sounds which form a language unknown to the speaker. Related phenomena are xenoglossolalia , speaking in a foreign language unknown to the speaker but known to the hearer; and heteroglossolalia , speaking in a language known to the speaker which the hearer hears in his/her own
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