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  2. Morality play - Wikipedia

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    The 1522 cover of Mundus et Infans, a morality play. The morality play is a genre of medieval and early Tudor drama. The term is used by scholars of literary and dramatic history to refer to a genre of play texts from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries that feature personified concepts (most often virtues and vices, but sometimes practices or habits) alongside angels and demons, who ...

  3. Catholic moral theology - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in ...

  4. Everyman (15th-century play) - Wikipedia

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    The Somonyng of Everyman ( The Summoning of Everyman ), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play by an anonymous English author, printed circa 1530. It is possibly a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc (Everyman). Like John Bunyan 's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical ...

  5. Christian ethics - Wikipedia

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    e. Christian ethics, also known as moral theology, is a multi-faceted ethical system. It is a virtue ethic, which focuses on building moral character, and a deontological ethic which emphasizes duty. It also incorporates natural law ethics, which is built on the belief that it is the very nature of humans – created in the image of God and ...

  6. Medieval theatre - Wikipedia

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    Medieval theatre. Nineteenth–century engraving of a performance from the Chester mystery play cycle. Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century. The category of "medieval theatre" is vast, covering ...

  7. Moral Re-Armament - Wikipedia

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    Moral Re-Armament ( MRA) was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, developed from American minister Frank Buchman 's Oxford Group. Buchman headed MRA for 23 years until his death in 1961. In 2001, the movement was renamed Initiatives of Change .

  8. Works of mercy - Wikipedia

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    Works of mercy (sometimes known as acts of mercy) are practices considered meritorious in Christian ethics. The practice is popular in the Catholic Church as an act of both penance and charity. In addition, the Methodist church teaches that the works of mercy are a means of grace that evidence holiness of heart (entire sanctification).

  9. The Castle of Perseverance - Wikipedia

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    The Castle of Perseverance is a c. 15th-century morality play and the earliest known full-length (3,649 lines) vernacular play in existence. Along with Mankind and Wisdom, The Castle of Perseverance is preserved in the Macro Manuscript (named after its owner Cox Macro) that is now housed in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.