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Virgin BirthFundamental doctrine of orthodox Christianity that Jesus had no natural father but was conceived by Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit. Based on the infancy narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the doctrine was universally accepted in the Christian church by the 2nd century. It remains a basic article of belief in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, most Protestant churches, and Islam. A corollary of its dogma is the doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity, accepted by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches and by some Lutheran and Anglican theologians. See also Immaculate Conception. Virgin Birth the doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father but was conceived solely by the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit so that Mary remained miraculously a virgin during and after his birth How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Should any of us find this paradoxical we should remember that much of what we consider to be our 'Western' enlightenment is the gift of the Islamic civilizations of the Middle Ages; and, besides, Islam is, in its essence, a more modern, reformed faith -- no saints, cults, miracles, divine beings, virgin births and the like. She and her colleagues report that this bacterium isn't a near relative of Wolbachia, the first infectious microbe found to cause virgin births in insects and other arthropods. Hunter of the University of Arizona in Tucson says that the bacterium Weeks isolated is "essentially the same organism" as the one she and her colleagues have found causing virgin births in wasps. |
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