The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1607 page)

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

Munkar and Nak
r
.

The two
angels
, in Islam, who examine the dead in their graves, asking their opinion of
Mu
ammad
. Martyrs (
shah
d
) are exempted from this interrogation.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

(
c.
1490–1525).
German
radical Reformer
. He was born in Saxony and was educated at Leipzig and Frankfurt. He was ordained and spent four years (1516–20) as an itinerant priest. At the Leipzig Disputation (1519) he met
Luther
and created a good impression, but later developed revolutionary views, asserting as authority for his radical message a form of Spirit-inspired direct revelation. He was in repeated conflict, and after the defeat of the peasants in the Peasant's Revolt, he was captured and executed: according to Luther, it was ‘a just and terrible judgement of God’.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

Muratorian canon
.

The oldest surviving list of New Testament books, discovered by L. A. Muratori (1672–1750) in an 8th-cent. Latin manuscript at Milan. It mentions all the books except Hebrews, James, and 1–2 Peter, and includes (though cautiously) the Apocalypse of
Peter
and
Wisdom
of Solomon.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

see
M
N
.