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Har R
i's words, that a temple or mosque can be repaired but not a broken heart, are indicative of his peaceable disposition.

 
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Harris movement
.

A mass movement toward Christianity in the Ivory Coast and W. Ghana between 1913 and 1915, due to the itinerant ministry of a Grebo from Liberia, William Wadé Harris (
c.
1860–1929). Some 120,000 people of many tribes discarded traditional religious practices and magic, accepted his
baptism
and elementary Christianity. Harris independent churches, include the largest under John Ahui (b. 1894) with perhaps 150,000 members by 1980, and the Church of the Twelve Apostles under Grace Thannie (
c.
1880–1958) in W. Ghana. One of the best-known figures in the Ivory Coast is Albert Atcho (b. 1903), an Ebrié prophet-healer operating within the Harris context from his own village of Bregbo.

 
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Harrowing of Hell
.

Medieval Christian term for the belief that on
Holy
Saturday, Jesus descended into
hell
and defeated the powers of the devil. In consequence, he was able to set free the souls of those who had been faithful to God (and conscience) before the
incarnation
and its associated
atonement
.

 
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(b. 1897).
American philosopher. His influence within religious thought has been mainly on those who call themselves ‘
process theologians
’. This influence stems from his conception of God as ‘dipolar’: God encompasses such contraries as absoluteness
and
relativity, necessity
and
contingency, eternity
and
temporality. God is ‘perfect being’, not unchanging, but capable of being excelled by nothing other than himself: change, not permanence, is the fundamental nature of reality. This conception leads in Hartshorne's view to a panentheistic (see
PANTHEISM
) view of God–world relations: that is, one in which God is both world-inclusive
and
world-transcending.

 
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H
r
n
(name of Aaron in the Qur'
n)
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