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Kairouan
Kairouan (Arabic: القيروان Al Qairawān), also known as Kirwan or al-Qayrawan, is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia. Referred to as the Islamic Cultural Capital, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city was founded by the nomads of Tunisia around 200 to 250 BC and soon Romans occupied it and built a huge Claussium which is still standing and is one of the most complete of its kind around the Mediterranean sea, The word Qir is in fact Persian and means Bitumen which at those days used to be a center for import and export of this material for ship making and has nothing to do with Caravan. Arabs later on demolished the central temple and made a mosque instead. Some of the stones are still visible with Roman alphabets hacked on them. Arabs around 670. In the period[citation needed] of Caliph Mu'awiya (reigned 661-680), it became an important centre for Islamic and Quranic learning, and thus attracting a large number of Muslims from various parts of the world, next only to Mecca and Medina. The holy Mosque of Uqba is situated in the city. It is considered by many Muslims to be Islam's fourth holiest city.
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Mosque of Uqba
The Mosque of Uqba (Arabic: جامع عقبة), also known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan (جامع القيروان الأكبر), is one of the most important mosques in Tunisia, situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan.
Built by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi from 670 AD (the year 50 according to the Islamic calendar) at the founding of the city of Kairouan, the mosque is spread over a surface area of 9,000 square metres and it is one of the oldest places of worship in the Islamic world, as well as a model for all later mosques in the Maghreb. The Great Mosque of Kairouan is one of the most impressive and largest islamic monuments in North Africa, its perimeter is almost equal to 405 metres (1,328 feet). This vast space contains a hypostyle prayer hall, a huge marble-paved courtyard and a massive square minaret. In addition to its spiritual prestige, the Mosque of Uqba is one of the masterpieces of both architecture and Islamic art.
Under the Aghlabids (9th century), huge works gave the mosque its present aspect. The fame of the Mosque of Uqba and of the other holy sites at Kairouan helped the city to develop and repopulate increasingly. The university, consisting of scholars who taught in the mosque, was a centre of education both in Islamic thought and in the secular sciences. Its role can be compared to that of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages. With the decline of the city of Kairouan from the mid 11th century, the centre of intellectual thought moved to the University of Ez-Zitouna in Tunis.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391.
In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
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Simple church
The Simple Church movement is an Evangelical Christian movement that seeks to redefine the nature and practice of church.
The movement claims to be "a Christ-centered community established primarily on relationship both to God and to the other members of the group."[citation needed] In doing so it discards many aspects of conventional expressions of church, which is considered beneficial by some, and problematic by others. This gives those in the movement the opportunity to focus on what it considers to be the core practices of Christian spirituality.
A simple church may meet anywhere; with or without trained leaders, formal liturgy, programmes or structures. To facilitate relationship, discipleship (spiritual formation), multiplication, mobility, and member ownership, a simple church is usually a small group of no more than 20-25 persons. Church "programs" are virtually nonexistent and small group participation is essential. The process of moving from worship to small group, small group to mission work, and mission work to worship is a primary focus[citation needed].
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Tunisia
Tunisia (US
i/tuːˈniːʒə/ two-NEE-zhə or UK /tjuːˈnɪziə/ tew-NIZ-iə; Arabic: تونس Tūnis pronounced [ˈtuːnɪs]), officially the Republic of Tunisia (Arabic: الجمهورية التونسية al-Jumhūriyyah at-Tūnisiyyah), is the northernmost country in Africa. It is an Arab Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area is almost 165,000 square kilometres (64,000 sq mi), with an estimated population of just under 10.7 million. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis located in the northeast.
Tunisia is the smallest country in North Africa. The south of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil and 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) of coastline.
Tunisia has relations with both the European Union—with whom it has an association agreement—and the Arab world. Tunisia is also a member of the Arab Maghreb Union, the Arab League, and the African Union. Tunisia has established close relations with France in particular, through economic cooperation, industrial modernization, and privatisation programs.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Abraham
Abraham (Hebrew:
אַבְרָהָם (help·info), Modern: Avraham, Tiberian: ʼAḇrāhām, Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom, Arabic: إبراهيم Ibrāhīm, Ge'ez: አብርሃም ʼAbrəham, Greek: Aβραάμ, Russian: Авраам), whose birth name was Abram, is the eponym of the Abrahamic religions, among which are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. According to both the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, through his sons Ishmael and Isaac, Abraham is the forefather of many tribes, namely the Ishmaelites, Israelites, Midianites and Edomites. Abraham was a descendant of Noah's son, Shem. Christians believe that Jesus was a descendant of Abraham through Isaac, and Muslims believe that Muhammad was a descendant of Abraham through Ishmael. Abraham is notable for his advocation and promotion of monotheism.
The Book of Genesis narrative that records the life of Abraham presents his role as one that could only be fulfilled through a monotheistic covenant established between him and God. The Qur'an has stories about Abraham and his offspring that are similar to the Bible's. In Islam, Abraham is recognised as a prophet, patriarch and messenger, archetype of the perfect Muslim, and reformer of the Kaaba.
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Albrecht Ritschl
Albrecht Ritschl (March 25, 1822 – March 20, 1889) was a German theologian.
Starting in 1852, Ritschl lectured on "Systematic Theology". According to this system, faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond the scope of reason. Faith, he said, came not from facts but from value judgments. Jesus' divinity, he argued, was best understood as expressing "revelational-value" of Christ for the community that trusts him as God. He held the Christ's message to be committed to a community.
Ritschl was born in Berlin. His father, Georg Karl Benjamin Ritschl (1783–1858), became in 1810 a pastor at the church of St Mary in Berlin, and from 1827 to 1854 was general superintendent and evangelical bishop of Pomerania. Albrecht Ritschl studied at Bonn, Halle, Heidelberg and Tübingen. At Halle he came under Hegelian influences through the teaching of Julius Schaller and Johann Erdmann. In 1845 he became a follower of the Tübingen school, and in his work Das Evangelium Marcions und das kanonische Evangelium des Lukas, published in 1846 and in which he argued that the Gospel of Luke was based on the apocryphal Gospel of Marcion, he appears as a disciple of the Hegelian new testament scholarFerdinand Baur. This did not last long with him, however, for the second edition (1857) of his most important work, on the origin of the Old Catholic Church (Die Entstehung der alt-kathol. Kirche), shows considerable divergence from the first edition (1850), and reveals an entire emancipation from Baur's method.
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Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher, the emeritus John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.
He is known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics. Plantinga is the author of a number of books including God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and the "warrant" series culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000). He has delivered the Gifford Lectures three times, and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".
Plantinga was born on November 15, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Cornelius A. Plantinga (1908–1994) and Lettie G. Bossenbroek (1908–2007). Plantinga's father was a first generation immigrant, born in the Netherlands. His family is from the Dutch province of Friesland. Plantinga’s father earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Duke University and a Master's Degree in psychology, and taught several academic subjects at different colleges over the years. One of Plantinga's brothers, Cornelius "Neal" Plantinga, Jr., is a theologian and the former president of Calvin Theological Seminary. Another of his brothers, Leon, is an emeritus professor of musicology at Yale University. His brother Terrell worked for CBS News.
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Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury (Aosta c. 1033 – Canterbury 21 April 1109), also called of Aosta for his birthplace, and of Bec for his home monastery, was a Benedictine monk, a philosopher, and a prelate of the Church who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Called the founder of scholasticism, he is famous as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God.
Born into the House of Candia, he entered the Benedictine order at the Abbey of Bec at the age of 27, where he became abbot in 1079. He became Archbishop of Canterbury under William II of England, and was exiled from England from 1097 to 1100, and again from 1105 to 1107 under Henry I of England as a result of the investiture controversy, the most significant conflict between Church and state in Medieval Europe.
Anselm was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1720 by a Papal Bull of Pope Clement XI.
Anselm was born under the name "Anselmus Candiae Genavae" (Italian: Anselmo di Candia Ginevra, French: Anselme de Candie Genève) at or nearAosta in the Kingdom of Arles (currently the capital of the Aosta Valley region in Northern Italy) around 1033. His family was noble (they were related by blood to the ascendant House of Savoy) and owned considerable property. His parents were from a noble lineage and holders of fiefdoms within the Burgundian territories. His father, Gundulf de Candia, was by birth a Lombard of the House of Candia; he seems to have been harsh. His mother, Ermenberga of Geneva, was regarded as prudent and virtuous; she was related to Otto, Count of Savoy.
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Anthony Kenny
Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny FBA (born 16 March 1931 in Liverpool) is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to Analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St Thomas Aquinas in the style of modern philosophy by clearing away the trappings and obscurities of traditional Thomism. He is one of the executors of Wittgenstein's literary estate. He is a former President of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Kenny initially trained as a Roman Catholic priest at the Venerable English College, Rome, where he received the degree of S.T.L. He was ordained in 1955 and served as Curate in Liverpool 1959-63. Having received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (St Benet's Hall) in 1961, he also worked as an Assistant Lecturer in the University of Liverpool (1961–63). However, he questioned the validity of Catholic doctrine and is now an agnostic. He was returned to the lay state in 1963, but according to Canon law his priestly ordination remains valid. He was never dispensed from the obligation of clerical celibacy and was therefore excommunicated on his marriage to Nancy Gayley in 1965.
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Antony Flew
Antony Garrard Newton Flew (11 February 1923 – 8 April 2010) was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion.
Flew was a strong advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until empirical evidence of a God surfaces. He also criticised the idea of life after death, the free will defence to the problem of evil, and the meaningfulness of the concept of God. However, in 2004 he stated an allegiance to deism, more specifically a belief in the Aristotelian God, stating that in keeping his lifelong commitment to go where the evidence leads, he now believes in the existence of God.
He later wrote the book There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, with contributions from Roy Abraham Varghese. This book (and Flew's conversion itself) has been the subject of controversy, following an article in the New York Times magazine alleging that Flew had mentally declined, and that Varghese was the primary author. The matter remains contentious, with some commentators including PZ Myers and Richard Carrier supporting the allegations, and others, including Flew himself, opposing them.
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo ( /ɒˈɡʌstɨn/ or /ˈɔːɡəstɪn/;Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin,St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from Roman Africa. His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity.
According to his contemporary, Jerome, Augustine "established anew the ancient Faith." In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterward by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus. After his conversion to Christianity and baptism in AD 387, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, and he framed the concepts of original sin and just war.
When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God (in a book of the same name), distinct from the material Earthly City. His thoughts profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. Augustine's City of God was closely identified with the Church, the community that worshipped God.
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Averroes
ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد), better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد), and in European literature as Averroes ( /əˈvɛroʊ.iːz/; April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. He was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism.
Ibn Rushd was a defender of Aristotelian philosophy against claims from the influential Islamic theologian Ghazali who attacked philosophy so it would not become an affront to the teachings of Islam.
Averroes' name is also seen as Averroës, Averroès or Averrhoës, indicating that the "o" and the "e" form separate syllables. Averroes is a Latinisation of a Hebrew transcription of the Arab name Ibn Rushd.
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza and later Benedict de Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. By laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment[citation needed] and modern biblical criticism, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. His magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics, in which he opposed Descartes's mind–body dualism, has earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy's most important contributors. In the Ethics, "Spinoza wrote the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely." Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said of all contemporary philosophers, "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all."
Spinoza's name in different languages is Hebrew: ברוך שפינוזה Baruch Spinoza, Portuguese: Benedito or Bento de Espinosa and Latin: Benedictus de Spinoza; in all these languages, the given name means "the Blessed". Spinoza was raised in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. He developed highly controversial ideas regarding the authenticity of the Hebrew Bible and the nature of the Divine. The Jewish religious authorities issued a cherem (Hebrew: חרם, a kind of ban, shunning, ostracism, expulsion, or excommunication) against him, effectively excluding him from Jewish society at age 23. His books were also later put on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain.
Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 20th century. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his friend Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, computer science (see type theory and type system), and philosophy, especially philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (French pronunciation: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator. He built twenty of these machines (called the Pascaline) in the following ten years. Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. Pascal's results caused many disputes before being accepted.
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Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius (ca. 480–524 or 525 AD) was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and prominent family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor. Boethius, of the noble Anicia family, entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25. Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. In 522 he saw his two sons become consuls. Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great, who suspected him of conspiring with the Eastern Roman Empire. While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues. The Consolation became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages. A link between Boethius and a mathematical boardgame Rithmomachia has been made.
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Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 – October 9, 2000) was a prominent American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of St. Anselm's Ontological Argument. Hartshorne is also noted for developing Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy into process theology.
Hartshorne (pronounced harts-horn) was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and was the son of Reverend F.C. Hartshorne. Among his brothers was the prominent geographer Richard Hartshorne. Charles attended Haverford College between 1915–17, but then spent two years as a hospital orderly serving in the US Army. He then studied at Harvard University, where he earned the B.A. (1921), M.A. (1922) and PhD (1923) degrees. His doctoral dissertation was on "The Unity of Being". He obtained all three degrees in only four years, an accomplishment believed unique in Harvard's long history.
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David Hume
David Hume (7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist.
Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic "science of man" that examined the psychological basis of human nature. In stark opposition to the rationalists who preceded him, most notably Descartes, he concluded that desire rather than reason governed human behaviour, saying: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions." A prominent figure in the sceptical philosophical tradition and a strong empiricist, he argued against the existence of innate ideas, concluding instead that humans have knowledge only of things they directly experience. Thus he divides perceptions between strong and lively "impressions" or direct sensations and fainter "ideas", which are copied from impressions. He developed the position that mental behaviour is governed by "custom"; our use of induction, for example, is justified only by our idea of the "constant conjunction" of causes and effects. Without direct impressions of a metaphysical "self", he concluded that humans have no actual conception of the self, only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self.
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 28, 1466? – July 12, 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists." Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
Erasmus lived through the Reformation period, but while he was critical of the Church, he did not join the cause of the Reformers. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road approach disappointed and even angered scholars in both camps.
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Emil Brunner
Heinrich Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889, Winterthur – April 6, 1966, Zurich) was a Swiss Protestant (Reformed) theologian. Along with Karl Barth (see Relationship with Karl Barth), he is commonly associated with neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement.
Emil Brunner was born in Winterthur, near Zurich, Switzerland.
He studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge. Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1924 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Swiss Canton of Glarus. In 1919–1920 he spent a year in the United States studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
In 1921 Brunner published his Habilitationsschrift (a post-doctoral dissertation traditionally required in many countries in order to attain the position of a fully tenured professor) on Experience, Knowledge and Faith and in 1922 was appointed a Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. Soon after, another book followed: Mysticism and the Word (1924), which was a devastating critique of the liberal theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Brunner was rewarded for his literary efforts with his appointment in 1924 as Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the University of Zurich, a post which he held until his retirement in 1953. Following this appointment Brunner's reputation as a theologian continued to increase, particularly after the publication of two further important works in 1927, the first being The Philosophy of Religion from the Standpoint of Protestant Theology and second The Mediator.
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Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer (German pronunciation: [kaˈsiːʁəʁ]; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science, but after Cohen's death he developed a theory of symbolism, and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. He is one of the leading C20th advocates of philosophical idealism.
Cassirer was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia, into a Jewish family. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Berlin. After working for many years as a Privatdozent at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, he was elected in 1919 to the Philosophy chair at the newly-founded University of Hamburg, where he lectured until 1933, supervising amongst others the doctoral thesis of Leo Strauss. Because he was Jewish, he left Germany when the Nazis came to power.
After leaving Germany he taught for a couple of years in Oxford, before becoming a professor at Gothenburg University. When Cassirer considered Sweden too unsafe, he applied for a post at Harvard, but was rejected because thirty years earlier he had rejected a job offer from them. In 1941 he became a visiting professor at Yale University, before moving to Columbia University in New York City, where he lectured from 1943 until his death in 1945.
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures (see: Kunstformen der Natur, "Art Forms of Nature"). As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel (1895–1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901), the genesis for the term "world riddle" (Welträtsel); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution. In the United States, Mount Haeckel, a 13,418 ft (4,090 m) summit in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, overlooking the Evolution Basin, is named in his honor, as is another Mount Haeckel, a 2,941 m (9,649 ft) summit in New Zealand; and the asteroid 12323 Haeckel. Ernst Haeckel house ("Villa Medusa") in Jena, Germany contains a historic library.
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Ernst Troeltsch
Ernst Troeltsch (17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy of history, and an influential figure in German thought before 1914. His work was a synthesis of a number of strands, drawing on Albrecht Ritschl, Max Weber's conception of sociology, and the Neo-Kantians of the Baden school.
His The Social Teachings of the Christian Church (two volume edition in translation by Harper Row, 1960) is a seminal work in this area.
While religious thinking in the days of the Weimar Republic moved away from his direction, Troeltsch's work in the sociology of religion remains important.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( /ˈniːtʃə/;German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtsʃə]; October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, cultural critic and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be.
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम बुद्ध; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. The word Buddha is a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." Gautama Buddha may also be referred to as Śākyamuni (Sanskrit: शाक्यमुनि "Sage of the Śākyas"). The Buddha found a Middle Way that ameliorated the extreme asceticism found in the Sramana religions.
The time of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE. UNESCO lists Lumbini, Nepal, as a world heritage site and birthplace of Gautama Buddha. There are also claims about birth place of Gautama Buddha to be Kapileswara, Orissa or Kapilavastu at Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kośala.
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George Santayana
George Santayana (born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás in Madrid, December 16, 1863; died September 26, 1952, in Rome) was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States and identified himself as an American, although he always kept a validated Spanish passport. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. His last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon of the Cimitero Monumentale del Verano in Rome.
Santayana is known for the sayings, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and "[O]nly the dead have seen the end of war." The latter sentence is often (for example, at the start of the film Blackhawk Down) falsely attributed to Plato; the former appears in Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of Santayana's five-volume Life of Reason. (In the 1905 Charles Scribner's Sons edition, it is found on page 284.) Santayana is broadly included among the pragmatists with Harvard University colleagues William James and Josiah Royce. He said that he stood in philosophy "exactly where [he stood] in daily life."
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Harald Høffding
Harald Høffding (11 March 1843 – 2 July 1931) was a Danish philosopher.
Born and educated in Copenhagen, he became a schoolmaster, and ultimately in 1883 a professor at the University of Copenhagen.[citation needed] He was strongly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard in his early development, but later became a positivist, retaining and combining with it the spirit and method of practical psychology and the critical school.[citation needed] The physicist Niels Bohr studied philosophy from and became a friend of Høffding.[citation needed]
Høffding died in Copenhagen.[citation needed]
His best-known work is perhaps his Den nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), translated into English from the German edition (1895) by B.E. Meyer as History of Modern Philosophy (2 vols., 1900), a work intended by him to supplement and correct that of Hans Brøchner, to whom it is dedicated. His Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy (1905) and Philosophy of Religion (1906) also have appeared in English.
Among Høffding's other writings, practically all of which have been translated into German, are: Den engelske Filosofi i vor Tid (1874); Etik (1876); Psychologi i Omrids paa Grundlag af Erfaring (ed. 1892); Psykologiske Undersøgelser (1889); Charles Darwin (1889); Kontinuiteten i Kants filosofiske Udviklingsgang (1893); Det psykologiske Grundlag for logiske Domme (1899); Rousseau und seine Philosophie (1901); Mindre Arbejder (1899).
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος—Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. 535 – c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".
Heraclitus is famous for his insistence on ever-present change in the universe, as stated in the famous saying, "No man ever steps in the same river twice" (see panta rhei, below). He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that "the path up and down are one and the same", all existing entities being characterized by pairs of contrary properties. His cryptic utterance that "all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos" (literally, "word", "reason", or "account") has been the subject of numerous interpretations.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (German pronunciation: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl ˈkant]; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg (today Kaliningrad of Russia), who researched, lectured, and wrote on philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century. At the time, there were major successes and advances in the sciences (for example, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Robert Boyle) applying reason and logic.
Kant’s major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781), aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He hoped to end an age of speculation where objects outside experience were used to support what he saw as futile theories, while opposing the skepticism of thinkers such as Descartes, Berkeley and Hume.
He stated:
Kant proposed a ‘Copernican Revolution’ in reverse, saying that:
Kant published other important works on ethics, religion, law, aesthetics, astronomy, and history. These included the Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, 1788) and the Metaphysics of Morals (Die Metaphysik der Sitten, 1797), which dealt with ethics. And the Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790), which looks at aesthetics and teleology. He aimed to resolve disputes between empirical and rationalist approaches. The former asserted that all knowledge comes through experience; the latter maintained that reason and innate ideas were prior. Kant argued that experience is purely subjective without first being processed by pure reason. He also said that using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. The free and proper exercise of reason by the individual was both a theme of the Enlightenment, and of Kant's approaches to the various problems of philosophy.
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Jews
The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yhudim Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]), also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and an ethnoreligious group, originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation.Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within the Jewish ethnos is equal to those born into it, have been absorbed into the Jewish people throughout the millennia.
In Jewish tradition, Jewish ancestry is traced to the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the second millennium BCE. The modern State of Israel defines itself as a Jewish state in its Basic Laws, and Israel's Law of Return states: "Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh." Israel is the only country where Jews are a majority of the population. Jews achieved political autonomy twice before in ancient history. The first of these periods lasted from 1350 to 586 BCE, and encompassed the periods of the Judges, the United Monarchy, and the Divided Monarchy of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, ending with the destruction of the First Temple. The second was the period of the Hasmonean Kingdom spanning from 140 to 37 BCE. Since the destruction of the First Temple, most Jews have lived in diaspora. A minority in every country in which they live (except Israel), they have frequently experienced persecution throughout history, resulting in a population that has fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries.
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John Calvin
John Calvin (French: Jean Calvin, born Jehan Cauvin: 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.
In that year, Calvin was recruited by William Farel to help reform the church in Geneva. The city council resisted the implementation of Calvin and Farel's ideas, and both men were expelled. At the invitation of Martin Bucer, Calvin proceeded to Strasbourg, where he became the minister of a church of French refugees. He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and was eventually invited back to lead its church.
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Karl Barth
Karl Barth ((1886-05-10)May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968(1968-12-10)) (pronounced "Bart") was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom many scholars hold to be among the most important thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century European Protestantism.
Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology, due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth (e.g., God's relationship to humanity embodies both grace and judgment). Other critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy — a term emphatically rejected by Barth himself. The most accurate description of his work might be "a theology of the Word." Barth's theological thought emphasized the sovereignty of God, particularly through his interpretation of the Calvinistic doctrine of election.
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Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894); some of his works were co-written with his friend and fellow German revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels.
Born into a wealthy middle class family in Trier, formerly in Prussian Rhineland now called Rhineland-Palatinate, Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. In 1836, he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, marrying her in 1843. After his studies, he wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. Moving to Paris in 1843, he began writing for other radical newspapers. He met Engels in Paris, and the two men worked together on a series of books. Exiled to Brussels, he became a leading figure of the Communist League, before moving back to Cologne, where he founded his own newspaper. In 1849 he was exiled again and moved to London together with his wife and children. In London, where the family was reduced to poverty, Marx continued writing and formulating his theories about the nature of society and how he believed it could be improved, and also campaigned for socialism—he became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association.
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Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) (kṛṣṇa in IAST, pronounced [ˈkr̩ʂɳə] literally "dark, black") is a central figure of Hinduism. He is known as the eighth and "complete" avatar of Lord Vishnu, come to restore Dharma to the earth in a time of great dharmic imbalance. Krishna is identified as a historical individual who participated in the events of the Mahabharata.
Krishna is often described as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana, or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions. They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being. The principal scriptures discussing Krishna's story are the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa, the Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana.
Worship of a deity of Krishna, in the form of Vasudeva, Bala Krishna or Gopala, can be traced to as early as 4th century BC. Worship of Krishna as svayam bhagavan, or the Supreme Being, known as Krishnaism, arose in the Middle Ages in the context of the bhakti movement. From the 10th century AD, Krishna became a favorite subject in performing arts and regional traditions of devotion developed for forms of Krishna such as Jagannatha in Orissa, Vithoba in Maharashtra and Shrinathji in Rajasthan. Since the 1960s the worship of Krishna has also spread in the West, largely due to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
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Lev Shestov
Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Russian: Лев Исаа́кович Шесто́в), born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann (Russian: Иегуда Лейб Шварцман), was a Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev (Russian Empire) on February 13 [O.S. January 31] 1866, he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938.
Shestov was born Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann in Kiev into a Jewish family. He obtained an education at various places, due to fractious clashes with authority. He went on to study law and mathematics at the Moscow State University but after a clash with the Inspector of Students he was told to return to Kiev, where he completed his studies.
Shestov's dissertation prevented him from becoming a doctor of law, as it was dismissed on account of its revolutionary tendencies. In 1898 he entered a circle of prominent Russian intellectuals and artists which included Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Diaghilev, Dmitri Merezhkovsky and Vasily Rozanov. Shestov contributed articles to a journal the circle had established. During this time he completed his first major philosophical work, Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche: Philosophy and Preaching; both authors mentioned in the title had a profound impact on Shestov's thinking.
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Loyal Rue
Loyal Rue is an American philosopher and writer whose research focuses on naturalistic theories of religion. He is Professor Emeritus in the philosophy and religion departments at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
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Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804, Landshut, Lower Bavaria – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach was politically liberal, an atheist and a materialist. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of Christianity. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is often recognized as a bridge between Hegel and Marx.
Feuerbach matriculated in the University of Heidelberg with the intention of pursuing a career in the church.[citation needed] Through the influence of Prof. Karl Daub he was led to an interest in the then predominant philosophy of Hegel and, in spite of his father's opposition, enrolled in the University of Berlin in order to study under the master himself. After 22 years, the Hegelian influence began to slacken. Feuerbach became associated with a group known as the Young Hegelians, alternately known as the Left Hegelians, who synthesized a radical offshoot of Hegelian philosophy, interpreting Hegel's dialectic march of spirit through history to mean that existing Western culture and institutional forms—and, in particular, Christianity—would be superseded. "Theology," he wrote to a friend, "I can bring myself to study no more. I long to take nature to my heart, that nature before whose depth the faint-hearted theologian shrinks back; and with nature man, man in his entire quality." These words are a key to Feuerbach's development. He completed his education at Erlangen, at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg with the study of natural science.
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Maimonides
Mosheh ben Maimon משה בן מימון, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (Arabic: موسى بن ميمون), or RaMBaM (רמב"ם – Hebrew acronym for "Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon"), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain) on Passover Eve, 1135, and died in Egypt (or Tiberias) on 20th Tevet, December 12, 1204. He was a rabbi, physician and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt.
Although his writings on Jewish law and ethics were met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews even as far off as Spain, Iraq and Yemen, and he rose to be the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, there were also vociferous critics of some of his rulings and other writings particularly in Spain. Nevertheless, he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history, his copious work a cornerstone of Jewish scholarship. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah still carries canonical authority as a codification of Talmudic law. In the Yeshiva world he is known as "haNesher haGadol" (the great eagle) in recognition of his outstanding status as a bona fide exponent of the Oral Torah.
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Manichaeism
Manichaeism ( /ˈmænɨkiːɪzəm/; in Modern Persian آیین مانی Āyin e Māni; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móní Jiào) was a major gnostic religion, originating in Sassanid era Babylonia. Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani (in Persian: مانی, Syriac: ܡܐܢܝ, Latin: Manichaeus or Manes) (c. 216–276 CE) have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived.
Manichaeism taught an elaborate cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process which takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light from which it came. Its beliefs, based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements, contained elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.
Manichaeism thrived between the third and seventh centuries, and at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire. It was widespread among the legions of the Roman Empire, who considered it a soldier's religion, and it was briefly the main rival to Christianity in the competition to replace classical paganism. Manichaeism survived longer in the East than in the West, and it appears to have finally faded away after the 14th century in southern China, contemporary to the decline in China of the Church of the East – see Ming Dynasty.
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, Buber became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from organizational work in Zionism. In 1923 Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.
In 1930 Buber became an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and resigned in protest from his professorship immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. He then founded the Central Office for Jewish Adult Education, which became an increasingly important body as the German government forbade Jews to attend public education. In 1938, Buber left Germany and settled in Jerusalem, Palestine, receiving a professorship at Hebrew University and lecturing in anthropology and introductory sociology.
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Martin Lings
Martin Lings (also known as Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din) (January 24, 1909 – May 12, 2005) was an English Muslim writer and scholar, a student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and Shakespearean scholar. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print.
Lings was born in Burnage, Manchester in 1909 to a Protestant family. The young Lings gained an introduction to travelling at a young age, spending significant time in the United States due to his father's employment. Lings attended Clifton College and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a BA in English Language and Literature. At Magdalen, he was a student and then a close friend of C. S. Lewis. After graduating from Oxford Lings went to Vytautas Magnus University, in Lithuania, where he taught Anglo-Saxon and Middle English.
For Lings himself, however, the most important event whilst at Oxford was his discovery of the writings of the René Guénon, a French metaphysician and Muslim convert, and those of Frithjof Schuon, a German spiritual authority, metaphysician and Perennialist. In 1938, Lings went to Basle to make Schuon's acquaintance and he remained Frithjof Schuon's disciple and expositor for the rest of his life.[citation needed]
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Mazdak
Mazdak (in Persian مزدک) (died c. 524 or 528) was a proto-socialistPersian reformer and religious activist who gained influence under the reign of the Sassanian Shahanshah Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of God, and instituted communal possessions and social welfare programs.
Mazdak was the chief representative of a religious and philosophical teaching called Mazdakism, which he viewed as a reformed and purified version of Zoroastrianism, although his teaching has been argued to display influences from Manichaeism as well. Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of Sassanid Persia, and Mazdak himself was a Zoroastrian priest, or mobed, but most of the Zoroastrian clergy regarded his teaching as a heresy. Information about it is scarce and little is known beyond what is listed below; some further details may be inferred from the later doctrine of Khurramism, which has been seen as a continuation of Mazdakism.
Some sources claim that the original founders of this sect lived earlier than Mazdak. These were another mobed named Zardusht (of the same name, but not the same person as the founder of Zoroastrianism) and/or a Zoroastrian philosopher known as Mazdak the Elder, who taught a combination of altruism and hedonism: "he directed his followers to enjoy the pleasures of life and satisfy their appetite in the highest degree with regard to eating and drinking in the spirit of equality,to aim at good deeds; to abstain from shedding blood and inflicting harm on others; and to practice hospitality without reservation". This doctrine was further developed by the best known Mazdak, Mazdak the Younger, son of Bāmdād. At later stages the opposition to Mazdak blamed them for heresy and sharing women etc. which is not true. They are considered to be the first real socialists of human history who emphasized the community work and benefits for all.
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Meher Baba
Meher Baba (Devanagari: मेहेर बाबा, Urdu: مہر بابا), (February 25, 1894 – January 31, 1969), born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age.
Merwan Sheriar Irani was born in 1894 and led a normal childhood, showing no particularly strong inclination toward spiritual matters. At the age of 19, a brief contact with the Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan began his seven-year process of spiritual transformation. Over the next months, he contacted four additional spiritual figures whom, along with Babajan, he called "the five Perfect Masters." He spent seven years with Upasni Maharaj, one of the masters, before beginning his public work. The name Meher Baba means "Compassionate Father" in Persian and was given to him by his first followers.
From 10 July 1925 to the end of his life, Meher Baba maintained silence, communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. With his mandali (circle of disciples), he spent long periods in seclusion, during which time he often fasted. He also traveled widely, held public gatherings, and engaged in works of charity with lepers, the poor, and the mentally ill.
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Mino da Fiesole
Mino da Fiesole (c. 1429 – July 11, 1484), also known as Mino di Giovanni, was an Italian sculptor from Poppi, Tuscany. He is noted for his portrait busts.
Mino's work was influenced by his master Desiderio da Settignano and by Antonio Rossellino, and is characterized by its sharp, angular treatment of drapery. Unlike most Florentine sculptors of his generation, Mino passed two lengthy sojourns in Rome, from about 1459 to 1464 and again from about 1473/1474 until 1480.
Mino was a friend and fellow-worker of Desiderio da Settignano and Matteo Civitali, all three being about the same age. Mino's sculpture is remarkable for its finish and delicacy of details, as well as for its spirituality and strong devotional feeling.
Of Mino's earlier works, the finest are in the cathedral of Fiesole, the altarpiece and tomb of Bishop Leonardo Salutati (died 1466)
His most arduous and complicated commissions, which define his intellectual and artistic nature, are an altarpiece and tombs for the church of the Benedictine monastery in Florence known as the Badia. (The monuments have been reinstalled in the rebuilt church.) The first, completed about 1468, was essentially a private commission for the Florentine jurist Bernardo Giugni. The second, directly commissioned by the monks and finished in 1481, honored the memory of their founder, the tenth century Ugo, count of Tuscany. The wall monuments exercised Mino's skills: portraits and bas-reliefs are worked into complex tectonic aedicular structures with elaborate highly individualistic decorative moldings. Art historians have revelled in the extraordinary diversity of contemporary and ancient sources that Mino marshaled in these tombs, which distinguish him from other sculptors active in mid quattrocento Florence (Zuraw 1998).
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Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
His literary works belong to the fantasy and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), Noaptea de Sânziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), Isabel şi apele diavolului ("Isabel and the Devil's Waters") and the Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent, the novellas Domnişoara Christina ("Miss Christina") and Tinereţe fără tinereţe ("Youth Without Youth"), and the short stories Secretul doctorului Honigberger ("The Secret of Dr. Honigberger") and La Ţigănci ("With the Gypsy Girls").
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Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. Among the general public, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership. Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951–63), in which he developed his "method of correlation": an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of human existence raised by contemporary existential philosophical analysis.
Tillich was born on August 20, 1886, in the small village of Starzeddel Silesia which was then part of Germany. He was the oldest of three children, with two sisters: Johanna (b. 1888, d. 1920) and Elisabeth (b. 1893). Tillich’s Prussian father Johannes Tillich was a conservative Lutheran pastor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces; his mother Mathilde Dürselen was from the Rhineland and was more liberal. When Tillich was four, his father became superintendent of a diocese in Schönfliess, a town of three thousand, where Tillich began elementary school. In 1898, Tillich was sent to Königsberg Chojna to begin gymnasium. At Königsberg, he lived in a boarding house and experienced loneliness that he sought to overcome by reading the Bible. Simultaneously, however, he was exposed to humanistic ideas at school.
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Pavel Florensky
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P.A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij, Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский) (January 21 [O.S. January 9] 1882 - December 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr.
Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky was born on January 21, 1882, into the family of a railroad engineer, (Aleksandr Florensky) in the town of Yevlakh in western Azerbaijan. His father came from a family of Russian Orthodox priests while his mother Olga (Salomia) Saparova (Saparyan, Sapharashvili) was of the Tbilisi Armenian nobility. His maternal grandmother Sofia Paatova (Paatashvili) was from Sighnaghi, Georgia. Florensky "always searched for the roots of his Armenian family" and noted that they're coming from Karabakh.
After graduating from Tbilisi gymnasium in 1899, Florensky entered the department of mathematics of Moscow State University and simultaneously studied philosophy. During this period the young Florensky, who had no religious upbringing, began taking an interest in studies beyond "the limitations of physical knowledge..." In 1904 he graduated from Moscow State University and declined a teaching position at the University: instead, he proceeded to study theology at the Ecclesiastical Academy in Sergiyev Posad. During his theological study, he first came into contact with who would become his spiritual father and mentor, Elder Isidore on a visit to Gethsemane Hermitage. Together with fellow students Ern, Svenitsky and Brikhnichev he founded a society, the Christian Struggle Union (Союз Христиaнской Борьбы), with the revolutionary aim of rebuilding Russian society according to the principles of Vladimir Solovyov. Subsequently he was arrested for membership in this society in 1906: however, he later lost his interest in the Radical Christianity movement.
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Peter Geach
Peter Thomas Geach, MA, FBA ( /ˈɡiːtʃ/; born 29 March 1916) is a British philosopher. His areas of interest are the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, and the theory of identity.
Geach was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at Birmingham University (1951–1966) and from 1966 at the University of Leeds where he was Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy. Geach was given the title of Emeritus Professor of Logic on his retirement in 1981.
Geach was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1965.
He has been awarded the papal cross "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by the Holy See for his philosophical work.
His early work includes the classic texts Mental Acts and Reference and Generality, the latter defending an essentially modern conception of reference against medieval theories of supposition.
His Catholic perspective is integral to his philosophy. He is perhaps the founder of Analytical Thomism (though the current of thought running through his and Elizabeth Anscombe's work to the present day was only ostensibly so named forty years later by John Haldane), the aim of which is to synthesise Thomistic and Analytic approaches. He defends the Thomistic position that human beings are essentially rational animals, each one miraculously created. He dismisses Darwinistic attempts to regard reason as inessential to humanity, as "mere sophistry, laughable, or pitiable." He repudiates any capacity for language in animals as mere "association of manual signs with things or performances."
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (/ˈraɪnhoʊld ˈniːbʊər/; June 21st, 1892 – June 1st, 1971) was an American theologian and commentator on public affairs. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s indebted to theological liberalism, he shifted to the new Neo-Orthodox theology in the 1930s, explaining how the sin of pride created evil in the world. He attacked utopianism as ineffectual for dealing with reality, writing in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944):
His realism deepened after 1945 and led him to support United States' efforts to confront Soviet communism around the world. A powerful speaker, he was one of the most influential religious leaders of the 1940s and 1950s in American public affairs.[citation needed] Niebuhr battled with the religious liberals over what he called their naïve views of sin and the optimism of the Social Gospel, and battled with the religious conservatives over what he viewed as their naïve view of Scripture and their narrow definition of "true religion".
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René Descartes
René Descartes (French pronunciation: [ʁəne dekaʁt]; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. In particular, his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes' influence in mathematics is equally apparent; the Cartesian coordinate system — allowing algebraic equations to be expressed as geometric shapes in a two-dimensional coordinate system — was named after him. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, crucial to the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution and has been described as an example of genius.
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René Guénon
René Guénon (November 15, 1886 – January 7, 1951), also known as Shaykh `Abd al-Wahid Yahya, was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, "sacred science" and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation.
In his writings, he proposes either "to expose directly some aspects of Eastern metaphysical doctrines", these doctrines being defined by him as of "universal character", or "to adapt these same doctrines for Western readers while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit"; he only endorsed the act of "handing down" these Eastern doctrines, while reiterating their "non-personal character".
He wrote and published in French and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
René Guénon was born in Blois, a city in central France approximately 100 miles (~ 160 km) from Paris. Guénon, like most Frenchmen of the time, was born into a Roman Catholic family. Little is known of his family, although it appears that his father was an architect. By 1904, Guénon was living as a student in Paris, where his studies focused on mathematics and philosophy. He was known as a brilliant student, notably in mathematics, in spite of his poor health.
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
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Richard Swinburne
Richard G. Swinburne (born 26 December 1934) is a British philosopher of religion. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been a very influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He aroused much discussion with his early work in the philosophy of religion, a trilogy of books consisting of The Coherence of Theism, The Existence of God, and Faith and Reason.
Swinburne received an Open Scholarship to study Classics at Exeter College, Oxford, but in fact graduated with a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Swinburne has held various professorships through his career in academia. From 1972 to 1985 he taught at Keele University. During part of this time, he gave the Gifford lectures at Aberdeen from 1982 to 1984, resulting in the book The Evolution of the Soul. From 1985 until his retirement in 2002 he was Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford (his successor in this chair is Brian Leftow).
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Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto (September 25, 1869–6 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion.
Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther's understanding of the Holy Spirit, and his habilitation on Kant. By 1906, he held a position as extraordinary professor, and in 1910 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen. In 1915, he became ordinary professor at the University of Breslau, and in 1917, at the University of Marburg's Divinity School, then one of the most famous Protestant seminaries in the world. Although he received several other calls, he remained in Marburg for the rest of his life. He retired in 1929 and died of pneumonia eight years later, after he had suffered serious injuries falling some 20 m from a tower. His death is held to be the result of a suicide attempt., but many have long believed that he was thrown from the tower by Nazi agents, as the Nazi Party was hostile to his views, especially the radical equality implied in those views (and there is some suspicion that Eliade's Encylopedia entry reflects Eliade's well-known Nazi sympathies more than the truth). He is buried in Marburg cemetery.
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Sergei Bulgakov
Fr. Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков) (28 June [O.S. 16 June] 1871 - July 12, 1944) was a Russian Orthodox Christian theologian, philosopher and economist. Until 1922 he worked in Russia; afterwards in Paris.
Sergei Nicolaevich Bulgakov was born on 16 June 1871 Old Style to the family of an Orthodox priest (Nikolai Bulgakov) in the town of Livny, Oryol guberniya, in Russia.
He studied at Orel seminary, then at Yelets gimnasium. In 1894 he graduated from the Law School of Moscow University, where he had also undertaken a serious study of political economy.
During his study at the seminary Bulgakov became interested in Marxism and took part in the Legal Marxism movement. Studying Marxism, Bulgakov eventually became convinced of the impotence of this theory. Under the influence of works of Russian religious thinkers (Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Solovyov, etc.), in the course of his meetings and arguments with Leo Tolstoy he found his religious beliefs again. He wrote a book about his evolution (Sergey Bulgakov, From Marxism to Idealism, 1903). Such an evolution was common for the Russian intelligentsia of the time, and he soon became one of their recognised ideologists. A primary contributor to the books Problems of Idealism (1902), Vekhi, Problems of Religion, About Vladimir Solovyev, About the Religion of Leo Tolstoy, The Religion of Solovyov's Philosophical Society, he participated in the journals New Way (Новый Путь) and Questions of Life (Вопросы Жизни). He was a leader of the publisher Way (Путь, 1911–1917), where he printed many important works of contemporary Orthodox theology.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ˈsɔrən ˈkɪərkəɡɑrd/ or /ˈkɪərkəɡɔr/; Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈkiɐ̯ɡəɡɒːˀ] (
listen)) (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. He was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity, primarily that of the Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking, and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment.
His theological work focuses on Christian ethics, on the institution of the Church, and on the differences between purely objective proofs of Christianity. He wrote of the individual's subjective relationship to Jesus Christ, the God-Man, which came through faith. Much of his work deals with the art of Christian love.
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P. ( /əˈkwaɪnəs/ ə-KWY-nəs; 1225 – 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus ([the] Angelic Doctor), Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis. "Aquinas" is not a surname, but is a Latin demonym for a resident of Aquino, his place of birth. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.
Thomas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. The works for which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. As one of the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered the Church's greatest theologian and philosopher. Pope Benedict XV declared: "This (Dominican) Order ... acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools."
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Thomas Chubb
Thomas Chubb (September 29, 1679 – February 8, 1747) was an English lay Deist writer, born near Salisbury.
Chubb regarded Christ as a divine teacher, but held reason to be sovereign in matters of religion, questioned religions' morality, yet was on rational grounds a defender of Christianity. He had no learning, but was well up in the religious controversies of the time.
Chubb wrote The True Gospel of Jesus Christ, Asserted wherein he stated that one must distinguish between the teaching of Jesus and that of the Apostles who wrote that the Gospels.
Chubb's views concerning free will and determinism, as expressed in his book A Collection of Tracts on Various Subjects (1730) was the subject of extensive criticism by Jonathan Edwards in his book Freedom of the Will (1754).
He published tracts, one of which, The Previous Question with regard to Religion, went through four editions, three in 1725. They were collected in a quarto volume in 1730, and attracted wider notice. (A second edition, in 2 volumes which appeared in 1754 included 35 tracts.) Chubb was encouraged to write further tracts. A disciple of Samuel Clarke, he gradually diverged from Arianism into a modified deism.
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William Alston
William Payne Alston (November 29, 1921, Shreveport, Louisiana September 13, 2009, Jamesville, New York) was an American philosopher. He made influential contributions to the philosophy of language, epistemology and Christian philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught at Syracuse University, Rutgers University and the University of Michigan.
His views on foundationalism, internalism versus externalism, speech acts, and the epistemic value of mystical experience, among many other topics, have been very influential. Like most American philosophers, Alston is counted among the analytic philosophers.
Together with Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Robert Adams, Alston helped to found the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers. With Plantinga, Wolterstorff, and others, Alston was also responsible for the development of "Reformed epistemology" (a term that Alston, an Episcopalian, never fully endorsed), one of the most important contributions to Christian thought in the twentieth century. Alston was president of the American Philosophical Association in 1979 and was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the philosophy of religion. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.
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William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the U.S. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. In the summer of 1878, James married Alice Gibbens.
William James was born at the Astor House in New York City. He was the son of Henry James Sr., a noted and independently wealthy Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day. The intellectual brilliance of the James family milieu and the remarkable epistolary talents of several of its members have made them a subject of continuing interest to historians, biographers, and critics.
James interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars throughout his life, including his godfather Ralph Waldo Emerson, his godson William James Sidis, as well as Charles Sanders Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Josiah Royce, Ernst Mach, John Dewey, Macedonio Fernández, Walter Lippmann, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Jr., Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud.
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William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, philosophical theologian, and Christian apologist. He is known for his work in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of time, and the defense of Christian theism. One of his most notable contributions to the philosophy of religion is his defense of the Kalām cosmological argument, which is the most widely discussed argument for the existence of God in contemporary Western philosophy. In theology, he has also defended Molinism and the belief that God is, since Creation, subject to time.
Craig has authored or edited over 30 books, including The Kalām Cosmological Argument (1979), The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz (1980), Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (with Quentin Smith, 1993), Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (with J.P. Moreland, 2003) and Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (3d edition, 2008).
Craig received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1971 and two summa cum laude master's degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, in 1975, in philosophy of religion and ecclesiastical history. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy under John Hick at the University of Birmingham, England in 1977 and a Th.D. under Wolfhart Pannenberg at the University of Munich in 1984.
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William Whewell
William Whewell ( /ˈhjuːəl/ HEW-əl; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Whewell was born in Lancaster. His father, a carpenter, wished him to follow his trade, but his success in mathematics at Lancaster and Heversham grammar schools won him an exhibition (a type of scholarship) at Trinity College, Cambridge (1812). In 1814 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry. He was Second Wrangler in 1816, President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1817, became fellow and tutor of his college, and, in 1841, succeeded Dr Christopher Wordsworth as master. He was professor of mineralogy from 1828 to 1832 and Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy (then called "moral theology and casuistical divinity") from 1838 to 1855.
Whewell died in Cambridge 1866 as a result of a fall from his horse.
Full bibliographical details are given by Isaac Todhunter, W. Whewell: an Account of his Writings (2 vols., 1876). See also Life of W. Whewell, by Mrs Stair Douglas (1881).
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William Wollaston
William Wollaston (26 March 1659 – 29 October 1724) was an English philosophical writer. He is remembered today for one book, which he completed only two years before his death: The Religion of Nature Delineated (1st ed. 1722; 2nd ed. 1724).
He was born at Coton Clanford in Staffordshire, on 26 March 1659. He was born to a family long-established in Staffordshire, and was distantly related to Sir John Wollaston, the Alderman and Lord Mayor of London. At the age of ten, he began school at a Latin school newly opened in Shenstone, Staffordshire, and continued in country free schools until he was admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, at the age of 15, in June 1674.
After leaving Cambridge in September 1681, he became an assistant master at King Edward's School, Birmingham and took holy orders. At this time, he became Perpetual curate of St Mary's Church, Moseley from 1684 - 1686. In 1688 an uncle left him a fortune and an estate at Shenton Hall, Leicestershire, and in November of the same year he settled in London. On 26 November 1689, he married Catharine Charlton. They had eleven children together, four of whom died within his lifetime. They lived happily together for 30 years, until Catharine's death on 21 July 1720. Wollaston also published anonymously a small book, On the Design of the Book of Ecclesiastes, or the Unreasonableness of Men's Restless Contention for the Present Enjoyments, represented in an English Poem (London, 1691).
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Yazidi
The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Kurdish: ئێزیدی or Êzidî) are a Kurdish ethnoreligious group with Indo-Iranian roots. They currently live primarily in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq. Additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria have been in decline since the 1990s, their members having emigrated to Europe, especially to Germany. Their religion, Yazidism, is a branch of Yazdânism, and is seen as a highly syncretic complex of local Kurdish beliefs that contains Zoroastrian elements and Islamic Sufi doctrine introduced to the area by Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir in the 12th century. The Yazidi believe in God as creator of the world, which he placed under the care of seven holy beings or angels, the chief of whom is Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel.
Historically, the Yazidi lived primarily in communities in what are now Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, and also had significant numbers in Armenia and Georgia. However, events since the 20th century have resulted in considerable demographic shift in these areas as well as mass emigration. As a result population estimates are unclear in many regions, and estimates of the size of the total population vary.
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Faith Filmography
- Jack's POV 4 (2006)
- Mammary Lane #2 (2005)
- Nature's Breast 3 (1999)
- Ebony Xxxtacy (1999)
- Up and Cummers 60 (1998)
- Black Splash (1998)
- Big Boob Bangeroo 10 (1998)
- South Central Hookers 2 (1997)
Faith Filmography
- More Dirty Debutantes 261 (2003)
- Spunk Buckets: The Best of Cum Shots Volume 1 (2003)
- Crazy About Asians 3 (2002)
Faith No More Filmography
- Festival de Música SWU (2011)
- Teletón XXIII (2010)
- Essential Music Videos: Extreme Alternative (2004)
- Celine Dion
- Hillsong United
- The Cure
- Ray Price
- Rage
- Air Supply
- Glen Campbell
- Alphaville
- Vaughn Monroe
- Kirk Franklin
- NoMeansNo
- George Michael
- Limp Bizkit
- Hillsong
- Goldfinger
- Scarface
- Richie Kotzen
- Violent Femmes
- Richard Smallwood
- Darlene Zschech
- Faith Evans
- Texas
- Dogwood
- Vanilla Ice
- Vicious Rumors
- Kristin Hersh
- Lil' Romeo
- Taking Back Sunday
- Wolfsheim
- Peter Koppes
- Jason Upton
- Jordin Sparks
- Reamonn
- Nipsey Hussle
- Donny Osmond
- Luscious Jackson
- Kane
- Before Their Eyes
- Union 13
- Altar Boys
- Bbmak
- Dolapdere Big Gang
- Divine Madness
- Room Eleven
- Novastar
- Phobia
- Natalie Walker
- Kierra Kiki Sheard
- Bedlight For Blueeyes
- Sheila Nicholls
- Nizlopi
- Dawn Of Oblivion
- Church Of Rhythm
- Legion Of Hetheria
- Enzzo & The Dark Lords
- Corpse
- Aaradhna
- Oblivion
- Random Eyes
- Howard Jennings
- Nonexist
- Bataar
- Hyde
- Nadja
- Kiko Francesco Fisichella
- Rozalla
- Montee
karaoke
Don't be afraid to feel this way
Gonna make you understand
It's not about you, cause I am the fool
Building castles in the sand
If I am crazy, just don't care
It doesn't mean I don't want you near,
This is the story about me and you
And it's called...
Faith!
Right beside you is where I'll stay
Oh Faith !
Just take me as I am... so please... have faith!
So many times and so many ways
I didn't know just where to go,
You gave me a sign and opened my eyes
That's the reason why I know
That you are different, you're still here
I guess you figured me out right then
Now I believe that we can make it through
And that's called...
Faith!
Right beside you is where I'll stay
Oh Faith!
Just take me as I am... so please... have faith ! have faith !
So don't be afraid... to feel this way...
Just hear me out!
Stay...
...and that's called...
Faith!
Right beside you is where I'll stay
It's not too late
Just take me as I am... so please... have faith... In me!
Oh yeah!
Just take me as I am... so please... have faith!
With a little love
With a little hope
With a little light, to light the way
Faith
The mountains will be moved
With alot of heart
With alot of soul
With mind and strength
My trust
My God
Faith
The mountains will be moved
With the faith to see me through
Every mountain will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
With a little love
With a little hope
With a little light, to light the way
Faith
The mountains will be moved
With alot of heart
With alot of soul
With mind and strength
My trust
My God
Faith
The mountains will be moved
With the faith to see me through
Every mountain will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
With the faith to see me through
Every mountain will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
The mountains will be moved
Faith
The mountains will be moved
Faith
Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold
I can't just carry on this way
And every time
I turn away
Lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me...
Suddenly I see you change
Everything at once
The same
But the mountain never moves...
Rape me like a child
Christened in blood
Painted like an unknown saint
There's nothing left but hope...
Your voice is dead
And old
And always empty
Trust in me through closing years
Perfect moments wait...
If only we could stay
Please
Say the right words
Or cry like the stone white clown
And stand
Lost forever in a happy crowd...
No-one lifts their hands
No-one lifts their eyes
Justified with empty words
The party just gets better and better...
I went away alone
With nothing left
But faith
You must have faith in everything you do
Faith will help you find the way faith will see you through
Faith can move mountains and change the tides of sea
You can follow this guiding light wherever you may be
Like the dorkness comes at the end of the day there must be an end to the night
And from the depths of your darkest moment faith will show you the light
Yes you must have faith in everything you do
Faith will help you find the way faith will see you through
[ strings ]
Please stay here, don't run away and slam the door
I think we got to talk it over just once more
Are we ever right in the face of the big truth?
So why fighting for a lie?
Don't lose your faith
Whatever comes to you
Cause time works for those who believe
We'll get it right anew
Don't you lose your faith
Don't every turn away
I'm thinking about the truth there is
Forgotten in a lie
We are branches on the tree of life. We can
Only get together by touching with our leaves
But we got the same roots close in ourselves
So let's grow up to the sky
Don't you lose your faith
Don't ever turn away
I'm thinking about the trust there is
Forgotten in lie
Don't you lose your faith
Whatever comes to you
Cause time works for those who believe
We'll get it right anew
Like a story or a song
Sleeping till it will be sung
Our future lies unfolded
Let's forget it when we've done us wrong
After all you've put me through
There is always something new
Got to face the tests of time
Easy come and easy go
Hard to get a hold on
Searching for what you don't know
Blind to where you belong
Feel the power in your dreams
Vision in your sight
Nothing's dark as it may seem
We can make it right
CHORUS
I have faith
In your love
I have faith
In your heart
You don't need to hide from what you want
You've just got to give it all you got
The first thing that you need
You got to have faith
Truth hidden between the lies
We both know the chances
Nothing comes from compromise
Only strength advances
I will be here at your side
For everything you do
When the world tears at your pride
I'll be there for you
CHORUS
When the world's coming at you like a hungry alligator
You got to have faith
When you've got to pay them now or they'll take it from you later
You got to have faith
When you feel like the future's hiding on a distant cloud
You got to have faith
And you feel like shouting at the good Lord out loud
You got to have faith
CHORUS
When you know that you're ready but the time is not right
You got to have faith
And you lie awake staring at the ceiling all night
You must have faith in everything you do
Faith will help you find the way faith will see you through
Faith can move mountains and change the tide of the sea
You can follow the guiding light wherever you may be
Like the darkness come at the end of each day there must be an end to the night
And from the depths of your darkest moments faith will show you the lights
You must have faced yes in everything you do
Faith will help you find the way faith will see you through
Woke up in the morning still I heard this song
Must be somewhere from my dreams, I don't know
Made me feel so good, sun was shining bright
God, I love you that you brought this little song to give me..
Faith
In the morning
I need that faith
To go on, yeah
Give me some faith
Can't get enough of that sweet feeling, give me faith
Oh yeah, I keep the faith
Sweet little girl, lying next to me
Sunlight's playing on your face with soft shadows
You're so beautiful, dream on, dream on, baby
I'm gonna wake you up when the time is right
I'll give you..
Faith...
One day I shall be released by my creator
Going home to where I came from long ago
And the big wheel keeps on turning round and round
Into eternity with me to cosmic meadows
I will be there with all my friends..
..in the morning
VAUGHN MONROE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
VOCAL BY VAUGHN MONROE
FAITH, IN ALL YOU SAY AND ALL YOU DO.
FAITH, IN EACH NEW DAY I SHARE WITH YOU.
GONE ARE ALL MY FEARS WITH YOU BESIDE ME,
I KNOW THROUGH THE YEARS,
YOUR LOVE WILL GUIDE ME.
FAITH, THAT IN THE PAST, I NEVER KNEW.
FAITH, THAT HERE AT LAST, I FOUND IN YOU.
ALL MY DREAMS MAY FADE,
EVEN IF THEY DO,
I WILL STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU.
ORCHESTRAL INTERLUDE. THEN;
FAITH, THAT IN THE PAST, I NEVER KNEW.
FAITH, THAT HERE AT LAST, I FOUND IN YOU.
ALL MY DREAMS MAY FADE,
EVEN IF THEY DO,
I WILL STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU.
I'LL STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU.
Intro: Talking by Kirk and Bro. Myre
Brother Myre do you really have faith?
I got mustard seed faith
so you wont mind telling everybody
check it out
Chorus: I can do the impossible
I can see the invisible
because I got fatih.
(cause I know I got faith yeah yeah)
Listen
Verse
I can climb a mountain
said I can reach my goal.
More than a conqueror
down in my soul.
The devil is a liar.
I've won the race.
Said I got victory
All because I got faith YEAH
Chorus
Repeat verse 1(I've won this race;second time around)
Chorus
Oh yes I can
yes I can can yes I can can oh i can oh I can if I wanna yes I can can (repeat
back to chorus
Faith I call your name
When the moonlit sky shines in your eyes
Little Faith, I hear you sniffing at the ground
With your head hung down as you are peering all around
Runaway, she won't run away
Runaway, she won't run away
Faith, why are you growling in your sleep?
Do you stalk the shadows of your dream?
Little Faith, do you dream of me
When the fire is low and you are lying at my feet?
Runaway, she won't run away
Runaway, she won't run away
I called her Faith, I called her Faith
I called her dog and she came
She's a bitch, she's my little bitch
Faith you walk tamely by my side
But I see the wilderness in your eyes
Little Faith, thought you wander n your own
Well
I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body
I know not everybody has got a body like you
But I've got to think twice before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play because I played them
But I need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
When that love comes down without devotion
Well
It takes a strong man
Baby
But I'm showin you the door
Because I've got to have faith
I've got to have faith
Because I've got to have faith
Faith
Faith
I've got to have faith
Faith
Faith
Baby
I know you're asking me to stay
Stay
Please
Please
Please
Don't go away
You say I'm giving you the blues
Maybe you mean every word you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to loverboy rules
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby
I reconsider my foolish notion
Well
I need someone to hold me
But I'll wait for something more
I've got to have faith
I've got to have faith
Before this river becomes an ocean
'Cause I've got to have faith
Well, I guess it would be nice
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like you
But I've got to think twice
Before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play
Because I play them too
Oh, but I
Need some time off
From that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
Oh, and that love comes down
Without devotion
Well, it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showing you the door
Because I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
Because I got to have faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
Baby
I know you're asking me to stay
Sayin' please, please, please, don't go away
You say I'm giving you the blues
Maybe
You mean every word you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to lover boy rules
Before this river
Becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back
On the floor
Oh, baby I reconsider
My foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me
But I'll wait for something more
Yes, I've gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
Because I got to have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
Because I got to have faith
Oh yeah, faith
Got to have faith
Before this river
Becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back
On the floor
Oh, baby I reconsider
My foolish notion
Well I need someone to hold me
But I'll wait for something more
Because I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
Because I got to have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I'm reaching for the prize, I'm giving everything
I give my life for this it's what I live for
Nothing will keep me from, all that You have for me
You hold my head up high, I live for You
Greater is He, that's living in me
Than he that is in the world
Faith, I can move the mountain
I can do all things through Christ, I know
Faith, standing and believing
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
I'm reaching for the prize, I'm giving everything
I give my life for this it's what I live for
Nothing will keep me from, all that You have for me
You hold my head up high, I live for You
Greater is He, that's living in me
Than he that is in the world
Faith, I can move the mountain
I can do all things through Christ, I know
Faith, standing and believing
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Faith, I can move the mountain
I can do all things through Christ, I know
Faith, standing and believing
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Greater is He, that's living in me
Than he that is in the world
Faith, I can move the mountain
I can do all things through Christ, I know
Faith, standing and believing
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Faith, I can move the mountain
I can do all things through Christ, I know
Faith, standing and believing
I ask myself
Where has passion gone? Have I grown up?
Am I too old?
I don't feel like I did
I need to feel, there's nothing else
Nothing left
But your taste in my mind
Where have I gone?
Where have I gone?
You come along to sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along to sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
But I'm
Singing this song
I feel sick
I need more than this
Where have I gone?
Where have I gone? What shuts me down, tears me apart?
I don't know
What I am
Where's the man, the man with dreams? One man alone
I haven't changed a thing
You come along to sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along to sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along to sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along to sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
But I'm
[ VERSE 1 ]
Deep in the mind that wide opens
Right here we stand alive, we live focused
We open-minded, still we die hopeless
With our pride broken and bullet holes covered where we stay at
And everybody's playing for keeps, most people pray that
We all make it up out this godforsaken place that we've been all faced with
We take our chances but they all wasted
And once again you see me (marching, mobbing)
But how long must I continue to see my homies dodgin these marksmen
The whole nine put on the line but never in mind to become the head sergeant
We all targets, the votes are in, but they ain't ours
We got these politicians running their game to regain power
While our whole black community sours
Crime rate towers, plagued by white powders
And they claim to helping us to clean up our community
But ain't no open opportunities, impunity
Is what these demons use to regulate
We keep in mind we can run but we can't hide cause the streets we walk are never safe
Still all my shattered hopes and dreams remain scattered
Broken into thousands of pieces, smashed and tattered
But it don't matter, hipocrisy in your democracy
Is stopping me, so I'm retaliating properly
Theologically, society has got me pressured by the hate
And Heaven knows I have faith, I have faith
(I just wanna celebrate) --> Rare Earth
(I just wanna celebrate)
Have faith
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
[ VERSE 2 ]
Rudely awaken from this bad dream
Thinking my conscience wants to tell me something because of these bad things
(Past things) got me in the center of these mad dreams
(Flashing) homicidal ( ? ) fatal slashings
Now I'm asking: explain to me these visionaries Brad's seen
(Past things) sad things killed him cause he had dreams
(A sad scene) but all I ever wanted was my mind back
Now I'm that nigga trying to find out where his mind's at
The time that it took myself to figure out my mind's gone
My mind crack, slide back, look at all the time gone
Rewind back, comeback, understand my life gon' make these cuts that won't change
But things look so strange, the plague
I gots to get myself up out the frame
Try to maintain the same game flipping 10 and flame Jane
A damn shame, people gots to always check your background
To jack now, come jack now and I'ma leave you flat down
Come back now or back down, homie, this is always all day
(Killer) in these dark and lonely hallways
Cause all they wanna see is all us brothers boxed up in caskets
With plastic bags in every bathroom getting blasted
It's drastic, mama help me calm down cause your son's sick
Don't watch me get gunned down for the dumb shit
Then the gun click and now I see the other side of black space
My last day, sad case, Heaven knows I have faith
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
[ VERSE 3 ]
New day brings about change, everybody's searching for the light
The daydream schemes of living life
Has got us tossed up, believing we controlling our motions
Got the answer in space beside the view behind the ocean
And adapting to the everyday struggle's got us stressed
Cause the fact we know we here one day and could die the next
You've insisted to take equipment to the solar system
Trying to ensure your sole existence
Now tell me: do you think that when the bang goes boom
You can pack up all your things and aim for the moon?
It's unlikely, but you might be equipped with with proceeds to save lives
But you die when the King say die
You can race it but you can't shake it, stop trying
Try to hide it, cause you can't face it but you're born dying
God, please forgive us cause we're human not perfect
And the devil try to fronting but it's not working
How can we all sit suspended in space
Just spinning in place and ain't extended in faith
Man, wait -
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
(I just wanna celebrate)
Faith...
I don't wanna lose my faith
In all of the things that I felt so strong
I may be sleeping, but I'm holding on
I feel like life has been bleeing me
I'm not the same as I used to be
All around me is changing
The times, the words, the faces
But I know, I can't stop believing
Living in faith
I don't wanna lose my faith
In all of the things that I felt so strong
I may could be sleeping, but I'm holding on
Talking about faith
I don't wanna lose my faith
But what am I supposed to do when the feeling is gone?
The hardest thing about it, is moving on
I know somebody has got a bigger plan
I know the future is out of my hands
I'm all right with waiting and anticipating
Cause won't stop believing
Living in faith
I don't wanna lose my faith
In all of the things that I felt so strong
I may be sleeping, but I'm holding on
Talking about faith
I don't wanna lose my faith
But what am I supposed to do when the feeling is gone?
The hardest part of all it is moving on
I have been here for so long...yeah, yeah
But my faith is keeping me strong...strong
Don't stop believing in faith
I don't wanna lose my faith
In all of the things that I felt so strong
I may be sleeping, but I'm holding on
I'm talking about faith
I don't wanna lose my faith
But what am I supposed to do when the feeling is gone ?
The hardest thing about it is moving on
Don´t wanna lose my faith
I don´t wanna lose my faith
I just gotta learn to love
Never gonna lose my faith
I just need to hold on...
Got my faith, baby
In the Lord
Got my faith baby
In the Lord, Lord, Lord
And I know, He'll make everything alright
No matter where a child roam
That child's gonna have a home
If he's got his faith alright
Said, I don't believe in no car
I don't believe in General Motors
I don't believe in the President
Or the League of Women Voters
I don't believe in these things
All these things might fail
I don't believe it's gonna snow
It might sleet rain or hail
But I believe in the Father
I believe in the Son
I believe there's a Spirit
For everyone
I believe in the Father
I believe in the Son
I believe there's a Spirit
For everyone
That's not all
That's not all
I'm gonna tell y'all
Let's do the faith call
Call F, F, I said, "A"
I said, "I"
I said, "T"
I said, "H"
What that spell?
Faith
What that spell?
Faith, oh faith
Got my faith baby
In the Lord
I got my faith baby
In the Lord, Lord, Lord
And I know, He'll make everything alright
No matter where a child roam
That child's gonna have a home
If he's got his faith alright
Said, I don't believe in no car
I don't believe in General Motors
I don't believe in Ronald Reagan
Or the League of Women Voters
I don't believe in these things
All these things might fail
I don't believe it's gonna snow
It might sleet rain or hail
But I believe in the Father
I believe in the Son
I believe there's a Spirit
For everyone
I believe in the Father
I believe in the Son
I believe there's a Spirit
For everyone
That's not all
That's not all
I'm gonna tell y'all
Let's do the faith call
Call F, F, I said, "A"
I said, "I"
I said, "T"
I said, "H"
What that spell?
Faith
What that spell?
Faith, oh faith
Got my faith baby
In the Lord
Yes, got my faith baby
In the Lord, Lord, Lord
And I know, I know, I know, He'll make everything alright
No matter where a child roam
That child's gonna have a home
If he's got his faith alright
Got my faith
Got my faith
Got my faith, my faith
In the Lord, Lord, Lord
And I know, He'll make everything alright
No matter where a child roam
That child's gonna have a home
Verse 1:
There are times when adversity
seems to over take your life.
Doubts and fears seems to cloud your mind
and confusion's all inside.
But there's a message for you my friend
and I know this word is true,
just have the faith of a mustard seed
and there's nothing you cannot do.
Chorus:
(If you have the faith) you can move mountains.
(just keep the faith) nothing is impossible.
(hold on to your faith) you shall overcome
(according to your faith) just believe and it shall be done.
Verse 2:
Your river may seem too hard to cross
and your mountains too hard to climb,
but you conqueror your circumstance.
If you keep this thought in mind:
faith is the substance of things hoped for
and the evidence of things not seen;
if you walk by faith and not by sight,
you can realize your dream.
Chorus
Bridge:
(Faith) faith,
(faith) gotta have it.
(Faith) faith,
(faith) really need it.
(Faith) without faith it's impossible
(it's impossible to please you)
Chorus
Vamp:
Faith (3x),
I'm reaching for the prize
I'm giving everything
I give my life for this
It's what I live for
Nothing will keep me from
All that You have for me
You hold my head up high
I live for You
BRIDGE:
Greater is He that's living in me
Than he that is in the world
CHORUS:
Faith I can move the mountain
I can do all things through Christ
I know
Faith standing and believing
I can do all things through Christ
Who strengthens me
Faith is the substance of
Things hoped for
It is evidence of things
Not seen
Don't you know I
I have the faith
to conquer anything
Keep the faith
Believe in
In what I'm sayin'
It's so much harder
When it's you, who is listenin'
When I see suspicion in your eyes
You know it hurts me
It turns my head around
No words could explain
You've got to have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
You've got to have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
I'm gonna prove myself true to you, somehow
Have faith
(Have faith)
Deceiving
Deceiving only you
Why should I care
When it means nothing to you?
When I see life coming closer
I turn and pray
Was it all in vain
Will my world change
You've got to have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
You've got to have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
I'm gonna prove myself true to you, somehow
Have faith
(Have faith)
Ohh, pleasing you has proven to be
To be my weakest link, yeah
But if I change no place is safe
Safe from a piece of mind
You've got to have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
Please have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
You've got to have faith in me
Please
I'm gonna prove myself true to you, somehow
Have faith
(Have faith)
You've got to have faith in me
Please
You've got to have faith in me
You've nothing left to lose
I have faith no one believes
I love a God no one can see.
You put your trust into thin air.
That's what they all told me.
But I believed because of fear,
and I can see you crystal clear.
I know that you will, meet me here.
I walk the narrow path.
Perplexed and befuddled.
I'm persecuted, plagued and I'm troubled.
My past my history,
my future's a mystery.
There's only one certain thing
that's for sure.
It's my God who is so real.
He makes my life easier to deal.
With the aid of his goodness.
I experience true bliss.
Do you understand your life is in his hands?
Confusion is my hat;
Centrifuge of hurt is where I'm at.
I request some help with that.
My past my history,
my future's a mystery.
There's only one certain thing that's for sure.
It's my God who is so real.
He makes my life easier to deal.
With the aid of his goodness.
I experience true bliss.
Do you understand your life is in his hands?
I have faith no one believes
I love a God no one can see.
You put your trust into thin air.
That's what they all told me.
(Performed by Rozalla)
I see Papa working nightshift
Worried by his years
Mama's got her problems but she cares
I watch my family going crazy
Telling me I'm lazy, things are going
To work out in the end
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
Brother's always shouting
Sister starts to cry
Another anxious moment passes by
I know that I can take it
Someday I will make it
Everything will work out in the end
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
AD LIB
Someday I will make it
Just you wait and see
I know that I can take it
That's how things will be
I know what I'm feeling I know I've got faith
I've just got to have it baby I've got the faith
Written by Swanston, Cox
Produced by 3 Man Island
Mixed by 3 Man Island
Executive Producers: Frank Sansom and Steve Long for peer Southern/
Upfront Music
Published by Peer Southern/Upfront Music (ASCAP)
(G.Thorpe, S.Smyth & B. Oconner)
We follow the wind to new horizons
A suitcase of dreams in our hands
An offer to take a chance at freedom
We sail out to sea with hope and madness abroad
A madness that's out of control
Living on faith we leave our homes
Here we go, oh yeah...
Turning things around, heading for new ground
And in our darkest hour oh yeah...
We're looking towards the future
We land on the shores of the unknown island
An island of beggars and thieves
Now you're left on the streets
Alone and afraid for so long
Pounding the pavement again
Your back's to the wall
You can not stand it
This life is a test
Within our body
A test of our faith
And our strength
When you remember
Was it me, or the cold?
Made you give up hope
Made you lose your faith in the afterlife
And all she made
Was it me, or the heat?
Made you not believe
Made you lose your faith in the afterlife and all that breathes
[Chorus:]
When Times Get Hard I Put My Head To The Sky Get On My Knees And Take A Deep Sigh Never Ask Why Just Believe In My Faith And Know He'll Lead Me Through Each Day I Say When Times Get Hard I Put My Head To The Sky Get On My Knees And Take A Deep Sigh Never Ask Why Just Believe In My Faith And Know He'll Lead Me Thorugh Each Day C'mon
[Verse 1:]
My Faith Solid Man Strong As A Rock My Belief In The Lord Man Strong As A Ox He Keep My Head Right So I Gotta Give Praise Kept Me Out The Streets And Got Me Through This Crazy Maze I Never Doubt Him Cuz Without Him I Wouldnt Be Much Always Stay Humble And Cool I Dont Need Much Before I Close My Eyes I Always Let Him Know Im Thankful For Everyday I Learn And He Let Me Grow In Situations Where I Coulda Took A Bad Turn He Strayed Me Away From The Streets And Catching A Bad Burn So Our Father Thanks For The Many Blessings And Our Father Ill See You When I Get To Heaven And I Know That The World Aint All Godd But I Do Know Yo Word Is All Good So Ima Keep My Hands Up To The Sky Keep The Man In My Heart My Soul And In My Mind
[Chorus:]
Oh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oh-Oh
You might lose your faith in science
You might lose your faith in wealth
You might lose your faith in Jesus, oh
Or lose faith in yourself
But when I let you down
Look past your doubt
Just please (please)
Don't lose your faith in me
You could lose your faith in music
Or lose your faith in friends
You could lose your faith in freedom
Feel trapped in your own skin
But I'll be right there beside you
(I'll be right there beside you)
When the walls are cavin' in
(I swear oh I'm not going anywhere)
But when I let you down
Look past your doubt
Just please (please)
Don't lose your faith in me
Please (please)
Don't lose your faith in me
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
I'm not going anywhere
Oh-oh-oh
I'm not going anywhere
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
I'm not going anywhere, anywhere
But when I let you down
Look past your doubt
Just please (please)
Don't lose your faith in me
Please (please)
Don't lose your faith in me
i won't care
if i must leave today
this world was mine
sometimes
moments blue
and moments true
with you
eternity is not what i am longing for
Fear, fear
Down & up, she fills the cup
With the world as we bleed
Fear after fear, the road seems to clear
The fog of doubt disappears
The shameless free, drink from the sea
Of endless opportunity
Chore after chore, the elements swore
Left a fire and feelings to pour
The senseless few, unmoved in a slew
Don't know the mystery, only the clue
Joy after joy, the infinite toy
Comes from a fertile soil
Pillion patience, amok in the storm
Feats blooms, an original form
Let faith arise, oh Lord, let faith arise
In the deepest parts of my being, oh Lord
In the most broken parts of me, oh Lord
Friends have failed me Lord, let my faith arise
Loved ones have failed me Lord, let my faith arise
Heroes have failed me Lord, let my faith arise
Let my faith arise
Let my faith arise
Let my faith arise
Let my faith arise
I say NO to the discouragement that keeps me down
I say NO to the things that keep me back from You
And this broken heart inside of me
Broken in so many pieces
By so many circumstances
I say NO to just letting it stay that way
Because I'm learning to trust that it's not You that hurt me
I'm learning to believe that it's not You that deserted me
I'm believing that You still love me
Brokenness and all
I'm believing that You've got a plan for me
I'm believing that You will restore me
I believe that You will awaken my soul
And let, let faith arise again, I believe
I believe like a little child again
I'm gonna dance in my trust in You, oh Lord
I'm gonna dance in my love for You, oh Lord
I'm gonna laugh again
I'm gonna cry again
I'm gonna have joy, joy on the inside
Circumstances around me try to pull me down
I'm going to believe in that faith again
'Cause You're my Creator
You're my Comfort
You're the One that will never desert me
So Daddy, I raise my hands up to You Lord
I raise my hands up to You, oh Lord
And I dance with my feet, I dance with my feet
And I say, come and, come and hold me Lord
'Cause I'm learning to trust You with the faith of a child
Trust You with the faith of a child
I can have joy again like a child
I'm not going to let it come down
I'm not going to let those bullets come down
Come down and hurt me no more
'Cause I'm raising up the Shield of Faith
And the Sword of the Lord
I'm believing on your Word Lord
I'm trusting in the Word that You said
And I'm waiting on You
Waiting on You
And I'm rejoicing in the fact that the Bible says
That You are my Victorious Warrior
You're the one that fights for me
I don't have to fight anymore
You're the one that fights for me, oh Lord
My faith is rising, my faith is rising, my faith is rising
I can see You again Lord.
I can see You on the horizon of my life, oh Lord
I can see Your Son, it's rising up, it's rising up, it's rising up
And I don't have to be discouraged anymore
And I don't have to fight this loneliness anymore
'Cause You're in my life, You're in my life more than anyone can ever be
Father we're building a relationship again, just me and You
We're building a relationship again, just me and You
It's not about the job I have
It's not about the friends I have
Its' not about the house I have or the social status I have
It's about me and You
We're building a relationship again, just me and You
You're building my faith up again
Hey there sad eyes.
What's on your mind?
Don't look so down.
Give it some time.
You don't have to be so hard on yourself.
I know the world can be a brutal place.
Please don't let it steal your smile away.
Cause when the sky's the darkest,
You can see the stars.
And when you fall the hardest,
You find how strong you are.
Close your eyes, rest awhile.
It's been a long long day.
So come on baby, baby have a little faith.
Let those tears fall,
You gave it your all.
It's all you can do.
I'll be here for you.
And there goes your pride,
Crushed on the ground.
Sometimes it takes a wall to tumble down,
For you to see who's gonna stick around.
Cause when the sky's the darkest,
You can see the stars.
And when you fall the hardest,
You find how strong you are.
Close your eyes, rest awhile.
It's been a long long day.
So come on baby, baby have a little faith.
Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better yeah.
And it takes so much to be brave.
Sometimes it feels like forever.
But when all the lights begin to fade.
And when the sky's the darkest,
You can see the stars.
And when you fall the hardest,
You find how strong you are.
Close your eyes, rest awhile.
It's been a long long day.
So come on baby baby.
And have a little faith.
Have a little faith.
Ooh, oh, ooh.
Have a little faith.
Cause I'm not giving up
I'm not running away
There's nowhere left to hide
Cause I'm not going to chance
Change to suit your ways
I'd rather stand and fight
You feel your life gets turned around
You feel your world come crashing down
This is not my faith
This is not my faith
This is not the reason why I live my life
This is not my faith
This is not my faith
This is not the reason why I live my life
Treat me like you are
Cause I'm unbreakable
I've stood the test of time
Or treat me with contempt
Until the moment ends
Then find somewhere to hide
You feel your life gets turned around
You feel your world come crashing down
This is not my faith
This is not my faith
This is not the reason why I live my life
This is not my faith
This is not my faith
This is not the reason why I live my life
Building bridges from broken cars
Our salvation in the stars
Pull the blinds and close your eyes
You can't hide from this life
This is not my faith
This is not my faith
This is not the reason why I live my life
This is not my faith
This is not my faith
This is not the reason why I live my life
Take me as I am
I'm rising in this game and it feels great
Still tryna keep it real, niggas still fake
Been off the label all year, niggas still hate
Drop the marathon in December, niggas still late
I'm so impatient, but I still wait
I still show love when I feel hate
On a scale of one to ten, I need a high heel eight
Or better, blowin' this cheddar like I'm Bill Gates
Whatever
I'm in this wind til the movie ends
Smokin' California, eatin Peruvian
Out on Miami beach my niggas a few of 'em
Dressed like Beverley Hills, the bitches we usually with
But wishin on a star nigga took it far
And if I lost it all tomorrow I wouldn't trip at all
They say I'm crazy when I say it
[Intro]
Yeah, Perverted Monk representin
YouknowhatI'msayin?
[Afu-Ra]
No need for cappin this
Brave boys, I break your back with this
Practice, math this, lyrical theatrics
You'll never, ever, brave the weather, I'm too clever
Conjurin Sandstorms, I'll freeze ya, then I'll melt ya
You know I dealt the, on impact, shots hit the ceiling
These lyrics, I'm wieldin, straight echoes through the building
Enemies efforts are foreseen in the mental
I make steel wrinkle at the blink of an eye
Terminate unrighteous conscious states
Imitate the stars, while they constelate
The heart rate, of my social eloquence, makes sense
Intense, with the roughage, you couldn't budge this
mountainous, type of figure
So check it out, now you know,
when you lookin at a real nigga
[Chorus]
You know we rip it up, hit the mic like a virus
We never hide this, unique rhymes styles is righteous
Who wanna battle, which rapper thinkin they the nicest
Straight up and down, these rhyme styles is priceless
[GZA]
You eggshell niggas get cracked in half
My armed force throw a road block in your path
Beats smash, from True Mast, my shots blast
Shatter glass, crowd watch the sound sets clash
Quick fast, I let the darts off, with no doubt
Your bitch ass, you head north and break out
Snakes out, hissin, shots missin
Observe, and respect and listen
And if you get stung twice, that means he's rollin wit loaded dice
It's like gettin stabbed with ice, and watch the evidence melt
Immediately the blow is felt
Commissioner revoke the belt, the microphone
Microphone flow-er, fresh show-er
Of the rugged garments, break the bread like Noah
I'm holdin, ride the 808 rollin
Write til my hand's swollen, your no comp ya
Huh, I stomp ya, the monster
Worldwide record launcher, multiply and conquer
[Chorus 2X]
[Afu-Ra]
Nemesis, bringer of disaster
With more moves then the Tai Chi Master
Killa and I get illa, cerebral warlord
My name's Afu-Ra, step too quick, and your thought's floored
Fury portrayed, sharper than a fuckin cactus
Conquerin globes, and universes with Galactus
Tongue lashes, it rattles, never sliver
Optimus Prime, fatal bites as I deliver
Lyrically deadly, mic flow heavenly
In dwellin intelligence, choose my weaponry
Battle strategy, bishop cover angles
Knights move next, L shapes the vortex
Forces break down, now I got the nitty gritty
You think it's a stalemate, but now I'm yellin checkmate
Ultra rhymer, stop breaths like anacondas
[Chorus 2X]
i cry for the love in your eyes
i try to let you be free
if you're blue
don't let it worry you
you'll make it through
and if you don't believe me
faith will come humbly down
fear will come tumbling down
cynics may fill the books
critics may give you looks
but i'll stand by you 'til you die
and i'll be wise in the afterlife
(faith will come humbly down
Faith
show a little faith
it's all I ask of you
And wait
there's no time to waiste
oh it's all I ask of you
For the good times and the bad
Life goes by so fast
you got me worried for a moment
got me worried for a moment
and hey, faith
it's all I ask of you
And days
I still recall the days
When you and I were oh so close babe
And ways
So we often did lose our ways
I guess you never took the time
to tell me how you really felt
Through the good times and the bad
And life goes by so fast
oh you got me worried for a moment
got me worried for a moment now
hey, faith
it's all I ask of you
You're Standing
On The Shoulders
Of A Giant Belief
I Can't Believe
What You Told Us
You're Just A Liar To Me
JUST BE HONEST
HONESTLY I'M SICK
OF ALL YOUR GAMES
ONLY TIME WILL TELL
YOU'RE FAKE 'TIL OUR
JUDGEMENT DAY
Oh, No
Where Did Your Heart Go
You've Been Dressing
Up In Sheep's Wool
Dancing With The Devil
Oh, No
Where Did Your Head Go
Did You Think
That You Could Fool Us
With Another Twist Of Faith
Twist Of Faith
It's Not About Who's Louder
It's Not A Trophy You Wear
I Swear You're Not A Martyr
Eternity In Despair
Just Be Honest
Honestly I'm Sick
Of All Your Games
Only Time Will Tell
We're Realizing
All Your Charades
JUST BE HONEST
HONESTLY I'M SICK
OF ALL YOUR GAMES
ONLY TIME WILL TELL
YOU'RE FAKE 'TIL OUR
JUDGEMENT DAY
Oh, No
Where Did Your Heart Go
You've Been Dressing
Up In Sheep's Wool
Dancing With The Devil
Oh, No
Where Did Your Head Go
Did You Think
That You Could Fool Us
With Another Twist Of Faith
Twist Of Faith
Don't Fake It
Don't Waste
These Words
Are Not For You
Don't Fake It
(DON'T FAKE IT)
Don't Waste It
(DON'T WASTE IT)
Your Words
(YOUR WORDS)
Are Not The Truth
(ARE NOT THE TRUTH)
JUST BE HONEST
HONESTLY I'M SICK
OF ALL YOUR GAMES
ONLY TIME WILL TELL
YOU'RE FAKE 'TIL OUR
JUDGEMENT DAY
(Oh, No)
(Where Did Your Heart Go)
(You've Been Dressing)
(Up In Sheep's Wool)
(Dancing With The Devil)
Oh, No
Where Did Your Heart Go
You've Been Dressing
Up In Sheep's Wool
Dancing With The Devil
Oh, No
Where Did Your Head Go
Did You Think
That You Could Fool Us
With Another Twist Of Faith
Oh, No
(Don't Fake It)
Where Did Your Heart Go
(Don't Waste It)
You've Been Dressing
(These Words)
Up In Sheep's Wool
(Are Not For You)
Dancing With The Devil
Oh, No
(Don't Fake It)
Where Did Your Head Go
(Don't Waste It)
Did You Think
(Your Words)
That You Could Fool Us
(Are Not The Truth)
You came to my doorstep when I was still real young you
tried to recruit me and made me speak in tongues
told me there was only one you said if I didn't pray with you I'd
go to hell and I'd better repent right now I did
as you said 'cause right then I was real scared man I just wanted
out "I want to see for myself a miracle cure a
bleeding statue the truth is surely out there but whom's in
control as destiny unfolds, believe in what you will 'cause
you're free to decide if I haven't felt it probably isn't
there my faith in science I just cannot hide, I should
exist and then so should you our ideas differ but which one is
the truth I don't need another to lead me through
I'll learn what I can until my rebirth "I want to see for myself
a miracle cure a bleeding statue the truth is surely
out there but who's in control as destiny unfolds" You want to
control the world imposing your will rejecting
rational thought what is real is not relative and untrue
I've fought to stay alive
Though everything pointed to the end
Through violent storms and emptiness
I found strength I never knew I had
The strength to rise above dark clouds in the sky
The strength to hold on
When the winds tear through everything inside
I can do it all
With faith!
I've traveled unmarked roads that led me into the night
Where dreams will fade away unless you hold on to them tight
I've lost a few dreams of my own along the way
Lost but not forgotten that I will find again someday
I can do it all
With faith!
I plead for mercy God!
Hold me in your hand
Mercy in my weakest hour
When it hurts to understand
Cause I've cried tears of doubt in times of uncertainty
Tears that brought to my knees
Tears that reminded me that
I can do it all
Well, I guess it would be nice
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like you
Oh, but I gotta think twice
Before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play
Because I play them too
Oh, but I need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
And when that love comes down without devotion
Well it takes a strong man baby
But I'm showing you the door
Chorus:
'Coz I gotta have Faith
I gotta have... Faith
Yes, I've gotta have Faith, Faith, Faith
I gotta have Faith, Faith, Faith.
Baby, I know you're asking me to stay
Saying please, please, please don't go away
You say I'm giving you the blues
Maybe you mean every word you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to loverboy rules
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby, I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me,
But I'll wait for something more.
Coz I gotta have Faith...
(repeat chorus)
Before this river
Becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
(I've just got to have faith)
I've reconsidered my foolish notion
Yeah, I need someone to hold me,
But I'll wait for something more....
Coz I gotta have Faith
Well I guess it would be nice
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like you
But I've got to think twice
Before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play
Because I play them too
Oh but I
Need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
And when that love comes down
Without devotion
Well it takes a strong man baby
But I'm showing you the door
'Cause I gotta have faith...
Baby
I know you're asking me to stay
Say please, please, please, don't go away
You say I'm giving you the blues
Maybe
You mean every word you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to loverboy rules
Before this river
Becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby I reconsider
My foolish notion
Well I need someone to hold me
But I'll wait for something more
Unholy hour of my sins
The tears I wept in the cleansing fire
A lucid light in spiteful shame
I seal the wounds from your lust and desire
I turn away
I lose identity
You run from me
Don’t you know I’m not the enemy?
When will you show me the faith?
When will you show me your conviction?
My criminal mortality
I’m fighting my fate
Alive for another day
A reckless storm that beckons me
A weapon of the night’s obscurity
Closing in on pawn and prey
Devouring the shadows of my soul
Divinity is gone from me
Forgive me now
I’m a servant of an unknown god
When will you show me the faith?
When will you show me your conviction?
My criminal mortality
I’m fighting my fate
Alive for another day
Alive for another day
Alive for another day
Divinity is gone from me
Forgive me now
I’m a servant of an unknown god
Give in to me
A sweet kiss of poison
The world is dead
Have I become your loving enemy?
When will you show me the faith?
When will you show me your conviction?
A criminal mortality
I’m fighting my fate
Well I Guess It Would Be Nice
If I could touch your body
I know not everybody
Has got a body like you
But I’ve got to think twice
Before I give my heart away
And i know all the games you play
Because I play them too
Oh but I
Need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
And when that love comes down
Without devotion
Well it takes a strong girl baby
But I’m showing you the door
‘Cause I gonna have faith….
Baby
I know you’re asking me to stay
Say please, please, please, don’t go away
You say I’m giving you the blues
Maybe
You mean every word you say
Can’t help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to loverhoy rules-
Before this river
Becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby I reconsider
My foolish notion
Well I need someone to hold me
But I’ll wait for something more
I'm in to deep
that is way I feel in need
open up your heart to me
you're surreal
faith let me linger on
faith let me linger
keep me hanging on
can we embrace
the love we face
if we let the things we fear
disappear
faith let me linger on
faith let me linger
keep me hanging on
hold on to me
there's more than you ever saw
hold on to me
yeah because I'm in too deep
Well I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body
I know not everybody has gotta body like me
But I gotta think twice before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play because I play them too
Oh, but I need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
When that love comes down without devotion
Well it takes a strong man baby but I'm showin' you that door
Cuz I gotta have faith
Chorus:
Gotta have faith (3x)
Verse 2:
Baby, I know you're askin' me to stay
Say please, please, please don't go away
Cuz you're givin' you the blues
Baby, you mean every word you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to loverboy rules
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you pick my heart up off the floor
When our love comes down without devotion
Well it takes a stong man baby but I'm showing you that door
Chorus
I feel a wave of destiny wash over my helpless body
I can’t seem to find my way
The air is thick and foggy
What do you say, do you say to fate
What do you say, do you say to fate
All these thoughts abound my mind
I wait for rescue and for a sign
I cannot kneel, I’m out of time
I’m face to face with my insides
I felt so bound by mindless ways
As life unfolds so does my faith
I’ve burned all paths that lead to peace
Now all of them feel sympathy
I’m singled out
My soul is pinned
I’m trapped in a state of question
I try to run away
But finding an answer beckons
How do you try, do you try to live
How do you try, do you try to live
How did I get here
Don’t turn back
I’m feeling rage of a hurricane
I never thought it’d be this way
But now it is, and what to say
There’s nothing so I must escape
Now where is peace and what is fair
Should we just march without a care
And go where we are told to go
[Verse 1:]
By faith
I can get to many places
Maybe even see many faces
I mean things that are unexpected
Because of my faith I may
Have to deal with a little bit of hate
And it may seem like there's no way
That's why I gotta have my faith
[Chorus: x2]
(Faith)
I gotta have
(Faith)
Can't make it without it
(Faith)
Where I wanna be I gotta have (ohh yeah)
(Faith)
[Verse 2:]
Now without faith
Things are impossible
Like me wanting to please him
I gotta forget about them
Those that don't like me where I am
Cause then I am in jam
Tryna make a decision
Should I listen or should I go
I don't know (Faith)
That's why I gotta have(faith)
I gotta have faith (whooaahh yeaah)
[Chorus:]
(Faith)
I gotta have
(Faith)
Can't make it without it(whooaaahh)
(Faith)
[Bridge:]
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for
The evidence of things not seen
And this explains it all
Where I am now
I may not be pleased
So I'll have to seek him diligently
And my Word says
He will reward me(Can't make it without it)
So why not have
[Chorus:]
(Faith)
I gotta have faith (yeeaaaah)
(Faith)
When my family is sick (faith) and they can't get well
(Faith)
I gotta have faith (yeeeaaaahh)
(Faith)
I gotta have faith
(Faith)
No matter what they give me or bring to my way
I gotta have faith (yeeeeeaaah)
(Faith)
I gotta have faith
(Faith)
It's the only thing that will pull me through
(yeeeeeaaahh)
Say what you wanna say
Don't think ahead or worry about the cost
Do what you wanna do
Everything is fine if you got it in your heart
I don't care about
Care what these people say
I don't care about
Care what your mother say
No matter how many miles
Or many days away
It's you, just you alone
It's you that i call home
Cause i won't be the one to fall
Won't be the one to crawl this time, yeah
I will hold you in my heart
Won't be the one to fall this time, yeah
What are you worried bout baby
What you got is what you make it
Don't worry bout the things they say love
Don't worry about the games they play cause
You are a queen inside
Every part of you is what keeps me alive
Flowing from you to me
I don't care about
Care what these people say
I don't care about
Care what your mother say
Cause i won't be the one to fall
Won't be the one to crawl this time, yeah
I will hold you in my heart
Won't be the one to fall this time, yeah
What she gives
She can take away, take away
If you open up your heart
There will be a part of you
That will never go away
I believe, if you open up your mind
There will be a time for you to up and fly away
Up and fly away
I will hold you in my heart
Won't be the one to crawl this time, yeah
I will hold you in my heart
Won't be the one to fall this time
Little girl with the big old dreams
She's got s big heart and she'll never scream
She said everything's gonna be alright, yeah
Little girl with a big old heart
She said never stop love, never stop
Everything's gonna be alright
Something rolling underneath my skin
I could not define it or invite it in though
To let it in would be to liberate
To keep it in darkness is to propagate, why
It?s all about believing through
Something that you always doubt
When you have faith, you will be willing to wait
When you have faith through all that logic and haste
It?s never too late so try to create
?Cause the last thing that breaks, the last thing that breaks
The last thing that breaks is your faith
Something shouting from behind my eyes
I'm looking too closely to recognize
To gain perspective think it would be wise
Would you please listen while it testifies now
It?s all about believing through
Something that you always doubt
When you have faith, you will be willing to wait
When you have faith through all that logic and haste
It?s never too late so try to create
?Cause the last thing that breaks, the last thing that breaks
The last thing that breaks is your faith
And I surrender to this storm
And taste the raindrops sweet and wet, and warm
And may I never lose this faith I've found
It keeps me anchored down to solid ground
So let lightening flash and wind swirl around
When you have faith, you will be willing to wait
When you have faith through all that logic and haste
It?s never too late so try to create
?Cause the last thing that breaks, the last thing that breaks
The last thing that breaks is your faith
You have faith
(You have faith, you have faith, you have faith)
You have faith
(You have faith, you have faith, you have faith)
You have faith
(You have faith)
Oh well faith is my brand new story
Its been a long fight, my heart went right out, oh won't bore you any more
Love wasn't my feeling, my type or my kind
Now being good to you is all thats on my mind
And if we make it then we'll be just fine
Maybe you'll be yours and i'll be mine
There's always mischief, oh you know the devil's always prying,
Now being good to you is all thats on my mind
Down
Yes your mind gets like a villain, make you splinter
Sing your heart off walking through some long Russian winter
Crying at the sad stories in the paper and on the news
Then i gather up the scattered blessings
To bring them back to you.
And if we make it then we'll be just fine
Be the first i've known in a long, long time.
Told my sad story to anyone who'd listen,
Now i'm in your heart, talking like Ian Dury, I'll be blissin
Praise be the hands that brought this to work now
Turn it on, switch me on
You took my hand, yes that came first
Turn it on, switch it on
I'm full of song, unrehearsed
Go on and turn it up, turn it on, turn it over
Praise be the hands that brought this to work now
Turn it on, switch it on.
Sing a song that's true
Bring it back to you,
Just sing a song it's true
Bring it back to you
Sing a song, its you, bring it back to you
Remember how to live in the dark
Still remember snowflakes in my throat
I was dragged in, who dragged me out
How was I supposed to get it through
I can still wake up frightened
Afraid of going back
God I'm so glad it's over
Who has the faith in me
I thought I had the size of the ocean
I didn't know I was just a pond
I took the keys, I took the truth
Just for going down and watch Lucifer smile
And the light was guarding me
Through the gates so open and wide for me
I could watch the flowers, I could watch the sun
These things that has been held for me so blind
And I looked at my shadow who lived in vain
I tore it apart, I threw it away
And finally I had reached the dawn
Finally I could seize the day, but
These days were covered in black
Black curtains of suicide
As I thought my time was over
My faith is my own
Popularity's the great dictator
With the masses to please
I don't want to be king for a day
If I have to give up what I can and cannot say
I will never go back to the way I was
I will never turn my back on my God
My faith is my own
My cynic's heart caged in
I shut the doors till there's nothing left to believe in
I can't see if I follow blind and
I can't speak unless I can hear my voice
Too long have I played this child's game of Simon says
My second-hand faith, I make it mine
Can we stop fearing our ignorance?
Why to guilt someone that doesn’t exist
Can we be strong enough to face reality?
Can we give a chance for science?
Their stories don’t make sense,
Then why do we have to believe!
And if we can’t express our true feelings,
Then, Is this what I’m doing a blasphemy?
Mankind makes it’s own hell or heaven
‘cause life is our eternal punishment
The things we do have consequences here on earth,
It's been a long road
getting from there to here
it's been a long time
but my time is finally near
And I can feel the change in the wind right now, nothing's in my way
And they're not gonna hold me down no more, no they're not gonna hold me back
'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
and no one's gonna bend or brake me
I can reach any star
I've got faith (repeat 3 times)
faith of the heart.....
It's been a long night
trying to find my way
been through the darkness
now I finally have my day
And I will see my dream come alive at last
I will touch the sky
And they're not gonna hold me back no more, no they're not gonna change my mind
'Cause I 've got faith of the heart...
"I've known a wind so cold
I've seen the darkest days
but now the winds I feel
are only winds of change
I've been through the fire
and I've been through the rain
but I'll be fine
fine my friend...
Faith is the hope in things not seen you have to believe in God first to receive through faith we understand the word of God the truth to reject his words would mean death to you this is the confidence we have in him to ask anything according to his will spiritual assurance answers to prayers never to allow more than we can bare prepared you for battles and personal attacks guides you on your way and never turns his back just be a believer a promise from God the overseer by believing receiving heaven shall be home no more temptation to try to lead you wrong your faith in God was the key that set your soul free eternally all things believe what'soever you ask in prayer believing you shall receive all things believing shall receive
Verse 1:
I can feel it
I can feel myself moving
Closer to a dream that's waiting for me
I know that I'll come across a bumpy path but I'll get through it x2
Chorus:
I can fly high
And I can swim right under the ocean
Anythings mine
If I have faith I kno I can do it
I will get by
If I work towards all my dreams
Suns gonna shine
If I have faith I know I can make it
Verse 2:
Lifes not ment to be safe
Aint no hard work goes unrewarded I'm sure
I am willin, I am able I'm ready
For watever that may come my way
There's no doubt that I will get there I'm certain
Nothings imposible
With dedication, Motivation desperation
We were all born to shine
And right nows my time
To give out a little light
Of my own
And shine it on the world
Chrous:
I can fly high
And I can swim right under the ocean
Anythings mine
If I have faith I kno I can do it
I will get by
If I work towards all my dreams
Suns gonna shine
If I have faith I know I can make it
All I need is faith
All I need is faith
All I need is faith
All I need is faith
Chorus:
I can fly high
And I can swim right under the ocean
Anythings mine
If I have faith I kno I can do it
I will get by
If I work towards all my dreams
Suns gonna shine
rom 3:21-25, 5:1-2; joh 3:16-17
god has revealed a rightousness apart from the law
a rightousness through faith in jesus christ to all who believe
god presented jesus christ as a sacrifice trough faith in his blood
you've been bought by the precious blood of Christ
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
and are justified freely by his beautiful grace
through the redemption that came by christ jesus
you've been bought by a precious blood of christ
justified through faith
and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of god
for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world
Stormy sky over my head
I can feel the glory
Looking in trough the window
With the eyes of my soul
I can see dimensions
I close my eyes
and I`m not here anymore
Thousands of demons
trying to shake my mind
I`ll never lose my faith in You
You are the King of Light
I believe in You
I turn my face to the darkness
where I belong
Like a candle in the night
I have the power in my hands
They can never hurt me
I`m the chosen one
not weak anymore
I will do this all for You
You changed my destiny
You are with me
It`s storming
It`s raining
And you feel cold inside
You`re flying
away from yesterday
I`m waiting
Returning
I wish you open your eyes
This blackness
around you
Well I've wasted all my mind
Thinking all this time that it'd be perfect
Well I fell into reality seeing things that I didn't
I worry about things I can't control
and I'm loosing my mind trying to let them go
CHORUS:
I was saying that your faith is all that I need
I was saying that your faith is my, my everything
Now I'm floating on the notion
it's been throwing my emotions
on the feelings I'm approaching
yeah
Well I've read between the lines
it's like looking through closed blinds
in this melodic frame of my mind
CHORUS
What's this I am sensing
better relieve some of this tension
in the things I try to mention
yeah
That saying that says you got nothing to lose
is just, my friend, an expression to you
CHORUS
Now I'm floating on the notion
it's been throwing my emotions
on the feelings I'm approaching
yeah
Now I've read between the lines
it's like looking through closed blinds
in this melodic frame of my mind
of my mind, yeah
I was saying that your faith is all that I need
I was saying that your faith is my, my everything
take it now
take it all
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
I got what you want
I got what you need
yeah, yeah, yeah
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
I got faith
in the name of god they maim and slay
every non-believer questioning their faith
a conviction so inborn beyond common sense
is there a cure for this ignorance?
you have your god
an image of yourself
in this holy war
that sends us all to hell
"love your neighbour, turn the other cheek"
or isn't global peace what you seek?
just open up and see
paradise won't come so easily
in the name of god they indoctrinate
each and every one of you who's in need of faith
a conviction so inborn beyond common sense
looks like the sword is mightier than the pen
you have your god
an image of yourself
in this holy war
that sends us all to hell
"love your neighbour, turn the other cheek"
or isn't global peace what you seek?
just open up and see
paradise won't come so easily
in the name of who do you obey?
nothing changes if you're on your knees to pray
forget the cross - time to act intelligent
no need for gods, nothing's heaven-sent
you have your god
an image of yourself
in this holy war
that sends us all to hell
"love your neighbour, turn the other cheek"
or isn't global peace what you seek?
just open up and see
paradise won't come so easily
a bucket full of shit
in the corner of your darkest hours
you face your enemy
face to face
eye for an eye
to be or not to be
that is the question
but even if you win the battle
you will lose the war
all you've got is just an illusion
and you can't live through this
just by saving the day
it takes you an entire scripture
just to tell us 'bout few
but you don't have the courage
to handle everything with care
you don't need a muscle
just a place to stay
if the world is HEAVEN
why does most of it
look like HELL?
go on and
kill it
you're always looking for more
you will never understand
that there is no score
break all there is
just to destroy your dreams
confront all of your fears
to be more than nothing
there is no time for you after all
go on and just pretend to fall
good or bad
everybody wants to be a hero
keep on pretending that you've got
the power
you will destroy it in 3, 2, 1
I entrust my will to you
Love is lost kizutsuke au you ni
The desire fires it on
Kanashii sekai wa rensa suru
Worshipping an image
All people should be equal,
We are all God's children
Never try to judge your enemy
I will climb that hill in time - for truth
And I will bear the cross upon my back
I entrust my will to you - meaning of love
To one who understands, I'm satisfied
Koboreru onaji chi
Without feeling sorry for me
Mabushii hikari wo kanjiru
Because I go to Him
You must love each other,
As I love each one of you
Come, walk in my footsteps
I will climb that hill in time - for truth
And I will bear the cross upon my back
I entrust my will to you - in your hearts
I see a future that is full of calm,
It guides me on
To you I entrust my will
I see a future that is full of calm
In you my will lives on
Carried down through time
My will lives on
Carried down through time
My will lives on
Carried down through time
My will lives on
Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hope
I can't just carry on this way
And every time
I turn away
Lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me...
Suddenly I see you change
Everything at once
The same
But the mountain never moves...
Rape me like a child
Christened in blood
Painted like an unknown saint
There's nothing left but hope...
Your voice is dead
And old
And always empty
Trust in me through closing years
Perfect moments wait...
If only we could stay
Please
Say the right words
Or cry like the stone white cloud
And stand
Lost forever in a happy crowd...
No-one lifts their hands
No-one lifts their eyes
Justified with empty words
The party just gets better and better...
I went away alone
With nothing left
when I'm sad when all is quiet
when I have a shitty day
I realize I have nothing
And I feel so insane
I feel so insane
when I need a friend to help me
but I’ve got shitty friends
I realize I have nothing
I talk to myself
I talk to myself
I need faith I need faith
And all sorrows will go away, away
O o o o h
You’re my salvation
I need faith I need faith to survive
I need faith like a ray of light
I’ve got faith I’ve got faith in my life
By the faith I can survive
Thanks to you my star shines
And my sky is clear today
Thanks to you I smile back
I’m no longer the same
I’m no longer the same
Thanks to you I just feel
AT peace with myself
I know what this means
And I pray
I pray that it never ends
I need faith I need faith
And all sorrows will go away, away
O o o o h
You’re my salvation
I need faith I need faith to survive
I need faith like a ray of light
I’ve got faith I’ve got faith in my life
By the faith I can survive
Faith, faith
And all sorrows will go away
O o o o H
You’re my salvation
You’re my direction
I see Papa working nightshift
Worried by his years
Mama's got her problems but she cares
I watch my family going crazy
Telling me I'm lazy, things are going
To work out in the end
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
Brother's always shouting
Sister starts to cry
Another anxious moment passes by
I know that I can take it
Someday I will make it
Everything will work out in the end
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
'Cause you've got to have faith
In the power of love
Someday I will make it
Just you wait and see
I know that I can take it
That's how things will be
I know what I'm feeling I know I've got faith
With nothing to say,
We're ghosts that occupy a space,
Barely here
We're starting to trust,
The hurt is spilling out of us,
Through the tears
The fragile affair,
It's turning into solitaire,
We're full of fair
We need to adjust,
We're losing every part of us,
We disappear
Faith, where have you gone?
Was it me that made it all wrong?
Faith, where have you gone?
I thought I knew where I belong
Faith, where have you gone?
Where do I start so I can go on?
Faith, where have you gone?
Lord, give me faith so I can be strong
Remember our lives,
When we were never out of time?
Our devise
Like stars in the night,
We'd shimmer from the greatest height,
Two satellites
But look at us now,
We're bruising like a stormy cloud,
We've compromised
All that we vowed
Has tumbled lika a crown
From you and I
Faith, where have you gone?
Was it me that made it all wrong?
Faith, where have you gone?
I thought I knew where I belong
Faith, where have you gone?
Where do I start so I can go on?
Faith, where have you gone?
Lord, give me faith so I can be strong
Love needs so much faith
Faith, where have you gone?
Was it me that made it all wrong?
Faith, where have you gone?
Where do I start so I can go on?
Faith, where have you gone?
Lord, give me faith so I can be strong
ALBUMS
- I Rise
- Why Not
- Drive-By Laughter
- Lemonade Love Stand
- Hesitate
- All Souls
- Time to Fall in Love Again
- Need What I Want
- Face to Decorate
- Lost
- Saving All My Love
- Bad Girl
- Commercialized
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- opening ～white pearl～
- Two Futures
- Together
- Princess
- ～smooth～
- Stars
- 恋の天使～乙女の祈り～ (album ver.)
- Melody
- Veil
- U & I
- Fake
- ～cross a rainbow～
- GOLD
- Love is Special
- 旅人達の行進
- outro ～blue diamond～
- -DISCOVER THE LEGEND-
- 永遠の時間
- アクセサリー
- Karasu
- inspiration
- VISION
- Seraphic
- dear
- Sparkle (album ver.)
- Your Eyes
- give me a chance!!～良い予感～
- この手の歴史
- Feel
- THE SCORE
- Get Crazy
- 瞑想曲
- I'm here
- sleep sleep
- 永遠の時間 (classical ver.)
- 2girls～in the sepiatone～ (classical ver.)
- Feel (classical ver.)
- アクセサリー (classical ver.)
- SWEET WAY (groovy mix)
- Seraphic (classical ver.)
- Precious Place (Play the piano mix!!)
- Love Song (ラブ classic mix)
- Opening ～桜草～
- Love Song
- Precious Place
- 2girls～in the sepiatone～
- Jam on tha groove
- RIP TRACK
- Genshoku
- ELEMENTS
- in the factory
- ストーク
- FREEZ
- QUEST OF MAZE
- SWEET WAY ～play the piano～
- SWEET WAY
- The Long Sailing
- Outro ～casablanca～
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George Michael - Faith
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Music video by George Michael performing Faith. (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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Music video by George Michael performing Faith. (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
Limp Bizkit - Faith
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- Duration: 2:45
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Music video by Limp Bizkit performing Faith. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO:1737145. (C) 1998 Interscope Records
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Music video by Limp Bizkit performing Faith. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO:1737145. (C) 1998 Interscope Records
- published: 23 Dec 2009
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faith-george michael
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lyrics
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Paloma Faith - Picking Up The Pieces
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- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Buy Now! smarturl.it "Picking Up The Pieces" released on 20th May, is the first single taken from Paloma's new album "Fall To Grace" which is available on 28th May. Pre-order the album now from: Amazon: Standard amzn.to and Deluxe: amzn.to Play: Standard bit.ly and Deluxe: bit.ly www.palomafaith.com http www.twitter.com Directed by Emil Nava Music video by Paloma Faith performing Picking Up The Pieces. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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Buy Now! smarturl.it "Picking Up The Pieces" released on 20th May, is the first single taken from Paloma's new album "Fall To Grace" which is available on 28th May. Pre-order the album now from: Amazon: Standard amzn.to and Deluxe: amzn.to Play: Standard bit.ly and Deluxe: bit.ly www.palomafaith.com http www.twitter.com Directed by Emil Nava Music video by Paloma Faith performing Picking Up The Pieces. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
- published: 12 Apr 2012
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- author: PalomaFaithVEVO
Faith The Dog
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An amazing story of a two legged dog.
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FAITH - LIMP BIZKIT!!!!
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George Michael Faith 25 Live DVD Rip HQ
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George Michael Faith 25 Live DVD Rip HQ
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Faith Hill - "Breathe" (Official Video)
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Faith Hill - Breath The new single "American Heart" available NOW at iTunes: smarturl.it Watch the best Faith Hill music videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com Subscribe for more Faith Hill: www.youtube.com Love this video? Give it a thumbs up. Tour dates, music and more at www.faithhill.com http www.twitter.com
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Faith Hill - Breath The new single "American Heart" available NOW at iTunes: smarturl.it Watch the best Faith Hill music videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com Subscribe for more Faith Hill: www.youtube.com Love this video? Give it a thumbs up. Tour dates, music and more at www.faithhill.com http www.twitter.com
- published: 27 Oct 2009
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- author: faithhill
Paloma Faith - New York ( Official Video )
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- Duration: 3:20
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Buy now! itunes.apple.com The amazing new single "New York" out Sunday 13th Sept. The debut album 'Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?' released Monday 28th September. Pre-order at www.palomafaith.com
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Buy now! itunes.apple.com The amazing new single "New York" out Sunday 13th Sept. The debut album 'Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?' released Monday 28th September. Pre-order at www.palomafaith.com
- published: 02 Aug 2009
- views: 6038271
- author: PalomaFaith
Yakuza 4 Extended OST - For Faith (Full Mix)
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Full mix of all 4 final boss battle soundtracks Four Face Four Faith For Face For Faith
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Full mix of all 4 final boss battle soundtracks Four Face Four Faith For Face For Faith
- published: 30 Mar 2011
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The Script - Science & Faith
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Music video by The Script performing Science & Faith. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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Music video by The Script performing Science & Faith. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
- published: 06 Jun 2011
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A Leap of Faith
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Follow us on twitter! twitter.com Like us on facebook! www.facebook.com Music by Matthew McMurry (andrewmfilms.bandcamp.com We shouldn't have tried this at home. Created by Andrew McMurry and Spencer Waldner.
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Follow us on twitter! twitter.com Like us on facebook! www.facebook.com Music by Matthew McMurry (andrewmfilms.bandcamp.com We shouldn't have tried this at home. Created by Andrew McMurry and Spencer Waldner.
- published: 19 Dec 2012
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- author: andrewmfilms
How To Restore Your Faith In Humanity
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These 10 moments just might restore your faith in our species. Music: "Innercalm," by Transient soundcloud.com
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These 10 moments just might restore your faith in our species. Music: "Innercalm," by Transient soundcloud.com
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Faith No More - Easy
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Copyrights for the album picture, song, and lyrics are to their rightful owners. I am not trying to take credit away from where it is due. :) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain Girl I'm leaving you tomorrow Seems to me girl you know I've done all I can You see I begged, stole and I borrowed Yeah That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning I wanna be high Soo high I wanna be free to know the things I do are right I wanna be free Just me Oh baby That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning
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Copyrights for the album picture, song, and lyrics are to their rightful owners. I am not trying to take credit away from where it is due. :) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain Girl I'm leaving you tomorrow Seems to me girl you know I've done all I can You see I begged, stole and I borrowed Yeah That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning I wanna be high Soo high I wanna be free to know the things I do are right I wanna be free Just me Oh baby That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning That's why I'm easy I'm easy like sunday morning
- published: 23 Jul 2009
- views: 4487738
- author: FalleNxAngeLx1116
Puff Daddy/Faith Evans/112 - I'll Be Missing You
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- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Christopher George Latore Wallace (1972 - 1997) AKA The Notorious BIG
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Christopher George Latore Wallace (1972 - 1997) AKA The Notorious BIG
- published: 14 May 2009
- views: 38469804
- author: EKWvids
A Day To Remember - Have Faith In Me
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Music video by A Day To Remember performing Have Faith In Me. (C) 2010 Another Victory
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Music video by A Day To Remember performing Have Faith In Me. (C) 2010 Another Victory
- published: 30 Sep 2011
- views: 3917197
- author: ADayToRememberVEVO
Christmas Flash Mob by Journey of Faith at South Bay Galleria - official video
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Journey of Faith performed a Christmas "Flash Mob" at the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach on December 18, much to the delight of local shoppers. Thanks to all who participated. Merry Christmas everyone!!
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Journey of Faith performed a Christmas "Flash Mob" at the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach on December 18, much to the delight of local shoppers. Thanks to all who participated. Merry Christmas everyone!!
- published: 25 Dec 2010
- views: 4528250
- author: jofmediamonkey
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill - It's Your Love
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Tim McGraw & Faith Hill "It's Your Love" Everywhere (C)1997 Curb Records
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Tim McGraw & Faith Hill "It's Your Love" Everywhere (C)1997 Curb Records
- published: 11 May 2007
- views: 10466488
- author: mmuzik
Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
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Music video by Bon Jovi performing Keep The Faith. (C) 2003 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Music video by Bon Jovi performing Keep The Faith. (C) 2003 The Island Def Jam Music Group
- published: 16 Jun 2009
- views: 3513724
- author: BonJoviVEVO
A Day To Remember "Have Faith In Me" Sing-A-Long Version!
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WATCH THE FULL VIDEO RIGHT HERE: youtu.be ADTR Merch - www.adtrmerch.com Directed by Mark Staubach See the brand new music video by A Day To Remember for the track HAVE FAITH IN ME right here on MTV buzzworthy.mtv.com YOUR MUSIC - YOUR LABEL - VICTORY RECORDS www.VictoryRecords.com
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WATCH THE FULL VIDEO RIGHT HERE: youtu.be ADTR Merch - www.adtrmerch.com Directed by Mark Staubach See the brand new music video by A Day To Remember for the track HAVE FAITH IN ME right here on MTV buzzworthy.mtv.com YOUR MUSIC - YOUR LABEL - VICTORY RECORDS www.VictoryRecords.com
- published: 10 Sep 2010
- views: 2303789
- author: VictorVTV
FAITH HILL-♪ THERE YOU'LL BE-HQ-Music Video
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There You'll Be" is a song by Faith Hill, which became a hit single in 2001. Written by Diane Warren, it was featured on the Pearl Harbor soundtrack. The song was also featured on Hill's Greatest Hits album entitled The Hits. "There You'll Be" was first offered to Celine Dion, who reportedly turned it down. The song's music video was directed by Michael Bay, who also directed Pearl Harbor.
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There You'll Be" is a song by Faith Hill, which became a hit single in 2001. Written by Diane Warren, it was featured on the Pearl Harbor soundtrack. The song was also featured on Hill's Greatest Hits album entitled The Hits. "There You'll Be" was first offered to Celine Dion, who reportedly turned it down. The song's music video was directed by Michael Bay, who also directed Pearl Harbor.
- published: 26 Sep 2008
- views: 5179464
- author: 1surfup
Tim McGraw feat Faith Hill - I Need You (HQ) Official
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Music video for the song 'I Need You' featured on Tim's latest album, 'I Need You' as well as Faith's GREATEST HITS album
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Music video for the song 'I Need You' featured on Tim's latest album, 'I Need You' as well as Faith's GREATEST HITS album
- published: 05 Nov 2007
- views: 8025197
- author: timmcgrawofficial
A Day To Remember - "Have Faith In Me" Acoustic (High Quality)
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A Day To Remember performs "Have Faith In Me" inside X1039's Sanderson Ford Studio X located at Uranus Recordings in Tempe, AZ
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A Day To Remember performs "Have Faith In Me" inside X1039's Sanderson Ford Studio X located at Uranus Recordings in Tempe, AZ
- published: 14 Apr 2011
- views: 2596072
- author: x1039phoenix
photo: AP / Juan Karita
04 Jan 2013
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. ... The veterans delivered a letter addressed to the British Ambassador in Argentina, John Freeman, criticising the British government for refusing to discuss the sovereignty of the islands with the Argentine government ... 508 Source.. Al Jazeera and agencies. Share....(size: 19.6Kb)
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03 Jan 2013
A gang of men accused of repeatedly raping a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in a deadly crime that repulsed the nation are to appear in court today for the first time. A British tourist join others in a candlelight vigil to mourn the death of a gang rape victim, in Kolkata, India Photo. AP. 3.52AM GMT 03 Jan 2013 ... Police have ordered a bone test to determine his age and whether he can stand trial in an adult court....(size: 11.3Kb)
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03 Jan 2013
Washington. Aiming to get cooperation through dialogue, the US said that it is working hard to create an environment within Afghanistan and also in the region to have support for Afghan-Afghan reconciliation ... Responding to questions, Nuland said the US supports an Afghan-led process of reconciliation ... Saying that Pakistan needs to engage with Afghanistan directly, Nuland said the US supports dialogue between the two ... PTI ... First Published....(size: 2.3Kb)
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05 Jan 2013
Tweet. New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI). The male friend of the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and left unclothed and bleeding in the street and later died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on December 16 on a private bus in New Delhi, has said that things would have gone differently if someone had stopped to help ... "It would have been a very different scenario today, had even one person come to our help that day ... (ANI)....(size: 3.8Kb)
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04 Jan 2013
LAIZA, Myanmar (AP) — Ethnic Kachins living in makeshift camps in Myanmar described their terror at the army's use of air power during fighting with Kachin rebels seeking more autonomy as the government said Friday that it has exercised maximum restraint. Connect With Us on Twitter. Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List. Reporters and Editors ... Are We Becoming Cyborgs?. IHT Magazine ... ... ....(size: 10.1Kb)
The Examiner
05 Jan 2013
Noted British philosopher and humanist Bertrand Russell had this to say of the practice of “faith”.. "Where there is evidence, no one speaks of 'faith'. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence.". Allaboutreligion.org defines Biblical Faith this way . ... The Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives this definition of Faith.....(size: 5.5Kb)
noodls
05 Jan 2013
In this Year of Faith the Magi can and must accompany us - because the faith can never be taken for granted. Faith taken for granted is not faith. Faith is the soul of a pilgrimage and of an ever renewed search ... Faith is a journey in hope in this world of ours, in the concrete situations we will face in the new year that has just begun....(size: 2.3Kb)
WorldNetDaily
05 Jan 2013
The 2012 elections have not only brought in a new crop of freshman members to Congress, but also a new crop of religious faiths, including the first Buddhist senator, the first Hindu in either house, a drop in the number of Protestants and the first member of Congress ever to list her faith as “none.” ... Faiths never before represented in Congress, however, have now found their way into the chambers....(size: 4.1Kb)
The Examiner
05 Jan 2013
It means tearing down the carefully constructed walls and borders of one’s heart and allowing faith to flow through you as a moving force without restriction which creates the limitless possibility and blessing of God to spread through your entire existence ... I have chosen to be faithful; I have determined to live by your regulations ... God is waiting for you to place your faith and expectation fully in Him....(size: 13.2Kb)
Tulsa World
05 Jan 2013
A new Center for Faith and Learning at Oral Roberts University will seek to help students and faculty integrate Christian principles into every academic discipline at the school ... Halsmer said he conceived the idea of the center last year after realizing that his engineering students needed to be better prepared to discuss issues of science and faith....(size: 4.1Kb)
The Examiner
05 Jan 2013
Vicki Yohe and Charles Jenkins! Enjoy the powerful Word, faith building solutions and electrifying praise and worship during all three sessions ... @ The Faith Center ... The International Believers’ Conference is a well-known event held at The Faith Center hosted by Pastors Henry and Carol Fernandez for the past 19 years ... The Faith Center Sunrise, FL ... Faith Center Ministries....(size: 8.1Kb)
The Daily Telegraph Australia
05 Jan 2013
The couple were married a year later, and are now the proud parents of two daughters, Sunday, 4, and Faith, 2 ... "If someone had told me years ago I would have two daughters, let alone named Sunday and Faith, I would have said, 'What happens to me'." ... "Faith was really simple ... "That's how Faith was brought into the world ... I kept saying to Nic, 'You just have to have faith....(size: 5.2Kb)
The Examiner
05 Jan 2013
No, no … quite the contrary, they were never part of any faith community ... Faith Assembly challenges loom at every intersection ... enter a millennial generation that has an entirely different perspective of faith ... True friends not just colleagues will want you to be fulfilled spiritually! Without an faith outlet, your vain attempts are more like an athlete who tries to run a marathon without practice....(size: 6.1Kb)
Times Union
05 Jan 2013
Organizers say they hope Americans, no matter their faith, pray for a climate where political leaders "are quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry," and "avoid attacking the character of others or falsely impugning their motives.". The nonpartisan Faith & Politics Institute that nurtures the spiritual life of members of Congress and ......(size: 2.1Kb)
Richmond Times Dispatch
05 Jan 2013
“Any Given Monday” and “Breast in Show,” two productions that were scheduled as part of Richmond’s Acts of Faith Festival, have been canceled. The Acts of Faith Festival, sponsored by local churches, enlists theater groups to produce plays that explore aspects of spirituality and faith ... “The [Acts of Faith] committee is still trying to figure out what we’re going to do about that,” Gau said, referring to the loss of the shows....(size: 4.4Kb)
The Examiner
05 Jan 2013
Osteen is criticized for not saying enough about central historical truths of the faith, including the crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ as a sacrifice for our sins ... The trend towards doctrineless Christianity, a feel-good faith disconnected from the “harder” aspects of Christian teaching (sin, death, hell, judgment, etc…), is hardly new and Osteen is certainly not original in this respect....(size: 6.3Kb)
The Examiner
05 Jan 2013
The salient facts are these ... Some faith healing sects have been so opposed to medical science that they have paid for their beliefs with the lives of their own children ... Suggested by the author. ... SCOTUS rulesOregon church defiant despite faith-healing deaths of numerous childrenParents' fervor rewarded despite faith healing death of daughterChurch members may be parsing words in faith healing death. ....(size: 3.4Kb)
my SA
05 Jan 2013
Built in 1608 to evangelize indigenous Bolivians into the Roman Catholic faith, the chapel attracts the faithful and tourists, who travel about 160 miles south from the capital of La Paz to reach the site in the town of Curahuara de Carangas ... to teach local residents about the Christian faith....(size: 1.5Kb)
For other uses, see Faith (disambiguation).
Faith is confidence or trust in a person or entity.[1][2] Depending on the religion, faith is belief in a single god or multiple gods or in the doctrines or teachings of the religion. Informal usage of faith can be quite broad, including trust or belief without proof,[2] and "faith" is often used as a substitute for "hope", "trust" or "belief".
Some critics of faith have argued that faith is opposed to reason. In contrast, some advocates of faith argue that the proper domain of faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence. This is exemplified by attitudes about the future, which (by definition) has not yet occurred. Logical reasoning may proceed from any set of assumptions, positive or negative. In this view, faith is simply the selection of a positive assumption.
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Etymology[link]
The English word is thought to date from 1200–50, from the Middle English feith, via Anglo-French fed, Old French feid, feit from Latin fidem, accusative of fidēs (trust), akin to fīdere (to trust).[3]
Epistemological validity of faith[link]
There is a wide spectrum of opinion with respect to the epistemological validity of faith. On one extreme is logical positivism, which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith; on the other extreme is fideism, which holds that true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and physical evidence cannot lead to truth. Some foundationalists, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and Alvin Plantinga, hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith. Others, such as C.S. Lewis, hold that faith is merely the virtue by which we hold to our reasoned ideas, despite moods to the contrary.[4]
William James believed that the varieties of religious experiences should be sought by psychologists, because they represent the closest thing to a microscope of the mind—that is, they show us in drastically enlarged form the normal processes of things. For a useful interpretation of human reality, to share faith experience he said that we must each make certain "over-beliefs" in things which, while they cannot be proven on the basis of experience, help us to live fuller and better lives.
Fideism[link]
Main article: Fideism
Fideism is not a synonym for religious belief, but describes a particular philosophical proposition in regard to the relationship between faith's appropriate jurisdiction at arriving at truths, contrasted against reason. It states that faith is needed to determine some philosophical and religious truths, and it questions the ability of reason to arrive at all truth. The word and concept had its origin in the mid- to late-19th century by way of Catholic thought, in a movement called Traditionalism. The Roman Catholic Magisterium has, however, repeatedly condemned fideism.[5]
Faith in world religions[link]
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Bahá'í Faith[link]
See also: Role of faith in the Baha'i Faith
In the Bahá'í Faith, faith is ultimately the acceptance of the divine authority of the Manifestations of God. In the religion's view, faith and knowledge are both required for spiritual growth. Faith involves more than outward obedience to this authority, but also must be based on a deep personal understanding of religious teachings.[6]
By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds.[7]
Buddhism[link]
Main article: Faith in Buddhism
Faith (Pali: Saddhā, Sanskrit: Śraddhā) is an important constituent element of the teachings of Gautama Buddha— in both the Theravada and the Mahayana traditions. The teachings of Buddha were originally recorded in the language Pali and the word saddhā is generally translated as "faith". In the teachings, saddhā is often described as:
- a conviction that something is
- a determination to accomplish one's goals
- a sense of joy deriving from the other two
While faith in Buddhism does not imply "blind faith", Buddhist faith nevertheless requires a degree of faith and belief, primarily in the spiritual attainment of Gautama Buddha. Faith in Buddhism centers on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma (spiritual teachings), and in his Sangha (community of spiritually developed followers). Faith in Buddhism can be summarised as faith in the Three Jewels: the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. It is intended to lead to the goal of enlightenment, or bodhi, and Nirvana. Volitionally, faith implies a resolute and courageous act of will. It combines the steadfast resolution that one will do a thing with the self-confidence that one can do it.[8]
As a counter to any form of "blind faith", the Buddha's teachings included those included in the Kalama Sutra, exhorting his disciples to investigate any teaching and to live by what is learnt and accepted, rather than believing in something simply because it is taught.
Christianity[link]
Main article: Faith in Christianity
Faith in Christianity is based in and on the work and teachings of Jesus Christ.[9] In this way Christianity declares not to be distinguished by its faith, but by the object of its faith. Faith is an act of trust or reliance. Rather than being passive, faith leads to an active life aligned with the ideals and the example of the one being trusted. It sees the mystery of God and his grace and seeks to know and become obedient to God. To a Christian; faith is not static but causes one to learn more of God and grow; it has its origin in God.[10]
In Christianity faith causes change as it seeks a greater understanding of God. Faith is not fideism or simple obedience to a set of rules or statements.[11] Before the Christian has faith, they must understand in whom and in what they have faith. Without understanding, there cannot be true faith and that understanding is built on the foundation of the community of believers, the scriptures and traditions and on the personal experiences of the believer.[12] In English translations of the New Testament, the word faith generally corresponds to the Greek noun πίστις (pistis) or the Greek verb πιστεύω (pisteuo), meaning "to trust, to have confidence, faithfulness, to be reliable, to assure".[13]
The Bible (Hebrews 11) says that faith is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Ethical Culture[link]
Ethical Culture is a humanist religion that centers on living an ethical life. With its emphasis on human worth and dignity, it asks that all actions elicit the best in others in order to bring out the best in the self. The faith is in the interrelatedness of all people and in an improvable future in this world.
Hinduism[link]
Śrāddha (ITRANS: shraddhA) is translated as faith in Sanskrit. All schools of Hindu philosophy posit that consciousness (ātman) is distinct and independent from mind and matter (prakṛti). Therefore, Hindu faith is based on the premise that logic and reason are not conclusive methods of epistemic knowing. Spiritual practice (sadhana) is performed with the faith that knowledge beyond the mind and sense perception will be revealed to the practitioner.
The schools of Hindu philosophy differ in their recommended methods to cultivate faith, including selfless action (karma-yoga), renunciation (jnana-yoga) and devotion (bhakti-yoga).
In chapter 17 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes how faith, influenced by the three modes (guṇas) lead to different approaches in worship, diet, sacrifice, austerity and charity.
Swami Tripurari states:
Faith for good reason arises out of the mystery that underlies the very structure and nature of reality, a mystery that in its entirety will never be entirely demystified despite what those who have placed reason on their altar might like us to believe. The mystery of life that gives rise to faith as a supra-rational means of unlocking life's mystery—one that reason does not hold the key to—suggests that faith is fundamentally rational in that it is a logical response to the mysterious.[14]
Islam[link]
Main article: Iman (concept)
In Islam, faith (iman) is complete submission to the will of God, which includes belief, profession and the body's performance of deeds, consistent with the commission as vicegerent on Earth, all according to God's will.
Iman has two aspects:
- Recognizing and affirming that there is one Creator of the universe and only to this Creator is worship due. According to Islamic thought, this comes naturally because faith is an instinct of the human soul. This instinct is then trained via parents or guardians into specific religious or spiritual paths. Likewise, the instinct may not be guided at all.
- Willingness and commitment to submitting that God exists, and to His prescriptions for living in accordance with vicegerency. The Qur'an is the dictation of God's prescriptions through Prophet Muhammad and is believed to have updated and completed the previous revelations that God sent through earlier prophets.
In the Qur'an, it is stated that (2:62): "Surely, those who believe, those who are Muslims, Jewish, the Christians, and the Sabians; anyone who (1) believes in GOD, and (2) believes in the Last Day, and (3) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from their Lord. They have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve."[17]
Judaism[link]
Main article: Jewish principles of faith
Faith itself is not a religious concept in Judaism. Although Judaism does recognize the positive value of Emunah[18] (generally translated as faith, trust in God) and the negative status of the Apikorus (heretic), faith is not as stressed or as central as it is in other religions, especially as it is in the faith-possessed Christendom. It could be a necessary means for being a practicing religious Jew, but the emphasis is placed on practice rather than on faith itself. Very rarely does it relate to any teaching that must be believed.[19] Classical Judaism does not require one to explicitly identify God (a key tenet of faith in Christianity), but rather to honour the idea of God.
In the Jewish scriptures trust in God - Emunah - refers to how God acts toward his people and how they are to respond to him; it is rooted in the everlasting covenant established in the Torah, notably[19] Deuteronomy 7:9 (The Torah - A Modern Commentary; Union of American Hebrew Congregations, NY 1981 by W. G. Plaut)
"Know, therefore, that only the LORD your God is God, the steadfast God who keeps His gracious covenant to the thousandth generation of those who love Him and keep His commandments"
The specific tenets that compose required belief and their application to the times have been disputed throughout Jewish history. Today many, but not all, Orthodox Jews have accepted Maimonides' Thirteen Principles of Belief.[20] For a wide history of this dispute see: Shapiro, Marc: The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series).)
A traditional example of Emunah as seen in the Jewish annals is found in the person of Abraham. On a number of occasions, Abraham both accepts statements from God that seem impossible and offers obedient actions in response to direction from God to do things that seem implausible (see Genesis 12-15).
"The Talmud describes how a thief also believes in G‑d: On the brink of his forced entry, as he is about to risk his life—and the life of his victim—he cries out with all sincerity, 'G‑d help me!' The thief has faith that there is a G‑d who hears his cries, yet it escapes him that this G‑d may be able to provide for him without requiring that he abrogate G‑d’s will by stealing from others. For emunah to affect him in this way he needs study and contemplation."[18]
Sikh[link]
Main articles: Sikhism and Sikh gurus
Sikhism, the fifth-largest organized religion in the world,[21] was founded in 15th-century Punjab on the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev and ten successive Sikh gurus, the last one being the sacred text Guru Granth Sahib. The core philosophy of the Sikh religion is described in the beginning hymn of the Guru Granth Sahib,
There is one supreme eternal reality; the truth; imminent in all things; creator of all things; immanent in creation. Without fear and without hatred; not subject to time; beyond birth and death; self-revealing. Known by the Guru's grace.[22]
Guru Nanak, the founder of the faith, summed up the basis of Sikh lifestyle in three requirements: Nām Japō (meditate on the holy name (Waheguru), Kirat karō (work diligently and honestly) and Vaṇḍ chakkō (share one's fruits).[23]
Faith in other spiritual traditions[link]
Meher Baba[link]
Meher Baba described three types of faith, emphasizing the importance of faith in a spiritual master:
"One of the most important qualifications for the aspirant is faith. There are three kinds of faith: (i) faith in oneself, (ii) faith in the Master and (iii) faith in life. Faith is so indispensable to life that unless it is present in some degree, life itself would be impossible. It is because of faith that cooperative and social life becomes possible. It is faith in each other that facilitates a free give and take of love, a free sharing of work and its results. When life is burdened with unjustified fear of one another it becomes cramped and restricted....Faith in the Master becomes all-important because it nourishes and sustains faith in oneself and faith in life in the very teeth of set-backs and failures, handicaps and difficulties, limitations and failings. Life, as man knows it in himself, or in most of his fellow-men, may be narrow, twisted and perverse, but life as he sees it in the Master is unlimited, pure and untainted. In the Master, man sees his own ideal realised; the Master is what his own deeper self would rather be. He sees in the Master the reflection of the best in himself which is yet to be, but which he will surely one day attain. Faith in the Master therefore becomes the chief motive-power for realising the divinity which is latent in man."[24]
Support of faith[link]
Religious epistemologists have formulated and defended reasons for the rationality of accepting belief in God without the support of an argument.[25] Some religious epistemologists hold that belief in God is more analogous to belief in a person than belief in a scientific hypothesis. Human relations demand trust and commitment. If belief in God is more like belief in other persons, then the trust that is appropriate to persons will be appropriate to God. American psychologist and philosopher William James offers a similar argument in his lecture The Will to Believe.[25][26] Foundationalism is a view about the structure of justification or knowledge.[27][27] Foundationalism holds that all knowledge and justified belief are ultimately based upon what are called properly basic beliefs. This position is intended to resolve the infinite regress problem in epistemology. According to foundationalism, a belief is epistemically justified only if it is justified by properly basic beliefs. One of the significant developments in foundationalism is the rise of reformed epistemology.[27]
Reformed epistemology is a view about the epistemology of religious belief, which holds that belief in God can be properly basic. Analytic philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff develop this view.[28] Plantinga holds that an individual may rationally believe in God even though the individual does not possess sufficient evidence to convince an agnostic. One difference between reformed epistemology and fideism is that the former requires defence against known objections, whereas the latter might dismiss such objections as irrelevant.[29] Plantinga has developed reformed epistemology in Warranted Christian Belief as a form of externalism that holds that the justification conferring factors for a belief may include external factors.[30] Some theistic philosophers have defended theism by granting evidentialism but supporting theism through deductive arguments whose premises are considered justifiable. Some of these arguments are probabilistic, either in the sense of having weight but being inconclusive, or in the sense of having a mathematical probability assigned to them.[25] Notable in this regard are the cumulative arguments presented by British philosopher Basil Mitchell and analytic philosopher Richard Swinburne, whose arguments are based on Bayesian probability.[31][32] In a notable exposition of his arguments, Swinburne appeals to an inference for the best explanation.[33][34]
Criticism[link]
Some critics argue that religious faith is irrational and see faith as ignorance of reality: a strong belief in something with no evidence and sometimes a strong belief in something even with evidence against it. Bertrand Russell noted, "Where there is evidence, no one speaks of 'faith'. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence."[35] In the rationalist view, belief should be restricted to direct observation in the past and present.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins criticizes all faith by generalizing from specific faith in propositions that conflict directly with scientific evidence. He describes faith as mere belief without evidence; a process of active non-thinking. He states that it is a practice that only degrades our understanding of the natural world by allowing anyone to make a claim about nature that is based solely on their personal thoughts, and possibly distorted perceptions, that does not require testing against nature, has no ability to make reliable and consistent predictions, and is not subject to peer review.[36]
See also[link]
- Apostasy
- Crisis of faith
- Delusion
- Dogma
- Faith and rationality
- Faith, Hope, and Charity
- Fowler's stages of faith development
- Incorrigibility
- Lectures on Faith
- Life stance
- Major world religions
- Numinous
- Pascal's Wager
- Rationalism
- Religion
- Religious belief
- Religious conversion
- Simple church
- Spectrum of Theistic Probability
- St. Faith
- There are no atheists in foxholes
- Truthiness
- World view
Notes[link]
- ^ faith. Merriam-Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faith
- ^ a b faith. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith (accessed: December 01, 2011).
- ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith
- ^ Lewis, C.S. (2001). Mere Christianity: a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0-06-065292-6.
- ^ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fideism/
- ^ Smith, P. (1999). A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. p. 155. ISBN 1-85168-184-1.
- ^ Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 383
- ^ The Way of Wisdom The Five Spiritual Faculties by Edward Conze, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/conze/wheel065.html
- ^ Benedict, Benedict X.V.I. (2004). Introduction to Christianity. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-58617-029-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=VwwtInC5fwAC&pg=a#PPA203,M1. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
- ^ Wuerl, By Donald W. (2004). The Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism for Adults, Edition: 5, revised. Huntingdon, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Division. p. 238. ISBN 1-59276-094-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=IzqDiPALzKEC&pg=PA238&dq=a#PPA237,M1. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
- ^ Migliore, Daniel L. 2004. Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to Christian theology. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans. pp. 3-8.
- ^ Inbody, Tyron. 2005. The faith of the Christian church: an introduction to theology. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Pub. pp. 1-10
- ^ Thomas, Robert L.; Editor, General (1981). New American standard exhaustive concordance of the Bible:. Nashville, Tenn.: A.J. Holman. pp. 1674–75. ISBN 0-87981-197-8.
- ^ Tripurari, Swami, On Faith and Reason, The Harmonist, May 27, 2009.
- ^ Titus Burckhardt, Art of Islam, Language and Meaning : Commemorative Edition, World Wisdom, Inc, 2009, page 128
- ^ Jane Hope, The secret language of the soul : a visual guide to the spiritual world, Chronicle Books, 1997, page 59
- ^ Islam (Submission). Your best source for Islam on the Internet. Happiness is submission to God.-Islam-Submission-Introduction,definition, discussion, debate, laws, justice, hum...
- ^ a b Emunah
- ^ a b Brueggemann, Walter (2002). Reverberations of faith: a theological handbook of Old Testament themes. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 0-664-22231-5. http://books.google.com/?id=dBJQ71RIpdMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=faith+in+the+old+testament.
- ^ The 13 Principles and the Resurrection of the Dead from The Wolf Shall Lie With the Lamb, Rabbi Shmuel Boteach (Oxford University)
- ^ Adherents.com. "Religions by adherents" (PHP). http://adherents.com/misc/rel_by_adh_CSM.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09.
- ^ "Sikhism – MSN Encarta". http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566784/Sikhism.html. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ "Concepts of Seva and Simran". http://www.sikhpoint.com/religion/philosophyofsikhism/default.php. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Baba, Meher: Discourses, Volume Three, Sufism Reoriented, 1967, pp. 132-133.
- ^ a b c Clark, Kelly James (2 October 2004). "Religious Epistemology". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/relig-ep/. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ James, William. "1896". New World 5: 327–347. http://educ.jmu.edu//~omearawm/ph101willtobelieve.html. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ a b c Poston, Ted (10 June 2010). "Foundationalism". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/found-ep/. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Plantinga, Alvin; Nicholas Wolterstorff (1983). Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0-268-00964-3.
- ^ Forrest, Peter (11 March 2009). "The Epistemology of Religion". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-epistemology/. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Plantinga, Alvin (2000). Warranted Christian Belief. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513192-4.
- ^ Basic, Mitchell. The Justification of Religious Belief. London: Macmillan.
- ^ Swinburne, Richard. The Existence of God. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Forrest, Peter. God without the Supernatural. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- ^ Swinburne, Richard. Is there a God?. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Russell, Bertrand. "Will Religious Faith Cure Our Troubles?". Human Society in Ethics and Politics. Ch 7. Pt 2. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
- ^ Dawkins, Richard (January/February 1997). "Is Science a Religion?". American Humanist Association. http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/articles/dawkins.html. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
Further reading[link]
- Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton (2004), hardcover, 336 pages, ISBN 0-393-03515-8
- Stephen Palmquist, "Faith as Kant's Key to the Justification of Transcendental Reflection", The Heythrop Journal 25:4 (October 1984), pp. 442–455. Reprinted as Chapter V in Stephen Palmquist, Kant's System of Perspectives (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993).
- D. Mark Parks, "Faith/Faithfulness" Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Eds. Chad Brand, Charles Draper, Archie England. Nashville: Holman Publishers, 2003.
- Marbaniang, Domenic, Explorations of Faith. 2009.
- Poetry & Spirituality
- On Faith and Reason by Swami Tripurari
- Baba, Meher: Discourses, San Francisco: Sufism Reoriented, 1967.
Classic reflections on the nature of faith[link]
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
- Paul Tillich, The Dynamics of Faith
The Reformation view of faith[link]
- John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion
- R.C. Sproul, Faith Alone
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| George Michael | |
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.jpg) George Michael in concert in Belgium, on 14 November 2006 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou |
| Born | (1963-06-25) 25 June 1963 (age 49) East Finchley, North London, England |
| Genres | Pop rock, New Wave, synthpop, blue-eyed soul |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, drums, percussion, horns |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | Aegean, Columbia, Sony |
| Associated acts | Wham!, Band Aid, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Mutya Buena, Whitney Houston, Jody Watley |
| Website | Official website |
| Notable instruments | |
| Piano John Lennon model "Z" Steinway[1] |
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George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.[2] Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper", was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.[3]
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010.[4] His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States.[5] Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.[6]
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.[7][8]
In 2004, the Radio Academy named Michael as the most played artist on British radio between the period of 1984–2004.[9] The documentary A Different Story was released in 2005; it covered his personal life and professional career.[10] In 2006, George Michael announced his first tour in 15 years. The 25 Live tour was a massive, worldwide undertaking by Michael, spanning three individual tours over the course of three years (2006, 2007 and 2008).[11]
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Early life[link]
Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, North London.[12][13] His father, Kyriacos Panayiotou, a Greek Cypriot restaurateur, moved to England in the 1950s and changed his name to Jack Panos.[14] Michael's mother, Lesley Angold (née Harrison, 1937–1997),[15] was an English dancer who died from cancer in Fulham.[15][16][17] His maternal grandmother was Jewish, but hid that fact from her children during World War II for fear of persecution.[18] Michael spent the majority of his childhood in North London, in the home his parents bought soon after his birth. While in his early teens, the family moved to Radlett. There Michael attended the Bushey Meads School, where he met Andrew Ridgeley. The two had the same career ambition of being musicians.[19]
His involvement in the music business began with his working as a DJ, playing at clubs and local schools around Bushey, Stanmore and Watford. This was followed by the formation of a short-lived ska band called The Executive with Ridgeley, Ridgeley's brother Paul, Andrew Leaver, and David Mortimer (aka David Austin).[20]
Musical career[link]
1981–1986: Wham![link]
Main article: Wham!
Michael first found success after forming the duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first album Fantastic reached no. 1 in the UK and produced a series of top 10 singles including "Young Guns (Go For It!)", "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" and "Club Tropicana". Their second album, Make It Big, was the breakthrough that made the duo international superstars, reaching No. 1 on the charts in the US Singles from that album included "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Freedom", "Everything She Wants", and "Careless Whisper", the latter of which was Michael's first solo effort as a single.
Michael sang on the original Band Aid recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and donated the profits from "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" to charity. In addition, he contributed background vocals to David Cassidy's 1985 hit "The Last Kiss", as well as Elton John's 1985 successes "Nikita" and "Wrap Her Up". Michael cited Cassidy as a major career influence and interviewed Cassidy for David Litchfield's prestigious Ritz Newspaper.[21]
Wham!'s tour of China in April 1985, the first visit to China by a Western popular music act, generated enormous worldwide media coverage, much of it centred on Michael. The tour was documented by celebrated film director Lindsay Anderson and producer Martin Lewis in their film Foreign Skies: Wham! In China and contributed to Michael's ever-increasing fame.[22]
With the success of Michael's solo singles, "Careless Whisper" (1984) and "A Different Corner" (1986), rumours of an impending break up of Wham! intensified. The duo officially separated during the summer of 1986, after releasing a farewell single, "The Edge of Heaven" and a singles compilation, The Final, plus a sell-out concert at Wembley Stadium that included the world premiere of the China film. The Wham! partnership ended officially with the commercially successful single "The Edge of Heaven", which reached no.1 on the UK chart in June 1986.[23]
Solo career[link]
The beginning of his solo career, during early 1987, was a duet with soul music icon Aretha Franklin. "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" was a one-off project that helped Michael achieve an ambition by singing with one of his favourite artists, and it scored number one on both the UK Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release.[24][25]
For Michael, it became his third consecutive solo number one in the UK from three releases, after 1984's "Careless Whisper" (though the single was actually from the Wham! album Make It Big) and 1986's "A Different Corner". The single was also the first Michael had recorded as a solo artist which he had not written himself. The co-writer, Simon Climie, was unknown at the time, although he would have success as a performer with the band Climie Fisher in 1988. Michael and Aretha Franklin won a Grammy Award in 1988 for Best R&B Performance – Duo or Group with Vocal for the song.[26]
[edit] 1987–1989: Faith
Main article: Faith (George Michael album)
During the autumn of 1987, Michael released his first solo album, Faith. In addition to playing a large number of instruments on the album, he wrote and produced every track on the recording, except for one, which he co-wrote.[27]
The first single released from the album was "I Want Your Sex", during the summer of 1987. The song was banned by many radio stations in the UK and US, due to its sexually suggestive lyrics.[28] MTV would broadcast the video, featuring celebrity make-up artist Kathy Jeung in a basque and suspenders, only during the late night hours.[28] Michael argued that the act was beautiful if the sex was monogamous. Michael even recorded a brief prologue for the video in which he said: "This song is not about casual sex."[29] One of the racier scenes involved Michael writing the words "explore monogamy" on his partner's back in lipstick.[30] Some radio stations played a toned-down version of the song, "I Want Your Love," which was mainly the word "love" replacing "sex."[31] When the tune reached the US charts, American Top 40 host Casey Kasem refused to say the song's title, referring to it only as "the new single by George Michael."[31] In the US, the song was also sometimes listed as "I Want Your Sex (from Beverly Hills Cop II)", since the song was featured on the soundtrack of the movie.[32]
Despite censorship and radio play problems, "I Want Your Sex" reached No.2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart[33] and at No.3 in Britain.[34]
The second single, "Faith", was released during October 1987, just a few weeks before the album. "Faith" would become one of his most popular songs. The song hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and maintained that position for four consecutive weeks.[35] It also reached no.2 in the UK Singles Chart.[34] The famous video provided some definitive images of the 1980s music industry in the process—Michael in shades, leather jacket, cowboy boots, and Levi's jeans, playing a guitar near a classic-design jukebox.[36] On 30 October, Faith was released in the UK and in several markets worldwide.[32] In the United States, the album had 51 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of Billboard 200, including 12 weeks at no.1. "Faith" had many successes, four of which ("Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", and "Monkey") reached no. 1.[37] Eventually, "Faith" received Diamond certification by the RIAA for sales of 10 million copies in the US.[38] To date, global sales of Faith are more than 25 million units.[39]
In 1988, Michael embarked on a world tour.[40] The nightly set list included from the Wham! era "Everything She Wants" and "I'm Your Man", as well as covers of "Lady Marmalade" or "Play That Funky Music". In Los Angeles, California, Michael was joined on stage by Aretha Franklin for "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)". It was the second highest grossing event of 1988, earning $17.7 million.[41] According to Michael in his film, A Different Story, success did not make him happy and he started to think there was something wrong in being an idol for millions of teenage girls. The whole Faith process (promotion, videos, tour, awards) left him exhausted, lonely and frustrated, and far from his friends and family.[42] At the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, Michael received the Video Vanguard Award.[43] In 1990, he told his record company Sony that, for his second album, he did not want to do promotions like the one for Faith.[32]
[edit] 1990–1992: Listen Without Prejudice
Main article: Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was released in September 1990. For this album, Michael tried to create a new reputation as a serious-minded artist; the title is an indication of his desire to be taken more seriously as a songwriter.[44] Michael refused to make any kind of promotion for this album, including no music videos for the singles released.[32] The first single, "Praying for Time", was released in August 1990. It concerned social ills and injustice; the song was an instant success, reaching No. 6 in the UK and No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, despite the absence of a video.[35] A video was released shortly thereafter, consisting of the lyrics on a dark background. Michael did not appear in this video or any subsequent videos for the album.[44]
The second single "Waiting for That Day" was an acoustic-heavy single, released as an immediate follow-up to "Praying For Time". It reached No. 27 in the US[35] and No. 23 in the UK[34] in October 1990. The album was released in Europe on 3 September 1990 (and one week later in the United States). It reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart[34] and peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200.[35] It spent a total of 88 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and was certified 4 times Platinum by the BPI.[45] The album produced 5 UK singles, which were released quickly, within an at eight-month period: "Praying for Time", "Waiting for That Day", "Freedom! '90", "Heal the Pain", and "Cowboys and Angels" (the latter being his only single not to chart in the UK top 40).[34]
"Freedom '90" was the second of only two of its singles to be supported by a music video (the other being the Michael-less "Praying for Time").[46] The song alludes to his struggles with his artistic identity, and prophesied his efforts shortly thereafter to end his recording contract with Sony Music. As if to prove the song's sentiment, Michael refused to appear in the video (directed by David Fincher), and instead recruited supermodels Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, and Cindy Crawford to appear in and lip sync in his stead.[46] It also featured the reduction of his sex symbol status.[47] It had contrasting fortunes on each side of the Atlantic—a No.8 success on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US,[35] but only No.28 on the UK Singles Chart.[34] "Mother's Pride" gained significant radio play in the United States during the first Persian Gulf War during 1991, often with radio stations mixing in callers' tributes to soldiers with the music.[48] It reached No.46 on Billboard Hot 100 with only airplay.[35] In the end, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 sold approximately 8 million copies.[49]
In 1991, George Michael embarked on the "Cover to Cover Tour" in Japan, England, the US, and Brazil, where he performed at the "Rock in Rio" event.[50] In the audience in Rio, he saw and later met Anselmo Feleppa, the man who would become his partner.[48] The tour was not a proper promotion for Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1. Rather, it was more about Michael singing his favourite cover songs.[50] Among his favourites was "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", a 1974 song by Elton John; Michael and John had performed the song together at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and again for Michael's concert at London's Wembley Arena on 25 March 1991, where the duet was recorded. The single was released at the end of 1991 and became a success on both sides of the Atlantic.[51]
In the meantime, the expected follow-up album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2, was scrapped due to Michael's lawsuit with Sony.[52] Among Michael's complaints was that Sony had not completely supported the release of his second album, resulting in its poor performance in the US as compared to Faith. Sony responded that Michael's refusal to appear in promotional videos had caused the bad response.[53] Michael ended the idea for Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2 and donated three songs to the charity project Red Hot + Dance, for the Red Hot Organization which raised money for AIDS awareness,[54] while a fourth track "Crazyman Dance" was the B-side of 1992's "Too Funky". Michael donated the royalties from "Too Funky" to the same cause.[55] The song did not appear on any George Michael studio album, although later it was included on his solo collections Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael in 1998 and Twenty Five in 2006. The video featured Michael (sporadically) as a director filming supermodels Linda Evangelista, Beverly Peele, Estelle Lefébure and Nadja Auermann at a fashion show.[56] "Too Funky" was a success, reaching number 4 in the UK singles chart[34] and number 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100.[35]
[edit] 1993: Five Live
Main article: Five Live (EP)
George Michael performed at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on 20 April 1992 at London's Wembley Stadium.[57] The concert was a tribute to the life of the late Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury, with some proceeds going to AIDS research.[58] Michael performed "'39" and "Somebody to Love". The performance of the latter was released on the "Five Live" EP.
Five Live, released in 1993 for Parlophone in the UK and Hollywood Records in the US, features five—and in some countries, six—tracks performed by George Michael, Queen, and Lisa Stansfield."Somebody to Love" and "These Are the Days of Our Lives" were recorded at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. "Killer", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", and "Calling You" were all live performances recorded during his "Cover to Cover Tour" from 1991. Michael's performances of "Somebody to Love" was hailed as "one of best performances of the tribute concert".[59][60] The idea of having George Michael take over as full-time lead singer of Queen was even given serious consideration.[61]
All proceeds from the sale of the EP benefited the Mercury Phoenix Trust.[62] Sales of the EP were very strong through Europe, where it debuted at number 1 in the UK and several European countries.[34] Chart success in the United States was less spectacular, where it peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200 ("Somebody to Love" reached No.30 on the US Billboard Hot 100).[35]
[edit] 1994–1997: Older
Main article: Older (album)
During November 1994, after a long period of seclusion, George Michael appeared at the first MTV Europe Music Awards show, where he gave a touching performance of a brand-new song, "Jesus to a Child".[63] The song was a melancholy tribute to his lover, Anselmo Feleppa, who had died in March 1993.[64]
The song was Michael's first self-penned success in his homeland in almost four years; it entered the UK singles chart at No. 1[34] and No. 7 on Billboard in the same month of release.[35] It was also Michael's longest UK Top 40 single, at almost seven minutes long. The exact identity of the song's subject—and the nature of Michael's relationship with Feleppa—was shrouded in innuendo and speculation, as Michael had not confirmed he was homosexual and did not do so until 1998. The video for "Jesus to a Child" was a picture of images recalling loss, pain and suffering. Michael consistently dedicates the song to Feleppa before performing it live.[65]
The second single, released in April 1996, was "Fastlove", an energetic tune about wanting gratification and fulfilment without commitment. The song was somewhat unusual for a popular song, in that it did not have a defined chorus and that the single version was nearly five minutes long. "Fastlove" was supported by a futuristic virtual reality-related video. It scored No. 1 in the UK singles chart, spending three weeks at the top spot.[34] In the US, "Fastlove" peaked at No. 8, his most recent single to reach the top 10 on the US charts.[35] Following "Fastlove", Michael finally released Older, his first studio album in six years and only the third in his ten year solo career. The album's US and Canada release was particularly notable as it was the first album released by David Geffen's (now-defunct) DreamWorks Records.[66] Older was particularly notable for the release of its six singles. Each of them reached the UK Top 3, a record for the most singles in the British Top 3 released from a single album.[67] At the time of release of the album's fifth single, "Star People '97", chart specialist James Masterton noted George Michael's success on the singles charts, writing: "George Michael nonetheless makes an impressive Top 3 entry with this single. The Older album has now proved itself to be far and away his most commercially successful recording ever. Five singles now lifted and every single one has been a Top 3 hit. Compare this with the two Top 3 hits produced by Faith and Listen Without Prejudice's scant total of one Top Tenner and one single which missed the Top 40 altogether. This sustained single success has, of course, been achieved with a little help from marketing tricks such as remixes – or in this case a new recording of the album track which gives it a much-needed transformation into a deserved commercial smash."[68]
In 1996, Michael was voted 'Best British Male', at the MTV Europe Music Awards[69] and the Brit Awards;[70] and at The Ivor Novello Awards, he was awarded the prestigious title of 'Songwriter of The Year' for the third time.[14] Michael performed a concert at Three Mills Studios, London, for MTV Unplugged.[71] It was his first long performance in years, and in the audience was Michael's mother. The next year, she died of cancer.[72]
[edit] 1998: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
Main article: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael was Michael's first solo greatest hits collection released in 1998. The collection of 28 songs (29 songs are included on the European and Australian release) are separated into two halves, with each containing a particular theme and mood. The first CD, titled "For the Heart", predominantly contains Michael's successful ballads, while the second CD, "For the Feet", consists mainly of his popular dance tunes.[73] It was released through Sony Music Entertainment as a condition of severing contractual ties with the label.[74]
The album is notable for containing a large number of compilation tracks and duets that had not previously appeared on his albums, including his duet with Aretha Franklin, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"; "Desafinado", a duet in Portuguese with Brazilian legendary singer Astrud Gilberto; and the Elton John duet "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me".
Ladies & Gentlemen was an instant success, peaking at number one on the UK Albums Chart for 8 weeks.[34] It has spent over 200 weeks in the UK Charts, and it is the 38 best-selling album of all time in the UK.[75] It is certified 7 times platinum in the United Kingdom and Multi-Platinum in the United States, and it's George Michael's most commercially successful album in his homeland having sold more than 2.8 million copies.[45] To date, the album has reached worldwide sales of approximately 15 million copies.[76]
The first single of the album, "Outside" was a humorous song about his arrest for soliciting a policeman in a public restroom. "As", his duet with Mary J. Blige, was released as the second single in many territories around the world. Both singles reached the top 5 in the UK Singles Chart.[34]
[edit] 1999: Songs from the Last Century
Main article: Songs from the Last Century
Songs from the Last Century is a studio album of cover tracks. It was released in 1999 and was the final George Michael album to be released through Virgin Records. To date, the album has peaked the lowest of his solo effort. The album debuted at number 157 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart, which was also the album's peak position.[35] It was also his lowest-charting album in the UK, becoming his only solo effort not to reach number 1. It peaked at number 2 in the UK Albums Chart.[34] It consists of old standards, plus new interpretations of more recent popular songs such as "Roxanne", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"; and the Frank Sinatra classic "Where or When". Each of the 11 tracks was co-produced by Phil Ramone and George Michael.[77]
[edit] 2000–2005: Patience
Main article: Patience (George Michael album)
Michael began working on what would be his fifth studio album, spending two years in the recording studio. His first single "Freeek!", taken from the new album, was successful in Europe going to number one in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Denmark in 2002 and reaching the top 10 in the UK and the top 5 in Australia.[78] It made 22 charts around the world. However, his next single "Shoot the Dog" proved to be highly controversial when released in July 2002. It was highly critical of George W. Bush and Tony Blair in the leadup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[79] It reached number one in Denmark and made the top 5 in most European charts.[80] However, in Britain it peaked at only number 12 in the UK Singles Chart.[34]
On 17 November 2003, George Michael re-signed with Sony Music after a legal battle with the company led to his contract being sold to rival record companies Virgin Records and DreamWorks Records.[74] When Michael's fifth studio album, Patience, was released in 2004, it went straight to number 1 on the UK Albums Chart,[34] and became one of the fastest selling albums in the UK, selling over 200,000 copies in the first week alone.[81] In Australia it reached number 2 on 22 March.[82] It reached the Top 5 on most European charts, and peaked at number 12 in the United States, selling over 500,000 copies to earn a Gold certification from the RIAA.[35] Critically acclaimed, it is considered the album of George Michael's comeback to the spotlight in the new millennium, selling around 7 million copies worldwide and spawning four (of six) new hit singles.[83]
"Amazing", the first single from the album, became a number one hit in Europe.[84] When Michael appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show on 26 May 2004, to promote the album, he performed "Amazing", along with his classic songs "Father Figure" and "Faith".[85] On the show Michael spoke of his arrest, revealing his homosexuality, and his resumption of public performances. He allowed Oprah's crew inside his home outside of London.[86] The second single taken off the album was "Flawless (Go to the City)", It was a dance hit in Europe as well as North America, reaching no.1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and became Michael's last number one single on the United States Dance chart.[34] In November, Sony released another single – "Round Here". It was the least successful single taken from Patience when it stalled the UK charts at no. 32.[34] In 2005, "John and Elvis Are Dead" was released as the final single from the album; it was released as a download single and was therefore unable to chart in the United Kingdom.[87]
George Michael announced that Patience will be the last record on sale to the public.[88] He told BBC Radio 1 on 10 March 2004 that future music that he puts out will be available for download, with fans encouraged to make a donation to charity.[89]
[edit] 2005–2008: Twenty Five and concert tours
Main article: Twenty Five (album)
Twenty Five was George Michael's second greatest hits album, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his music career.[90] Released in November 2006 by Sony BMG, it debuted at no.1 in the UK.[91]
The album contains songs chiefly from George Michael's solo career but also from his earlier days in Wham! It comes in two formats: two CDs or a limited edition three-CD set. The 2-CD set contained 26 tracks, including four recorded with Wham! and three new songs: "An Easier Affair"; "This Is Not Real Love" (a duet with Mutya Buena, formerly of Sugababes, which peaked at No.15 in the UK Charts); and a new version of "Heal the Pain" recorded with Paul McCartney. The limited edition three-CD version contains an additional 14 lesser known tracks, including one from Wham! and another completely new song, "Understand".[92]
Twenty Five was released in North America on 1 April 2008 as a 29-song, two-CD set featuring several new songs (including duets with Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige and a song from the short-lived TV series Eli Stone)[93] in addition to many of Michael's successful songs from both his solo and Wham! career. To commemorate the Twenty Five album, George Michael toured North America for the first time in 17 years, playing large venues in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, St. Paul/Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas.[94]
The DVD version of Twenty Five contains 40 videos on two discs, including seven with Wham!.[95]
During the 2005 Live 8 concert, Michael joined Paul McCartney on stage, harmonising on The Beatles classic "Drive My Car". Michael was one of several remixers commissioned in 1990 to work on dance mixes for Bananarama's "Tripping on Your Love". Bananarama covered "Careless Whisper" for their Exotica album in 2001, and the track was also released as a single in France.
In 2006, Michael started his first tour in 15 years, 25 Live. The tour began in Barcelona, Spain, on 23 September and finished in December at Wembley Arena in England. According to his website, the 80-show tour was seen by 1.3 million fans. On 12 May 2007 in Coimbra, Portugal, he began the European "25 Live Stadium Tour 2007", including London and Athens, and ending on 4 August 2007 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There were 29 tour dates (as of 21 April 2007) across Europe. On 9 June 2007 Michael became the first artist to perform live at the newly renovated Wembley Stadium in London, where he was later fined £130,000 for overrunning the programme for 13 minutes.
On 25 March 2008 a third part of the 25 Live Tour was announced for North America. This part included 21 dates in the United States and Canada. This was Michael's first tour of North America in 17 years. Following news of Michael's North American tour, Twenty Five was released in North America on 1 April 2008 as a 29-song, 2-CD set featuring several new songs (including duets with Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige and a song from the short-lived TV series, Eli Stone) in addition to many of Michael's successful songs from both his solo and Wham! career. In addition, a companion 2-disc DVD of 40 videos was also made available.
Michael made his American acting debut by playing a guardian angel to Jonny Lee Miller's character on Eli Stone, a TV series that was broadcast in the United States. In addition to performing on the show as himself and as "visions", each episode of the show's first season was named after a song of his. Michael appeared on the 2008 finale show of American Idol on 21 May singing "Praying for Time". When asked what he thought Simon will say of his performance, he replied "I think he'll probably tell me I shouldn't have done a George Michael song. He's told plenty of people that in the past, so I think that'd be quite funny."[96][97][98]
On 1 December, Michael played a last concert in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, as part of the 37th National Day Celebrations.
2008–present: Latest projects[link]
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On 25 December 2008, Michael released a new track "December Song" on his website for free. It was hoped that fans who download the song would donate money to charity. Though the song is not available any more on his website, it remains available on file sharing networks[99] and on 29 October 2009 the BBC said that George Michael was to join the race for the UK Christmas number one as a remastered version of "December Song" would go on sale on 13 December. The popularity of the single was boosted by a promotional appearance that Michael made on The X Factor, where he performed the song with David Austin playing piano.
At the end of 2009, Michael announced, after months of speculation, that he would be performing shows in the Australian cities of Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, his first concerts in Australia since 1988.[100] On 20 February 2010, Michael performed his first show in Perth at the Burswood dome to an audience of 15,000.[101]
On 5 March 2010, Michael confirmed that he would be a guest performer at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras After Party, where he performed at 1 am, followed by Kelly Rowland at 3 am.[102]
On 2 March 2011 Michael announced the release of his cover version of New Order's 1987 hit "True Faith" in aid of the charity Comic Relief.[103] The Guardian called his version a "dreary run through a song that now sounds like it's being performed by a depressed Dalek" and questioned whether it was "the worst 'non-comedy' charity single of all time".[104] Michael released a cover of Stevie Wonder's 1972 song, "You and I" on 15 April 2011, as an MP3 gift to Prince William and Catherine Middleton on the occasion of their wedding on 29 April 2011.
Although the MP3 was released for free download,[105] Michael appealed that those who do download the special track that make a contribution to "The Prince William & Miss Catherine Middleton Charitable Gift Fund".[106]
On 11 May 2011, the Symphonica Tour was announced. Only European dates were released. The first show on the tour was performed at the Prague State Opera House on 22 August.[107] In November, he had to cancel the remainder of the tour though, as he became severely ill in Vienna, Austria.[108]
In October 2011, Michael was announced as one of the final nominees for the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.[109]
Michael told fans over Twitter in January 2012 that he did not think his vocal cords would be ready for performance "till the summer", and that the tour will probably take place in September of that year, and may include previously unheard songs.[110] Michael also announced in an interview with OK! magazine in October 2011 that he is working on a dance influenced album.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
Sexuality[link]
In a 2007 interview, Michael admitted that he had hidden the fact he was gay because of worries over what effect it might have on his mother.[111]
Relationships[link]
Michael established a relationship with Anselmo Feleppa, whom he had met at the 1991 concert Rock in Rio. Feleppa died of a brain haemorrhage in 1993.[112] Michael's single "Jesus to a Child" is a tribute to Feleppa (he consistently dedicates it to him before performing it live), as is his 1996 album Older.[112]
In 1996, Michael entered into a long-term relationship with Kenny Goss, a former cheerleader coach[113] and sportswear executive from Dallas.[114] They had homes in London and Dallas.[115] In late November 2005, it was reported that Michael and Goss would register their relationship as a civil partnership in the UK,[116] but because of negative publicity and his upcoming tour, they postponed it to a later date.[117][118] On 22 August 2011, the opening night of his Symphonica world tour, Michael announced that he and Goss had split two years earlier.[119] Goss was present at Michael's British sentencing for driving under the influence of marijuana on 14 September 2010.[120]
Anonymous sex[link]
Questions of Michael's sexual orientation persisted in public until 7 April 1998, when he was arrested for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public toilet in a park in Beverly Hills, California. He was arrested by an undercover policeman named Marcelo Rodríguez, in a sting operation using so-called "pretty police."
In an MTV interview, Michael stated: "I got followed into the restroom and then this cop—I didn't know it was a cop, obviously—he started playing this game, which I think is called, 'I'll show you mine, you show me yours, and then when you show me yours, I'm going to nick you!"[121]
After pleading "no contest" to the charge, Michael was fined US$810 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service. Soon afterwards, Michael made a video for his single "Outside" which was obviously based on the public toilet incident and which featured men dressed as policemen kissing. Rodríguez claimed that this video "mocked" him, and that Michael had slandered him in interviews. In 1999, he brought a US$10 million court case in California against the singer. The court dismissed the case, but an Appellate court reinstated the case on 3 December 2002.[122] The court then ruled Rodríguez, as a public official, could not legally recover damages for emotional distress.[123]
After the incident, Michael became explicit about his sexuality and his relationship with Kenny Goss which began in June 1996.
On 23 July 2006. Michael was again accused of engaging in anonymous public sex, this time at London's Hampstead Heath.[124] The anonymous partner was stated (wrongly, as it turned out) to be 58-year-old Norman Kirtland,[125] an unemployed van driver.[126] Despite stating that he intended to sue both the News of the World tabloid who supposedly photographed the incident and Norman Kirtland for slander, Michael stated that he cruises for anonymous sex[127] and that this was not an issue in his relationship with partner Kenny Goss.[128]
Drugs[link]
On 26 February 2006, Michael was arrested for possession of Class C drugs, an incident that he described as "my own stupid fault, as usual." He was cautioned by the police and released.[129]
Michael was arrested in Cricklewood, North-West London, after motorists reported a car obstructing the road at traffic lights. He pleaded guilty on 8 May 2007 to driving while unfit through drugs.[130] He was banned from driving for two years, and sentenced to community service.
During September 2007, on Desert Island Discs, he said that his cannabis use was a problem; he wished he could smoke less of it and was constantly trying to do so.[131]
On 19 September 2008, Michael was arrested in a public toilet in the Hampstead Heath area of London for possession of Class A and C drugs. He was taken to the police station and cautioned for controlled substance possession.[132]
On 5 December 2009, in an interview with The Guardian, Michael explained he had cut back on cannabis and now smokes only 'seven or eight' spliffs per day instead of the 25 he used to smoke.[133]
In the early hours of Sunday 4 July 2010 Michael was returning from the Gay Pride parade. The singer was spotted on CCTV driving into the front of a Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London and was arrested on suspicion of being unfit to drive.[134][135] On 12 August, London's Metropolitan Police said he was "charged with possession of cannabis and with driving while unfit through drink or drugs".[136] Michael had also been taking the prescription medication Amitriptyline.[137][138]
On 24 August 2010 the singer pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London after admitting driving under the influence of drugs[139] and on 14 September 2010 at the same court, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison, a fine, and a five year ban from driving.[140][141] Michael was released from Highpoint Prison in Suffolk on 11 October 2010, after serving four weeks.[142] It was reported that Michael had also been taking the prescription medication, Amitriptyline,[143][144] a sleeping pill.
Politics[link]
Michael wrote "Shoot the Dog", a song critical about the friendly relationship between the American and British governments and their involvement in the Iraq War.
During 2000, Michael joined Melissa Etheridge, Garth Brooks, Queen Latifah, the Pet Shop Boys, and k.d. lang, to perform in Washington, D.C. as part of 'Equality Rocks' – a concert to benefit the Human Rights Campaign.[145]
During 2007, he sent the £1.45 million piano that John Lennon used to write "Imagine" around the United States on a "peace tour," having it on display at places where violence had taken place, such as Dallas' Dealey Plaza, where US President John. F. Kennedy was shot.[1]
He devoted his concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, from his "Twenty Five Tour" to the Bulgarian nurses prosecuted in the HIV trial in Libya.[146]
On 17 June 2008, Michael said he was thrilled by California's legalisation of same-sex marriage, calling the move "way overdue."[147]
Charity[link]
During 1984, he sang as part of Band Aid on the charity song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for famine relief in Ethiopia. This single scored No.1 on the UK music charts over Christmas 1984, holding Michael's own song, "Last Christmas" by Wham!, at #2. Michael donated the royalties from "Last Christmas" to Band Aid and subsequently sang with Elton John at Live Aid (the Band Aid charity concert) in 1985.
In 2003 he paired up with Ronan Keating on the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and won £32,000, after having their original £64,000 winnings halved after missing the £125,000 question.
The proceeds from the single "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" were divided among 10 different charities for children, AIDS and education.
Michael is supporting a campaign to help raise US$32 million (GBP15 million) for terminally ill children.
Assets[link]
According to reports, between the years 2006 and 2008, Michael earned £48.5 million ($97 million)[148] from the 25 Live tour alone, as well as earning millions more for private concerts that he periodically does, such as for Billionaire Vladimir Potanin and super rich fashion shop owner Sir Philip Green.[148] According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2011, George Michael is worth £90 million in currency alone.[149]
Memoirs[link]
In 1991 Michael released an autobiography titled "Bare" through Penguin Books, which he co-wrote with writer Tony Parsons. The over 200 page book covers various aspects of his life, including details of his relationship with a former girlfriend.[150] On 16 January 2008, Michael signed a contract with HarperCollins for an autobiography which he is to write "entirely himself".[151]
Health troubles[link]
On 26 October 2011, Michael had to cancel a performance at London's Royal Albert Hall due to viral infection. On 21 November 2011, Michael was admitted to hospital in Vienna after complaining of chest pains at a hotel two hours prior to him performing at a venue there for his Symphonica Tour. Michael was later confirmed to have suffered from pneumonia and until 1 December was in an intensive-care unit. While Michael appeared to be "in good spirits" and was responding well to treatment following his admittance, hospital officials said on 25 November, that Michael's condition had "worsened overnight". This development led to Michael's remaining 2011 dates, most of them in the United Kingdom, being cancelled and postponed.[152] Michael's partner, celebrity hairstylist Fadi Fawaz, told press that Michael's health was improving "by the hour". On 1 December, doctors in the hospital Michael stayed in, announced that the singer was "steadily improving" and had moved out of the intensive care unit. On 21 December 2011, Michael was discharged from the hospital. On 23 December 2011, Michael made a public speech in London about how the staff at the Vienna General Hospital had saved his life and how he was so grateful that he was going to perform a concert for the staff. Whilst making the speech, he became emotional and became breathless.[153] During the speech, he also mentioned he had undergone a tracheotomy.[154]
Discography[link]
Main article: George Michael discography
See also: Wham! discography
Studio albums[link]
- 1987: Faith
- 1990: Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
- 1996: Older
- 1999: Songs from the Last Century
- 2004: Patience
Awards[link]
Tours[link]
- Faith World Tour (1988–1989)
- Cover to Cover (1991)
- 25 Live (2006–2008)
- George Michael Live in Australia (2010)
- Symphonica Tour (2011–2012)
See also[link]
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| Paloma Faith | |
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 Faith performing in November 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Paloma Faith Blomfield |
| Born | (1985-07-21) 21 July 1985 (age 26)[1][2] Hackney, London, UK |
| Genres | Soul, pop, jazz |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | Epic Records, RCA Records |
| Website | palomafaith.com |
Paloma Faith (born Paloma Faith Blomfield; 21 July 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she released her debut single "Stone Cold Sober" and her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, which was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Her album stayed within the top 40 album charts for over forty weeks. The album spawned five singles: "Stone Cold Sober", "New York", title track "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?", "Upside Down" and "Smoke & Mirrors". Faith also recorded the theme song to the 2010 British film 4.3.2.1 and appeared on the charity record "I Put a Spell on You". Faith made her feature film debut in the 2007 remake of St Trinian's. She has since appeared in two more feature films, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Dread. In March 2010, Faith revealed that she was working on a second album. Almost two years later, Faith announced that her second album would be called Fall to Grace and that it would be released on 28 May 2012. The album was preceded by the single "Picking Up the Pieces", which became Faith's highest charting single to date.
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Early life[link]
Faith was born in Hackney, London to a Spanish father and an English mother who split up when Faith was two years old.[1] Faith was raised by her mother in Stoke Newington.[3] As a child, Faith was encouraged to dance by her mother and she took weekly ballet classes in Dalston.[1] After completing her A-Levels, Faith went on to study for a degree in contemporary dance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance,[4] which Faith describes as "the worst experience of [her] life".[1] Faith then went on to study for an MA in theatre directing at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,[5] funding her studies by working various part-time jobs, which included; a sales assistant at Agent Provocateur, a singer in a burlesque cabaret, a life model and a magician's assistant.[3][5]
Music career[link]
2007–08: Career beginnings[link]
Faith's first foray into music began when she mimicked famous soul and jazz singers including Etta James and Billie Holiday, whom she admired and cites as influences for her own work.[3][6] Faith met her managers Jamie Binns and Christian Wåhlberg of Lateral Management in 2007.[7] Binns had been tipped off by the producer Peanut, a client who had recently worked with Faith in his studio and been suitably impressed.[8] He met up with Faith shortly afterwards and was "completely blown away", later saying: "I wasn't sure what this girl was going to do – she was an actress and a singer – but there was just something about her in that artistic realness that when I came out of the meeting I called Christian and said, 'We have to do something with this girl!'"[8] Although Faith had been looking for a manager, she was still wary about entering into a formal agreement with Binns and Wåhlberg. She instead wanted to build their relationship before any contracts were signed. The managers spent six months to a year helping Faith with the A&R process, setting up sessions, and guiding and advising her before Faith was officially signed to Lateral Management.[8]
During her time at college, Faith worked in a pub where the manager asked her to front his band, which they later called 'Paloma and the Penetrators'.[1] During a performance with the band at a cabaret show, Faith was scouted by an A&R man from Epic Records, who invited Faith to sing for the manager of the label.[1] Twenty minutes into the audition, Faith asked the manager to turn his phone off and when he refused, she walked out.[1] Epic A&R Joanna Charrington told HitQuarters "When she played a showcase for us it was clear that she was a star but the material was a bit generic. She didn't have the hit songs."[7] Not being one hundred percent convinced the label executives decided to wait. During this time Charrington regularly checked Faith's MySpace page "to see if she had something that had a special direction or sound."[7] After several months her attention was eventually piqued by "Broken Doll", which she thought was a well-crafted song with a "fantastic chorus and brilliant lyrics."[7] Charrington told Epic managing director Nick Raphael "I think we should get this girl back in. She sounds like she is getting it now. We can help her get the songs."[7] Faith revealed in an interview that the manager called her and offered her a contract saying he had seen many acts since and none had been as memorable as her.[1] Faith turned down an opportunity to join Amy Winehouse's band and she began to write and perform her own songs.[9]
Faith's first recognised work was the song "It's Christmas (And I Hate You)", which she recorded as a duet with singer-songwriter, Josh Weller in 2008.[10] Faith's music is influenced by soul and jazz and her singing style has been compared favourably to those of Amy Winehouse and Duffy.[11][12]
[edit] 2009–10: Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?
Faith released her debut single, "Stone Cold Sober", in mid-2009 and it reached Number 17 on the UK Singles Chart.[13] Faith's second single, "New York" was released in September 2009.[14] The song made its peak position in early October, peaking at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.[15] Faith then released her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, on 28 September 2009.[16] Faith wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album in the UK, Sweden and America and recorded it entirely in London.[17] It debuted at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart and later peaked at number 9, it remained in the chart for sixteen weeks.[18] The album became BBC Radio 2's 'Album of the Week' from the 19 September 2009.[16] In the same year, Faith appeared as a guest vocalist on Basement Jaxx's Scars album and on American hip-hop artist MF Doom's album, Born Like This.[19][20] Faith released her third single, the album's title track, "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?" on 21 December 2009.[21] The song did not perform as well as Faith's previous singles and failed to reach the top twenty. It peaked at number 64 in January 2010.[22] In March 2010, Faith released her fourth single, "Upside Down", which peaked at Number 55 in the UK. To promote the album, Faith went on her first tour, featuring dates in the UK, Germany and France.[23]
On 4 November 2009, Faith announced her first headlining tour of the UK and Ireland starting on 17 March 2010.[5][24] The Times described the tour as being "full of theatrical artifice, but based on the rock-solid foundation of [Faith]'s sensational singing voice and a personality that sparkled like a rough diamond".[25] Faith performed a live set for the BBC's Radio 2 Introduces... and gave an interview to the station's host, Dermot O'Leary.[26] Faith also appeared on current events programme This Week discussing her views on the British education system with Michael Portillo. During this month she also appeared as a guest on Never Mind the Buzzcocks,[27] performed the song "Upside Down" on The Hollyoaks Music Show, and performed her single "New York" on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. She also appeared on the BBC's Later with Jools Holland, recorded on 13 October 2009, and his live Hootenanny on 31 December 2009. Faith performed at numerous festivals throughout that summer, including T4 on the Beach. "Stone Cold Sober" was used as the backing track for a Rimmel commercial starring Lily Cole and the B-side, "I Just Wait", was used in a UK television alcohol awareness advert.[5][28] Samsung's Corby mobile phone TV commercial featured Faith's "Technicolour" song. Faith became involved in an album artwork competition with BBC Blast in November 2009, in which teenagers won the chance to work alongside leading artists, photographers and music industry professionals to create new publicity artwork for the singer.[29]
During an interview with Mayer Nissim of Digital Spy in March 2010, Faith revealed that she was working on a second album.[30], and that if she continued to make losses for her record label they would drop her.[30] Faith's manager subsequently refuted any suggestion that her contract with the label was under threat, saying that, on the contrary, debut album UK sales of 500,000 without a hit single is an impressive foundation for a long-term career, and Sony are "smart enough" to recognise that and are 110% behind her.[8] Faith, along with Adam Deacon and Bashy, recorded the theme song to the 2010 British film 4.3.2.1. The track, titled "Keep Moving", was released on 28 May 2010.[31] In the same month, Faith performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival with the The Guy Barker Orchestra. The performance was broadcast on BBC Radio 2.[32] In June 2010, it was announced that Faith would re-release an updated version of "New York" featuring rapper Ghostface Killah.[33] The single was released on 1 August 2010.[33] Faith released a live EP album following an appearance at the 2010 iTunes Festival. The album charted at number 11 on the iTunes top 200 albums.[34] Faith revealed in a September interview that she would be releasing her new single "Smoke & Mirrors" in October 2010.[35] The track was the final single from her debut album and its video was uploaded to YouTube.[35] It peaked at Number 140 on the UK Singles Chart.[36]
[edit] 2011–present: Fall to Grace
In January 2011, Faith was nominated for "British Female Solo Artist" at the 2011 BRIT Awards.[37] At the ceremony, Faith performed "Forget You" alongside Cee Lo Green.[38] Faith appears on the charity single "Hard Times" alongside Plan B and Elton John.[39] She also recorded the song "Desire" with Graham Coxon and Bill Ryder-Jones for a Converse campaign.[40] During an interview with Popjustice, Faith revealed her second album would contain more "agony and suffering."[41] The singer also hoped the album would be done with one producer as she wanted a "solid piece of work."[41] She explained "I love the beautiful side of things like that Tom Waitsy, Rufus Wainwrighty, Ed Harcourt sort of stuff, and in contrast I like all the OutKast production, Gnarls Barkley and 'Beggin' and all that sort of sound. Contemporary but with a nod to the past. But you never know. You might just meet someone and something else would make sense."[41] In July 2011, Faith revealed her frustrations about releasing the follow up to Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?. She did not know when the album was going to be completed and said the process was slow.[42] She told Kristy Kelly of Digital Spy, "The album's not finished yet and I'm not sure when it will be. If I had my way it would be out tomorrow, but there are so many other people involved that nothing happens quickly."[42] Faith also admitted being signed to a major record label made her feel under pressure to be instantly successful.[42] On 7 February 2012, a writer for the Gloucestershire Echo reported Faith had been named as Artist in Residence for the 2012 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.[43]
On 29 February 2012, Faith revealed her second album would be called Fall to Grace and that it would be released by RCA Records on 28 May 2012.[44][45] Faith enlisted record producer Nellee Hooper and co-producer Jake Gosling to work with her on the project.[45][46] Hooper told a writer for NME that he had not really heard of Faith as he was living in Los Angeles when her first album was released. He said Sony and RCA Records contacted him and suggested he meet her.[46] Of Fall to Grace, Faith said "The new album has taken on a very cinematic mood. I am very excited to introduce my new sound into the world. Working with Nellee Hooper (Björk, Madonna) has been really inspirational."[44] Faith told Dom Gourlay of Contactmusic.com that Fall to Grace is a personal record about a period of her life. Faith wrote and recorded the album in London.[46][47] Fall to Grace was be preceded by the single "Picking Up the Pieces" on 20 May.[44] It debuted at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart, making it Faith's highest charting single to date.[48][49] On 4 April 2012, Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy reported Faith had joined The Voice UK as one of four guest mentors.[50] Faith worked with coach Danny O'Donoghue during the battle rounds phase of the competition.[50] She also performed "Picking Up the Pieces" during the fourth results show.[51] To promote Fall to Grace, Faith performed "Just Be", a track from the album, on Later... with Jools Holland.[52]
Acting career[link]
In 2006, Faith made her primetime television acting debut in the series Mayo. The following year she appeared in an episode of the BBC police drama HolbyBlue and made her feature film acting debut as Andrea in St Trinian's.[28][53] In 2009, Faith appeared in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Sally, the girlfriend of the Devil (played by Tom Waits).[28] She also appeared in horror film Dread as Clara Thornhill.[5] Faith revealed that she was able to attend film auditions during promotion for her debut album, in the hope that she would land a role once all of her album commitments were over.[6] In August 2010, Faith appeared in Channel 4's series Coming Up.[54] She also appears in the short film, A Nice Touch with Dougray Scott.[55] Faith became attached to appear in Wayne Holloway's untitled punk movie in 2012.[56] Faith will make an appearance as cabaret performer, Georgia, in the BBC drama adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings.[40][57] She auditioned for the role and stated "I don't think they even knew I was an actress. I went to an audition and they said that they liked my interpretation of the character and I said, 'I'm just being myself'."[58]
Discography[link]
Main article: Paloma Faith discography
- Studio albums
- Singles
- "Stone Cold Sober" (2009)
- "New York" (2009)
- "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?" (2009)
- "Upside Down" (2010)
- "New York" (feat. Ghostface Killah) (2010)
- "Smoke & Mirrors" (2010)
- "Picking Up the Pieces" (2012)
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Mayo | Guest | Episode: 1.6 |
| 2007 | HolbyBlue | Donna Reynolds | Episode: 1.7 |
| 2007 | Dogface | Various | Episode: 1.4 |
| 2007 | St Trinian's | Andrea | Film debut |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Sally | |
| 2009 | Dread | Clara Thornhill | |
| 2010 | Coming Up | Rainy | Episode: "I Don't Care" |
| 2011 | A Nice Touch | Alma | Short |
| 2012 | Blandings | Georgia |
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| Faith Hill | |
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 Singing in a tribute concert for America's armed forces for ABC's Good Morning America |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Audrey Faith Perry |
| Born | (1967-09-21) September 21, 1967 (age 44) Ridgeland, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Genres | Country, country pop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, producer, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros. Nashville |
| Associated acts | Tim McGraw, Josh Groban, Tony Bennett |
| Website | www.faithhill.com |
Faith Hill (born Audrey Faith Perry; September 21, 1967) is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S. Country charts.
Hill has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association, the American Music Awards and the People's Choice Awards. Her Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 with McGraw became the highest-grossing country tour of all time.[1] In 2001, she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies Home Journal. In 2008, Hill released her first Christmas album, titled Joy to the World. In 2009 Billboard named her as the #1 Adult Contemporary artist of the decade 2000-2009. Hill was ranked the 39th best artist of the 2000-10 decade by Billboard.[2]
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Early life and career start[link]
Hill was born in Ridgeland, Mississippi, north of Jackson, Mississippi. She was adopted as an infant, and named Audrey Faith Perry. She was raised in the nearby town of Star, 25 miles outside of Jackson, Mississippi.[3] Her adoptive parents raised their two biological sons along with Hill in a devout Christian environment.[4]
Hill's vocal talent was apparent early, and she had her first public performance, a 4-H luncheon, when she was seven.[5] In 1976, a few days before her 9th birthday, she attended a concert by Elvis Presley at the State Fair Coliseum, in Jackson, which impressed her deeply. By the time she was a teenager, Hill was a regular performer at area churches, even those not in her own Baptist denomination.[6] At 17, Hill formed a band that played in local rodeos. She briefly attended college at Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi,where she served with a group called the Hinds Connection (a student recruiting and public relations group). At times, she sang for prisoners at the Hinds County Jail, her song of choice being "Amazing Grace.".[7] At age 19 she quit school to move to Nashville and pursue her dream of being a country singer. In her early days in Nashville, Hill auditioned to be a backup singer for Reba McEntire, but failed to secure the job.[4] After a stint selling T-shirts, Hill became a secretary at a music publishing firm.[5] She also worked at McDonald's but it didn't go well. "Fries, burgers, cash register - I did it all, I hated it," she has said.[8]
In 1988 she married music publishing executive Daniel Hill, who is not to be confused with Canadian musician Dan Hill.[9]
Two years later, she began a search for her biological mother, whom she eventually met and with whom she corresponded until her mother's death.[10]
A co-worker heard Hill singing to herself one day, and soon the head of her music publishing company was encouraging her to become a demo singer for the firm.[5] She supplemented this work by singing backup vocals for songwriter Gary Burr, who often performed his new songs at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe. During one of those performances, Bob Saporiti, an executive from Warner Bros. Records was in the audience, and, impressed with Hill's voice, began the process of signing her to a recording contract.[4]
Shortly after the release of her album, Hill found her marriage falling apart. She and Daniel Hill divorced in 1994.[10]
Music career[link]
1993–1997: Country success[link]
Hill's debut album was Take Me as I Am (1993); sales were strong, buoyed by the chart success of "Wild One". Hill became the first female country singer in 30 years to hold Billboard's number one position for four consecutive weeks when "Wild One" managed the feat in 1994.[11] Her version of "Piece of My Heart", also went to the top of the country charts in 1994.[5] The album sold a total of 3 million copies.[5] Other singles from the album include "Take Me as I Am".
The recording of Faith's second album was delayed by surgery to repair a ruptured blood vessel on her vocal cords. It Matters to Me finally appeared in 1995 and was another success, with the title track becoming her fourth number-one country single. Several other top 10 singles followed, and more than 3 million copies of the album were sold.[5] The fifth single from the album, "I Can't Do That Anymore", was written by country music artist Alan Jackson. Other singles from the album include "You Can't Lose Me", "Someone Else's Dream", and "Let's Go to Vegas"
In spring 1996, Hill began the Spontaneous Combustion Tour with country singer Tim McGraw. At that time, Hill had recently become engaged to her former producer, Scott Hendricks, and McGraw had recently broken an engagement. McGraw and Hill were quickly attracted to each other and began an affair. After discovering that Hill was pregnant with their first child, the couple married on October 6, 1996. The couple have three daughters together: Gracie Katherine (b. 1997), Maggie Elizabeth (b. 1998) and Audrey Caroline (b. 2001). Since their marriage, Hill and McGraw have endeavored never to be apart for more than three consecutive days.[4]
After the release of It Matters to Me, Hill took a three-year break from recording to give herself a rest from four years of touring and to begin a family with McGraw. During her break, she joined forces with her husband for their first duet, "It's Your Love".[12] The song stayed at number one for six weeks,[5] and won awards from both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. Hill has remarked that sometimes when they perform the song together, "it [doesn't] feel like anybody else was really watching."[12]
1998–2003: Pop crossover breakthrough[link]
She reentered the music business in 1998 with Faith.[12] The album showcased her progression toward a more mainstream, pop-oriented sound, although it retained some country sound. "This Kiss" became a number one country hit, and was the first of her singles to place on the pop charts, peaking at number seven. More than six million copies of the album were sold. The album also delivered several other hits including another duet with McGraw, "Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me", "Let Me Let Go" and "The Secret Of Life".[5]
To follow up this newfound success, Hill immediately released Breathe, which debuted at the top of the Billboard Country and all genre charts, ahead of albums by Mariah Carey and Savage Garden.[13] Although the album had few overt country sounds, it "complement[ed] her vocal strengths."[14] For the first time, the album consisted solely of songs about love and did not venture into the more somber territory that her previous albums had touched.[14] The title track, "Breathe", reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[13] "The Way You Love Me" hit the top 10 as well, topping out at number six on the charts. The album won Hill three Grammy Awards including Best Country Album, Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "Let's Make Love" featuring Tim McGraw and Best Country Female Vocal Performance for "Breathe."[15] It also marked a step away from her girl-next-door image, as the videos and promotional pictures all portrayed a much sexier image. Breathe has sold almost 10 million copies worldwide.[16]
2000 was an especially busy year for Hill. Besides a successful tour with her husband, Hill was featured in a CBS television special, VH1's Behind the Music, VH1 Divas 2000, and the Lifetime cable channel's Intimate Portraits series.[13] She signed an endorsement deal with CoverGirl makeup,[5] performed at the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards, appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, and performed the national anthem at the Super Bowl.[13] Hill was also named to Mr. Blackwell's 10-best dressed women of 2000, the only singer listed among actresses and other celebrities. Hill and McGraw also embarked on their first Soul2Soul tour, the "Soul2Soul Tour 2000."[17]
Musically, in 2000 Hill recorded a song for the movie Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, entitled "Where Are You Christmas." The song also appeared on the pop and country charts. Hill's success on the pop charts disturbed some country music insiders, who questioned whether she was trying to dismiss her country roots and move into the pop genre. Despite the grumbling, Hill won the CMA Female Vocalist of The Year Award, and in her acceptance speech announced, "I love this business and I love this industry... and my heart is here."[13]
In 2001, Hill recorded a song for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack. "There You'll Be" also appeared on the album There You'll Be: The Best Of Faith Hill, an international greatest hits album. The album featured dance mixes of "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me" along with alternate versions of "Piece Of My Heart" and "Let Me Let Go."
In 2002, Hill released her new album with a more pop-oriented sound, Cry. The album "spotlight[ed] her impressive set of pipes," but also marked the completion of her "transformation into a pop diva," containing few nods to her country roots. Though the album debuted at number one on Billboard magazine's pop and country album charts,[5] and Hill made her debut as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, the album's singles (including the title track "Cry", written and originally performed by Angie Aparo) received much less radio airplay than her previous smashes.[18] The album however, did win a Grammy Award and 3.7 million copies have been sold worldwide.[15]
Hill's 2002 song "Baby You Belong" off her Cry album was used as the theme song for the movie Lilo & Stitch. The music video featured clips from the movie as well as performance clips.
2005–2006: Return to country[link]
In 2005, Hill returned with her new country album, Fireflies. The CD debuted on top of the Billboard Country and all genre album charts, placing her among only a handful of artists to have three consecutive albums debut at number one on both charts.[19] The debut single, "Mississippi Girl", became Hill's highest-debuting single. The song was written specifically for her by John Rich (of Big and Rich) and Adam Shoenfield of MuzikMafia, and tells the abbreviated story of her life. Hill recorded two other songs by Rich, "Sunshine and Summertime" and "Like We Never Loved at All", both of which became successful singles.[20] The title track, "Stealing Kisses" and "If You Ask" were written by artist Lori McKenna and also appear on McKenna's albums. The album marked a return to Hill's country roots and succeeded in reestablishing her place on country radio.[21]
In 2006, after a six-year break from touring following the birth of her youngest daughter,[4] Hill and husband Tim McGraw embarked on their Soul2Soul II Tour 2006. The tour became the highest grossing country music tour ever with a gross of $90 million.[1][22] It was named "Major Tour of the Year" by the prestigious Pollstar, beating out such heavyweights as Madonna and the Rolling Stones.
2007–present: The Hits, Joy to the World and future projects[link]
In 2007, Hill started work on her first domestic greatest hits package, titled The Hits, which was released on October 2. It contains two new tracks, "Lost" and "Red Umbrella", as well as 13 additional tracks. The album also features hits covering her entire career from 1993–2005. Included with the 2-Disc Special-Edition of The Hits is a DVD of 11 of Hill's music videos. The DVD substitutes the Tim McGraw duet "Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me" for their "I Need You" duet on the CD.[23]
She's also featured on husband Tim McGraw's 2007 album Let It Go. She sings two duets with him, "I Need You" and "Shotgun Rider." Both songs were sung at the couple's critically acclaimed Soul2Soul II Tour 2006. She and Tim also did an encore of their Soul2Soul II Tour; Soul2Soul 2007 began in June and ran through August. The song I Need You has been nominated twice at the 2008 Grammy Awards for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals and Best Country Song. The show took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on February 10, 2008 but the song didn't win.
In 2007 Hill took over as the signature voice of NFL on NBC's Sunday Night Football, singing the theme song about which the show's producer said:[24]
It's not often that you get the opportunity to have a mega-star like Faith Hill perform the signature open to your show.—NBC Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli, MSNBC
In September 2008, Hill issued her first Christmas album, titled Joy to the World. The compilation was given positive reviews, including about.com, which gave the album four and a half out of five stars, calling the album, "a great collection of classic Christmas songs." Hill continually worked on the album two years prior to its official release. The album included one new track, "A Baby Changes Everything", which was released as the album's only single in late 2008.[25] The song debuted at #24 on Billboard's AC chart, and quickly rose to #1, becoming Hill's fourth number one on that chart.
On February 1, 2009 Hill performed "America the Beautiful" at the Super Bowl XLIII pregame show. The other performers at the pregame show were Jennifer Hudson and Journey, and Bruce Springsteen performed at the Halftime show.[26]
In October 2010, Hill contributed to the Country Strong soundtrack. On it, she recorded a song titled 'Give In To Me'. Hill also appears on Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn, on which she performs "Love Is The Foundation." Hill also contributed her vocals on the Ryan Tedder penned song "All I Ever Wanted" for the 2010 feature film Life As We Know It . The song was used in trailers to promote the film and also appeared during the end credits of the film.
Brendan O'Brien, known for producing projects for Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and Rage Against the Machine, is working with Hill and producing her next album, set for release in 2011.[27] Hill will also be entering the studio with pop producer Brian Kennedy in January 2011 to complete the album.
In March 2011 Hill returned to the studio for another round of recording. "I would like to have a record out," Hill tells Billboard.com, "but it hasn't been the right thing yet. I don't want it to be just another record. It's a lot of work to support a record, so I just want it to be... really great. I want it to represent where I am as a woman. I don't want it to be fake. I want it to be authentic and real."[28] In mid-2011 Hill recorded a duet with George Strait on the song A Showman’s Life which can be heard on Strait's new album Here For A Good Time.
Hill performed her new single "Come Home", on the CMA Awards on November 9, 2011. Faith's seventh album, rumored to be titled "Illusion" is set for release in the fall of 2012. Tracks confirmed for the album include, "Illusion", "Flower" and "600 Years".
Acting career[link]
In 1995 Hill guest starred in an episode of Touched by an Angel,.[29] Hill won the role of Julia Compton Moore, the wife of LTC Hal Moore, played by Mel Gibson, in the 2002 movie "We Were Soldiers" but ultimately left the film, giving the role to Madeline Stowe.[8] Her film debut was in the summer of 2004, when Hill co-starred with Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick and Glenn Close in director Frank Oz's remake of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives.[30] Although the film earned over $101 million, it was savaged by critics[31] [32][33] and Hill has not made another acting appearance since. While hers was a small part, she provided one of the more talked about scenes with a scream that made Tim McGraw proud.[8]
Fragrance[link]
In October 2009, Hill released her first fragrance titled Faith Hill Parfums. The fragrance is a blend of Southern Magnolia, Jasmine and Peach Pears. In 2010, Hill released her second fragrance, titled True.
Philanthropy[link]
Hill used her 1999 tour to support a national children's book drive, The Faith Hill Family Literacy Project. The charity was inspired by Faith's father, who faced challenges with literacy. Fans who donated books at one of her concerts were entered into a drawing to meet her personally after the show.[34] The effort resulted in the donation of 35,000 children's books, which were distributed to hospitals, schools, libraries, and daycare centers in 40 cities across the United States.[35]
In the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Hill and her husband, Tim McGraw, who was raised in Louisiana, joined groups taking supplies to Gulfport, Mississippi. The two also hosted several charity concerts to benefit those who were displaced by the storm.[36] Later in the year the couple established the Neighbor's Keeper Foundation, which provides funding for community charities to assist with basic humanitarian services in the event of a natural disaster or for desperate personal circumstances. In a special gesture, the couple also donated profits from their performance in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina relief.[37]
In June 2010, Hill, along with her husband, Tim McGraw organized Nashville Rising, a benefit concert aimed to raise $2 million for The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in response to the flood in early May that killed 22 people and caused $2 billion in damage.[38]
Discography[link]
Main article: Faith Hill discography
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Grammy Awards[link]
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Hill has won 5 awards from 15 nominations
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
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| 1997 | "Hope" (Country Music's Quest For A Cure) | Best Country Collaboration with Vocals | Nominated |
| 1998 | It's Your Love (with Tim Mcgraw) | Best Country Collaboration with Vocals | Nominated |
| 1999 | "This Kiss" | Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Nominated |
| "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (feat. Tim Mcgraw) | Best Country Collaboration with Vocals | Nominated | |
| Faith | Best Country Album | Nominated | |
| 2000 | "Let Me Let Go" | Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Nominated |
| 2001 | "Breathe" | Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Won |
| "Let's Make Love" (feat. Tim McGraw) | Best Country Collaboration with Vocals | Won | |
| Breathe | Best Country Album | Won | |
| 2002 | "There You'll Be" | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated |
| 2003 | "Cry" | Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Won |
| 2004 | Cry | Best Country Album | Nominated |
| 2006 | "Mississippi Girl" | Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Nominated |
| "Like We Never Loved at All" (feat. Tim McGraw) | Best Country Collaboration with Vocals | Won | |
| Fireflies | Best Country Album | Nominated |
Other Awards[link]
| Year | Award | Category |
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| 1993 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top New Female Vocalist |
| 1995 | TNN/Music City News | Female Star of Tomorrow |
| 1997 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Vocal Event of the Year – (w/ Tim McGraw) |
| Academy of Country Music | Top Single of the Year – "It's Your Love" (w/ Tim McGraw) | |
| Academy of Country Music | Top Song of the Year – "It's Your Love" (w/ Tim McGraw) | |
| Country Music Association Awards | Vocal Event of the Year – (w/ Tim McGraw) | |
| 1998 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Female Vocalist |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Vocal Event of the Year – (w/ Tim McGraw) | |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Music Video of the Year – "It's Your Love" (w/ Tim McGraw) | |
| Country Music Association Awards | Music Video of the Year – "This Kiss" | |
| 1999 | TNN/Music City News | Vocal Collaboration of the Year – "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (w/ Tim McGraw) |
| TNN/Music City News | Song of the Year – "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (w/Tim McGraw) | |
| TNN/Music City News | Video of the Year – "This Kiss" | |
| TNN/Music City News | Single of the Year – "This Kiss" | |
| TNN/Music City News | Female Artist of the Year | |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Female Vocalist | |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Music Video of the Year – "Breathe" | |
| 2000 | Country Weekly's TNN Awards | Female Artist of the Year |
| Country Music Association Awards | Female Vocalist of the Year | |
| 2003 | CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards | Hottest Female Video of the Year – "Cry" |
| 2004 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Female Musical Performer |
| 2006 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Female Artist |
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Further reading[link]
- Brown, Jim; Sparrow, Susan (2002). Faith Hill & Tim McGraw: Soul 2 Soul. Quarry Music Books. ISBN 1-55082-293-4.
- Gray, Scott (1999). Perfect Harmony: the Faith Hill & Tim McGraw Story (1st ed.). Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-43412-9.
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| The Script | |
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 The Script, Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
| Genres | Soft rock, alternative rock, blue-eyed soul, worldbeat |
| Years active | 2001–present[1] |
| Labels | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Associated acts | mytown (1996-2001) |
| Website | thescriptmusic.com |
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| Danny O'Donoghue Mark Sheehan Glen Power |
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The Script are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Based in London after signing to Sony Label Group imprint Phonogenic, the band released their eponymous debut album in August 2008, featuring the hit songs "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven". The album debuted at number one in Ireland and the UK.[2] Their second album, Science & Faith, was released in September 2010, and contains the hit songs "For the First Time" and "Nothing". The album debuted at number one in Ireland and the UK, and number three on the US Billboard 200.[2][3]
Their music has been featured in many video games and many popular television programs including 90210, Ghost Whisperer, The Hills, Waterloo Road, EastEnders, Made in Chelsea and The Vampire Diaries. Frontman Danny O'Donoghue is also a coach on The Voice UK.
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Biography[link]
Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan met in a club in The Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland near the Guinness brewery, gravitating to each other through a shared liking of music, and in particular a love of R & B music (Rhythm and Blues). "At that time, MTV only came on in Dublin after midnight, it was the fuzzy channel, and for my generation urban culture was just a wave through us all," explains Sheehan. "It wasn't about gangs and guns; it was fashion and fun, singing and dancing." [4]
Mark and Danny were formerly part of a band that had formed in 1996 called mytown. Striking up a songwriting and production partnership, O'Donoghue and Sheehan's talent was recognized early, and, to their astonishment, they found themselves invited to Canada to collaborate with some of their production heroes, including such legends of modern R&B as Dallas Austin, Montell Jordan and Teddy Riley. They were based in the US for many years, but moved back to Dublin where they recruited Glen Power for their new band. He had been playing sessions from the age of fifteen, using the money to work on a solo project in his home. But that went on hold when his collaboration with Mark and Danny produced three songs in one week. The band signed to Phonogenic in 2005, and released an EP on Last.FM. The band's influences include a diverse group of artists that include U2, Coldplay, The Police, The Neptunes, Timbaland, and Van Morrison.[5] O'Donoghue also made a reference to Amy Winehouse and Stevie Wonder while discussing his personal voice while singing. They have worked on a few collaborations with Amy Winehouse and Denzel Washington, varying styles and genres. He stated that the instrument he attempts to imitate is a violin, based on the string arrangements of Stevie Wonder, while Amy Winehouse is similar to a saxophone.[6]
Danny and Mark started making demos for other artists, but when they met drummer Glen Power, the objective changed. The pair had never heard Power play, but they made a connection that motivated Sheehan to invite Glen on a working holiday to Los Angeles. In one week, the trio produced three songs. "It was like I found my home playing with these guys," says Glen. "I had never had a chance with any other band to express myself with such freedom." "Individually, we all had our own talents, but together it just went to another level," according to Danny.[cite this quote]
In the beginning years of the band, Mark Sheehan's mother fell terminally ill, causing a lot of stress on the band and members, but it also had a positive effect on Sheehan's writing. With such strong emotional tension, the songwriter found new lyrics every day. Sheehan said that "That was the time when it finally came home to me how important music was to me, 'cause in my darkest moments that's what got me through." After Sheehan's mother's death, ten months after her diagnosis, Danny's father died four months later of a heart attack. Even with such trying moments in their early years, the band was able to rise out of it, albeit with somewhat bleak lyrics in several songs, as commented by Danny when referencing "We Cry": "There is not a lot of hope in the song, cause not everybody's life is full of hope. There's not always roses at the end."[6]
[edit] The Script (2008–2010)
The Script performed "We Cry" for the first time on BalconyTV in Dublin on 13 September 2007.[7] The band claimed that BalconyTV was the "first TV they ever did" and credited Michael Hunter as the "push we needed to propel us" when they won Best Band at the DanishTV Music Video Awards 2009 in the Pepper Club Dublin on 20 June 2008. At the awards the band said the award was their "first ever".[8] The Script released their debut single "We Cry" on 14 April 2008. "We Cry" received "Single of the Day" on RTÉ 2FM, Today FM and by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1, where many radio presenters heavily supported the band.[9] The single peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart,[10] giving the band their first top 20 single. The track also performed well on the Irish Singles Chart, peaking at number 9 and giving the band their first top ten single in their home country.[10] The Script also performed 'We Cry' on one of the CW's TV series, 90210.
Their second single, "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", was released on 15 September 2008.[11] The single reached number 2 in Ireland, Denmark, and the UK.[12] The band released their debut album, The Script, on 11 August 2008. Following the success of "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number one with sales of 20,240 copies where it stayed for eleven weeks. The album spent three weeks in the top ten and was the eighteenth best selling album in the UK of 2008. The album also entered the Irish Albums Chart at number one, holding the top spot for five weeks.[13] It had, as of January 2009, spent 2 wks. in the top 10. The Irish office of Sony BMG music presented the group with their first multi-platinum disc for over 600,000 sales of their debut album, The Script.[14]
The band's third single, "Breakeven", was released in Ireland on 21 November 2008 and in the UK on 29 December 2008. The single was an instant success on the Irish Singles Chart. After entering the chart at number forty, it spent one week before entering the top ten at number ten giving the Script their third top ten single in Russia. The single has, to date, spent 4 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 21. The band's fourth single "Talk You Down" was released in March 2009.[15]
On 9 November The Script received an award at the World Music Awards for 'Best Selling Irish Act' of 2008 and on 19 February 2010, they won 'Best Live Performance' at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards. The band has confirmed that they plan to write a track for Leona Lewis's second album.[16] In December 2008, the band were confirmed to be supporting Take That at their concert at Croke Park on 13 June 2009. The band played at the Cheerio's Childline concert on the opening night of Dublin's 02. They played among big stars Enrique Iglesias, Anastacia and many more.
On 7 April 2009 the band was confirmed to be supporting U2 on their third concert at Croke Park, which took place on 27 July 2009.[17] On 29 April 2009, the band announced that their next single would be Before The Worst, to be released on 15 June 2009.[18] On 17, 18 and 21 July 2009, The Script opened for Paul McCartney at the historic first concerts at New York's Citi Field[19] and for U2 at Dublin's Croke Park.
The band's bonus track and B-side "Live Like We're Dying" was re-recorded by American Idol 2009 winner Kris Allen as the first single off his self-titled album. Allen's version of "Live Like We're Dying" was digitally released for download on 21 September 2009.[20]
On 2 December 2009 the band's single "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" was featured as a remix on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show during the Enchanted Forest segment.
On 16 April 2010, their first U.S. single "Breakeven" was certified Platinum by the RIAA (the Recording Industry Association of America), selling over one million copies in the U.S. and has since peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 2010. The band performed a headline tour in the United States that kicked off in San Diego on 11 October 2010 at the House of Blues and ended on 7 November 2010 at the House of Blues in Boston, Massachusetts.[19] On 21 May 2010, they appeared live on NBC's Today Show as part of the show's outdoor Toyota Concert Series.
[edit] Science & Faith (2010-2011)
The Script announced a new album and single on their website on Monday, 19 July 2010. The first single from album Science & Faith, "For the First Time", was released in the UK on 20 August 2010 and the album followed on 13 September 2010. In the United States, "For the First Time" was released on iTunes on 8 November 2010, with "Science & Faith" was released on 18 January 2011.[21] The song was first released in the United States on AOL Music on 29 September 2010.[22] "For the First Time" has entered the UK charts at #5 and moved up to #4 the following week and entered the Irish charts at #1. The music video features Bono's daughter Eve Hewson. Science & Faith entered the Irish Album Chart and the UK album chart at #1.
The Script recorded their album in London, and vocalist Danny O'Donoghue says that the economic crisis in Ireland is "a microcosm for the rest of the world." He talks about people being stripped of everything that they own and how it inspired the band to write the songs for the new album. Danny says, "We're dealing with complex emotions in the simplest of ways, that's what we battle with in these songs." The subject matter might sound bleak at first, but Science & Faith is about optimism. "With Irish people, no matter how bad things get, you always pick yourself up and carry on."[cite this quote]
On Friday, 24 September at 9:00am tickets for The Script's three nights at The O2 Dublin, two nights at The Odyssey, Belfast & two at The INEC, Killarney went on sale and sold out in less than 40 minutes, with over 60,000 tickets sold. On 1 October at 9:00am tickets for The Script arena tour in March 2011 went on sale. The tickets for all 12 arenas around the UK sold out in 5 days. They also announced that they would play a "Homecoming" concert at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. This is part of the Science & Faith Tour and will be their biggest headline show to date.
The Script also took part in Children in Need 2010. The Script will be participating in the VH1 Best Cruise Ever and sailing to Cozumel 28 April-2 May 2011. The Script took part in BRMB's live 2010 with acts such as The Saturdays, Mark Ronson and Mcfly. The Script were nominated for Best International Act at the 2011 Brit Awards. The Script announced that they will perform at: Pinkpop festival, V festival, Oxegen, Isle of Wight Festival, T in the park, Thetford Forest Show, iTunes Festival, Skanderborg Festival, Sudoeste Festival, Tennents ViTal.
The Script also played to the biggest indoor crowd of 18,300 people at The Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg South Africa 24 June 2011.
They later went on to play their official biggest crowd ever on 2 July 2011 in Dublin's Aviva Stadium, and performed to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 people. The Coronas and Tinie Tempah were support acts on the night.
Discography[link]
Main article: The Script discography
- Studio albums
- The Script (2008)
- Science & Faith (2010)
Tours and shows[link]
- Science & Faith Tour
- iTunes Festival 2011
- Isle Of Wight Festival 2011
- Radio City Music Hall - October 9, 2012
- V FEST 2011
- World Tour October 2012
Awards and Nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
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| 2008 | World Music Awards | Best Selling Irish Act | Won |
| 2009 | Meteor Ireland Music Awards | Best Irish Band | Won |
| Best Album - The Script | Won | ||
| Best Irish Pop Act | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Best Live Performance | Won | |
| 2011 | Brit Awards | Best International Group | Nominated |
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- ^ "RCA Label Group (UK) / News / The Script – We Cry the Single of the Week". http://www.rcalabelgroup.co.uk/news/8842/0/. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
- ^ a b "The Script – We Cry – Music Charts". Acharts.us. http://acharts.us/song/35195. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ^ "The Script | GB | Music". Thescriptmusic.com. http://www.thescriptmusic.com/gb/music/. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ^ "The Script, Perry In Charge On U.K. Charts". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc). http://www.billboard.com/#/news/the-script-perry-in-charge-on-u-k-charts-1003842136.story. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
- ^ "The Script – The Script – Music Charts". Acharts.us. 7 January 2008. http://acharts.us/album/37191. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ^ "The Script album is MULTI platinum in Ireland!". http://www.thescriptmusic.com/ie/news_and_diary/news/script_album_is_multi_platinum_in_ireland/. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
- ^ "script 2009". The Script Music. http://www.thescriptmusic.com/ie/news_and_diary/news/script_in_2009/. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
- ^ "The Script to write track for Leona Lewis". Digital Spy. 16 March 2008. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a123451/the-script-to-write-track-for-leona-lewis.html. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
- ^ http://www.thescriptmusic.com/ie/news_and_diary/news/script_to_support_u2/
- ^ http://www.thescriptmusic.com/gb/news_and_diary/news/before_the_worst/
- ^ a b http://www.thescriptmusic.com/ie/live/archive/us/
- ^ http://www.musicloversgroup.com/kris-allen-live-like-were-dying-lyrics-and-video/
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- ^ http://www.thescriptmusic.com/us/news_and_diary/news/2010-09-29/new_single_for_the_first_time_premiering_today_on_aol_music/
External links[link]
- Official website
- The Script at MySpace
- The Script at Billboard.com
- The Script on BalconyTV – Music With Nothing
- BBC Talking Shop: The Script by Neil Smith, 17 April 2008 at ITV
- BBC Music Club: The Script
- The Script CD review in MTVMexico.com
- Talk You Down Review at Daily Music Book
- The Script Interview in the Virgin Red Room
- Project This = Love, home to the only charity group for fans of The Script
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Faith is confidence or trust in a person or entity. Depending on the religion, faith is belief in a single god or multiple gods or in the doctrines or teachings of the religion. Informal usage of faith can be quite broad, including trust or belief without proof, and "faith" is often used as a substitute for "hope", "trust" or "belief".
Some critics of faith have argued that faith is opposed to reason. In contrast, some advocates of faith argue that the proper domain of faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence. This is exemplified by attitudes about the future, which (by definition) has not yet occurred. Logical reasoning may proceed from any set of assumptions, positive or negative. In this view, faith is simply the selection of a positive assumption.
The English word is thought to date from 1200–50, from the Middle English feith, via Anglo-French fed, Old French feid, feit from Latin fidem, accusative of fidēs (trust), akin to fīdere (to trust).
There is a wide spectrum of opinion with respect to the epistemological validity of faith. On one extreme is logical positivism, which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith; on the other extreme is fideism, which holds that true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and physical evidence cannot lead to truth. Some foundationalists, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and Alvin Plantinga, hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith. Others, such as C.S. Lewis, hold that faith is merely the virtue by which we hold to our reasoned ideas, despite moods to the contrary.
