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  • The word “Church” (in German, Kirche; Dutch, kerke) probably derives from the Greek κυριακόν, meaning

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

  • German "Kirche," the English "Church," and the Scotch "Kirk" are derived, as it is not used with that signification in the New

    On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

  • In other words, the answer is Kinder, Küche, Kirche.

    Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy 2009

  • I have long been fond of Jugendstil, the style associated with the architect Otto Wagner, and used in a handful of striking ecclesiastical architectural projects (such as the Kirche am Steinhof), but had never seen it applied to liturgical decorative arts, aside from a few altars and interior schemes.

    Jugendstil 2009

  • Wagner's Kirche am Steinhof remains his most complete ecclesiastical work, a splendid, elegant design for the chapel of a psychiatric hospital that suggests a particularly humane attention to the spiritual trials of the troubled and insane.

    Otto Wagner and His School 2009

  • She is also the author of Kinder, Kueche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female (1968).

    Personal Information for Naomi Weisstein 2010

  • She is also the author of Kinder, Kueche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female (1968).

    Personal Information for Naomi Weisstein Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • Center Journal (May 10, 1918); “Küche, Kinder und Kirche …” Center Journal (November 8, 1918); Kaplan, Mordecai.

    Mordecai Kaplan. 2009

  • Pesch, O.P., who listed the abberations of the Neo-Thomism from the original Thomas in the standard lexicon for theologian students: LThK Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 1965, Vol. 10, col.

    Clarification 2009

  • Kandinsky was interested in landscapes, often painting the idyllic scenery around Murnau in stark, shining colors such as in "Murnau mit Kirche I" (Murnau with church I) from 1910, showing a village in a winter landscape that already verges on the abstract.

    Exquisite Body of Wax Works 2009

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