Nazarene may refer to:
* A person from
Nazareth
Religion
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Nazarene (sect)
The Nazarenes (or Nazoreans; Greek: Ναζωραῖοι, ''Nazōraioi''). were an early Jewish Christian sect in first-century Judaism. The first use of the term is found in the Acts of the Apostles () of the New Testament, where Paul the Apostle ...
, a term used for an early Christian sect in first-century Judaism, Nasoraean Mandaeans, and later a sect of Jewish Christians
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Nazarene (title)
Nazarene is a title used to describe people from the city of Nazareth in the New Testament (there is no mention of either Nazareth or Nazarene in the Old Testament), and is a title applied to Jesus, who, according to the New Testament, grew up in ...
, used to describe people from Nazareth in the New Testament, and a title applied to Jesus
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Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene)
The Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene) ("Nazarene" can be alternatively spelled as "Nazarean") is an Anabaptist Christian denomination aligned with the holiness movement. It was formed in the early 1900s as the result of separating from their ...
, a Christian denomination of the Anabaptist movement
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Church of the Nazarene
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelicalism, evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, Lenexa within Johnson Cou ...
, a Wesleyan evangelical Christian denomination
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Nazarene fellowship The Nazarene fellowship were an offshoot from Christadelphians from 1873–1881, led by Edward Turney (1820–1879) of Nottingham and David Handley (1822–1886) of Maldon. They were sometimes called "renunciationists" and their teaching called "fre ...
, a Christian group 1873–1881
Other uses
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Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of c ...
, a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters
* ''The Nazarene'', a 1939 novel by
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch ( yi, שלום אַש, pl, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.
Life and work
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* ''Nazarene'', a
ship wrecked in 1957
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Nazareth (disambiguation)
Nazareth is a city in Israel, described in the New Testament as the childhood home of Jesus.
Nazareth may also refer to:
Places and jurisdictions Africa
* Nazareth, Ethiopia, now Adama
* Nazareth, Lesotho
Asia
* Nazareth, Tamil Nadu, I ...
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Nazarene University (disambiguation) Nazarene University may refer to:
* Point Loma Nazarene University, formerly Nazarene University, in San Diego, California, U.S.
* Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya
* Ambrose University, formerly Nazarene University College, in Calgary, ...
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List of Church of the Nazarene schools {{short description, None
This is a list of Bible colleges, liberal arts colleges, and seminaries owned and operated by the Church of the Nazarene. They are listed by continent and country.
Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
* Institut Biblique Nazareen, Abid ...
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Nazirite
In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite ( he, נָזִיר ''Nāzīr'') is one who voluntarily took a vow which is described in . "Nazarite" comes from the Hebrew word ''nazir'' meaning "consecrated" or "separated". Those who put themselves ...
, one who voluntarily took a vow described in Numbers 6:1–21 in the bible
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Nasranis, or Saint Thomas Christians, an ethnoreligious group from Kerala, India
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Black Nazarene
The Black Nazarene ( es, El Nazareno Negro, Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno; fil, Poóng Itím na Nazareno, Hesus Nazareno) is a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the Cross enshrined in the Minor Basilica of th ...
, a statue of Christ venerated in the Philippines
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Impaled Nazarene, a Finnish metal band
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