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Discover how disputes and power struggles led to the Great Schism of 1054, the historic separation between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. ....
parabola in Latin . (How this word became the name of a geometric curve is another story entirely.) The Gospels are full of stories that are seemingly about one thing but that tell you about another. By the 4th century A.D., the Latin-speaking Church was calling these types of stories that convey truths through fictions parabola. This became the Old French parable, entered English as parable in the 14th century. However, the largely illiterate laity didn’t learn the parables of the Gospels by reading them; they were lessons given by the clergy in speeches. Parabola (something closer to paraula in Vulgar Latin) took on a broader meaning of “speech” and then just “word.” Further linguistic evolution led this to a number of places, including to the Old French ....