Proselyte Proselyte The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος ("proselytos"), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for "stranger", i.e. a "newcomer to Israel"; a "sojourner in the land", and in the Greek New Testament for a first-century convert to Judaism, generally from Ancient Greek religion. It is a translation of the Biblical Hebrew phrase גר תושב ("ger toshav"). "Proselyte" also has the more general meaning in English of a new convert to any particular religion or doctrine. The Law of Moses made specific regulations regarding the admission into Israel's community of such as
A History of Philosophy (Copleston) Gardner wrote: "The Jesuit priest Frederick Copleston wrote a marvelous multivolume history of philosophy. I have no inkling of what he believed about any Catholic doctrine." "Father Frederick Copleston was the Jesuit author of a splendid multivolume history of philosophy[...] When he died in 1994, no one had the slightest notion of what he believed about any major dogma of his faith." Describing the volume on Russian philosophy (of the Continuum edition) Geoffrey A. Hosking wrote: "As the distinguished author of a nine-volume survey of European philosophy[...] Copleston is eminently suited to [this] task[...] The exposition is cool, lucid and