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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Christian writers"”.
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
<p>My dissertation analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with the New Testament, I examine how Paul employed sexual stereotypes to …
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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical …
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A Drop of Oil
Many Christian writers point to God through their fiction without openly evangelizing. The images their words evoke lift their secular and religious readers' heads, for God is reflected in their use of language, the emotions they describe, and the actions of their characters. The preface and short …
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An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
Some early Christian writers around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (second- to eighth-century) depicted Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other women, both imperial and non-imperial, in both East and West, as church leaders, apostles, and priests. Over time scribes and artists transformed these …
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Life of Saint Gregory the Great Written in Four Books by John the Deacon: A Translation and Commentary of Books I and II
… long felt the need for new translations of early Christian writers which not only convey faithfully and intelligibly the original message but also present a correct theological understanding. The bulk of the old translations, notably the collections entitled A Library of the Fathers, The …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
… healing and the dignity of the human person. Christian writers including St. Pope John Paul II, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Josef Pieper, Madeline L’Engle, Dr. Bob Schuchts, Makoto Fujimura, and Andrew Peterson inform an exploration of mercy, forgiveness, and love as self-gift in the context …
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Proto-Trinity: the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the first and second Christian centuries
… most controversial claim. But what did the early Christians believe about their Lord and Master? In this study I review the early Christian texts, their content and background, to ascertain the earliest forms of Christological thought. My thesis is that one of the earliest understandings of Jesus’ …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
… and spiritual care is better captured by Christian writers in the miracle account and sermon, in part because Christians like the Cappadocians and John Chrysostom imbued female choice with new theological meaning. Chapter five sets Oribasius’ approach to the female patient in the broader …
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Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century
… primary social and rhetorical contexts for early Christian identity formation: Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and heterodoxy. It argues that leading Christian writers consistently developed and applied a notion of the church as the new covenant community by interpreting scriptural sources through …
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THE PROVENANCE OF THE ODES OF SOLOMON
… shows that he is aligned with second-century Christian writers. In the third Chapter, a series of comparisons of the Odes with other literature suggests that they 'fit' well into second-century Christianity. Their links to the literature of Qumran, to the canonical gospels and Johannine …
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De Spiritu Sancto: Novatian of Rome’s Pneumatology in De Trinitate
… to describe the Holy Spirit as an object of the Christian faith. This approach severely limits how he addresses the ontology of the Holy Spirit, but it does provide a broad scope of how he understood the activity of the Holy Spirit. Chapter 1 sets the context of pneumatology in the third century …
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The semantic development of some Roman ethical concepts in the second century B.C. : based on contemporary literary epigraphical and numismatical evidence
… its resultant code of behaviour influenced early Christian writers; Roman ethical concepts form the firm foundation of Western civilization. Augustine used the Roman spirit of sacrifice for the common good as an example for the inhabitants of the City of God. Dante claims that the Roman people …
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Reconsidering Eternal Life in the Old Testament: The Idea of Resurrection Rooted in the Torah
… and pseudepigrapha, the rabbinic literature, and Christian writers from early church Fathers. Jewish and Christian interpretative traditions consistently support the presence of the idea of resurrection in the OT. Chapter 3 examines scriptures in the Torah where the idea of resurrection of the …
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Whole-Earth consciousness in Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, and Teilhard de Chardin: seeds for a 21st century sacramental creation spirituality and ecological ethics
Over the last fifty years Western Christianity has been criticized as a cause and enabler of Earth's ecological crisis. This criticism is based on the conclusion that Christianity promotes a spiritual-material dualism and that the material side of life has little sacred value. It is also based on …
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<i>Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?</i> The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the <i>Paschale carmen</i>
… particular, it focuses on Vergilian reception by Christian and non-Christian writers of the fourth and fifth centuries to elucidate some of the great number of possible approaches to Vergil’s poetry in Late Antiquity. Not only did the variety of approaches that are examined allow for Christian …
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Bound to Sin: New Interpretations of the Fallen Angels in Select Early Christian Fathers
… continued even after their condemnation. The Christian concept of the demon and even its development of the Devil draw on themes present in the Enochic narrative. Several early Christian Fathers of the second and third centuries C.E. still drew on the fallen angels’ story as an explanation for …
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"Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified": Materialism and Commercialism in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
… and moving farther and farther away from the Christian ideal. This was not simply a cultural phenomenon to her – it was a danger, and more to the point, as a Christian writer, it was a call to arms. O’Connor’s work can be seen as a series of warnings, complete with usually dire consequences. …