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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Church fathers"”.
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The meaning of the goodness of God in the major writings of three early church fathers
… discovery in the major writings of three Early Church Fathers of expressions giving clear meaning to the term "goodness of God," arises from the general ambiguity of the word good, whose amorphous nature greatly complicates thought concerning the concept of God. The hedonistic suppositions of …
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Biblical Sources in the Development of the Concept of the Soul in the Writings of the Fathers of the Early Christian church, 100-325 C.E.
… of the ancients on this topic. The early Church Fathers played an important role in mediating the thoughts of the ancients to more recent times. Because of this role, it is important to understand what function the Scriptures had as a source of authority in this process.</p> <p>In light of …
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The perception of women in late antiquity and the impact it had on female asceticism.
… Antiquity felt inspired to be ascetic. Early Church Fathers believed all women were flawed like Eve, and the dissertation highlights how these negative perceptions could be overcome when women became ascetic. An object of the study is to illustrate how females, in Late Antiquity, were able to …
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The fellowship of the Holy Spirit : Second Corinthians 13:13 in the liturgy and for the church
… Blessing are examined in the writings of the Church Fathers, and incorporation of the formula into early church liturgy, and its continuance to modern times, are discussed. Part II considers contemporary understandings of koinonia , especially in connection with the ecumenical movement …
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Reclaiming the virgin birth narrative in Latin America feminist liberation theology
… attempts to unveil the misogyny of the Catholic Church fathers' andocentric miss-reading of the Virgin Birth narrative. Secondly, it looks at feminist theologians' critical analyses of Marian devotion in Latin America as being about the veneration of an archetypal figure working in the interests …
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Theophilus and the Centurions: Roman Officials as the “Most Excellent” Proponents of the Gospel in Luke-Acts
… gospel. Chapter 4 shows that both Luke and the church fathers demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity for political leaders. Chapter 5 provides an overall summary of my argument and explores implications for Christians and government leaders today.
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… by demonstrating the differences among four church fathers' approaches and attitudes toward marital celibacy, assuming neither the popularity of the practice nor the immediate affirmation of its necessity for marital ascetic piety. The dissertation explores the theme of marital celibacy in …
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La auto-modelación y el sujeto femenino en La Celestina de Fermando de Rojas y en La Farsa de la Costança de Cristóbal de Castillejo
… of Rojas, attacks the corruption of the Catholic Church and ridicules the sacrament of matrimony. Finally, these authors follow the traditional misogynistic views conceived by the church fathers.
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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
… sources (the Bible and works by the Church Fathers). The subsequent discourse that developed demonstrated ambivalence towards natural philosophical knowledge; institutional scholars expressed both acceptance and anxiety regarding the theory and practice of alchemy, …
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Tumelo and Tshiamiso in perspective: Reading Romans 1: 17 within the Marapyane Lutheran Community context
… defining theologies and doctrines in the early Church history period. The Church fathers and early reformers read this letter and other epistles meticulously to understand Paul’s theology and mission. Martin Luther’s reading of this letter, in particular verses 4 and 8, has always been referred …
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The Third Letter of Saint Gregory of Nyssa: A Commentary with an Introduction and Translation
… appeared in 1893 in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Nyssa. Gregory’s third letter is here included, presumably because of its interesting doctrinal content. Since the date of this publication, however, our knowledge of those times in which Gregory of Nyssa …
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
… that derived from the work of the Early Church Fathers, I argue that the Romantic iconic turn was ultimately informed by a nationalistic agenda that sought to reintegrate the domains of art and life while reconfiguring the medium of painting as a principal instrument of governmental power.
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The Magician in Medieval German Literature
… was labeled demonic and unchristian by early Church Fathers, German authors in the Middle Ages were forced to adopt a number of strategies to characterize those who studied and used it. These strategies either alienated and marginalized magicians, so that they appear only on the geographic or …
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Die skrifbeskouing van die vroeë kerkvaders uit Afrika (veral Tertullianus en Augustinus) en hulle relevansie vir Suidelike-Afrika (Afrikaans)
… language – a truth reflected over 2000years of Church history. Without this truth, proper knowledge of God is impossible. All human efforts to come to a true and meaningful understanding of God, lead to a variety of religious “isms.” The pluralism, post-modernism and post-Christian society of …
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The African Christian History of American Songs of Slavery
… history, and by extension, early African Church fathers, like Augustine, and the spirituals. There is an absence of scholarship that examines the African Christian tradition present in spirituals. The body of literature on the religious tradition of spirituals either emphasizes the …
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Allegory, mimesis and the text: theological moulding of Lukan parables in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
… the object of investigation. The witness of the Church Fathers in the form of their allegorical exegesis of the text of the New Testament is employed to explain variant readings of the Bezan text. The notion that the harmonising tendency in the accounts of the Gospels is simply due to …
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A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Ecclesiastes
… Syriac from the Syro-Hexapla, the works of early church fathers, and the Catena traditions. The chapter also takes note of certain source materials that were not available at the time that the dissertation was completed. Chapter 3 constitutes the main body of the work. Critical readings from the …
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Presence and Voice: Understanding the Tensions over the American Church's Relationship to Its Culture through the Writings of Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine
… of the perceived and demonstrable decline of the church's presence and voice in American culture, this dissertation proposes to examine and to discuss the dynamic viewpoints and tensions within the church over her presence and voice in the American culture by examining the various interpretations …
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The reception of John Chrysostom and the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe, c.1440-1600
… and criticism of spurious texts of the Greek church fathers confirms or contrasts recent investigations of Erasmus’ scholarship on their Latin counterparts. The third part of this study follows the reception of Chrysostom’s life and works in the Catholic world during and after the Council of …
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The text of the gospels in the works of Gregory of Nazianus
Citation of the New Testament by the Church Fathers is a valuable resource in reconstructing the early history of its text, for the time and place each was writing is known. The Society for Biblical Literature has undertaken a series of studies of the Fathers who wrote in Greek in order to make …
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