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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"De doctrina christiana"”.
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"The Ethical Milieu Of John Milton's ""de Doctrina Christiana."""
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The place of "Melibee" in The Canterbury Tales
… proverbs. As a result, little attempt has been made to understand the tale's content and the reason for its popularity in the Middle Ages. However, D. W. Robertson, in his reevaluation of the headlink between "Sir Thopas" and "Melibee" concludes that Chaucer intended ''Melibee" to contain all the …
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Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Adiaphora in A Mask and Paradise Regained
John Milton begins his Second Defence of the English People by stressing the universal importance of gratitude: "In the whole life and estate of man the first duty is to be grateful to God." Peter Medine has shown the prominence of gratitude in Paradise Lost, but scholars have not fully appreciated …
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Incarnation, Interpretation and Quotation: Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues and Confessions
… of language productively to find an adequate expression for this topic. It is a crucial issue for Augustine as it challenges exegesis of the scriptures, a text called sacred and considered the word of God, but written in malleable language. I argue that in the Cassiciacum dialogues and …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… Capella quoted in the title (from a Prudentius of Troyes epistle) represents the allegory of the studium of the liberal arts and the looking for knowledge in the early middle age. This is a capital problem in the early Christianity and, in general, for all the western world, concerning …
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Precarious Theology: A Queer and Crip reading of Augustine's Theology of Finitude
This thesis considers the idea of precariousness as it arises in Christian theology, as a means of navigating a number of difficulties around how we talk well about our finitude, interdependence, and varied experiences of vulnerability. By attending to our precariousness, theologians alight on a …