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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Early Christianity"”.
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A Portrait of the Leadership of Women in Early Christianity: an Archaeological Study in Light of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Contexts
… <p>The participation of women in the Early Christian communities is widely accepted. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on what was their role in these communities. Until now the study of women in the Early Christian communities has focused mostly in the writings of some ancient …
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Early Christianity and Greek Philosophy: The Argument of Acts 17:16-34 in Light of the Philosophical and Religious Debates of Early Post-Hellenistic Times
… key text to assess the relationship between the early Christian movement and the Graeco-Roman world in Acts, but its interpretation has led to diametrically opposed conclusions, some seeing it as a rapprochement with Graeco-Roman wisdom, and others as incompatible with, and condemnatory of, …
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Discerning Witnesses: First and Second Century Textual Studies in Christian Authority
… during the post-Apostolic period of the early Christian church. Combining textual analysis and historical reconstruction, this study draws upon both the extant works of these early writers and the modern treatments of authority in early Christianity, finding that these authors navigated …
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James and Jude: a Rhetorical Dramatistic and Metaphoric Analysis
… revealed the letter's thematic elements more clearly than does biblical scholarship's conventional topical treatment. Key portions of the artifact supported the theory of metaphoric t hought. Jude received a Burkean internal pentadic analysis, which suggested that the author relied on an …
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Des Amazones parmi les pères de l'église : témoignage de la condition féminine durant la période de l'église primitive
Syncretism in the religion of Christianity has been an important, if not the most crucial aspect of its survival. This is even more true about the Early Christianity period, its first six centuries. In this study, the story of the Amazons is scrutinized in order to see what the Fathers of the …
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Liberal education and Catholic theology
… and Catholic theology, beginning with the early apologists via Augustine and culminating in Aquinas' scholastic synthesis. This part of the study describes the synthesis which took place from early Christianity until the fifteenth century.The second part of the thesis deals with the …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… Trismegistus, which emerged in parallel with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic tradition gained importance in the Renaissance with Marsilio Ficino's translations and soon became an alternative avenue for the exploration in the spiritual conception of the 'self' as …
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Haunted Paradise: Remembering and Forgetting Among Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert
… and violence intersected in the history of early Christianity. It analyzes the crucial roles of memory and space/place in the formation, practice, and understanding of late ancient asceticism in Egypt's northwestern desert (Scetis, Kellia, Nitria, and Pherme). After a "barbarian" raid of …
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Combat-Activated Thymic Disorientation
… Golden Age of Greek philosophy, the teachings of early Christianity, and its current use in Eastern Orthodox Christian monastic tradition. This diachronic perspective provides an existential understanding of certain features of such combat-related disorientation that were previously unidentified. …
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THE PROVENANCE OF THE ODES OF SOLOMON
… that they 'fit' well into second-century Christianity. Their links to the literature of Qumran, to the canonical gospels and Johannine literature, to Ignatius, and to gnostic literature, are discussed. In the fourth Chapter, the theological isolation of the odist is discussed by means of a …
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The Pastoral Theology of the Apostolic Fathers
This dissertation argues that early Christianity possessed a stable and unified theology of pastoral identity and work. Historic studies of early Christian leadership sought to justify present ecclesiological structures from apostolic and postapostolic texts, finding mutually exclusive leadership …
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Return to Synagogal values? The Didache’s religious purpose
… the Didache to have an unexpected voice in the early church. The goal of this study is to examine the potential that the Didache accessed Matthew to disagree and return to synagogue. This research will establish viable intertextual links between Matthew and the Didache in response to the …
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The Divine Pedagogy: Theological Explorations of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
… of possible extraterrestrials, and since early Christianity have proposed several possible solutions, which are categorized according to four types: an exclusive view, asserting a single divine incarnation and salvation provided solely for humans on Earth, without access to potential …
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Abraham traditions in Middle Jewish literature : implications for the interpretation of Galatians and Romans.
… Jewish traditions of Abraham in the context of early Christianity to define those who are now members of the people of God. Paul argued forcefully that obedience to law was inferior to being "in Christ" (Gal 3:10- 12, 17, 19, 23-26) because his Jewish Christian opponents were employing the …
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Idolatry and authority: a study of 1 Corinthians 8.1-11.1 in the light of the Jewish diaspora
… the subject of idolatry in first-century Christianity and ancient Judaism. Jews and Christians differ over what constitutes idolatry; and even within ancient Judaism and early Christianity, there was no consensus on what it meant. The NT passage concerns three parties, i.e. Paul, the …
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"Prejudice": The Impact on Dialogic Communication Ethics
… concept of prejudice from the classical period, early Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Modernity to Postmodernity. Through the history of the notion of prejudice, the rhetoric of prejudice is explored from the perspective of dialogic ethics. Although my …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… by historians of education. The education of the early Byzantine Empire (4th-6th centuries) is particularly interesting to explore, as society shifted in religious belief from pagan pluralism to Christianity. This religious transition led to questions on the nature and purpose of education as …
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Konfliktas ankstyvosios krikščionybės srovėse: Evangelijos pagal Mariją atvejis /
… to investigate the conflict in the trends of the early Christianity, which occur in the text of the Gospel of Mary. The Gospel of Mary, written in the middle of the 2nd century A. D., is an important monument of gnostic literature. The collision of Gnosticism and orthodox Christianity is …
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The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance Through the Rise of Disciplinary Power
… dissertation is an analysis of the spread of Christianity in the first three centuries and the commensurate activation and development of what Michel Foucault calls disciplinary mechanisms of power. It sets out to explore two questions, first, what were the theoretical conditions that led to …
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