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Revisiting the Afterlife: The Inadequacies of Heaven and Hell [PDF]

, 2015
This paper deals with some of the ambiguities that are associated with the intermediate and final states after death. Whereas many in the church have dismissed these concepts as myths of the ancients, this discussion shows how the grounding of such ...
Davis, Christopher P
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Unity or Distinction? Herman Bavinck’s Use of John Calvin and Later Reformed Orthodoxy in His Doctrine of the Two States

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the doctrine of Christ’s two states of humiliation and exaltation in Herman Bavinck’s and John Calvin’s thought, with the aim of illuminating Bavinck’s use of Calvin. The article begins by exploring Calvin’s use of the two states and argues that his treatment of Christ’s descent into hell is an important though ...
Sarah Killam Crosby
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Tertullian, Apostolicity, and the Apostles

Vox Patrum
How did Tertullian regard the apostles? This article investigates the references to them scattered through his writings both as individuals and as a collective. It reveals that individually the apostles were remote figures who appear in the pages of the
Geoffrey David Dunn
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Assaporare il disgusto

Itinera, 2013
Recensione: Carolyn Korsmeyer, Savoring Disgust. The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, pp. 194.
Michela Beatrice Ferri
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(Non-)declared Crusade against pseudo-Apostles: the forgotten "saints" of the Ordo Apostolorum

Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2023
The history of the pseudo-Apostles movement has come down to our time in the presentation of those who defeated them. The personalities of Gerard Segarelli and Fra Dolcino, the leaders of the pseudo-Apostles movement, can also be considered from the ...
Yu. V. Rodionova
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Torah quotations common to Philo of Alexandria and the Acts of the Apostles

Acta Theologica, 2013
It is the intention of this contribution to investigate the text form of the LXX Torah quotations that overlap between the works of Philo of Alexandria and the Acts of the Apostles. It forms part of a larger project which investigates the common use of a
G. Steyn
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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From Jerusalem to Rome: The Geographical Aspect of Magic

Diligentia: Journal of Theology and Christian Education, 2022
Just as magic was undermined in the Acts of the Apostles, its spread throughout the whole region of the Greco-Roman Region was also undermined.
Chandra Han
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The acts of the apostles

New American Bible, 2010
In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians, with over 500 strictly sequentially organized conceptual and linguistic correspondences between Acts and ...
Nicholas Griffin
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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