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The Christian and the Post‐Christian
Blackfriars, 1949A Cultured priest of my acquaintance has remarked to me more than onee that the penny Catechism, with all its virtues, is out of date. Many of its precise definitions and carefully chosen texts are aimed at a Bible Protestantism which hardly anyone believes in. On the other hand, difficulties which the modem convert is apt to raise are not met, and the
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Christian and Un-Christian Etymologies
Harvard Theological Review, 1964As far as form is concerned, the gap between Lat. abyssus, “abyss,” and its nasalized Romance congeners of the type abism-is difficult to explain. The two prevalent interpretations are somewhat artificial and unsatisfactory. They are presented by Wartburg, who postulates analogy to the suffix -ismus (Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [FEW], I, 11)
Henry, Renée Kahane
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A Christian for the Christians, a Christian for the Muslims! An Attempt at an Argumentum ad Hominem
Christian Bioethics, 1998Schmidt and Egler’s critique of Christianity’s exclusivist claim to truth rests on two suppositions: (a) that inter-religious pastoral care for dying patients requires a respect for their cultural backgrounds which necessitates accepting the equal validity of their respective (non-Christian) religions, and (b) that exclusivism is incompatible with the ...
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Harvard Theological Review, 1949
The origins of the name Xριστιανοί are narrated in the Acts of the Apostles as follows. After Stephen's martyrdom, some believers from Cyprus and Cyrene, who had left Jerusalem, preached at Antioch. Their success became known at Jerusalem, and “the community which was in Jerusalem” sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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The origins of the name Xριστιανοί are narrated in the Acts of the Apostles as follows. After Stephen's martyrdom, some believers from Cyprus and Cyrene, who had left Jerusalem, preached at Antioch. Their success became known at Jerusalem, and “the community which was in Jerusalem” sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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Christians and Christianity in Ammianus Marcellinus
The Classical Quarterly, 1985Ammianus Marcellinus, by common consent the last great historian of Rome, rounds off his obituary notice of the emperor Constantius II (d. 361) with the following observation:The plain simplicity of Christianity he obscured by an old woman's superstition; by intricate investigation instead of seriously trying to reconcile, he stirred up very many ...
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A Case for Christianizing the Christian Church
International Review of Mission, 2016AbstractIn this article I argue that the work of evangelism must take place both within the church and outside the church. The evidence of decline in the church – particularly in the West–is not matched by the vibrancy of the church in the global South.
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Modern Christians in a Christianized Society
Journal of Christian Education, 2007There have been “Christianized” societies where Christian faith and standards are seen as the authentic guides for life. “Confrontation” is the Christian's principle of action. This entails ‘flying one's colours' in all situations, and probably encountering suffering by proclaiming broad moral principles with universal applicability. There is the need
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Christianity and Christians in Amazonia
Some of the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas were missionaries, and their efforts have been relentless ever since. Early encounters between missionaries and Indigenous Amazonian people were taken in Europe to be a profound historical and theological event, as people tried to place them within a biblical narrative.openaire +1 more source
Christians, Christianity, and Segregation
The Phylon Quarterly, 1957Liston Pope +2 more
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The significance of African oral tradition in the making of African Christianity
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2021Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho
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