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Conscience and the Pattern of Christian Perfection in Clarissa
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1966Just as Defoe had maintained that the novel could surpass the pulpit in encouraging morality, so Richardson explicitly declared his intention of making Clarissa nothing less than an instrument of reviving the Christian religion:In this general depravity, when even the pulpit has lost great part of its weight, and the clergy are considered as a body of ...
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CHAPTER 2 Emotions and the Ancient Pursuit of Christian Perfection
2004Abstract Early Christian theories of the emotions were influenced by the Platonic psychology and control oriented therapy as well as by the Stoic theory and therapy. Particularly important were the Stoic doctrine of spontaneous first movements and the ideal of apatheia which the Christian authors qualified by the conception of love ...
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“Wisdom Among the Perfect:” Creation Traditions in Alexandrian Judaism and Corinthian Christianity
Novum Testamentum, 1995L'A. s'interesse a la genese des traditions en prenant l'exemple de celle qui s'est elaboree dans le judaisme alexandrin et de celle du le christianisme corinthien. Il tient a montrer l'influence de la premiere dans l'elaboration de la seconde, notamment dans le cadre du corpus ...
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The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination (review)
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2003Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. 253 pp. $24.95. Gary A. Anderson, professor of Old Testament and Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, employs a methodology characteristic of rabbinic midrash in his lively analysis of Genesis 1-3 from both Jewish and Christian perspectives. Anderson,
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Natural Law and Perfect Community: Contributions of Christian Platonism to Political Theory
Modern Theology, 1998This paper undertakes two tasks. Firstly, it argues that the concept of subjective rights has no place in a Christian ethic of community, even in a “natural‐law” ethic, because it is wedded, both historically and necessarily, to a theologically doubtful foundation of individual and collective proprietorship of human and non‐human nature.
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Perfecting Ourselves: On Christian Tradition and Enhancement
Southern Medical Journal, 2007openaire +2 more sources
Two Ways of Perfection: Buddhist and Christian
Buddhist-Christian Studies, 1985Mary Elizabeth Moore +2 more
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Between Presence and Perfection: The Protean Creed of Early Christianity
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2021openaire +1 more source
St. Thomas and Christian Perfection
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 1950openaire +1 more source