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Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human—Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification

Religions, 2021
The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within the Early Byzantine culture. The notion “Patristics” is reasoned as a corpus of ideas of the Church Fathers, both Eastern and Western.
Olga Chistyakova
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The paradox of value in the teaching of the Church Fathers

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2021
The paradox of value is a classic puzzle in economics. It wonders why necessities are cheap while luxury goods are useless but expensive. Often Adam Smith is cited as the “inventor” of the paradox.
J. Hengstmengel
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The punishment of slaves in Early Christianity: the views of some selected Church Fathers

Acta Theologica, 2016
With few exceptions, many of the Church Fathers approved, in principle, of the punishment of slaves. However, there were very specific guidelines on why, how, and when to punish slaves.
C. L. de Wet
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Feminists and their perspectives on the church fathers' beliefs regarding women: An inquiry

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
The church fathers and their views on women were influenced substantially and significantly by philosophical voices, such as that of Aristotle and Plato, amongst others.
Hannelie Wood
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Church Fathers on Ownership

Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2015
The study aims at an analysis on the concept of ownership in the selected Church Father's works. The authors focus on the work of Saint Jerome Saint Basil of Caesarea, Ambrose and Augustine, presenting the concept of ownership in the middle ages.
Małgorzata Chmielarz, Kazimierz Ilski
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Hortus Conclusus: A Mariological Symbol in Some Quattrocento Annunciations, According to Church Fathers and Medieval Theologians

Religions
This paper seeks to interpret the biblical metaphor of the hortus conclusus (closed garden) according to a Mariological projection, as presented iconographically in various Quattrocentro Annunciations. The author bases his interpretations on the exegesis
José María Salvador-González
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Writings and the Authority of the Church Fathers in Old Polish Apocryphal Texts

Scrinium, 2023
The article presents relations between Old Polish biblical-apocryphal narrations to Church Fathers’ texts. There are numerous questions: which Church Fathers were known to Old Polish authors? What were specific writers’ preferences?
Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska
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Church Fathers on the Sabbath and Sunday

Jurnal Koinonia, 2022
Christians do not share the same view about the seventh day Sabbath and Sunday. A minority of Christians considers the Sabbath as still binding while a large majority dismisses it. For the latter, the cessation of Sabbath observance is traced back to the
Koberson Langhu
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A patristic perspective on the scope of xenolalic tongues

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Many church fathers have been identified as having held a xenolalic view on the gift of tongues. Scholars who have shown evidence of this have, however, omitted to give sufficient attention to the scope of the tongues the church fathers detailed. Many of
Eben De Jager
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Our Common Breath: ‘Conspiration’ from the Stoics to the Church Fathers

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine, 2021
This essay tracks a brief history of the concept of ‘co-breathing’ or ‘conspiration’ (συμπνοία), from its initial conception in Stoic cosmology in the third century BCE to its appropriation in Christian thought at the end of the second century CE.
P. Horky
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