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Law in the Early Christian Church

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2010
The document discusses the development of legal systems within the early Christian Church, starting from its initial informal guidelines to more structured canonical laws influenced by Roman civil law.
Jiří Bílý
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Catechesis and baptism in the early Christian church

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 1996
This article which originated as a background study for what Augustine says about his own baptism, presents the facts, as far as they could be ascertained, on practices concerning catechesis and baptism in the early Christian church down to about 400 ...
M. E. Nelson
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Mother and Bride: Ecclesiology, Christology, and Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022
In the 20th century reflections on the Church developed primarily in the context of eucharistic ecclesiology, according to which the Church community is a local congregation united around the Eucharist.
Fr. John Behr
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The implications of the book of Acts 8:1-8 for the Nigerian Church [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2021
During the early centuries CE of the Church, it was characterized by trials, contempt of the faithful and persecutions. Christians who were unwilling to compromise their faith were martyred in the process in the most terrible ways.
Adenigba Olatayo Stephen   +1 more
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The Church in the Mural Art of Nobatia [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة کلية الآثار - جامعة القاهرة, 2021
The Church is simply known as “the body of Christ” (Ephesus 1:22-23) constituted by “the believers” (Acts 20:28; I Timothy 3:15; Ezra 5:8). The aim of this article is to investigate the concept of Church in Nobatia and its main particularities through ...
Hind Salah El-Din
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The Belifes of Christians in the Early Church

open access: yesInternational Research Journal of Tamil, 2022
The Early Christians had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and followed various rituals to express their faith. Their beliefs system were based on the Teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ and their rituals were based on the Traditions that were imported to them by various spritual leaders.
Mathuraiveeran A, Gloria V. Dhas
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Mathematical-geographical intention in orienting mediaeval churches of the Serbian monastery Gradac [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2011
The subject of the paper is an exact analysis of the orientation of the Serbian monastery churches: the Church of the Virgin Mary (13th century), St. Nicholas' Church (13th century), and an early Christian church (6th century).
Tadić Milutin, Petrović Aleksandar
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Kryteria przynależności do wspólnoty wierzących w I–II wieku

open access: yesAnalecta Cracoviensia, 2023
The Christian Church in the 1st and 2nd century was already conscious of being a commu- nity of believers. The criteria of membership developed gradually and frequently only inciden- tally. Consequently it is still too early to say of a developed problem
Dariusz Kasprzak
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Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human—Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification

open access: yesReligions, 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 Influence of Mother Wisdom on Augustine

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2021
The Book of Ben Sira was popular in the early Christian church and influenced the Church Father Augustine (354–430). He adopts the person of Wisdom as a divine mother and adapts her within the context of the early Christian church.
Bouwman Kitty
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