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Intellectual Hegemony, Conversion Discourse and Early Christian Apologetic Literature [PDF]

open access: goldReligions, 2021
The present study aspires to catch a glimpse of a peculiar phenomenon in the history of religions, namely, the competitive character of early Christian apologetic literature in its attempt to confront head-on the non-Christian ideological life-world and,
Vassilios Adrahtas
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Greek Literature and Christian Doctrine in Early Christianity: A Difficult Co-Existence [PDF]

open access: diamondLiterature, 2023
This paper traces the complex relationship between classical literature and Christian doctrine in the first four centuries. In the earliest period of Christianity, we can identify two attitudes of Christians towards Greek literature: the hostile attitude
Roberta Franchi
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Recent Discoveries in Early Christian Literature [PDF]

open access: bronzeThe Biblical World, 1915
Synesius the scholar walks the streets of Alexandria with a strange figure at his side. An Oxford don with the unlovely garments of the twentieth century looks oddly out of place among the tunics, cloaks, and togas that fill those brilliant fourth-century streets.
Edgar J. Goodspeed
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Religion without fear. Plutarch on superstition and Early Christian Literature

open access: goldVerbum et Ecclesia, 1997
After some introductory remarks on the role of fear in religious discourse. Plutarch s treatise On Superstition is analysed according to its rhetorical outline.
H-J Klauck
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Alexander in Jewish and Early Christian Literature

open access: green
The comparison of the images of Alexander the Great in Jewish and Early Christian literature.
Aleksandra Klęczar
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Dramaturgical Tricks in the Clementine Literature

open access: yesLea, 2023
The Clementine novel (written in the 4th century CE and set in the 1st century CE) incorporates a palette of comic features. Using the “Taxonomy of ” and the “Script Theory” developed by Attardo and Raskin within the framework of the General Theory of ...
Sergio Basso
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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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Cecidit flos: sul senso dei fiori appassiti

open access: yesOcula, 2020
Isaiah 40: 6-8 contains the figure of the flower of the field, doomed to wither at the blowing of the divine breath. An immense exegetical tradition ensues, which comments on the ephemerality of any human distinction.
Massimo Leone
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