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Ancient Worship Wars: An Investigation of Conflict in Church Music History

Musical Offerings, 2014
The purpose of this research is to prove that conflict in church music is nothing new. Even in the time of the early church fathers, dissenting views on what were acceptable and unacceptable practices in church music were present.
Michael J. Wood
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For whom were Gospels written?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1999
This arlcie challenges the current consensus in Gospels scholarship that each Gospel was written for a specific church or group of churches. It argues that, since all our evidence about the early Christian movement shows it to have been a network of ...
Richard Bauckham
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FREUDIAN COMPLEXES OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET PHILOLOGY IN STUDYING THE GOSPEL TEXT IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE [PDF]

Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2012
The article looks at a number of marginal concepts of Freudian theory and at his articles on Dostoevsky that revealed the 'cultural unconscious' of the founder of psychoanalysis.
Ivan Andreevich Esaulov
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Unbelief, Lawlessness, and Satan: Viewing the Freer Logion as a Scribal Response to Open- Ended Eschatological Themes in Mark [PDF]

, 2013
The focus of my study is to demonstrate that major variants in the text of Early Christian Literature were purposely inserted into the text in light of theological controversies by scribes who represented a certain perspective on behalf of an Early ...
Clark, Seth
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European Literature and Christian Theology (1900–present)

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
This entry considers the relation between literature and Christian theology in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Europe, with attention principally given to those writers whose oeuvre takes up questions central to theology (in particular ...
Thomas Pfau
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The Influence of Mother Wisdom on Augustine

Open 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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Paul’s Rapture to Paradise in Early Christian Literature

, 2005
Riemer Roukema
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A socio-scientific reading of John 4: Lessons for the Zimbabwean Adventist church

Verbum et Ecclesia
The article explores Jesus’ interaction with the Samaritan woman in John 4 to uncover his inclusive perception of mission and the criteria for participation.
Tendai Takawira, Mphumezi Hombana
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Jewish Anti-Christian Polemical Treatises in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe: Where are They?

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2018
Jewish anti-Christian polemical treatises comprise a well-known genre in medieval Jewish literature. It is generally thought that these books were written in response to Christian missionary pressure.
Daniel J. Lasker
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The Protevangelium of James in Papyrus Bodmer V: Titles, Genres, and Traditions in Transmission

Religions, 2023
The apocryphal account of the birth and childhood of Mary, mother of Jesus (and to a lesser degree Jesus himself) known most commonly as the Protevangelium of James is one of the most influential early Christian texts outside of the New Testament.
Kimberley A. Fowler
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