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Reconstruction of Tradition and Religious Imagination in Early Apocryphal Writing

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2021
Studies of the Christian apocrypha have paid relatively little attention to the authors' self-awareness and intentions. The authors of the Apocrypha often impersonate characters of the apostolic generation or write about events that could not have been ...
Vytautas Ališauskas
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The Shema and Early Christianity

Tyndale Bulletin, 2008
If Christianity emerged from the matrix of Judaism, how it conducted a dialogue—if it did at all—with the Jewish confession of its unique faith and praxis is a most interesting question.
Kim Huat Tan
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Christian-Jewish Polemics in the 2nd–3rd centuries and Necromancy (Mart. Pionii 13–14) [PDF]

Религия, церковь, общество, 2015
The article deals with the passage of the “Martyrdom of Pionios the Presbyter and his com-panions” (BHG 1546), where the martyr called Christians who came to him in prison to remain faithful to Christ and not to succumb to the Jews seeking to convert ...
Aleksey Dmitrievich Panteleev
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A case for organic indigenous Christianity: African Ethiopia as derivate from Jewish Christianity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
From its inception to the 4th century CE, Christianity experienced a formative process composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events (i.e. Jewish-Christian Schism, Hellenism and imperial intervention).
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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The rich and the poor on the spectrum in 1 Timothy 6:17–19: A text-centred interpretation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article applies a novel rhetorical approach, ‘text-generated persuasion interpretation’ (TGPI), to 1 Timothy 6:17–19, exploring its relevance to South Africa, particularly the national poverty line (NPL).
Tsholofelo J. Kukuni
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Silence and subversion: the public behavior of women prophets in the popular literature of early Christianity

Lusitania Sacra, 2021
Women portrayed in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas, in the Acts of Paul (and Thecla), in the Acts of Thomas and in the Gospel of Mary of Magdala have visions, dreams, auditions, and bodily experiences that they deem divinely inspired or related to
Naiara Leão
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Mofokeng’s contribution to black Christology and theological education in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article examines Takatso Mofokeng’s influential contributions to South African theological scholarship. It underscores the importance of his praxis-oriented approach to Christology and his dedication to socio-political justice, which enhance the ...
Tsholofelo J. Kukuni
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Aurality in preaching: A text-centred rhetorical interpretation of 1 Corinthians 2:1–5

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article examines the hermeneutical and exegetical art of preaching the gospel, focusing on 1 Corinthians 2:1–5 to explore Paul’s rhetorical intent as transmitted aurally.
Tsholofelo J. Kukuni
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Augustine’s ecclesiology and its development between 354 and 387 AD

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
The aim of this article is twofold. The first is to describe Augustine’s ecclesiology and its development between his birth (354) and baptism (387). Secondly, it will show that the defining features of Augustine’s later ecclesiology were in place by the ...
Paul C.V. Vuntarde, Johannes van Oort
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Augustine’s baptism: Its significance once and today

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
The article describes in broad outline Augustine’s baptism in Milan (386) and stresses its significance for Augustine’s transition from Manichaean Christianity to Nicene Catholic Christianity.
Johannes van Oort
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