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God, memory and beauty: A Manichaean analysis of Augustine’s Confessions, Book X
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 The article first sketches some main trends in the recent study of Augustine’s Confessions as a work aimed at Manichaean readers. It then detects and analyses the Manichaean-inspired parts in Book X of the Confessions. Augustine’s famous theory of memory
Johannes van Oort
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Irenaeus’s knowledge of the Gospel of Judas: Real or false? An analysis of the evidence in context
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 This study discusses Irenaeus of Lyon’s testimony of the famous Gospel of Judas, offering both a historical and, in particular, linguistic analysis and retranslation of Against Heresies 1.31.1.
Johannes van Oort
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Praying to the Holy Spirit in Early Christianity
Tyndale Bulletin, 2013 This article studies praying to the Holy Spirit in early Christianity of the first three centuries AD. The relevant primary sources are presented and interpreted.
Boris Paschke
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, 2019 This chapter explores the literature of the nascent Jesus movements and emergent Christianity with its varying attitudes toward illegitimate ritual, in particular with such terms as magos, pharmakeia, manteuomai, and perierga. The chapter looks first at Christian narrative depictions of illegitimate ritual, followed by sin-lists that include references
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Image of Christianity in Perception of Contemporary Russians (in Connection to Aims of Christian Mission in Russia) [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2012 The article describes main features of the image of Christianity in perception of contemporary Russians in comparison to the authentic (early and patristic) Christianity.
Anna Alieva
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Architecture and Christian Theology
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 There is an obvious convergence, in the spaces used for Christian worship, between the practice of architecture and the concerns of Christian theology. Even the most utilitarian of spaces – an old warehouse, a community hall, a converted office building –
Murray Rae
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Roman Imperial Cosmopolitanism as a Factor for the Affirmation of the Universe of Christianity
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2009 Many religious and secular studies have already been devoted to questions concerning the Christian religion. However, even today, the problem of the origins of Christianity, the birth and formation of its doctrine, studies of the early stage of its ...
Pavlo Yuriyovych Pavlenko
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Responses to Apocalypse: Early Christianity and Extinction Rebellion
Religions, 2020 The Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement has grown rapidly in the past two years. In popular media, XR has sometimes been described using religious terminology.
Cullan Joyce
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Orphans in Mediterranean antiquity and early Christianity
Acta Theologica, 2016 This article provides an overview of the problem of orphans in the ancient Mediterranean world and identifies ways in which various societies acknowledged orphans’ plight and sought to address it.
J. T. Fitzgerald
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Modern Christianity, Part of the Cultural Wars. The Challenge of a Visual Culture
Religions, 2019 The article focuses on the changing landscape of modern Christianity. It does so by analysing the use of the notion of image in early Christianity and in later eras.
Matthias Smalbrugge
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