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Roman Imperial Cosmopolitanism as a Factor for the Affirmation of the Universe of Christianity

open access: yesУкраїнське 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
doaj   +1 more source

Responses to Apocalypse: Early Christianity and Extinction Rebellion

open access: yesReligions, 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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Mother of God, Mother of Christianity: The Development of the Marian Tradition in Early Modern Japan

open access: yes, 2019
The Christian figure of the Virgin Mary, first introduced as Jesus’ mother in the Bible, has since been repeatedly reinterpreted in various roles and imagery through her incorporation into different cultures. This project analyses the historical adoption
Keller, Alaina
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Death - Cultural, philosophical and religious aspects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
About death, grief, mourning, life after death and immortality. Why should we die like humans to survive as a species. "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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6. Jerusalem: The Development of a Theology

open access: yes, 1958
Christianity began as a religion centering around the person of Jesus, and not as a philosophy. It was rooted in Judaism, likewise a religion, not a philosophy.
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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On the dark side of the 'secular': is the religious-secular distinction a binary? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recent scholarship claims to have revealed the problematic nature of the religious-secular distinction: (1) the distinction is slippery or fluid; (2) the meanings of the words "religious" and "secular" have changed over multiple historical contexts; (3 ...
Rao, Balagangadhara
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Orphans in Mediterranean antiquity and early Christianity

open access: yesActa 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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Ireland: Savior of Civilization? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
One of the most important aspects of early medieval Ireland is the advent of Christianity on the island, accompanied by education and literacy. As an island removed from the Roman Empire, Ireland developed uniquely from the rest of western continental ...
Burke, Patrick J
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Blumell and Wayment\u27s Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources (Book Review)

open access: yes, 2016
A review of Blumell, L.H., & Wayment, T.A. (Eds.). (2015). Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. 756 pp. $89.95.
Baumstarck, Joseph, Jr.
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