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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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7. Jerusalem: St. Augustine

, 1958
Perhaps no individual after Paul exercised an influence on t he history of Christianity comparable to that of Augustine (354- 430). Beyond a doubt the greatest of the Latin Church fathers, he lived during the years when the formative period of the ...
Bloom, Robert L., Crapster, Basil L., Dunkelberger, Harold A., Glatfelter, Charles H., Mara, Richard T., Richardson, Norman E., Schubart, W. Richard   +6 more
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Ad Fontes: Desiderius Erasmus’ Call for a Return to the Sources of a Unified and Simple Christian Faith [PDF]

, 2017
Desiderius Erasmus’ humanism greatly shaped his view of Christianity. He developed a “philosophy of Christ” that led him to seek peaceful reforms from within the Church while attempting to maintain unity.
Kieffer, Amanda
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]

, 2015
This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Ritual, Memory and Writing in Early Christianity

Temenos, 2011
The article examines ways in which the views of biblical scholars as to the transmission of early Christian traditions, especially the Jesus traditions, have been revolutionized by so-called orality/literacy studies since Werner Kelber’s seminal The Oral
RISTO URO
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Review of Paul Buckley, Primitive Christianity Revived: Translated into Modern English (San Francisco, Inner Light Books, 2018) and Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century (San Francisco, Inner Light Books, 2018)

, 2018
In translating William Penn’s analysis of the early Quaker movement into Modern English and in expanding on its meaning for reviving the spirit of early Quakerism for the 21st century, Quaker theologian and historian Paul Buckley has performed a great ...
Anderson, Paul N.
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Mary in Early Christianity and Islam [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2017
This article explores the life and importance of Mary in Islam and Christianity, aiming at clarifying the criteria for which Mary has been revered in each tradition.
Morteza Rezazadeh
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Sukzession und Tradition in Antike und Urchristentum

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1993
Succession und tradition in Antiquity and Early Christianity This article focusses on the concepts which today are known as ‘succession’ and ‘apostolic tradition’. It investigates the meaning and reference of these concepts within the context of textual
E. Bammel
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The Second Great Awakening and the Making of Modern America

, 2018
In the decades before the Civil War which began in 1861, the Second Great Awakening was the most powerful social movement in America. It inspired the conversion of millions of Americans to faith in Jesus Christ.
Irish, Kerry
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The origin of the resurrection idea: A dialogue with George Nickelsburg

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008
This is a review article on George W E Nickelsburg’s book Resurrection, immortality, and eternal life in intertestamental Judaism and early Christianity.
P.J.W. (Flip) Schutte
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