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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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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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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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Persecution in the Early Church and Nigerian Church
International Journal of Social Science and Economics, 2023 The church has suffered much security challenges from people of opposing religious faith, who felt threatened by the unique presence of God, convincing miracles, dominating spirituality, unparalleled missionary spirit, as well as her particularistic doctrinal claims.
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Diaconia - A Make-Believe Which Continues?
Diaconia, 2015 The understanding of modern working methods in the social work of churches - "diaconia" - has its roots in the examples set by the Early Church. The present study examines how well Paul Philippi was able to argue for this thesis.
Esko Ryökäs
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THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS. [PDF]
The Journal of Theological Studies, 1904 n ...
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BAPTISM BY AFFUSION IN THE EARLY CHURCH [PDF]
The Journal of Theological Studies, 1904 n ...
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MISSIONARY PRINCIPLES OF THE EARLY CHURCH [PDF]
International Review of Mission, 1915 n ...
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1995 Remarks on early catholicism in the New Testament, with special reference to the letters to the Colossians and the Ephesians, and the Pastoral Letters Attention is given to differences of opinion as to the nature of early catholicism, whether it is ...
J. J. Engelbrecht
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