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The Fourth Century Greek Fathers as Exegetes
Harvard Theological Review, 1957Not long ago, an English New Testament teacher was pressed by a Russian theologian for a straight answer to the question, “Do you teach your students to interpret the New Testament according to the Fathers?” The answer could hardly be Yes. In most Western Universities it would be rare to find references to patristic exegesis in lectures on the Old or ...
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A Newly Discovered Greek Father
2012A critical edition an ancient manuscript, which has resulted in discovery of Cassian the Sabaite, whom Medieval forgery extinguished, by attributing heavily interpolated Latin translations of this Greek original to a figment called ‘John Cassian’. This erudite Sabaite intellectual is Pseudo-Caesarius and the author of Pseudo Didymus' De Trinitate.
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Insight or Incoherence? The Greek Fathers on God and Evil
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 1973This paper attempts to explore a number of inter-related ideas—inter-related in so far as they are all concerned in one way or another with evil, and God's relationship with it. The belief most characteristic of Christianity is the assurance that redemption from evil has been achieved for mankind in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our
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4 A Conception of Faith in the Greek Fathers
2009Abstract A frequent complaint about the application to theology of ideas from analytic philosophy is that such applications are unhistorical; they impose anachronistic concepts and questions upon issues from the Christian theological tradition, while ignoring vital elements of this tradition that do not fit into analytic ways of thinking.
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The king and eye: the rule of the father in Greek tragedy
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1999Athenian tragedy is a ‘representation of élite practice …’, focusing primarily on the actions of ‘people superior to us’ in their moral and social station. Although it is debatable exactly what Aristotle means by σπουδαῖος in the context of a tragic plot, and to what degree his theory of tragedy is wedded to a belief in the social, as well as ethical, ‘
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Second- and Third-Century Greek Fathers
Abstract Justin Martyr uses a testimony source to interpret the “gods” of Psalm 81(82) as Adam and Eve, who had been intended to share in the divine attributes of impassibility and immortality, linking them with the “children of God” of John 3:1. Irenaeus discusses the psalm more in terms of Pauline adoption, emphasizing participation inopenaire +1 more source
Modern Greek Theologians and the Greek Fathers
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The Six Days of Creation According to the Greek Fathers
2009Abstract This chapter shows what may be learned for readers of Genesis after Darwin by attending to the profound—often strange—ways in which Genesis was read long before Darwin, particularly by Greek-speaking Christians and Jews of the early centuries of the Common Era.
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