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The Veneration of Imperial Images between the Constantinian and Theodosian dinasties [PDF]

Potestas. Estudios del Mundo Clásico e Historia del Arte, 2016
En el texto procuramos hacer un análisis del modelo de emperador que proponen los oradores paganos Libanio y Temistio a nales del siglo iv d. C. Este modelo acorde con las tradiciones romanas está basado en las virtudes del emperador, principalmente la ...
Alejandro Cadenas González
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African Ethiopia and Byzantine imperial orthodoxy: Politically influenced self-definition of Christianity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The ancient Ethiopian Christian empire was an emergent and notable power in Eastern Africa and influenced its surrounding regions. It was itself influenced both religiously and politically. The ancient Christian narrative of North Africa has been deduced
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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Imperial Reliance : A Comparative Missiological Consideration of Emperor Figures and Missionaries in Christianity and Buddhism [PDF]

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2020
The institution of formal empire is not limited to studies of the past, but shows itself as a present possibility. This article employs the new discipline of comparative missiology in order to examine the relationship between missionary religions and ...
Bieber, Ken, Beyers, Jaco
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Nicaea as political orthodoxy: Imperial Christianity versus episcopal polities

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Fourth-century Christianity and the Council of Nicaea have continually been read as a Constantinian narrative. The dominancy of imperial Christianity has been a consequent feature of the established narrative regarding the events within early ...
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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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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The Imperial Frontier in the Worldview of the Decembrists: F. N. Glinka—Romantic Christianity and Karelian Ethnography

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2023
The article delves into reconstructing the religious-philosophical worldview of the Decembrist Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka, set against the backdrop of his frontier experiences during his exile in the Olonets province.
Vladimir N. Smirnov
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Bishop over “Those Outside”: Imperial Diplomacy and the Boundaries of Constantine’s Christianity

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2014
Constantine’s letter of 324 to Shapur II, rather than a threatening assertion of imperial patronage of Christians in Persia, can be seen to express his protection of Christians under his own rule, offered as an example for the shah to follow.
Alexander Angelov
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The concept of “Christian empire” in the historiosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev [PDF]

Два века русской классики, 2020
The article is devoted to Fyodor Tyutchev’s understanding of the special role of Russia as a country that still retains true Christianity as its spiritual and historical basis.
Boris N. Tarasov
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Religious statecraft: Narratives of persecution and diplomacy in the case of Byzantine, Aksum and Himyar

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
When reviewed against the background of Byzantine diplomatic correspondence, Aksum’s religious policy on the Arabian Peninsula is perceivable within a Constantinian religio-political matrix.
Rugare Rukuni
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FOUR CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE SOCIALLY MARGINAL IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY REFLECTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Acta Theologica, 2020
The social dynamics of the world of early Christianity is characterised by the limit of upward mobility and social disparity between classes in terms of access to both material resources such as lands and funds and nonmaterial resources such as honour ...
I.C. Berg
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