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Pushing the Naked Envelop Further: A Missiological Deconstruction of the Empire and Christianity in Africa

open access: yesMissionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2020
In re-visiting issues of empire and African Christianity, this article sought to provide a missiological deconstruction of empire and Christianity in Africa, and to draw some missiological lessons that can help shape the agenda of Christianity in Africa ...
Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick
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Parthian-India and Aksum: A geographical case for pre-Ezana early Christianity in Ethiopia

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The narrative of Indian Christianity that is compositely based on Thomine tradition derives significantly from the reality of Parthian-India geo-economics and geopolitics.
Rugare Rukuni
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Hıristiyanlığın İlk Dönemlerinde Milenyalizm Meselesi/A Study of Millennialism in Early Christianity

open access: yesOksident, 2020
Although being an eschatological matter and examined usually with its theological context, millennialism is related to the environment and the society in which these thoughts emerge, since it is very related to this world and salvation of a group of ...
Büşra Elmas
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Gregory the Great and a Post-Imperial Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Last Spring, quite out of the blue, I stumbled upon an essay by Catherine Keller that was so provocative that I am no longer able to think about the relationship between Christianity and Empire as I once did.
Demacopoulos, George
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A case for organic indigenous Christianity: African Ethiopia as derivate from Jewish Christianity

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
From its inception to the 4th century CE, Christianity experienced a formative process composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events (i.e. Jewish-Christian Schism, Hellenism and imperial intervention).
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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Ethiopian Christianity: A continuum of African Early Christian polities

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The 4th century CE was definitive for Early Christianity as there emerged an imperial orthodoxy establishment. This was the inception of an era of a Christian polity characterised by symbiotic ties between the imperial establishment and a developing ...
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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Christian Missions and Colonial Empires Reconsidered: A Black Evangelist in West Africa, 1766-1816 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The article presents an exploration into the work of the late 18th-century West African Anglican missionary Philip Quaque and the relationship between imperialism and religion during the colonial era.
Andrews, Edward E.
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Schism, syncretism and politics: Derived and implied social model in the self-definition of early Christian orthodoxy

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The first 400 years of Christianity posed an intricate scenario of social dynamics. The interplay of these social dynamics or catalysts analogous to time perceivably conceived the political-religious establishment that then forged orthodoxy.
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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The roots of "Western European societal evolution". A concept of Europe by Jenő Szűcs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Jenő Szűcs wrote his essay entitled Sketch on the three regions of Europe in the early 1980s in Hungary. During these years, a historically well-argued opinion emphasising a substantial difference between Central European and Eastern European societies ...
Anderson P.   +34 more
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Perception of Christianity by the Pagan Polabian Slavs
Dojemanje krščanstva pri poganskih Polabskih Slovanih

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2015
The article explores the question of how the pagan Polabian Slavs could perceive Christianity at the time of its expansion to the East. An attempt is made here to distance ourselves from our Christian background, and to analyse how other people can see ...
Roman Zaroff
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