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The concept of “Christian empire” in the historiosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev [PDF]

open access: yesДва 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

open access: yesHTS 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

open access: yesActa 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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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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Nicaea as political orthodoxy: Imperial Christianity versus episcopal polities

open access: yesHTS 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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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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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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African Ethiopia and Byzantine imperial orthodoxy: Politically influenced self-definition of Christianity

open access: yesHTS 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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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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