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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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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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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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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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The Red Thread of Christianity

open access: yesReOrient, 2015
Mas examines Anidjar's response to Nancy in order to argue against readings that understand Anidjar's treatment of the concept of Christianity as indiscriminately referring to secularism, globalisation, the West, or Westernisation.
Ruth Mas
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Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
No abstract ...
Abrams   +1241 more
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Suspicion and Love

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2013
Recent philosophy has witnessed a number of prominent and ambivalent encounters with Christianity. Alongside the retrievals of Paul and political theology, thinkers such as Žižek and Negri argue that in our era of imperial sovereignty and advanced ...
Matthew Chrulew
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