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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 325-349, August 2022., 2022 This article explores how and why Gregory of Tours encoded the fear of God into the architecture of Tours cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin. Using Gregory’s writings, in combination with the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus and the inscriptions that adorned the interior walls of the basilica, this paper argues that Gregory followed the church ...
Catherine‐Rose Hailstone
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Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 204-219, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This essay asks in what ways modern (i.e. twentieth‐century) philosophy can either make use of Origen or inform our reading of him. It argues in the first section that the predominantly exegetic method of Origen makes it difficult for analytic philosophy to accommodate his reasoning.
Mark J. Edwards
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Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 159-187, March 2021., 2021 Abstract In light of recent reevaluations of the work of Hugo Grotius, this essay analyzes the respective roles of Francisco de Vitoria and Grotius in the construction of the “Grotian tradition” of international law and human rights. In contrast to conventional accounts which understand the two within a progression, this essay argues that Vitoria and ...
John E. Carter
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Thinking with Origen Today: Hermeneutical Challenges and Future Directions
, 2022 Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 191-203, April 2022.
Pui Him Ip
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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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Does Classical Liberalism Imply Democracy? [PDF]
, 2014 There is a fault line running through classical liberalism as to whether or not democratic self-governance is a necessary part of a liberal social order.
Ellerman, David
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Romanness and Islam: collective Roman identity in Byzantium from the seventh to the tenth century [PDF]
, 2023 The thesis seeks to engage with ongoing historiographical debates over the nature of Roman identity in the Byzantine Empire. It aims to circumvent debates over the ethnic or national character of Romanness in Byzantium by focusing on the fluid nature of ...
Meynell, Callan
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A guest at the table of the gods: Religion and the origins of academic life [PDF]
, 2015 Proceeding from the Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, this paper is an attempt to survey the historical premises of the academic study of religion, both as a practice of detaching the subject matter of
Jackson, Peter
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Christological Apologetics: How Late Antique Christians Contextualized Christology in Inter-Faith Dialogue with Muslims [PDF]
, 2023 The earliest Christian-Muslim dialogue offers a unique glimpse into how Christians viewed the religion of their neighbors. Much of contemporary American scholarship misplaces focus geographically and linguistically in the West, chronologically late, and ...
Hillaker, Andrew P
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The Skeireins : a neglected text [PDF]
, 2018 ISBN: 9789042929975. Papers presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011Fragmentary, palimpsest segments survive of a commentary on the Gospel of John written in the 4th or 5th centuries in the Gothic ...
Wolfe, Brendan Nathanial
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