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Spirit Christology: Lactantius and His Sources [PDF]
, 1983 Lactantius conceives the preexistent Christ as the first-born spirit of God, a holy spirit from the supreme spirit of the Deity.’ Analogously the angels are spirits of God in so far as they too derive their origin from the Deity and share a spiritual ...
McGuckin, John A.
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The Date of the Council of Serdica: A Reassessment of the Case for 343 [PDF]
, 2017 The precise date of the Council of Serdica is so important because it is essential for establishing the chronology of numerous events in fourth-century Christianity, and thus for reconstructing its overall history and developments.
DelCogliano, Mark
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What did Constantine learn in 325? Constantine’s theological declarations before, at and after Nicaea [PDF]
, 2023 The analysis of the corpus of letters of the emperor Constantine, in particular, the one he addressed to the synod of Arles in 314, the one he addressed to the Church of Nicomedia in 325 and the one he addressed to Arius in 333, and of Eusebius of ...
Morales, X. (Xabier)
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“The Triumph of Pro-Nicene Theology over Anti-Monarchian Exegesis: Cyril of Alexandria and Theodore of Heraclea on John 14.10-11" [PDF]
, 2013 This article begins by identifying a previously unknown quotation in Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on the Gospel of John as an extract from the Johannine commentary of Theodore of Heraclea, a leading member of the fourth-century Eusebian alliance.
Crawford, Matthew
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Christ the Emperor: Roman Emperor and Christian Theology in the 4th Century AD [PDF]
, 2021 This project focuses on the intersection of Roman Imperial politics and Christian theology in the 4th century AD. I argue that during the transition to Christianity under Constantine and his successors, Christian theology became the principal realm in ...
Smolin, Nathan Israel
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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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The Beast with Two Backs: Bestiality, Sex Between Men, and Byzantine Theology in the Paenitentiale Theodori [PDF]
, 2020 Today, the comparison of male homosexuality to bestiality is unfortunately too well-known from homophobic polemics. Yet this comparison has a history in the Anglophone world, and it emerged in the early European Middle Ages seemingly not in order to ...
Wade, Erik
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Gregory of Nazianzus: on being a theologian [PDF]
, 2017 Dr Eirini Artemi’s paper explores the teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390 AD) on exactly what it is that qualifies someone to be called a theologian. Focusing particularly on his Twentieth Oration, On Theology, she places his thought on the subject
Artemi, Eirini
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Constantinople 360 and Constantinople 381:A tale of two councils [PDF]
, 2020 The Councils of Constantinople of 360 and 381 shed important light not only on each other’s aims and procedures, but also on the contrasting political skills of the emperors who summoned them.
Parvis, Sara
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