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The Justinian Apologetical Turn, away from Original Petrine Apologetics
Acta Universitatis Carolinae TheologicaChristian apologetics is traceable back to Peter’s call in 1Peter 3:15–16. To all faithful, he requested that they be prepared to respond in a Christian manner when another questioned or challenged the faith.
Stuart Nicolson
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Theology and Philosophy of Education, 2023 It can be said that apologetics was superseded in and around the Second Vatican Council: the word, or any version of it, was not included in any of the sixteen documents.
Stuart Nicolson
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Petrine apologetics: Hope, imagination, and forms of life
Review & Expositor, 2014In practice, apologetics is all about arguments. The danger in this lies in the fact that hope, a key feature of the classic apologetics proof-text (1 Pet 3:15), gets overlooked. This article suggests that the task of apologetics must be grounded in an eschatological hope—one that manifests itself in the embodied forms of life that believers inhabit ...
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The Relevance of Pusey’s Eirenicon Today: Intercommunion between Anglicans and Roman Catholics [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates how Edward Pusey, a nineteenth century Anglican clergy and scholar responded to Edward Manning’s claim that the Church of England is not an authentic church.
Duke, Emmanuel Orok
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House Churches in the New Testament: Contextual, Theological, and Missiological Perspectives [PDF]
, 2023 For most of the first century, private dwellings shaped the Christians’ community life. Evidence to this phenomenon is found in the Acts of the Apostles and the letters of Paul.
Sanou, Boubakar
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Attitudes to Jewish and Roman power in the Gospel and Acts of Peter [PDF]
, 2020 Second-century Christianity singled out Peter in order to identify itself with the apostolic gospel tradition in the face of perceived, and intermittently real, hostility from Romans and Jews.
Bockmuehl, Markus
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The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: Constructing a Context [PDF]
, 2015 It has been proposed that references to Jesus' relationship to Mary Magdalene in theGospel of Philiprepresent a possible context for an early gospel fragment in which Jesus refers to her as ‘My wife’.
Gathercole, S
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A Pastor’s Kid Finds the Catholic Church [PDF]
, 2019 In this essay, I describe my journey to Catholicism and explain one of the many reasons I became Catholic--namely, an argument from the canon of ...
Gage, Logan Paul
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A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism [PDF]
, 2022 This chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its ...
Paul Michael Kurtz
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The Battle for St Peter’s Chair: Mediating the Materials of Catholic Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Britain [PDF]
, 2017 This article explores how one object – the alleged papal throne of St Peter in the Vatican – became a battleground for Protestant and Catholic readings of the early history of Christianity in Britain and Ireland.
Murray, Brian
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