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Basic Patterns of Judaic Filantropy in First Centuries AD (Presentation Based on F. M. Loewenberg and G. E. Gardner Studies) [PDF]
Edinost in Dialog, 2022 Charity is a complex concept. What someone does as charitable work is never just a response to the need of poor people, it also describes what kind of culture, civilization, system of thought or religion, as a motivation or base of charity, we are ...
Bogdan Rus
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Being Commanded by God: Katharsis for Righteousness [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 Many people in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheistic traditions testify to their experience of being commanded by God to do something or to be a certain way.
Paul K. Moser
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“Higher Righteousness” for Kingdom Living: An Exegetical Analysis of Some Key Terms in Matthew 5: 17-20 [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2020 No biblical text has had greater impact on Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Within this Sermon is Matthew 5:17-20 which forms both the thesis paragraph of the Sermon and the key to appreciating Matthew’s teaching on the ...
Frederick M. Amevenku, Isaac Boaheng
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The ‘righteousness of the children of God’ according to the First Epistle of John
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 The author of the First Epistle of John predominantly addresses the ‘theological concept of righteousness’ in two pericopes: pericope 1 (1:5–2:2) concerns the ‘Righteousness of God’, and pericope 2 (2:28–3:12) explores the ‘Righteousness of God’s ...
Dirk G. van der Merwe
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Religions, 2021 The Exodus played an explicit and implicit role in sustaining the policy and practice of apartheid in South Africa and in various other places that went through the pains of colonization.
Masiiwa Ragies Gunda
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LXX Judith: Removing the fourth wall
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Given the strong mimetic and dramatic qualities found in Judith the authors make the suggestion that perhaps, before LXX Judith became a fixed, written text, the basic fabula might well have been part of an oral tradition.
Nicholas P.L. Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan
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In die Skriflig, 2022 Iustitia: Theological-ethical perspectives on the concept of ‘justice’ with particular reference to the position of Augustine and his far-reaching influence. Last year, at a conference of the ‘Kerkhistoriese Genootskap’ of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk
Jan H. van Wyk
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Religions, 2023 William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people to himself. For Craig, God’s moral goodness, best conceived in terms of righteousness, must also include God’s retributive justice ...
Kevin Kinghorn
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‘Between righteousness and alms’ in Tobit: What was the author’s real intention?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Before the Semitic fragments of 4QTobit were found at Qumran, the 4th-century Greek GI version of Tobit was thought to be original and was regarded as ‘a lesson on almsgiving and its redeeming powers’. In his presentation of the 4Q196–4Q199 (Aramaic) and
Annette H. Evans
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Relicts of the earliest understanding of fairness, justice and law in the first states of antiquity: A legal-anthropological view [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2020 All archaic societies were founded on the principles of equality and solidarity. Another common trait were the mechanisms for regulating social behaviour, as they were crucial for a society's survival. In such types of societies, archaic fairness existed.
Stanimirović Vojislav Ž.
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