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Tertullian’s “On shows” in the context of Ancient and Christian literature of the first centuries
RUDN Journal of World HistoryThe study observes the sources used by Tertullian during the writing of his essay “On the Spectacles” (the end of the 2nd century). This was the time of the domination of the Second Sophistic, where erudition, sophistication in rhetoric and adherence to ...
Aleksey D. Panteleev +1 more
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The Multifaceted Reception of the Torah by Early Church Fathers
Religions, 2023 This paper focuses on the reception of the Torah by the Church Fathers who lived up to the beginning of the third century. Christians, having received the whole Torah through the Septuagint translation, became selective in the way they accepted it ...
Stefan M. Attard
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Christianity, Misogyny and Women [PDF]
, 2019 Misogynistic tendencies are not strange, rather this attitude pervades various strata of our existence. They are vocally audible and visibly present within the political, economic, social, cultural and religious spheres of our societies.
Eteng, Nzeyo Gabriel
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Writing trans histories with an ethics of care, while reading gender in imperial Roman literature
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 14-31, March 2024.Abstract Two major barriers interfere with writing trans histories of the premodern world: the conflict between creating a legible or foreignised past and balancing the vastness of the social system of gender against individual performances of gender identity. In this article, I propose one methodology to bypass these barriers.
Ky Merkley
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Devenir chrétienne à Carthage (IIe – IIIe siècle)
Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2011 The investigation centres on a comparaison of Tertullian’s attitudes toward women with those of Cyprian of Carthage. While women are often addressed as recipients or referred to in Tertullian’s works, they seem to be forgotten by the bishop of Carthage ...
Laetitia Ciccolini
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“MLK's functional philosophy of non‐violence”
Dialog, Volume 63, Issue 1-2, Page 52-60, Spring-Summer 2024.Abstract The fact that Martin Luther King, Jr. held a moral philosophy of non‐violence is well known. What is less familiar is that he made various exceptions to his prohibitions on violence. Given the absolute language he often used in condemning violent acts, he can give the impression of inconsistency in his ethics. The reality, however, is that his
Jeffrey K. Mann
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Ehe und Familie in der frühlateinischen Apologetik (Minucius Felix, Tertullianus)
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Bernhard Kytzler
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Private Creeds and their Troubled Authors [PDF]
, 2016 This article defends the disputed label “private creeds” as a useful one for describing a number of fourth century texts. Offering such a confession was the normal method for clearing one’s name on charges of heterodoxy in fourth-century Greek ...
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 70-90, January 2024.Abstract This article draws on the distinction between instrumentalism and realism in the philosophy of science to consider the merits of two possible approaches to the doctrine of the Trinity. One considers this doctrine to be an intellectual construct, which coordinates multiple insights about the nature and action of God; the other considers it to ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Tertullian, Apostolicity, and the Apostles
Vox PatrumHow did Tertullian regard the apostles? This article investigates the references to them scattered through his writings both as individuals and as a collective. It reveals that individually the apostles were remote figures who appear in the pages of the
Geoffrey David Dunn
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