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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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PravoRoman law, as the legal system that was in force for nearly thirteen centuries in Ancient Rome, did not disappear with the fall of the Roman state. Rather, in a more or less modified form, it became positive law in contemporary European states.
Danko Špoljarić
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Penal‐Reparative Atonement: A Synthesis of Penal Substitution and Satisfaction Models
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract I will argue that through Jesus Christ's life, death, resurrection, and ascension—considered as an organic whole—Christ presented his humanity before the Father as the visible instantiation of both God's condemnation of sin and God's delighted acceptation of the Son.
Sean Luke
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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The marriage of psychology and law: testamentary capacity
, 2019 Banks v. Goodfellow [1870. LR 5 QB 549 (Eng.)] is almost 150 years old, yet still stands as authority for the principle that unsoundness of the mind will not rebut testamentary capacity where it does not affect the will itself.
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Trusts: Life Insurance Trusts: Contingent Unfunded Life Insurance Trust as Testamentary Disposition
Michigan Law Review, 1956 exaly +3 more sources
Comparisons Ancient and Modern: Was Cyril of Alexandria a Good Reader of Paul?
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Cyril of Alexandria is the final stop on Michael Magree's analysis of the patristic interpretation of Pauline kenosis, serving as the culmination of the historical arc he surveys. Although Magree is careful to avoid overtly judging the success of various interpreters as readers of the Apostle, it is clear that he finds Cyril's appropriation of
Matthew R. Crawford
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