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Revisiting the Literal Sense of Scripture, in Dialogue With Thomas Aquinas

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 331-350, July 2025.
Abstract Brevard Childs suggests that ‘one of the burning issues in theology lies in a search to recover a new understanding of the sensus literalis’. In this article, I retrieve and commend Thomas Aquinas's account of the literal sense, using Peter's Pentecost speech in Acts 2 as a way of testing Thomas's mettle.
Christopher R. J. Holmes
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Tematyczne programowanie przepowiadania homilijnego

, 2015
Article deals with the issue of thematic programming of preaching during the Holy Mass in the course of the liturgical year. At first the reason is indicated, why such programming should be taken into consideration.
Henryk Sławiński
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 166-192, April 2025.
Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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From Voltaire's Quakers to John Boyle's Methodists: Religious Dispute, Bardolatry, and ‘Patriot Enthusiasm’

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.
Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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Prevalent Genres of Preaching and Its Significance to Young People in this Time of Pandemic [PDF]

, 2022
Preaching is a scriptural interpretation of human existence which enables a community to recognize God’s active presence, respond to that presence in faith through liturgical word and gesture, and beyond the liturgical assembly, through a life lived in ...
Udofia, Stephen Nwanaokuo
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Recovering the Spirit of Mystagogy in the Contemporary Churches [PDF]

, 1988
(Excerpt) The restoration of the catechumenate in the Roman Catholic tradition since the promulgation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in 1972 has been a most surprising pastoral success.
Lewinski, Ronald J
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Active Life and Contemplative Life: A Study of the Concepts from Plato to the Present [PDF]

, 1961
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Mason, Sister Mary Elizabeth
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Diatessaron-Zitate bei Theodor von Mopsuestia?

, 2007
This miscelle deals with the quotations from the gospels in the Syriac version of Theodore of Mopsuestia's catechetical homilies. Many of these quotations correspond with Syriac gospel texts that are earlier than Peshitta.
S. Gerber
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Materiality and the Sensation of Sin in Late Antique Pre-Baptismal Rituals : The Short-Lived “Rite of the Cilicium” [PDF]

, 2021
A key feature of Christian initiation rituals in late antiquity were rituals which effected the candidate's rejection of sin and the influence of the devil in order that they might be freed to give their allegiance to Christ.
Day, Juliette
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The Mystagogical Catechesis of Narsai of Nisibis: Mēmrē 39 and 38 in their Syriac Context [PDF]

, 2022
This thesis is a study of Narsai of Nisibis’s mēmrē on the sacraments of the baptismal liturgy that situates these mēmrē in their Syriac theological context and presents them as an important witness to Late Antique Christian mystagogy.
Turney, Jordan Ryan
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