Results 51 to 60 of about 126,817,991 (273)
The Genre(s) of the Gospels : Expectations from the Second Century
, 2020 Analysis of how the New Testament Gospels interact with ancient genres should not be made solely on the basis of comparisons with other pieces of ancient literature, but also in view of their early reception. The way in which ancient authors reflected on
Berglund, Carl Johan,
core
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
wiley +1 more source
Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley +1 more source
Voorsienigheid, persoonlikheid en spiritualiteit - 'n vier-kantige voorsienigheidsleer
Acta Theologica, 2002 This article focuses on the problem of the doctrine of providence, namely that God’s oodness and his almighty power are not understandable in the light of the pain and suffering in this world. It suggests that the different answers that theologians give
F. B. Doubell
doaj +1 more source
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley +1 more source
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2022 In Christian tradition, the name of the Biblical Thomas is connected primarily to the story of John 20: 27 in which the apostle in invited by Jesus to touch his tortured body.
Bosman Frank G.
doaj +1 more source
Why four Gospels? Why only four? [PDF]
Holiness, 2017 Abstract This is a transcript of the 2016 Fernley-Hartley Lecture, which was delivered during the 2016 British Methodist Conference at the Lambeth Mission, London, and is published here with acknowledgement to the Fernley-Hartley Trust.
openaire +1 more source
The importance of the synoptic problem for interpreting the gospels [PDF]
Kairos (English Ed.), 2007 This essay examines the issue of the order of writing of the four Gospels in the New Testament canon. Procedurally, it discusses the emergence of the fourfold Gospel tradition, the Synoptic Problem and how it has been approached in history.
Allan J. McNicol
doaj
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2016 Everyone who studies the New Testament Bible must take into account its Aramaic background that results from several factors: – the Aramaic language was very popular in Roman Palestine during the first century A.D.; – the Aramaic was Jesus’ mother ...
Piotr Ostański
doaj +1 more source
‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley +1 more source