Early Christianity
The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity (Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson)
... Therefore, readers looking for succinct conclusions in this book, hoping to find a clear framework for putting the liturgical year into a conclusive historical order, will be disappointed. The closest the authors come to ...
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Diakonos and prostatis : Women’s patronage in Early Christianity
... Having now described the general functions of patronage and the participation of women in the system, and having taken a brief look at how patronage functioned in early Christianity, we turn at last to ...
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The punishment of slaves in early Christianity: the views of some selected Church fathers
... on Early Christianity that the Early Church never formally abolished slavery, with the exception of Gregory of Nyssa’s damning evaluation of slavery as an insult to God ...
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Patristic reception and apocalyptic character : the Shepherd of Hermas as authoritative book in early Christianity
... Collins, Early Christian Apocalypticism, 13-64, and finds that the most embedded sequence is Revelation 21:5-8, at ...in Early Christianity: Collected Essays (Wissenschaftliche Unterschungen zum ...
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Cultures of Invisibility: The Semiotics of the Veil in Early Christianity
... the early Christian semiotics of the veil cannot be fully comprehended without reference, once again, to the concept of “living in between”: the cultural proximity, and therefore also the cultural need for dif- ...
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A review of current research on group formation in early Christianity
... A review of current research on group formation in early Christianity Abstract J Eugene Botha University of South Africa In this paper an attempt is f!U1de to gain a picture of the earliest stages of[.] ...
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The books of the Bibles in early Christianity
... of early Christianity, have written books on a semi-popular level exploring a similar thesis in relation to different texts within early Christianity (Pagels 2004; Ehrman 2005a, 2005b; King ...
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Mary in Early Christianity and Islam
... and Christianity, aiming at clarifying the criteria for which Mary has been revered in each ...in Christianity is almost merely important because she was the mother of Jesus, while the Muslim reverence for ...
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A case for organic indigenous Christianity: African Ethiopia as derivate from Jewish Christianity
... CE, Christianity experienced a formative process composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events ...African Christianity, in particular, Ethiopian ...Jewish Christianity ...
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Ethiopian Christianity: A continuum of African Early Christian polities
... for Early Christianity as there emerged an imperial orthodoxy ...Ethiopian Christianity posed relevance as a complexly diverse Christian political ...CE Christianity with regard to the ...
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Christianity and new age thought
... A sixth element in the New Age complex of ideas emphasises the power of the inner voice. Meditation of one kind or another is a pervading aspect of New Age religion. Spiritual experience is central to the New Age ...
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Twenty Centuries of christianity in Georgia
... Christianity spread in Georgia in the 1st century A.D. After the Ascension the Apostles cast lots as to who would preach Christianity in the countries. Georgia was the Holy Virgin's lot, for which reason we ...
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Islam and Christianity: symbiosis of civilizations
... Muslims played a crucial role in the development of Western civilization. Within the first 20 years of the revelation of Islam, Arabs conquered Roman/Byzantine Egypt and Syria, thus establishing contact with the wisdom ...
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Rejection of Christianity and self esteem
... of Christianity Scale (Greer & Francis, 1992) is a 20- item Likert-type instrument, employing a five-point response scale ranging from ‘agree strongly’, through ‘agree’, ‘not certain’, and ‘disagree’, to ...
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Translating Christianity in an Age of Reformations
... the early modern period to a close, since it serves to remind us that, for all its slow, incomplete and halting nature, it was above all the portability (and tradability) of such devotional objects Ð in other ...
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Marriage in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism
... in Christianity, is against marriage. In Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, priests, deacons, monks, and bishops are not allowed to get ...in Christianity only in case of necessity and to extinguish ...
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Jesus Traditions and Masculinities in World Christianity
... the early Christian “story”, such as Jesus and Paul, would relate to such an ...the early Christian story would be Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ (or “Jesus Christ”), the importance of the embodiment and ...
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Christianity and globalisation: An alternative ethical response
... of Christianity as a counter-cultural protest ...role Christianity cannot play with any degree of legitimacy because of its hybridising tendencies and intercultural entanglements throughout ...
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James Baldwin’s Dialectical Approach to Christianity
... Despite the obvious frequency of Baldwin’s criticism of white and black Christian theology, in a few situations he confesses that the problem with Christianity may be the way Christians themselves practice their ...
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Refugees’ Encounters with Christianity in Everyday Life
... From the initial research several things have emerged which contribute to the discussion of contemporary Christianity. First, in relation to the Gozdziak (2002) thesis outlined above, it is not clear that religion ...
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