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This volume covers the geographical spread of Christianity in its first three centuries. It is arranged by continents - Asia, Europe and Africa - to show the gradual development of Christian communities down to the Council of Nicaea in 325. The area surveyed stretches from Wales to the borders of India, and from the Northern coasts of the Black Sea to the plains of Morocco. The result is a picture not only of the outward development of early Christianity but of the variety that existed within it as well.
Church history --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 27 "00/02" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine)
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The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientific, and 'magical' traditions. Transcending social, regional and creedal boundaries, the preocupation with heaven in Late Antiquity serves as a focus for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding this formative era in Western culture and history. Drawing upon the expertise of scholars of Classics, Ancient History, Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume explores the different functions of heavenly imagery in different texts and traditions in order to map the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.
Heaven --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Judaism --- History of doctrines. --- Rome --- Greece --- Religion. --- -Heaven --- -236.6 --- Future life --- -History of doctrines --- -History of doctrines. --- Hemel. Paradijs. Uitverkorenen. Triomferende Kerk --- 236.6 Hemel. Paradijs. Uitverkorenen. Triomferende Kerk --- 236.6 --- Judaism&delete& --- Comparative studies --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Religion --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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There can be no doubt that there is a link between early Christian statements on human dignity and the corresponding modern concept, as it appears ever more frequently in current bioethical debates. This study attempts to throw light on the surprisingly complex process of the emergence of such a Christian concept of human dignity in antiquity and portrays it as a process governed by contradictions and antagonisms: between biblical and platonic anthropology; between a platonic and a stoic perception of humanity; between gnostic and antignostic cosmology; between biblically based criticism of human culture on the one hand and heilsgeschichtlichem cultural optimism on the other hand; between Greek and Roman thinking. This history of the idea of the “dignity of man” is being recounted taking into consideration the complex matrix of Christian theory and practice (including issues such as worship, contraception and abortion), piety and theological reflection, ethics, liturgy and theological as well as cutural anthropology. *** Bei dieser Studie handelt es sich um den Versuch einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung der christlich-antiken Auseinandersetzung mit der Würde des menschlichen Lebens Diese wird nicht nur gegenwärtig etwa in der Bioethik wieder kontrovers diskutiert, sondern ist auch in der Antike ein Feld philosophischer und theologischer Überlegungen gewesen. Volp fragt, inwieweit sich in den Schriften der antiken christlichen Denker die Vorstellung einer mit einer besonderen Würde ausgestatteten gemein-menschlichen Natur findet, die Menschen von Tieren und von belebter und unbelebter Materie unterscheidet, und wie diese Natur gefaßt und begründet wird. Ausgehend von der These, daß diese Überlegungen nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die ethische und religiöse Praxis der Alten Kirche hatten, sondern umgekehrt auch entscheidend von ihr geprägt wurden, konzentriert sich die Arbeit nicht nur auf die theoretischen Äußerungen der Kirchenväter, sondern bezieht ethische Konkretionen (Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Umgang mit Menschen mit Behinderungen, Krieg) und den christlichen Kult mit in die Untersuchung ein. Zum Vorschein kommt ein überraschend komplexes Bild einer alles andere als selbstverständlichen geistesgeschichtlichen Entwicklung, deren Folgen bis in die heutige Zeit nachwirken.
Theological anthropology --- Dignity --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects --- 233 --- De mens. Theologische antropologie --- Human dignity --- Values --- Man (Theology) --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600. --- Dignity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600.
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#GGSB: Patrologie (alg.) --- #GGSB: Exegese --- 276 <035> --- Patrologie. Patristiek--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- Fathers of the church. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Church fathers --- Fathers of the church --- Kerkvaders --- Patristic philosophy --- Patristics --- Patristiek --- Patristique --- Patrologie --- Patrology --- Philosophy [Patristic ] --- Pères de l'Eglise --- Pères de l'Eglise --- Philosophy, Patristic --- Christians --- Biblia --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- RELIGION --- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General --- Exegese --- Patrologie (alg.)
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This volume deals with how Christians of the first centuries looked back on the period of the nascent Church. Thanks to the incomparable stature of its founder, Jesus Christ, who had descended from heaven and commissioned his Apostles, this period was authorative for all Christians in matters of doctrine, institutions, rites and morality, a new phenomenon in the Graeco-Roman world. Its implications are explored in sixteen essays dealing with various subjects such as liturgy, the canon of Scriptures, the role of miracles, art, monasticism, and ministry. All contributions, taking into account both the views of individual Church fathers and Gnostic and Manichaean texts, make a large amount of primary material available.
Apostolate (Christian theology) --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Fathers of the church. --- History of doctrines --- History --- Church fathers --- Fathers of the church --- Kerkvaders --- Patristic philosophy --- Patristics --- Patristiek --- Patristique --- Patrologie --- Patrology --- Philosophy [Patristic ] --- Pères de l'Eglise --- 276:225 --- Patrologie. Patristiek-:-Bijbel: Nieuw Testament --- Philosophy, Patristic --- Christians --- Apostleship --- Apostolate (Theology) --- Mission of the church --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Theology [Doctrinal ] --- Apostolate (Christian theology) - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Theology, Doctrinal - History - Early church, ca. 30-600.
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This book is about the communicative purpose and the audience of the Confessions . It illuminates the degree to which the communicative purpose of the work is to convert its readers, id est a protreptic purpose, and the degree to which the target audience may be identified as Augustine's potential Manichaean readers. A brief survey of possible literary antecedents points to the existence of other works that consist of the same combination of an autobiographical section (a conversion story) with a polemical and exegetical section (an argument that aims to convince the reader of the merits of a specific point of view) that characterizes the Confessions . The book provides a new perspective on the meaning and structure of Augustine's often misunderstood masterpiece.
Didactic literature, Latin --- Manichaeism --- Apologetics --- History and criticism. --- Controversial literature --- History --- Augustine, --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS --- Latijnse patrologie--AUGUSTINUS --- Latin didactic literature --- Latin literature --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- History and criticism --- Controversial literature&delete& --- Christianity --- Augustine --- Didactic literature [Latin ] --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Didactic literature, Latin - History and criticism. --- Manichaeism - Controversial literature - History and criticism. --- Apologetics - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Augustine, - Saint, Bishop of Hippo. - Confessiones.
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This volume deals with the episcopate of Cyril of Jerusalem (350 to 387). Its overall theme is the relationship between the city and its bishop and, in particular, Cyril’s efforts to promote Jerusalem as the Christian city par excellence , by employing Jerusalem’s religious symbols - the holy sites and the Cross. Apart from chapters on Jerusalem in the fourth century C.E. and on the life and works of Cyril, this study discusses important aspects and events of Cyril's episcopacy, such as his pastoral work as an urban bishop of the Jerusalem Christian community, Jerusalem’s liturgy, the rebuilding of the Temple, giving a re-interpretation of the Syriac letter ascribed to Cyril about this event, and Jerusalem’s and Palestine’s religious landscape.
Church history --- Jerusalem in Christianity --- Cyril, --- Jerusalem in Christianity. --- Eglise --- Jérusalem dans le christianisme --- Histoire --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus --- Jerusalem --- Jérusalem --- In Christianity. --- Dans le christianisme --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Cirillo, --- Cirillus, --- Cirilo, --- Cyrill, --- Cyrille, --- Cyrillus, --- Kiwregh, --- Kyrillos, --- Pseudo-Cyrillus --- Cyrillus ep. Hierosolymitanus --- Cyril, - Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, - ca. 315-386
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Saint Jérôme souffre parfois du voisinage trop éclatant de son illustre contemporain Augustin. Qu’il s’essaie dans le genre historique avec la Chronique et aussitôt s’élève le choeur des voix qui lui préfèrent l’ampleur et la portée théologique de la Cité de Dieu ! Mais une telle comparaison, qui ne tient compte ni des enjeux ni du contexte spécifiques de chaque œuvre, est forcément réductrice et conduit inévitablement à des classements arbitraires et spécieux. L’œuvre historique d’Augustin, composée après 410, aurait été différente si Jérôme ne s’était pas mis en tête, vers 380, de faire connaître au monde latin l’historiographie chrétienne grecque et de traduire la Chronique d’Eusèbe de Césarée. Sa contribution ne se limite d’ailleurs pas à une simple traduction puisqu’il a lui-même composé, pour les années 326-378, un prolongement à cette chronique. C’est cette continuation que le lecteur trouvera ici. Les figures de l’empereur Constantin et de ses fils y côtoient celles, toutes nimbées de sainteté, de moines et d’évêques dont l’idéal ascétique et la doctrine ne sont pas toujours du goût du pouvoir temporel ; on y assiste aux derniers soubresauts de la réaction païenne avec le passage fugitif de Julien, le fameux « apostat », aux commandes de l’Empire ; on y voit les barbares d’Occident et d’Orient tenir tête à la puissance romaine tandis que l’Église, en proie aux âpres disputes des partisans et adversaires d’Arius, connaît une grave crise d’adolescence. Et sur tout cela s’abat parfois avec fracas une averse de grêle meurtrière ou le malheur d’un tremblement de terre dévastateur. Dans le style concis caractéristique des chroniques, Jérôme nous fournit ici un abrégé de l’histoire de son temps dans lequel l’historien d’aujourd’hui pourra glaner des informations précieuses pour la compréhension et la connaissance du IVe siècle.
Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Jerome, --- Gerolamo, --- Gérome, --- Gerónimo, --- Girolamo, --- Heronimos, --- Hieronim, --- Hieronymus, Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, --- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, Stridonensis, --- Ieronim, Stridonskiĭ, --- Iheronimus, --- Jerónimo, --- Jerōnimos, --- Church history --- Christian literature, Early --- Eglise --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Sources --- Latin authors --- History and criticism --- Histoire --- Auteurs latins --- Histoire et critique --- Eusebius, --- Jerome --- Congresses --- Eusebius of Caesarea --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Christian literature [Early ] --- Jeronimi, --- historiographie --- biographie --- biographies chrétiennes --- histoire des religions --- chronique (syle littéraire)
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In The Blood of Martyrs Joyce E. Salisbury chronicles the many spectacles of violent martyrdom that took place during the first three centuries of the Christian era, describing the role of martyrdom in the development of the early Church, as well as its continuing influence on many of today's ideas.Salisbury shows through the engaging stories of the martyrs introduced in each chapter, how their legacy continues to shape contemporary ideas. Discussing modern martyrdom the book elicits deep lessons for the present from the ancient past and outlining the possibility of a religi
Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- Christian dogmatics --- History of civilization --- anno 500-599 --- anno 1-499 --- Christelijke martelaren --- Christian martyrs --- Martelaren [Christelijke ] --- Martyrs [Christian ] --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Martyrdom --- -Christian martyrs --- Persecution --- -235.3*14 --- Christians --- Religious persecution --- Atrocities --- Martyrs --- Death --- Suffering --- Christianity --- -History of doctrines --- -History --- -Hagiografie: martyrium --- Persecutions --- Religious aspects --- Rome --- Politics and government --- -Christian martyrs. --- History of doctrines --- History --- Christian martyrs. --- -Martyrdom --- 235.3*14 Hagiografie: martyrium --- Hagiografie: martyrium --- 235.3*14 --- Church history --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These esoteric traditions do not reflect the influence of Greek Mystery religions, as has often been claimed, but rather seem to stem from the Jewish background of Christianity. They were adopted by various Gnostic teachings, a fact which helps explaining their eventual disappearance from Patristic literature. The eleven chapters study each a different aspect of the problem, including the questions of Gnostic and Manichaean esotericism. This book will be of interest to all students of religious history in Late Antiquity. Revised and extended paperback edition. Originally published in 1996. Please click here for details.
Occultism --- Discipline of the secret. --- Mysticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History --- Discipline of the secret --- Arcane chrétien --- Mysticisme --- Occultisme --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- History. --- Church history --- Disciplina arcani --- Secret, Discipline of the --- Church discipline --- Secrecy --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- esoteric traditions --- Christian mysticism --- early Christianity --- patristic hermeneutics --- Late Antiquity --- Greek mystery religions --- Judaism --- gnosticism --- Manichean esotericism --- religious history
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