The Scriptural Universe Of Ancient Christianity
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The Scriptural Universe Of Ancient Christianity
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Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-14
The Scriptural Universe Of Ancient Christianity written by Guy G. Stroumsa and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-14 with History categories.
Perhaps more than any other cause, the passage of texts from scroll to codex in late antiquity converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity and enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. Guy Stroumsa describes how canonical scripture was established and how its interpretation replaced blood sacrifice in religious ritual.
We Believe In One God
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Author : Gerald L. Bray
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2009-05-18
We Believe In One God written by Gerald L. Bray and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-18 with Religion categories.
This volume offers partristic commentary edited by Gerald L. Bray on the first article of the Nicene Creed. Readers will gain insight into the history and substance of what the early church believed about God the Father.
Humankind And The Cosmos Early Christian Representations
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Author : Doru Costache
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-15
Humankind And The Cosmos Early Christian Representations written by Doru Costache and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Religion categories.
In this volume, Costache endeavours to map the world as it was understood and experienced by the early Christians. Progressing from initial fears, they came to adopt a more positive view of the world through successive shifts of perception. This did not happen overnight. Tracing these shifts, Costache considers the world of the early Christians through an interdisciplinary lens, revealing its meaningful complexity. He demonstrates that the early Christian worldview developed at the nexus of several perspectives. What facilitated this process was above all the experience of contemplating nature. When accompanied by genuine personal transformation, natural contemplation fostered the theological interpretation of the world as it had been known to the ancients.
A Historical Theology Of The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Konrad Schmid
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-09
A Historical Theology Of The Hebrew Bible written by Konrad Schmid and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with Religion categories.
In this meticulously researched study, Konrad Schmid offers a historical clarification of the concept of “theology.” He then examines the theologies of the three constituent parts of the Hebrew Bible—the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings— before tracing how these theological concepts developed throughout the history of ancient Israel and early Judaism. Schmid not only explores the theology of the biblical books in isolation, but he also offers unifying principles and links between the distinct units that make up the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on both the theology of the whole Hebrew Bible as well as its individual pieces, A Historical Theology of the Hebrew Bible provides a comprehensive discussion of theological work within the Hebrew Bible.
The Intellectual World Of Late Antique Christianity
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Author : Lewis Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-26
The Intellectual World Of Late Antique Christianity written by Lewis Ayres and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-26 with Religion categories.
The Intellectual World of Late-Antique Christianity explores new perspectives on early Christian epistemology in relation to the changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity. Early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge involved complex processes of appropriation, reproduction, and reconfiguration of Jewish and classical epistemologies. This helped Christians develop cultures of interpretation and argument as textually oriented religious communities within the Roman Empire and beyond. It laid an intellectual foundation that would be built upon and modified in a variety of later contexts. Encompassing Greek, Latin, and Syriac Christianity, and an historical arc that stretches from the New Testament to Bede, this volume traces how diverse theological commitments resulted in distinctive Christian accounts of knowing. It foregrounds the myriad ways in which early Christian epistemology was embedded in earlier intellectual traditions and forms of life, and how they established norms for communal life and powerful ways of acting in the world.
Lived Religion In The Ancient Mediterranean World
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Author : Valentino Gasparini
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-04-06
Lived Religion In The Ancient Mediterranean World written by Valentino Gasparini and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-06 with Religion categories.
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.
Religion And The Everyday Life Of Manichaeans In Kellis
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Author : Mattias Brand
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-20
Religion And The Everyday Life Of Manichaeans In Kellis written by Mattias Brand and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Religion categories.
Published in Open Access with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Winner of the Manfred Lautenschläger Award! Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than portraying this ancient religion as a well-structured, totalizing community, the fourth-century papyri sketch a dynamic image of lived religious practice, with all the contradictions, fuzzy boundaries, and limitations of everyday life. Following these microhistorical insights, this book demonstrates how family life, gift-giving, death rituals, communal gatherings, and book writing are connected to our larger academic debates about religious change in late antiquity.
Early Christianity In Athens Attica And Adjacent Areas
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Author : Cilliers Breytenbach
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-11-14
Early Christianity In Athens Attica And Adjacent Areas written by Cilliers Breytenbach and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-14 with Religion categories.
This volume focuses on Christianity in Attica and its metropolis, Athens, from Paul’s initial visit in the first century up to the closing of the philosophical schools under the reign of Justinian I in the sixth century. Underscoring the relevance of epigraphic resources and the importance of methodological sophistication in analysing especially archaeological evidence, it readdresses many questions on the basis of a larger body of evidence and aims to combine literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence in order to create the outlines of a narrative of the rise and development of Christianity in the area. It is the first interdisciplinary study on the local history of Christianity in the area.
The Nag Hammadi Codices And Their Ancient Readers
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Author : Paul Linjamaa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-11
The Nag Hammadi Codices And Their Ancient Readers written by Paul Linjamaa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with Religion categories.
Paul Linjamaa's study explores the way in which fourth century Egyptian monks produced, read and studied the Nag Hammadi Codices.
The Crucified Book
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Author : Anne Starr Kreps
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2022-03-29
The Crucified Book written by Anne Starr Kreps and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Religion categories.
In the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, a crucified Jesus is depicted as wrapped in a scroll and reading aloud the contents of his heart as he dies. This is just one of many strange appearances of the physical book in this text and in the surviving fragments of Valentinus. Through its representations of the written word, Anne Kreps argues, the Gospel of Truth promoted a living document perspective on the holy book, encouraging the generation of religious books as new sources of revelatory authority. The Crucified Book locates the Gospel of Truth in a broader ancient debate about books and their attendant authority. Roman and Jewish texts exhibit similar efforts to equate holy persons with holy texts, while Christian heresiologists exhibit awareness of the phenomenon even as they condemn it. Although the Gospel of Truth is often set apart from mainstream Christianity in scholarship, its ideas about the nature of authoritative writing engaged with Greco-Roman culture and cohered with Jewish and Christian ideas about books in antiquity. Valentinus' views about the relationship between the oral and the written dovetailed with thinking on the nature of the sacred book that gradually became the trademark of Rabbinic Judaism, Kreps contends. Ultimately, because the Gospel of Truth reflects a mind that was at the center of the discursive debates that formed Judaism and Christianity, her book demonstrates the usefulness of so-called heretical texts for discussions on the parting of the ways between the two traditions.