A Christian In Toga

Author : Nathaniel P. DesRosiers,Lily C. Vuong
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884141570

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Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World by Nathaniel P. DesRosiers,Lily C. Vuong Pdf

Essays that broaden the historical scope and sharpen the parameters of competitive discourses Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The specific focus of the volume is the examination of cultural producers and their particular viewpoints and agendas in an attempt to shed new light on the religious thinkers, texts, and material remains of late antiquity. The essays explore the major creative movements of the era, examining the strategies used to develop and designate orthodoxies and orthopraxies. This collection of essays reinterprets dialogues between individuals and groups, illuminating the mutual competition and influence among these ancient thinkers and communities. Features: Essays feature competitive discourse as the central organizing theme Articles present unique theoretical models that are adaptable to different contexts and highly applicable to religious discourses before and after the Late Antique Period Scholars cover a much wider range of traditions including Judaism, Christianity, paganism, and philosophy in order to provide the most complete portrait of the religious landscape

Author : Richard Ingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Baptism
ISBN : UOM:39015010936980

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A Handbook on Christian Baptism: Christian baptism, its subjects by Richard Ingham Pdf

Author : Kathryn Bosher,Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Patrice Rankine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191637339

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas by Kathryn Bosher,Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Patrice Rankine Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbitrarily. This volume tracks networks across continents and oceans and uncovers the ways in which the shared histories and practices in the performance arts in the Americas have routinely defied national boundaries. With contributions from classicists, Latin American specialists, theatre and performance theorists, and historians, the Handbook also includes interviews with key writers, including Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Charles Mee, and Anne Carson, and leading theatre directors such as Peter Sellars, Carey Perloff, Héctor Daniel-Levy, and Heron Coelho. This richly illustrated volume seeks to define the complex contours of the reception of Greek drama in the Americas, and to articulate how these different engagements - at local, national, or trans-continental levels, as well as across borders - have been distinct both from each other, and from those of Europe and Asia.

Author : Claudio Moreschini
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647540276

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A Christian in Toga by Claudio Moreschini Pdf

Claudio Moreschini focuses on selected and as yet still understudied aspects of Boethius' life and works. He presents Boethius in the culture of the sixth century in Italy, outlines his great cultural project and discusses the problem of his Christian faith. The Consolatio Philosophiae is examined from the point of view of Latin Platonism, highlighting the aims of its poetry and its philosophical tenets. Moreschini also shows how Boethius combined Christian faith and philosophy in order to solve theological issues, most notably the Christological debates of his times or the question of the Trinity.

Author : Risto Uro,Juliette Day,Rikard Roitto,Richard E. DeMaris
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198747871

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual by Risto Uro,Juliette Day,Rikard Roitto,Richard E. DeMaris Pdf

Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and Early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum toward producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of Early Christianity employing advances made in the field of ritual studies. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual gives a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the end of the fifth century. The volume introduces relevant theories and approaches; central topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early Christianity; and important Christian ritual themes and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions.

Author : Philip Schaff,Samuel Macauley Jackson,David Schley Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Theology
ISBN : UGA:32108004921626

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A Religious Encyclopædia by Philip Schaff,Samuel Macauley Jackson,David Schley Schaff Pdf

Author : Lynda L. Coon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201673

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Sacred Fictions by Lynda L. Coon Pdf

Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.

Author : David E. Wilhite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135121419

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Ancient African Christianity by David E. Wilhite Pdf

Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context. Ancient African Christianity attempts to tell the story of Christianity in Africa from its inception to its eventual disappearance. Well-known writers such as Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine are studied in light of their African identity, and this tradition is explored in all its various expressions. This book is ideal for all students of African Christianity and also a key introduction for anyone wanting to know more about the history, religion, and philosophy of these early influential Christians whose impact has extended far beyond the African landscape.

Author : Hartmut Leppin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009050005

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The Early Christians by Hartmut Leppin Pdf

Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for non-Christians. However, as this engrossing new account shows, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for Christianity today.

Author : Philip Schaff,Samuel Macauley Jackson,David Schley Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Church history
ISBN : UCAL:$C6318

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A Religious Encyclopaedia: Or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology by Philip Schaff,Samuel Macauley Jackson,David Schley Schaff Pdf

Author : Mary Thurlkill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739174531

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Sacred Scents in Early Christianity and Islam by Mary Thurlkill Pdf

Medieval scholars and cultural historians have recently turned their attention to the question of “smells” and what olfactory sensations reveal about society in general and holiness in particular. Sacred Scents in Early Christianity and Islam contributes to that conversation, explaining how early Christians and Muslims linked the “sweet smell of sanctity” with ideals of the body and sexuality; created boundaries and sacred space; and imagined their emerging communal identity. Most importantly, scent—itself transgressive and difficult to control—signaled transition and transformation between categories of meaning. Christian and Islamic authors distinguished their own fragrant ethical and theological ideals against the stench of oppositional heresy and moral depravity. Orthodox Christians ridiculed their ‘stinking’ Arian neighbors, and Muslims denounced the ‘reeking’ corruption of Umayyad and Abbasid decadence. Through the mouths of saints and prophets, patriarchal authors labeled perfumed women as existential threats to vulnerable men and consigned them to enclosed, private space for their protection as well as society’s. At the same time, theologians praised both men and women who purified and transformed their bodies into aromatic offerings to God. Both Christian and Muslim pilgrims venerated sainted men and women with perfumed offerings at tombstones; indeed, Christians and Muslims often worshipped together, honoring common heroes such as Abraham, Moses, and Jonah. Sacred Scents begins by surveying aroma’s quotidian functions in Roman and pre-Islamic cultural milieus within homes, temples, poetry, kitchens, and medicines. Existing scholarship tends to frame ‘scent’ as something available only to the wealthy or elite; however, perfumes, spices, and incense wafted through the lives of most early Christians and Muslims. It ends by examining both traditions’ views of Paradise, identified as the archetypal Garden and source of all perfumes and sweet smells. Both Christian and Islamic texts explain Adam and Eve’s profound grief at losing access to these heavenly aromas and celebrate God’s mercy in allowing earthly remembrances. Sacred scent thus prompts humanity’s grief for what was lost and the yearning for paradisiacal transformation still to come.

Author : Saint John Chrysostom,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Pauline Formula Induere Christum: With Special Reference to the Works of Saint John Chrysostom by Saint John Chrysostom,Aeterna Press Pdf

St. Paul, as is well known, originated a number of typical phrases, aptly styled formulas, by which to express concisely and comprehensively the great truths of the Christian religion. These set forms of speech occur most frequently in connection with the Apostle’s Christological teachings. Some of the Pauline formulas have received exhaustive treatment at the hands of scholars of note. Deissmann’s study ?? ?????? ????? and Heitmüller’s work Im Namen Jesu are only two of many instances. One of the most striking and important of these formulas, which has not yet found a solution, is “Induere Christum.” The present treatise is an attempt at a solution. Aeterna Press

Author : Sir William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : UOM:39015021953677

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A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines by Sir William Smith Pdf

Author : Monika Woźniak,Maria Wyke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780192637581

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The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations by Monika Woźniak,Maria Wyke Pdf

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 largely on the basis of his historical novel Quo vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero. The novel's vivid and moving reconstruction of religious persecution and struggle against tyranny catapulted its author into literary stardom. But, before long, Quo vadis began to 'detach' itself from the person of its author and to become a multimedial, mass culture phenomenon. In the West and in the East, it was adapted for stage and screen, provided the inspiration for works of music and other genres of literature, was transformed into comic strips and illustrated children's books, was cited in advertising, and referenced in everyday objects of material culture. This volume explores the strategies Sienkiewicz used to recreate Neronian Rome and the reasons his novel was so avidly consumed and reproduced in new editions, translations, visual illustrations, and adaptations to the stage and screen across Europe and in the United States. The contributions render visible for English-speaking readers the impact of a Polish work of high literature on the presence of Nero, Christian persecution, and ancient Rome in Western popular culture.

Author : Andrew Thornley
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9820203406

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Exodus of the I Taukei by Andrew Thornley Pdf