By Scott Manor

ISBN-10: 9004309381

ISBN-13: 9789004309388

During this paintings T. Scott Manor offers a brand new point of view on a standard view, often called the Johannine Controversy, which continues that the early church as soon as attempted to jettison the Gospel and Apocalypse of John as heretical forgeries. fundamental facts comes from Epiphanius of Salamis, who mentions a heretical workforce with such perspectives, the "Alogi." This besides with different proof from assets together with Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Origen, Eusebius, Photius, Dionysius bar Salibi, Ebed-Jesu and others has ended in the belief convinced Gaius of Rome led the "Alogi" during this anti-Johannine crusade. through conscientiously reading Epiphanius account relating to those different assets, Manor arrives at very varied conclusions that question even if the sort of controversy ever existed at all."

By Augustine Casiday

Evagrius Ponticus is seemed by way of many students because the architect of the jap heresy Origenism, as his theology corresponded to the debates that erupted in 399 and episodically thereafter, culminating within the moment Council of Constantinople in 553 advert. besides the fact that a few students now query this traditional interpretation of Evagrius' position within the Origenist controversies. Augustine Casiday units out to reconstruct Evagrius' theology in its personal phrases, releasing interpretation of his paintings from the popularity for heresy that beaten it, and learning his lifestyles, writings and evolving legacy intimately. the 1st a part of this ebook discusses the transmission of Evagrius' writings, and offers a framework of his existence for realizing his writing and theology, when half strikes to a man-made research of significant subject matters that emerge from his writings. This booklet can be a useful addition to scholarship on Christian theology, patristics, heresy and historic philosophy.

By Gale Group

ISBN-10: 0787640123

ISBN-13: 9780787640125

By Martin Prozesky

ISBN-10: 0312035292

ISBN-13: 9780312035297

ISBN-10: 0333499530

ISBN-13: 9780333499535

ISBN-10: 1349205273

ISBN-13: 9781349205271

This publication comprises chapters via 14 fashionable figures delivering info on key matters about the Christian religion in South Africa. 3 quarters of South Africans regard themselves as Christians. the tale of the gospel of affection and its interaction with politics is the topic pursued the following.

By Hubert Jedin

ISBN-10: 1597400734

ISBN-13: 9781597400732

By Jean Daniélou, James G. Colbert

ISBN-10: 1625644299

ISBN-13: 9781625644299

Philo of Alexandria was once many years older than Jesus of Nazareth and lived longer. He belonged to a prosperous and cultured relatives, renowned within the Jewish neighborhood in Alexandria. Philo had contacts with the top point of Roman experts. He used to be on a dicy diplomatic venture to Caligula on behalf of the persecuted Jews of Alexandria in the course of what grew to become out to be Caligula’s final days. Herod Agrippa used to be a chum in Rome in the course of Philo’s hour of maximum desire. Philo is a sympathetic resource on what sounds a great deal like a latest Jewish monastic circulate. he's additionally one of many creators of the allegorical interpretation of Scripture. a few of his exegesis is resembling Pythagorean numerology. it's been argued that Philo, who was once good informed in Greek proposal, was once the founding father of medieval philosophy. St. John turns out to evolve Philo’s recommendations concerning the trademarks, the notice, within the prologue to his Gospel. There also are shut ties among Philo’s considering and the Letter to the Hebrews. Jean Daniélou, a paradigm of scholarship and readability, makes Philo converse to us in his personal voice. a person drawn to patristics, exegesis, or just Christian beginnings will gain via analyzing Daniélou’s remedy of Philo.

By John T. Fitzgerald, Thomas H. Olbricht, L. Michael White

ISBN-10: 9004130225

ISBN-13: 9789004130227

This quantity comprises 28 essays in honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, whose paintings has been in particular influential in exploring modes of cultural interplay among early Jews and Christians and their Graeco-Roman neighbours. Following an introductory essay at the difficulties inherent to such comparative reviews within the heritage of latest testomony scholarship, the essays are grouped into 5 subject parts: Graphos - semantics and writing, Ethos - ethics and ethical characterization, trademarks - rhetoric and literary expression, Ethnos - self-definition and acculturation, and Nomos - legislation and normative values. a few key examples are reports facing The Greek suggestion of "Divine Nature" and its relation to the "Divine guy" culture; Compilation of Letters in Cicero's assortment; Radical Altruism in Paul; Greek rules of harmony and Cosmic concord in 1 Clement; The Rhetorical Use of Friendship Motifs in Galatians compared to moment Sophistic Orators; Wills and Testaments in Graeco-Roman point of view.

By Colin E. Gunton

ISBN-10: 0521471184

ISBN-13: 9780521471183

ISBN-10: 052147695X

ISBN-13: 9780521476959

What's Christian doctrine? The fourteen particularly commissioned essays during this ebook serve to provide a solution to many elements of that question. Written through top theologians from the US and Britain they position doctrine in its setting—what it's been traditionally, and the way it pertains to other kinds of culture—and define imperative beneficial properties of its content material. New readers will locate this an available and stimulating advent to the most subject matters of Christian doctrine, whereas complex scholars and experts will discover a worthwhile precis of modern advancements in Christian inspiration.

By Gale Group

ISBN-10: 0787640107

ISBN-13: 9780787640101

Others.< P>In addition to the masses of latest signed articles on a wide selection of themes, this new version additionally positive factors biographies of latest spiritual figures; millions of pictures, maps and illustrations; and hundreds of thousands of up-to-date bibliographical citations. The fifteenth quantity is a cumulative index to the total encyclopedia.

By Thomas S. Kidd

ISBN-10: 0300104219

ISBN-13: 9780300104219

In the course of the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the top of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist non secular move that culminated within the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing booklet explores the spiritual heritage of recent England through the interval and gives new purposes for this alteration in cultural id. After England’s wonderful Revolution, says Thomas Kidd, New Englanders deserted their prior hostility towards Britain, viewing it because the selected chief within the Protestant struggle opposed to global Catholicism. in addition they imagined themselves a part of a world Protestant group and changed their Puritan ideals with a revival-centered pan-Protestantism. Kidd discusses the increase of “the Protestant interest” and gives a compelling argument concerning the origins of either eighteenth-century revivalism and the worldwide evangelical stream. Thomas S. Kidd is assistant professor of heritage at Baylor collage.