Download or read book Tertullian Against Praxeas written by Tertullian and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tertullian the African written by David E. Wilhite and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian’s writings. In light of postcolonial concerns, this study utilizes the categories of Roman colonizers, indigenous Africans and new elites. The third category, new elites, is actually intended to destabilize the other two, denying any “essential” Roman or African identity. Thereafter, samples from Tertullian’s writings serve to illustrate comparisons of his own identities and the identities of his rhetorical opponents. The overall study finds Tertullian’s identities to be manifold, complex and discursive. Additionally, his writings are understood to reflect antagonism toward Romans, including Christian Romans (which is significant for his so-called Montanism), and Romanized Africans. While Tertullian accommodates much from Graeco-Roman literature, laws and customs, he nevertheless retains a strongly stated non-Roman-ness and an African-ity, which is highlighted in the present monograph.

Download or read book The Importance of Tertullian in the Development of Christian Dogma written by James Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Catholic Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism written by Hugh Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has explained why these "theologically correct" doctrines have difficulty taking root in popular religious thought, it is largely silent on the question of how they developed in the first place. Hugh Nicholson aims to fill this gap by arguing that such doctrines can be understood as developing out of social identity processes. He focuses on the historical development of the Christian doctrine of Consubstantiality, the claim that the Son is of the same substance as the Father, and the Buddhist doctrine of No-self, the claim that the personality is reducible to its impersonal physical and psychological constituents. Both doctrines are maximally counterintuitive, in the sense that they violate the default expectations that human beings spontaneously make about the basic categories of things in the world. Nicholson argues that that these doctrines were each the products of intra- and inter-religious rivalry, in which one faction tried to get the upper hand over its ingroup rivals by maximizing the contrast with the dominant outgroup. Thus the "pro-Nicene" theologians of the fourth century developed the concept of Consubstantiality in the context of an effort to maximize, against their "Arian" rivals, the contrast with Christianity's archetypal "other," Judaism. Similarly, the No-self doctrine stemmed from an effort to maximize, against the so-called Personalist schools of Buddhism, the contrast with Brahmanical Hinduism with its doctrine of an unchanging and eternal self. In this way, Nicholson shows how religious traditions, to the extent that their development is driven by social identity processes, can back themselves into doctrinal positions that they must then retrospectively justify.

Download or read book Classical Trinitarian Theology written by Tarmo Toom and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Trinitarian Theology for Seminary Students is a textbook on patristic Trinitarian doctrines. Part I introduces classical Trinitarian theology with the help of short discussion, definitions, and comparisons. It is designed for incoming seminary students, who have never formally studied theology. Part II is for intermediate students. It comments on three charts, which attempt to depict graphically the patristic search for Christian Trinitarian theology. This section is geared towards seminary students who have already studied for a few years and would like to revisit the classical doctrine of the Trinity at a more advanced level, but who are not really ready for engaging primary texts independently, whether in Greek, Latin, or English. Part III is composed for advanced students who enjoy tackling primary texts. It provides a list of some important Greek or Latin primary texts and the accessible translations in English

Download or read book Tertullian and Paul written by Todd D. Still and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Patristic and New Testament scholars closely examine Tertullian's readings of Paul.

Download or read book The Spirit of Truth written by Haitham A. Issak and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth century was different than the previous centuries due to two big heresies. The first one was the heresy of Arius, who denied the divinity of the Son. This heresy led to the Council of Nicaea in 325 in which the church fathers affirmed the divinity of the Son of one substance with the Father. The second heresy was that of the Tropici, who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit and said that the Holy Spirit was a creature or an angel. At that time, Athanasius was one of the most important leaders in the life of the church. He wrote against the Tropici, as he addressed them in his letters to Serapion. These letters are the major work of Athanasius concerning the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of Truth explains the way that Athanasius dealt with the heresy and elucidates the pneumatology of Athanasius’s use of the Gospel of John and 1 John. It also discusses Athanasius’s understanding of tradition, Scripture, and hermeneutical principles in his defense of the Godhead, particularly the divinity of the Holy Spirit. For Athanasius, the Holy Spirit is eternal, divine, uncreated, and one with the Father and the Son.

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of St. Andrews. Library and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews written by University of St. Andrews. Library and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of St Andrews written by University of St. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine written by Sarah Coakley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Wiles was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1970-1991. To celebrate his seventieth birthday, a group of distinguished friends and colleagues have written this important series of original and perceptive essays on the twin themes of making and remaking Christian doctrine. The topics covered in this thought-provoking collection range from the notion of divine action in Hebrew Wisdom literature to reflections on the nature of the ministry, from the concept of God and the doctrines of Christology and of the Trinity to the character of theological reflection, and from revelation and tradition to the "lex orandi," the nature of interpretation in religion and the historical basis of theological understanding.

Download or read book Early Latin Theology written by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1956-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of representative works in early Latin theology includes works by Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

Download or read book Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe Part I Vol 3 written by W R Owens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes ten volumes, which are suitable for Defoe scholars and academics of eighteenth-century history, religion and literature. This set offers readers texts and a wealth of editorial matter, including introductions, explanatory notes and a consolidated index to the ten volumes.

Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Image of God Personhood and the Embryo written by Calum MacKellar and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are human embryos so important to many Christians? What does theology say concerning the moral status of these embryos? Answers to these questions can only be obtained by considering the manner in which Christian theology understands the great theme of the image of God. This book examines the most important aspects in which this image, and the related Christian notion of personhood, can be used in the context of theological arguments relating to the moral status of the human embryo. Thoughtful in approach and ecumenical in perspective, the author combines a thorough knowledge of the science of embryology with a broad knowledge of the theological implications. Part I Historical and Contemporary Christian Perspectives 1 The Moral Status of the Embryo 2 The Image of God 3 Being a Person from a Christian Perspective Part II The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo 4 Creation and the Embryo 5 Incarnation and the Embryo 6 Substantive Aspects and the Embryo 7 Relational Aspects and the Embryo 8 Functional Aspects and the Embryo Conclusion Appendix: The Moral Status of New Kinds of Embryo

Download or read book The Incarnate Lord written by Lionel Spencer Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: