Download or read book The Antenicene Pascha written by Karl Gerlach and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with "spiritual" interpretation and anti-Judaic polemic to secure the Pesach institution narrative (Ex 12) for Christian proclamation, major centers of Asia Minor and Syria, then Upper Egypt and the West, develop distinct rhetorical structures that load first the day, then the date of Pascha, with theological meaning. The emergence of the four-gospel canon at the end of the second century enriches, but does not supplant, a dialogue between Christian rituals and the scriptures inherited from Judaism. The Antenicene Pascha takes a fresh approach to the scattered literary remains of the earliest paschal feast by acknowledging them for what they are: relics of heated disputes about ritual boundaries that had elevated the Pascha, an observance with no explicite reference in first century literature, to an icon of unity and orthodoxy at the Council of Nicaea. Just as these disputes repeat familiar patterns of establishing Christian identity, much modern scholarship employs hermeneutical categories derived from other conflicts (Great Schism, Reformation) that often obscure, rather than reveal, the history of the paschal celebration. This book will be of value not only to students of the liturgy, but also to those interested in the history of biblical hermeneutics, the canon, and the roots of Christian anti-Judaism.

Download or read book The Eastern Orthodox Church written by Ernst Benz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western European Christendom finds it difficult to comprehend the Eastern Orthodox Church because it knows little about the practice and doctrines of Orthodoxy. Even what is known is overlaid by many strata of prejudices and misunderstandings, partly political in nature. One of the obstacles has been the natural tendency to confound the ideas and customs of the Orthodox Church with familiar parallels in Roman Catholicism. To escape this tradition pitfall, Ernst Benz focuses on icon painting as a logical place to begin his examination of the Orthodox Church. Beginning with a brilliant discussion of the importance of icons in the Eastern Church--and the far-reaching effects of icons on doctrine as well as art--Benz counteracts the confusion, explaining simply and clearly the liturgy and sacraments, dogma, constitution and law of Eastern Orthodoxy. In brief history, he describes the rise of Orthodox national churches, schismatic churches, and churches in exile; the role of monasticism and its striking differences from Roman Catholic monasticism; the missionary work of the Orthodox Church; and the influence of Orthodoxy on politics and culture. The role of the church can be defined in terms of the image. Benz writes that the church exists so that "members may be incorporated into the image of Jesus Christ a in that individual believers are aechanged into his likeness'" as Paul writes in the second letter to the Corinthians. Thus, Orthodox theology holds up the icon as the true key to the understanding of Orthodox dogma. The Eastern Orthodox Church will be valuable to anyone interested in learning more about the church, its thought, its life, and its ideals.

Download or read book The Rublev Trinity written by Gabriel Bunge and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter written by Clemens Leonhard and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study assesses the main issues in the current debate about the early history of Pesach and Easter and provides new insights into the development of these two festivals. The author argues that the prescriptions of Exodus 12 provide the celebration of the Pesach in Jerusalem with an etiological background in order to connect the pilgrim festival with the story of the Exodus. The thesis that the Christian Easter evolved as a festival against a Jewish form of celebrating Pesach in the second century and that the development of Easter Sunday is dependent upon this custom is endorsed by the author’s close study of relevant texts such as the Haggada of Pesach; the “Poem of the four nights” in the Palestinian Targum Tradition; the structure of the Easter vigil.

Download or read book Contributions to a Historical Study of Jewish Music written by Eric Werner and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The office for the Lord s day as prescribed by the Orthodox Greek Church tr by S G Hatherly written by Theodor Schermann and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities written by Sir William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hymns of the Eastern Church written by John Mason Neale and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hymns of the Eastern Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities Being a Continuation of the Dictionary of the Bible written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grace for Grace written by Johanna Manley and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of commentary by the Church Fathers of meditations relating to the Psalms and scriptural odes. Extracts form Orthodox Christian festal and lenten services have been included as heuristic aides, as well as Old Testament passages from the Book of Kings. Also included is The Psalter According to the Seventy, a Septuagint version translated by Holy Transfiguration Monastery. Two appendices and glossary.

Download or read book The sacred bridges written by Eric Werner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Liturgical Year Paschal time v 7 9 3rd ed written by Prosper Guřanger and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living the Faith written by Anatoly Zertsalov and published by Holy Trinity Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes three hundred and eighty-two letters of spiritual counsel from the Optina Elder Hieroschemamonk Anatoly (Zertsalov). Written in a tone that is both firm and tender, they are the words of a caring father for his spiritual children. These letters are grounded in the practical concerns raised by those who wrote to him. Most were originally addressed to sisters struggling in of convents in six dioceses, but the advice is clear, concise, profound in its simplicity, and profitable to all Christians. His every word is directed toward a single goal: the salvation of the souls of those to whom they are written. This digital edition includes four photos as well as the life of St. Anatoly, a glossary, an index of topics, and a table of letters. This is a place to look for edification and consolation amid external tribulations and obstacles.

Download or read book Hymns of the Eastern Church written by John Mason Neale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Download or read book Pre Nicene Christology in Paschal Contexts written by Dragoş Giulea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pre-Nicene Christology in Paschal Contexts Dragoş A. Giulea re-examines the earliest texts related to the festival of Easter in light of Second Temple traditions. Commonly portrayed as sacrificial lamb, the key actor of the paschal narrative is here designated as heavenly Kabod, Divine Image, King of the Powers, celestial Anthropos, Demiurge, Son of Man, each of these divine names implying a corresponding soteriological function. Dragoş A. Giulea indicates as well that the Greek philosophical vocabulary and certain idioms of the mystery religions inspired new categories which reshaped the traditional way of describing the nature of celestial entities and the epistemological capacities able to access these realities. Thus, the King of the Powers, or the Son of Man, is several times described as a noetic Anthropos, while initiation and noetic perception become the appropriate methods of accessing the divine.