Author : Donfried
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004266208
Preliminary Material /Karl Paul Donfried -- Chapter One: Literary and Historical Problems /Karl Paul Donfried -- Chapter Two: Quotations from Authoritative Sources /Karl Paul Donfried -- Chapter Three: The Intention of Second Clement /Karl Paul Donfried -- Excursus I: The Background of 2 Clem. I:4-8 /Karl Paul Donfried -- Bibliography /Karl Paul Donfried -- I. Textual Indexes /Karl Paul Donfried.
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : James Clarke & Co
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227178629
The document now called the Second Letter of Clement was not originally a letter; nor was it written by Clement. Rather, it originated as an address to a congregation, and was subsequently preserved among the group of non-canonical writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. Unlike the much-studied First Clement, it is one of the least known of these writings, yet it preserves a fascinating window into the life of early believers. In his new study, William Varner combines a step-by-step commentary with a detailed theological introduction. Drawing on the text's structure and likely context, he shows that its overall message is that Christians should render a payback to God for his grace shown to them in Christ. The implications of this for the early church community at which it was directed, and for believers today, are momentous.
Author : Karl P. Donfried
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : William Varner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227178610
The document now called the Second Letter of Clement was not originally a letter; nor was it written by Clement. Rather, it originated as an address to a congregation, and was subsequently preserved among the group of non-canonical writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. Unlike the much-studied First Clement, it is one of the least known of these writings, yet it preserves a fascinating window into the life of early believers. In his new study, William Varner combines a step-by-step commentary with a detailed theological introduction. Drawing on the text’s structure and likely context, he shows that its overall message is that Christians should render a payback to God for his grace shown to them in Christ. The implications of this for the early church community at which it was directed, and for believers today, are momentous.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
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Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : 9780199913701
"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
Author : Cavan W. Concannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108302939
In this book, Cavan W. Concannon explores the growth and development of Christianity in the second century. He focuses on Dionysios of Corinth, an early Christian bishop who worked to build a network of churches along trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean. Using archaeological evidence, and analysing Dionysios' fragmentary letter collection, Concannon shows how various networks and collectives assembled together, and how various Christianities emerged and coexisted as a result of tenuous and shifting networks. Dionysios' story also overlaps with key early Christian debates, notably issues of celibacy, marriage, re-admission of sinners, Roman persecution, and the economic and political interdependence of churches, which are also explored in this study. Concannon's volume thus offers new insights into a fluid, emergent Christianity at a pivotal moment of its evolution.
Author : B. Diane Lipsett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190208511
Self-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire. But in this nuanced, literary analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the intriguing interplay of desire and self-restraint in three ancient tales of conversion: The Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, and Joseph and Aseneth. Lipsett treats "conversion"--marked change in a protagonist's piety and identity--as in part an effect of story, a function of narrative textures, coherence, and closure. Her approach is theoretically versatile, drawing on Foucault, psychoanalytic theorists, and the ancient literary critic Longinus. Well grounded in scholarship on Hermas, Thecla, and Aseneth, the closely paced readings sharpen attention to each story, while advancing discussions of ancient views of the self; of desire, masculinity, and virginity; of the cultural codes around marriage and continence; and of the textual energetics of conversion tales.
Author : Roman Garrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1474230644
In the light of the New Testament's conviction that Jesus Christ died for sins, and that the Cross is a 'once for all' act that makes the Temple cult unnecessary, this challenging work probes the reasons for the emerging doctrine of redemptive almsgiving in early Christianity. Do the New Testament writers themselves (even Jesus!) implicitly endorse the view that a 'supplementary' or alternative means of atonement is necessary? What is the background of this theme in Graeco-Roman sources and in the Hebrew Bible? What are the principal texts in early Christian literature that advocate almsgiving as a 'ransom' for sin? These questions firmly govern this investigation of the social and theological forces that gave legitimacy to a doctrine that at first appears to contradict the primary New Testament soteriology, namely that the death of Jesus Christ is the exclusive means of redemption from sin.
Author : Christopher Tuckett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191029793
This volume provides the first full-scale edition and commentary in English of the text known as 2 Clement since Lightfoot's magisterial work at the end of the 19th century. The volume contains a critical edition of the text in Greek, including a full critical apparatus based on all the surviving manuscripts, together with an English translation. A full introduction deals with issues of manuscript and other attestation, authorship, date, place etc., as well as discussing issues concerning the genre of the text, the identity of possible 'opponents', citations, as well as providing an overall summary of the theology of the text. The work also provides a full-scale detailed commentary on the Greek text, providing analysis of all the main issues arising from the text.
