The Religions of Antiquity as Preparatory to Christianity
Author : Charles Newton Scott
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Christianity and other religions
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity
Author : Philip A. Harland
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1554583446
Book Description
Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.
The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Author : Emmanouela Grypeou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004177272
Book Description
The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity is a collection of essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators. The contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has considerable importance in both Christian and Jewish tradition. The essays cover a wide range of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic sources, but also apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus and Gnostic texts. In bringing together the studies of a variety of eminent scholars on the topic of Exegetical Encounter , the book presents the latest research on the topic and illuminates a variety of original approaches to analysis of exegetical contacts between the two sets of religious groups. The volume is significant for the light it sheds on the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
What is Religion?
Author : Nigel Ajay Kumar
Publisher : SAIACS Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8187712325
Book Description
“What Is Religion?” is one of those questions rarely asked by Christian theologians who engage in interreligious discourse. Nigel Ajay Kumar makes the case, however, that to answer this question is critical for Christian scholars who want to negotiate multiple religious identities, as well as for those who want a clearer understanding of their own faith as religion. Kumar takes a historical and theological approach to answering this question. The history of the concept of religion is traced from biblical times to the Indian independence era. Then, a theological answer is offered not only by looking at the classical Indian theologian, Pandipeddi Chenchiah, but also by listening to other contemporary secular and theological voices. (This is the South Asian Edition of the original Wipf & Stock edition (2013) with the same name).
The Church Quarterly Review
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Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1915
Category : English periodicals
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Book Bulletin
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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The Theosophist
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Theosophy
ISBN :
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Comparative Religion
Author : Louis Henry Jordan
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Religion
ISBN :
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Church Quarterly Review
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
ISBN :
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Gnostic Religion in Antiquity
Author : Roelof van den Broek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 113962041X
Book Description
Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, based on sources in Greek, Latin and Coptic, including discussions of the individual works of preserved gnostic literature. Van den Broek explores the various gnostic interpretations of the Christian faith that were current in the second and third centuries, whilst showing that despite its influence on early Christianity, gnostic religion was not a typically Christian phenomenon. This book will be of interest to theologians, historians of religion, students and scholars of the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity, as well as specialists in ancient gnostic and hermetic traditions.
