Early Christianity & Patristics

ISBN: 9781899828722
Published by : Pindar Press
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A collection of papers which have appeared during the last 10 to 15 years which aim to explain the phenomenon of Christianisation based on the examination of religious, social and economic case studies. Brenk traces the transformation of the l... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781463241117
Published by : Gorgias Press
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JCSSS is a refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Inc. (CSSS), located at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JCSSS contains the transcri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781463241179
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
Volume: 55
In this fifth installment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days of Creation, Jacob treats of the events of the fifth day, the creation from the waters of the various species of fish and reptiles, as well as the assorted types of birds and other w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781942699125
Published by : Holy Trinity Seminary Press
Written close to the end of the great writer’s life, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey from despair to joy: a joy that can be known by all through the experience of G... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781463241155
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Volume: 16
This book is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches, which are sometimes portrayed as heretical in general church history books, if mentioned at all. Written by a Copt, it portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Chur... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503574493
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studi E Testi Tardoantichi
Volume: 14
313 AD is generally considered as a "turning point" in religious and political Western history. The meeting of Constantine and Licinius in Milan and the subsequent "edict" not only recognised to the Christians the right to assemble and practice th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781138684041
Published by : Routledge
Apocalypse and Reform provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the Twelfth-Century. This book challenges accepted narratives about both the development o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781786941275
Published by : Liverpool University Press
Series: Translated Texts for Historians
Volume: 68
The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established the cult of icons as a central element in the piety of the Orthodox churches, as it has remained ever since. In the W... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520301047
Published by : University of California Press
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Volume: 24
Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to ex... .... Learn More