Early Christianity & Patristics
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The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires [Paperback]
Leo G. Perdue (Author)
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ISBN: 9780802862457
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and blood of human history. Arguing that wisdom was... .... Learn More -
Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance [Hardback]
Niketas Siniossoglu (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521880732
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book focuses on a key intellectual battleground of Late Antiquity, the interpretation of Plato. By revisiting and reinterpreting important sections of Plato's thought Christian apologists, Theodoret foremost among them sought to assimilate... .... Learn More -
Lost Treasures of the Bible [Paperback]
Clyde E. Fant (Author); Mitchell G. Reddish (Author)
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ISBN: 9780802828811
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
This book describes and analyses over one hundred artefacts on display in museums around the world, linking them into a roughly chronological overview of Ancient Near Eastern history. The book is clearly aimed at those who have arrived at an in... .... Learn More -
To Know God and the Soul [Hardback]
Roland J. Teske (Author)
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ISBN: 9780813214870
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
To Know God and the Soul presents a collection of essays on Augustine of Hippo written over the past twenty-five years by renowned philosopher Roland Teske. They reveal Teske's principal interests in Augustine, especially Augustin... .... Learn More -
Martyrdom, Murder and Magic [Hardback]
Patricia Healy Wasyliw (Author)
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ISBN: 9780820427645
Published by : Peter Lang Verlag
Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ... .... Learn More -
Inventing Latin Heretics: Byzantines and the Filioque in the Ninth Century [Hardback]
Tia M. Kolbaba (Author)
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ISBN: 9781580441339
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Focusing on the ninth-century beginnings of Byzantine writings against the Latin addition of the Filioque to the creed, Inventing Latin Heretics illuminates several aspects of Byzantine thought—their self-definition, their theology, their uniquely... .... Learn More -
Novatian: The Trinity, The Spectacles, Jewish Foods, In Praise of Purity, Letters [Paperback]
Russell J. DeSimone (Translator)
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ISBN: 9780813215464
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
After Novatian's break with the Church over the treatment of Christians who had lapsed in the persecution of Decius (A.D. 250-52), Church authorities were reluctant to recognize officially his contributions to Christian theology. Because his writi... .... Learn More -
Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism [Paperback]
John M. Court (Author)
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ISBN: 9781845117597
Published by : I.B. Tauris
Embracing two thousand years of intense and fiery admonition, "Approaching the Apocalypse" offers students of religion, history and politics the definitive handbook to Doomsday. Ideas about divinely-inspired disaster have an enduring pla... .... Learn More -
Christian Art [Hardback]
Rowena Loverance (Author)
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ISBN: 9780714150536
Published by : British Museum Press
Drawing on the vast collections of the British Museum, Rowena Loverance considers Christian art as a global phenomenon, asking how art is adapted to Christian concerns, how it fulfills religious functions, and examines the full range of symboli... .... Learn More -
Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict [Hardback]
George Heyman (Author)
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ISBN: 9780813214894
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
Oxbow says: In his study of Roman and Christian thinking on the practice of public sacrifice, George Heyman argues that sacrifice was used in similar ways as both a ritual practice and a mode of social discourse. Through ancient writers such as... .... Learn More
