The case for 1 Peter's literary dependence on Romans was first set out in detail by W. Seufert in an 1874 essay.1 In a ... Albert Barnett found evidence for 1 Peter's acquaintance with a number of the Pauline epistles, most clearly ...
... the essential outlines of Finley's primitivist portrait.35 Richard Duncan-Jones comments that ' [t]he Roman economy remained a primitive system which would today qualify the Roman Empire for recognition as a “developing” country.
In a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century, Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society.
rabbis and christian Fathers when ironically they were the Desposyni, the blood descendants of Jesus' family. Becoming Christian sheds a lot of welcome light on a period some have called the “dark age” of christianity, because so little ...
This book begins with the claim that “infidel” and “Christian” became racial categories in early modern England. Moreover, English engagements with romance's infidel-conversion motif encode theological formations of racial difference in ...
agree with Communism or with Union among Christians. ... Thru religion will come to the Christians bay fate, with coming of Sir Christ. ... Christians, the same as Jews believed in everything they'd Becoming Christian 73.
Drawing upon the perspectives of Christian education, biblical studies, worship, ethics, the arts, the role of women, the role of minorities, sexuality, and vocation, this book provides a multifaceted picture of the meaning of spirituality.
"Examines early modern English literary representations of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity alongside English translations of Calvin's writings, polemical writings, treaties on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons.