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The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought-World of Early Christians
Click below to watch Heikki Räisänen discuss The Rise of Christian Beliefs. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. Read Fortress Press's...
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Augustine's Theology of Preaching
How do the theological convictions that Augustine brought to his preaching challenge, sustain, or shape our work today? By presenting Augustine's thought on preaching to contemporary readers Sanlon contributes a major new piece to the ongoing reconsideration of preaching in the modern day.
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Christ the Light: The Theology of Light and Illumination in Thomas Aquinas
In this book Whidden argues that illumination is a critical systematic motif in Aquinas' theology, one that involves the nature of truth, knowledge, and God; at the root, Aquinas' theology of light, or illumination, is Christological, grounding human knowledge of God and eschatological beatitude.
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Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity
Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an...
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Introduction to the History of Christianity: Third Edition
Now in its third edition, Tim Dowley’s masterful one-volume survey of church history has an updated design and new content...
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Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art
Images of Christ performing miracles or healings functioned as advertisements for Christianity and illustrated the nature of Christ.
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Roman Imperial Texts: A Sourcebook
Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire's subject peoples.
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Faith in a Hidden God: Luther, Kierkegaard, and the Binding of Isaac
The story of the binding of Isaac presents problems and opportunities for people who seek to live faithfully in relationship with a God who surpasses...
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Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity
Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda, Crispina, Petronella, Leta, Sofia the...
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Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought
The thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. This book examines the modern political readings of Augustine, providing an extensive account of the pivotal French, British, and American strands of interpretation.
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Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition
Behind the Gospels offers a general theoretical discussion of the nature of oral tradition and the formation of ancient texts and provides a critical survey of the field, from classical form-criticism down to the present day.
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Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship
Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out...
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Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
Carlson's interest is in the unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with "false pericopes," and that the teaching of Jesus is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means.
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A Short Introduction to the History of Christianity
Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history is now available in a new concise format designed with today's student in mind. Each section of...
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Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
What does it mean for Jesus to be "deified" in early Christian literature? M. David Litwa shows that at each stage in their depiction of Jesus' life and ministry, early Christian writings from the beginning relied on categories drawn not from Judaism alone, but on a wide, pan-Mediterranean understanding of deity.
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A People's History of Christianity, Student Edition: From the Early Church to the Reformation, Volume 1
The essential material from A People's History of Christianity is available for classroom use covering topics from the Early Church to the Reformation.
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Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging
Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of "early Christian literature," showing that a number of texts usually so described are "not particularly interested" in a distinctive Christian identity. By appealing to trauma studies and diaspora theory and giving careful attention to the dynamics within these texts, she shows that this sample of writings offers complex reckonings with chaotic diasporic conditions and the transgenerational trauma of colonial violence.
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James and Paul: The Politics of Identity at the Turn of the Ages
Here V. George Shillington seeks to understand both James and Paul as Jews engaged in different but complementary missions and concludes that the tension between those missions indicates a conflict between different politics of identity.
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The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
The Herods explores the Herodian rule from Herod the Great's father, Antipater, until the dynastic sunset with Bereniké, Herod's great-granddaughter, describing the theocratic aims that motivated Herod and his progeny, and the groups and factions within Judaism and Christianity that often defined themselves in opposition to the Herodian project.
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eBook-What Is the Bible?: The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture
What Is the Bible? reopens a consideration of the doctrine of Scripture for contemporary theology, rooted in the tradition of the church Fathers (Greek, Latin, and Oriental)—an endeavor inspired by the theological vision of the twentieth century’s foremost Orthodox Christian theologian, Fr. Georges Florovsky.
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