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The Church in the Age of Constantine

The Theological Challenges

By: Johannes Roldanus

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The Church in the Age of Constantine

The Theological Challenges

By: Johannes Roldanus

Relating biblical essentials to ancient cosmology and anthropology and providing models for reflection on inculturation, this book book presents a refined theological screening of the doctrinal and ethical thinking during the fourth century.

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The Church in the Age of Constantine

The Theological Challenges

By: Johannes Roldanus

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The Theological Challenges

By: Johannes Roldanus

The Church in the Age of Constantine provides a refined theological screening of the doctrinal and ethical thinking during the fourth century. Relating biblical essentials to ancient cosmology and anthropology, Roldanus uses the concept of ‘contextualisation’ to appreciate this process. He makes clear that, however much the winning positions were dependent on the interfering of the State, the theological reflection went nevertheless its proper way, conditioned as it was by various understandings of salvation-in-Christ. There was a natural concern to relate salvation to the most important elements of the existing culture. Providing models for reflection on inculturation, this study helps students to focus on the essentials and to form and unprejudiced opinion on this crucial period of history.

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447

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Routledge

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1134131771

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9781134131778

Jerusalem and Babylon

A Study into Augustine's City of God and the Sources of his Doctrine of the Two Cities

By: Johannes van Oort

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Jerusalem and Babylon

A Study into Augustine's City of God and the Sources of his Doctrine of the Two Cities

By: Johannes van Oort

Although many studies have been devoted to Augustine's City of God and its most important theme, viz. the antithesis between the civitas Dei and the terrena civitas,until now no consensus has been reached concerning the sources of this doctrine. Was Augustine decisively influenced by Manichaeism, by (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa or Philo, by the Donatist Tyconius? Or should we look in another direction and refer to preceding Christian, Jewish, and especially to archaic Jewish-Christian traditions? This lucidly written books opens with a survey of the research carried out so far on the aim, structure and central theme of the City of God. Chapter 2 analyzes the essentials of Augustine's life, of his City of God, and of his doctrine of the two cities. Making use of one of the recently discovered letters of Augustine in Chapter 3 the author describes the City of God as an apology and as a catechetical work. Chapter 4 provides an investigation into the possible sources of Augustine's doctrine of the two cities in Manichaeism, in (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa and Philo, and in the works of Tyconius. The idea of two antithetical cities proves to be present most clearly in writings in which, closely related to Jewish thinking, archaic Christian concepts occupy an important place. In a final chapter some pertinent remarks are made on Jewish and Jewish-Christian influences on pre-Augustinian Christianity in Africa.

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BRILL

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9004253343

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9789004253346

Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt

The Narrated Diaspora, 1550 – 1750

By: Johannes Mueller

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Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt

The Narrated Diaspora, 1550 – 1750

By: Johannes Mueller

The Dutch Revolt (ca. 1572-1648) led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people. In Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt, Johannes Müller shows how migrants and their descendants in the Dutch Republic, England and Germany cultivated their Netherlandish heritage for more than 200 years. Memories of war and persecution shaped new religious and political identities that combined images of suffering and heroism and served as foundational narratives of newcomers. Exposing the underlying narrative structures of early modern exile memories, this volume shows how stories about the Dutch Revolt allowed migrants to participate in their host societies rather than producing a closed and exclusive diaspora. While narratives of religious persecution attracted non-migrants as well, exile networks were able to connect newcomers and established residents.

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253

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9004315918

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9789004315914

The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus

By: Johannes Zachhuber

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The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus

By: Johannes Zachhuber

It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age. The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics offers, for the first time, a full analysis of this Patristic philosophy. It shows how it took its distinctive shape in the late fourth century and gives an account of its subsequent development until the time of John of Damascus. The book falls into three main parts. The first starts with an analysis of the philosophical project underlying the teaching of the Cappadocian fathers, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus. This philosophy, arguably the first distinctively Christian theory of being, soon became near-universally shared in Eastern Christianity. Just a few decades after the Cappadocians, all sides in the early Christological controversy took its fundamental tenets for granted. Its application to the Christological problem thus appeared inevitable. Yet it created substantial conceptual problems. Parts two and three describe in detail how these problems led to a series of increasingly radical modifications of the Cappadocian philosophy. In part two, Zachhuber explores the miaphysite opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, while in part three he discusses the defenders of the Council from the early sixth to the eighth century. Through this overview, the book reveals this period as one of remarkable philosophical creativity, fecundity, and innovation.

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Oxford University Press

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019260385X

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9780192603852

Religious Currents and Cross-Currents: Essays on Early Modern Protestantism and the Protestant Enlightenment

By: Johannes van den Berg

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Religious Currents and Cross-Currents: Essays on Early Modern Protestantism and the Protestant Enlightenment

By: Johannes van den Berg

The religious history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Protestantism was marked by a twofold movement. On the one hand there were attempts to consolidate and, if necessary, to reaffirm the heritage of the Reformation; on the other hand, we meet a growing critical evaluation of the legacy of mainstream orthodox thought, which could lead to a process of gradual renewal and reorientation, but also to forms of more radical and controversial criticism. Conservative as well as critical tendencies can be discerned in the religious landscape on both sides of the North Sea. In spite of differences in the historical framework and spiritual culture, the developments in Great-Britain and on the Continent often present remarkable parallels, and the water of the North Sea was not too deep for creative interaction. This volume contains a number of essays which deal with various aspects of English and Dutch church history and theology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Special attention is given to the problems surrounding the Calvinist doctrine of predestination; to English Puritanism and its impact on the Netherlands; to Jewish-Christian relations and polemics in the seventeenth century; to seventeenth-century millenarianism, in particular in the circle of the Cambridge Platonists; to the attitute of Dutch Reformed theologians to the Church of England, to eighteenth-century English and Dutch orientalist studies and to the development of enlightened ideas in the circles of English and Dutch Protestantism.

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9004476504

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9789004476509

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The Church in the Age of Constantine

The Church in the Age of Constantine

The Church in the Age of Constantine

The Church in the Age of Constantine

Jerusalem and Babylon

Jerusalem and Babylon

Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt

Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt

The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

Religious Currents and Cross-Currents: Essays on Early Modern Protestantism and the Protestant Enlightenment

Religious Currents and Cross-Currents: Essays on Early Modern Protestantism and the Protestant Enlightenment

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