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will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...
but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...
that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...
in government policy-making, for example....
War I (Kazin, 1998, p. 16). As this suggests, pinning down the cultural meaning of Judeo-Christian tradition and scriptural teachi...
ordinary Jewish resident who grew up in Nazareth in Galilee (Attridge, 1998). He lived and died as a Jew and He had to have been i...
date). In order to fit into the economic Western world, many Jews have forsaken their heritage and do not rigidly practice the t...
discover which hermeneutical key to open each door (Blowers, 2004). Alexandria was based on a soteriological theology, which mean...
sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...
However, the historical record indicates that it was not long before the image of Jesus began to be detached from the historical J...
over the centuries, and in those changes we can see the way in which the teachings of the religion have turned outward to impact t...
in Galatia." After his salutation, Paul goes right to the heart of the matter, which is that the people have been thrown into conf...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
a Prophet. Gregory makes a case for Christ as well as for the fact that the bible should not be taken literally. Of the latter poi...
covenant between God and humanity, a covenant that was the fulfillment of prophecy but also one that included all of humanity. T...
of his text The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Justin Gonzalez discusses "The C...
Mission In this chapter, Justin Gonzalez elaborates further on the history of the early Christian church, as recorded in Acts, re...
5, "First Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section ex...
Pliny and Trajan This is the first section of chapter 6, "Persecution in the Second Century," and it deals with the actions of Pl...
Lofty Criticism As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the Roman policy towards Christianity throughout the second century ...
this chapter is on describing the variety of backgrounds and experience that informed early interpretations of the gospel message....
chapter by explaining that the writings of the apologists were all in response to specific topics, such as issues dealing with per...
of Early Christians Gonzalez begins this chapter by pointing out that surviving documents by the leaders of the church or those d...
Gonzalezs text, "The Great Persecution and the Final Victory," focuses on Christian persecution under Diocletian, which is charact...
Constantine, Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople: This section describes the rule of Constantine from his initial victory and ...
New Order, Chapter 26 The Barbarian Kingdoms: Gonzalez points out that while, the Roman perspective was that the invaders were si...
1: The Call for Reformation Justo L. Gonzalez begins chapter 1 of his text on Christian history, The Reformation to the Present D...