Sentences with phrase «early literature of»

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was explicitly abolitionist at its founding, and much early literature of the denomination has recently come back into print for «black studies» programs.

To the earlier literature of the subject to which Lightfoot refers I would add the important article of Martin Rist, «Is Mark a Complete Gospel?»

Not exact matches

Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

Go in there and find a man by the name of «Onan» and you will find one of the earliest depictions of the «money shot» in literature...

The latest piece of research into the neglected area of covert political literature in early modern England, Greg Walker's impressive Writing Under Tyranny, identifies the moment in 1534 when the humanist genre of «counsel to princes» was forced to adopt coded terms which, in my view, reached their most sophisticated form in the repressive 1590s.

We shall now consider more briefly some of the earlier parts of the history, using the clue provided by the prophetic literature.

A chronology of early Old Testament writings with emphasis on the prophets and their interpretation of history; also: the call of Abraham; the post-exilic period; «Wisdom literature;» Apocalypses; the inconclusiveness of the Old Testament.

Although, according to Grant, what characterizes the God of the gospels is «all - inclusive love,» the theme of love was one that philosophical theologians treated «only with difficulty»; after the New Testament, we encounter «relatively few references to God's love» in the early Christian literature.4 The subject of God's power, however, is an altogether different matter.

Klauck, professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago, has ideas about what to make of all this, but the value of the book is to be found in his brief summaries of the various topics, the judicious citation of primary sources, and the up - to - date bibliographies.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

The rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes this for granted.

In fact, an examination of the academic literature in the area makes it clear that irrespective of any ethical or moral considerations, most of the controversial measures simply do not reduce early pregnancy and may make matters worse.

Melville was not a systematically educated man: though backward in his early schooling, he taught himself literature by devouring haphazard naval libraries during the four years of his sailing adventure.

I should say at the outset that none of this literature is written by scholars trained in New Testament or early Christian studies teaching at the major, or even the minor, accredited theological seminaries, divinity schools, universities, or colleges of North America or Europe (or anywhere else in the world).

Rhetorical expressions with literary flavor, the rhythm, the variations of meter etc. of the literature in the original language are not regained in the later translations.15 The translation of the opening formulas in the Gospels gives divergent renderings through modem translations.16 Almost all early Eastern and Western languages were lagging behind in interpreting Greek language.

Similarly, New Testament literary study has included a strong interest in the comparative analysis of Greco - Roman literary genres and techniques and those used in the Gospels, Acts and early noncanonical Christian literature.

There it was natural to begin with the history, for while some very early folksongs antedate any written history and the prophecy of Amos was the earliest complete book, an important part of the history found in the Old Testament was written before any other major type of literature emerged.

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

Again Murray says, «The invocations to the Mother - spirit to descend on the candidate for baptism in the Acts of Judas Thomas are typical of early Syriac literature.»

On typological interpretation in early Christianity and the Middle Ages see the classic article of Erich Auerbach, «Figura,» first published in German in 1944 and available in English in Erich Auerbach, Scenes from the Drama of European Literature, Meridian Books, 1959, pp. 11 - 76.

The literature of the early church overflows with joyous thanksgiving for Jesus Christ and the gift of his gospel.

As R. Murray observes the early Syriac literature is stamped with the individualistic piety of the primitive «sons of the covenant.»

They are not the whole of early Christian literature, by any means.

He belonged to the Christian church in that city — a church still meeting in the house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 - 12.)

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

In the current literature I detect not a rejection of those earlier slogans but rather an affirmation that, unless there is a church, there can not be a «church for others.»

Now a reading of the New Testament and other literature of the early Christian Church can leave no doubt that the worship of the first Christians was specifically eucharistic worship.

An earlier generation of progressives cared about literature.

Today a noted Hebrew University scholar, David Flusser, who has a profound knowledge of early Christian literature, in his book Jews and Christians Between Past and Future advocates the view that Judaism and Christianity are «one faith.»

Patrick D. Miller, Jr., in The Divine Warrior in Early Israel31 compares divine warfare in Israel with divine warfare in the literature of Syria - Palestine.

Jack T. Sanders, The New Testament Christological Hymns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 197 1) offers a valuable discussion of the hymn in the context of other hymns of the canonical literature of the early church.

If I recall correctly, the Torah commentary I have actually compares the five books to various contemporary literature that survived along with the early documents so, yea, there's a good case to make for religious scriptures being a category of literature to explore critically.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Earlier this year at Cheltenham Literature Festival he even suggested Christians make the best explorers; but I was amused to discover that this intrepid explorer is himself scared of heights.

No doubt this is one reason why the knowledge of God is always conjoined with the love of God in early Christian literature.

(See S. J. Case, «Kúpios as a Title for Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature, XXVI (1907), 151 ff.; and The Evolution of Early Christianity, pp. 116 ff.

Not only is this duality to be found in the recorded words of Jesus, as we have noted, but with or without the use of the term «Kingdom,» its presuppositions appear throughout the literature of the early Church.

This study of the contribution of Hebraic and early Christian realism to world literature in effect draws out the corollaries of the Incarnation for the aesthetic order.

This body of literature never enjoyed so important a role in the early Church as the Apostolic Fathers; nonetheless, it shows the great variety of literature produced by the early Church.

Some of us are not aware of the fact that apart from the New Testament, which is the Church's Book, written by Churchmen in the early days of our religion, there are only three or four references to Christ in secular literature.

Making this literature Scripture was the Church's way of saying something like the following: «Through this literature as through no other writings from our earlier brothers we continue to find ourselves addressed by God.

Only with the rise of the research university in Germany early in the nineteenth century and in America toward the end of that century was the focus on the classical Western languages and literatures gradually replaced by departmental specialization and the abandonment of required courses in favor of electives.

We may begin our survey of early Christian literature with the Pauline Epistles, which, taken as a whole, are the earliest group of documents.

The Jews were suffering because of Satan (invented for this purpose and appearing nowhere in earlier Jewish literature) but God would return and defeat Satan in an epic battle.

The funerary literature, of which the pyramid texts are simply the earliest phase, was a constant element in Egyptian literature from the time of the pyramid texts until very late in the pre-Christian era.

It is not strange that, when Jesus came upon the scene, the Sadducees, the ultraconservatives of their day, who accepted only the earlier books of the Old Testament and refused credence to the new ideas of the later literature, held «that there is no resurrection.»

Literature which analyzes its impact on the canonical writings of the early church and on the history of theology abounds (see CAS, JCP, JP, MJCT, MTJL, EYB, YPMP, AJ, NDNTS, HASRC, TC, JCSC, JCA, CCS, HAS, FF, PPJ, JECM, AJu).

There are many literary echoes of the swamp image in early medieval literature.

In his Life, then, Boniface proclaimed victory over spaces considered by a good deal of early medieval literature to be inhospitable to Christian civilization.