Sentences with phrase «surveyed biblical history»

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Along the way, Levering surveys the history of anthropocentric theories after the Enlightenment rejection of the biblical framework.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

In a profound survey of the history of the discussion of love in biblical, classical, and Christian sources he concluded agape was the central Christian idea.