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Davis, Sarah C. "Purgatorial fire in the theology of the early church fathers from Tertullian to Augustine /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Zakarian, David. "The representation of women in early Christian literature : Armenian texts of the fifth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8853f6e0-060d-4366-89ab-945584bf2029.

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In recent decades there has been a growing scholarly interest in the representation of women in early Christian texts, with the works of Greek and Latin authors being the primary focus. This dissertation makes an important contribution to the existing scholarship by examining the representation of Armenian women in the fifth-century Christian narratives, which have been instrumental in forging the Christian identity and worldview of the Armenian people. The texts that are discussed here were written exclusively by clerics whose way of thinking was considerably influenced by the religious teach

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Eby, John C. "The petrification of heresy : concepts of heterodoxy in the early middle ages /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10467.

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Image, Isabella Christine. "The anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4ccc22e2-5831-47b6-9413-9dac5b77ca3f.

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This thesis examines the theology of the fourth-century bishop, Hilary of Poitiers, concentrating particularly on two commentaries written at different times in his life. The thesis starts by examining the texts, and demonstrates that Hilary's commentary on Psalm 118 is loosely speaking a translation of Origen; by comparing both authors with Ambrose, the relationship between Origen and Hilary appears much closer than previously thought. The main body of the thesis examines Hilary's anthropological theology. Three chapters look at created human nature, looking at the relationship between body a

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Bagby, Samuel. "The issue of warfare in the Scripture and history of the early church during the first four centuries." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Groth, David K. "Feast and yeast a study of two categories of eucharistic motifs of the early church later recovered by Luther and Chemnitz /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Hager, Conroy Kathryn. "Shifting foundations : understanding the relationship between John Cassian and Evagrius Ponticus." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aa7bc2cd-bdaf-4a46-aabc-ed601a7044d6.

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John Cassian is an Eastern-educated monk writing in the early fifth century for the monks of Gaul and is crucial to the development of Western monasticism through the transmission of Greek ascetic ideas to the Latin West. He is heavily influenced by the teachings of Evagrius Ponticus, a prolific late fourth-century Egyptian monk crucial to the development of Christian mysticism; however, there has been no clear line drawn between the influence of Evagrius and Cassian's own originality. While Cassian uses Evagrian asceticism to the fullest, he nevertheless places it onto a divergent theological

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LoVellette, Steven Edwin. "Designing and implementing a class to equip fathers to teach their early teen-age sons the principles of Proverbs 1-9 at Faith Evangelical Free Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Leyser, Conrad. "The monastic thought and culture of Pope Gregory the Great in their Western context, c.400-604." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a8280d1b-1d09-4505-ad0d-2be735badbaf.

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Gregory was the first monk to be pope; proverbially, he would have preferred to have remained a monk; the audience he addressed was almost always made up of monks. However, no sustained attempt has been made to establish the contexts for Gregory as a monastic writer. The thesis represents an initial attempt to do so, and in particular, to question the image of Gregory as a monk unable to cope with the assumption of episcopal power. The sources principally chosen for study are as follows: Augustine's Praeceptum; Cassian's Institutes and Conferences; the writings of the early Lerins circle; the

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Cook, James Daniel. "Preaching and Christianization : reading the sermons of John Chrysostom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cd60a862-b0f7-49ae-a600-74ad7f3368d0.

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The rise of Late Antiquity as a separate discipline, with its focus on social history, has meant that the vast homiletic corpus of John Chrysostom has received renewed attention as a source for the wider cultural and historical context within which his sermons were preached. Recent studies have demonstrated the exciting potential his sermons have to shed light on aspects of daily life, popular attitudes and practices of lay piety. In short, Chrysostom's sermons have been recognised as a valuable source for the study of 'popular Christianity' and the extent of Christianization at the end of the

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Sabo, Theodore Edward. "Christians, Gnostics and Platonists : an overview of the ethos of late antiquity / by Theodore Sabo." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4624.

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Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists attempts to characterize the ethos of late antiquity (100–500 CE) as one that despised matter and the body. It operates within the assumption that there are four criteria which establish this characterization, namely an emphasis on the evil of life, a distrust of the sociopolitical world, asceticism, and an interest in the supernatural. These four criteria are evident in the Platonists, Christians, and Gnostics of the period. As Chapter Two reveals the dissertation understands the concept of ethos in the context of R. C. Trench's discussion of aion: "all th

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Fortner, John L. "“Much More Ours Than Yours”: The Figure of Joseph the Patriarch in the New Testament and the Early Church." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1090947926.

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Fortner, John Lee. ""Much more ours than yours" the figure of Joseph the patriarch in the New Testament and the early church /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1090947926.

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Lindgren, Erika. "MUSIK TILL GUDS ÄRA - SYNDIGT ELLER GOTT? : En studie av kvinnors musicerande i den tidigkristna kyrkan." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-124161.

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<p>This thesis aims to investigate and discuss the possibility for women in the early Christian church to make music, which in the ancient Roman society was something complicated. Afemale musician was looked upon as decadent and dissolute. This idea, in combination with the music ideals of the church influenced by the Neoplatonic movement, and the Pauline statement (1 Cor. 14:34-36), cast women to be completely prohibited in participating even in the psalmody during the service. My purpose is to discuss how this was looked upon in different Christian regions, using the church fathers as the ma

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Massaux, Edouard Neirynck F. Dehandschutter Boudewijn. "Influence de l'Evangile de saint Matthieu sur la littérature chrétienne avant saint Irénée." Leuven : University Press : Uitgeverij Peeters, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18684354.html.

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Mayhew-Smith, Nick. "Nature rituals of the early medieval church in Britain : Christian cosmology and the conversion of the British landscape from Germanus to Bede." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2018. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Nature-rituals-of-the-early-medieval-church-in-Britain(9d5b1796-8ec5-4272-be04-4a6fc7cf4e19).html.

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This thesis studies ritual interactions between saints and the landscape, animals and elements during a three-hundred year period from 410 AD. Such interactions include negotiations about and with birds and other animals, exorcism of the sea, lakes and rivers, and immersion in these natural bodies of water for devotional purposes. Although writers of the period lacked a term such as 'nature' to describe this sphere of activity, it is demonstrated that the natural world was regarded as a dimension of creation distinctively responsive to Christian ritual. Systematic study of the context in which

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Breitenbach, Alfred. "Das "wahrhaft goldene Athen" die Auseinandersetzung griechischer Kirchenväter mit der Metropole heidnisch-antiker Kultur /." Berlin : Philo, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53184471.html.

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Hodgman, Scott William. "Distinction without Separation: Challenging Contemporary Yoga-Christian Praxis Dialogue Through a Comparison of Striving and Personal Transformation in the Yoga-Sūtra and the Life of Moses." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/7.

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In contemporary society, distinct traditions are bleeding into one another, blurring traditional lines of inquiry and historically significant boundaries. This phenomenon frames this project and creates the context for the Yoga-Christian praxis dialogue this study constructively critiques. Unfortunately, this dialogue exhibits an Eliadean concern for essentialism and universality. I challenge this trend by juxtaposing two distinct texts, Patañjali‘s Yoga-Sūtra and Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses. These texts point to the similar idea that without striving and personal transformation neither t

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Morais, Francisco Sales de. "A evolução do dogma trinitário na igreja antiga (sec. I a V)." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2011. http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/888.

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Georgieva, Elena. "Le chemin de la vérité: la persuasion de la puissance divine dans le Contre Celse d'Origène." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210997.

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Résumé<p><p>de la thèse « Le chemin de la vérité :la persuasion de la puissance divine dans le Contre Celse d’Origène <p><p><p>Les traités du Contre Celse permettent d’aborder la problématique de la persuasion de l’enseignement chrétien en ce qu'ils témoignent de l’affrontement virulent de deux visions du monde, - celle du monde gréco-romain et celle de l’enseignement chrétien. En effet, l’essor du mouvement chrétien devrait beaucoup à la lumière de cette rhétorique, oserons-nous dire cette propagande, qui propose une vision du monde nouvelle en s’appuyant sur une théologie qui s’escrime à dép

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Humphrey, Christopher Wainwright. ""'There the Father is, and there is everything'" : elements of Plotinian pantheism in Augustine's thought." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65979.

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BIANCHI, ANDREA. "HETERODOXY AND RATIONAL THEOLOGY: JEAN LE CLERC AND ORIGEN." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/73305.

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L’elaborato analizza la ricezione del pensiero di Origene di Alessandria (c. 184-c.253) nell’opera del teologo arminiano Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736), soffermandosi in particolare sulla concezione origeniana della libertà e sulle questioni che vi sono annesse. Tale analisi consente anche di chiarire alcune pratiche argomentative e dinamiche intellettuali, soprattutto riguardanti i dibattiti religiosi ed interconfessionali, nella seconda metà del XVII secolo. L’elaborato è diviso in tre sezioni. La prima, di carattere introduttivo, mira ad indagare le premesse epistemologiche di Le Clerc, nonché l

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BIANCHI, ANDREA. "HETERODOXY AND RATIONAL THEOLOGY: JEAN LE CLERC AND ORIGEN." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/73305.

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L’elaborato analizza la ricezione del pensiero di Origene di Alessandria (c. 184-c.253) nell’opera del teologo arminiano Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736), soffermandosi in particolare sulla concezione origeniana della libertà e sulle questioni che vi sono annesse. Tale analisi consente anche di chiarire alcune pratiche argomentative e dinamiche intellettuali, soprattutto riguardanti i dibattiti religiosi ed interconfessionali, nella seconda metà del XVII secolo. L’elaborato è diviso in tre sezioni. La prima, di carattere introduttivo, mira ad indagare le premesse epistemologiche di Le Clerc, nonché l

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Vester, Zachariah Lee. "Patterns of Shared Leadership in the Apostolic Fathers." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/4876.

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While the cumulative history of the early church paints a trajectory towards a strict form of vertical, hierarchical leadership, at least five patterns of shared leadership emerge throughout the Apostolic Fathers that make the case for the presence of a form, proto or otherwise, of shared leadership in the early church. In light of the literature base, the study presents shared leadership in terms of nine seminal aspects. With these seminal aspects as a foundation, the study employs a directed content analysis and a structured matrix to analyze Michael W. Holmes' Apostolic Fathers, 3rd ed. for

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Smith, Thomas Jacobus. "Exploring the present discourse on the Early Church Fathers’ teachings on poverty in order to develop proposals for the Johannesburg church’s engagement with the poor." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28207.

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In post-Apartheid South Africa the issues relating to poverty and specifically missional engagement with the poor remains a priority. In order to foster creative imaginations for this missional task, this research focuses on the discourse on four Early Church Fathers’ engagement with the poor. This discourse was brought into dialogue with four Afrikaans Johannesburg churches through phenomenological interviews. Using Susan Holman’s interpretive framework of sensing, sharing and embodying the kingdom dialogue between the teachings and praxis of Clement of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Basil the

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Pretorius, Wilhelm. "Bakens van die Ou Testamentiese Kanonontwikkeling binne die eerste vyf eeue van die Christendom." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2424.

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The dissertation identifies the beacons of canon development during the first five hundred years of Christianity. These beacons are processes, events and certain persons from general as well as dogmatic history, which played a formative role in canon development. The beacons are placed within the historical, geographical and theological milieu, in which it took place. It especially emphasises the role of human conduct and decisions in the process of canon development. It provides a background of the development of a complex Judaism as the origin of Christianity, and demonstrates the cont

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Fredsti, Sean Paul. "An ontological history of ecclesial union." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25939.

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A critical survey of early Church history, the works of the Church Fathers and several councils of the Church reveals a consistent call for unity. Heresies, politic intrigue and struggles for governance have aggravated attempts to remain in the union. The insistence on unity and the persistence of the Church to unify reveals an ontological reality. While our knowledge of the Church can be given in epistemological terms, looking at the Church to discover its essence, what it means to be church, opens a different way of encountering the Church and, eventually, understanding the nature of the Ch

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KOZÁKOVÁ, Barbora. "Vzkříšení a svobodná vůle z pohledu křesťanské gnóze." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-79728.

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The thesis describes the relationship between the ancient Gnosticism as we know it from the Nag Hammadi library and as it is described in the works of early church fathers and New Testament. It outlines basic topics similar to all versions of a classical cosmogenic Gnostic myth. The subject of the faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and its relationship to the establishing a Church structure is discussed. Another topic is the problem of human free will and that of good and evil and its consequences for human morale. The ways of different understanding to it are presented, based on Old Te

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Albalaa, Pierre Youssef. "Exploring the Johannine spirituality: the experience of God in the fourth Gospel perceived from the perspective of its Familia Dei." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25940.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-313) : illustrations<br>This thesis examines the Experience of God in the Fourth Gospel (in this research, it is also called the Johannine Experience of God) by perceiving it from the perspective of the metaphoric Familia Dei, found in this Gospel. This examination is done in a three-step process: The first step consists of a literary review and a presentation of the methodology and approach employed in this research. It intends to set the thesis within the Johannine studies. The second step involves the articulation of essential considerati

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