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Vasylenko, Vadym. "“THE LAST PROPHET” NOVEL BY LEONID MOSENDZ: SOURCES, GENRE, STRUCTURE, IMAGE." Слово і Час, no. 6 (December 16, 2022): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2022.06.17-33.
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The paper analyzes the novel “Th e Last Prophet” by Leonid Mosendz focusing on its sources, the genre nature and structure, and the genesis of John the Baptist’s image. There were objective and individual reasons for Mosendz’s appeal to the biblical myth of John the Baptist, which have been explained. Attention is drawn to problematic areas in the interpretation of the novel by Mosendz’s critics. Among the sources that the writer turned to while working on the novel were “Jewish Antiquties” by Josephus Flavius, “The Life of Jesus” by Ernest Renan, and “Christ Unknown” by Dmitry Merezhkovsky. The traces of these books are recognizable in the text of Mosendz’s novel.
“The Last Prophet” combines the elements of several genres, the most important of which are three: apocryphal, historical, and didactic. Mosendz’s work has a complex multifaceted structure. Th e novel’s three parts have their parallels with the biblical text: the Old Testament poetic model corresponds to the first part, the biographical model of the Gospels to the second, and the historical model of the Acts of the Apostles to the third. Special attention is paid to the connection of the novel to the literary biography of Joan the Baptist, an iconic figure in the European tradition. The interpretation of this image by the author is peculiar and unique to European literature. Thus, Mosendz’s “The Last Prophet” is a lengthy multifaceted epic story about John the Baptist, based on historical sources and religious texts and reproduced at high ideological and literary levels.
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Khromov, Oleg. "TWO PRINTS BY LEONTY BUNIN IN THE 18TH CENTURY SERBIAN GRAPHIC." Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The space of culture 16, no. 2 (June 10, 2020): 100–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.36340/2071-6818-2020-16-2-100-113.
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The article is devoted to two engravings depicting Jesus Christ and the Mother of God in lush ornamental cartouches. They are well known to Serbian art critics and are published in the catalogs of Serbian metal engravings of the 18th century. Copper engraved boards of these engravings, which Serbian researchers attribute to the end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century, are preserved in the Krka Monastery. Prints from them of the 18th-19th centuries are unknown in Serbian collections. In Serbia, the first prints from these boards were made in the 20th century. However, prints from these engravings were well known in Russia in the 17th-18th centuries. They were primarily used as illustrations in Russian manuscript books. The engravings were made by a Russian master at the end of the 17th century. According to the features of engraving, manner, and stylistics, they can be attributed to Moscow engraver Leonty Bunin. In Russian manuscripts, they were usually used as illustrations in the book The Passion of Christ along with the 14-sheet series The Passion of Christ by Leonty Bunin. Cases of using them as independent illustrations are known. In the 1730s, these engravings disappeared from the illustrations in The Passion of Christ series in Russian manuscript books. Their later prints are unknown in Russia. The history of their appearance in Serbia, in the Krka Monastery, remains unknown. Perhaps they appeared there as gifts from Russia which the monastery regularly received. In the 18th century, Serbian religious art experienced a powerful influence from Dutch graphics. As iconographic sources, Serbian masters used Flemish and Dutch engravings of the 16th and 17th centuries. They were the same ones that were used by Russian masters of the 17th century, especially of the second half of the century, as iconographic examples. The identity of the artistic processes that took place in the art of Serbia in the 18th century and Russia of the 17th century turned out to be so close that Serbian art historians regarded the Russian prints of the 17th century by Leonty Bunin as Serbian works of an unknown engraver of the late 17th - early 19th centuries. The biography of Leonty Bunin is considered in detail in the article, some facts of his life are presented for the first time.
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Polyakov, Andrey. "Religious philosophy of Thomas Chubb." St.Tikhons' University Review 101 (June 30, 2022): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturi2022101.45-56.
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The article presents a brief biography of the little-studied British deist Thomas Chubb (1679-1747) and a reconstruction of his ideas about capabilities of human mind. The goal of this article is to study the religious philosophy of T. Chubb that Russian studies does not distinguish from ideas of other deists. That is why the idea of the phenomenon of deism is still less clear in relation to foreign studies. The article analyzes and presents Chubbs concepts about the independence of religious truths from human perception, that are presented in «Discourse concerning Reason, with Regard to Religion and Divine Revelation» (1733) and «An Enquiry into the Ground and Foundation of Religion». The article documents that the English philosopher formulated three "author's" truths of natural religion: there is an initial difference between objects, independent of human perception; this distinction is the basis for human behavior; God made these foundations a moral rule for all people and for himself. The work identifies and analyzes the definition of the phenomenon of "deism" in Chubb's treatises, as well as an assessment of his philosophy in the context of this definition – the natural religion of reason or belief and just and sense of a Deity impressed upon the mind, and is the governing principle of a man’s-affections and actions. The correlation of the ideas of Thomas Chubb and Matthew Tindal is analyzed. At the end of the article, a brief conclusion is made about the place of T. Chubbs philosophy to deism in general. The author of this work believes that despite the absence of references to other deists by the English philosopher, the ideas of this thinker fit into their religious and philosophical system, specifically about the issue of understanding natural religion. The sources of this article are treaties «The Sufficiency of Reason in Matters of Religion, Farther Considered» (1732), «Discourse concerning Reason, with Regard to Religion and Divine Revelation» (1733), «Some reflections upon the comparative excellency and usefulness of moral and positive duties» (1733), «The true Gospel of Jesus Christ Asserted»(1741) and several other treatises.
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Stepkin, Vitaliy. "The History of the Creation and Semantics of the Sacred Space of Ust-Medveditskiy Convent Caves in Volgograd Region." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 3 (July 2019): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2019.3.5.
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Introduction. The article presents the caves of Ust-Medveditsky St. Saviour convent in Volgograd region. The relevance of the research issue is in improving the recreational potential of the subject under study. The novelty of the work is in explaining the meaning of cave complex elements and the iconic stone with the image of knee and palm prints. The aim of the work is to study the history of creating the sacred space in the caves of Ust-Medveditsky convent. Herewith the work covers the following issues: 1) considering the history of creating caves by hegumeness Arseniya (Sebryakova); 2) clarification of the semantic meaning of some architectural elements in the cave complex in the context of creating the sacred space in the New Jerusalem of the Don region; 3) recommendations for developing the esthetical component of the caves, which increases the recreational potential for using the caves. Methods. In order to achieve the goals the author uses the structuralsemantic method, which allows to reveal the meaning of separate architectural elements in the caves in the structure of the cave complex. The system-based culturological method and the historical archaeological approach are used to understand the uniqueness of the object against the historical background of the dominating culture. The sources used to fulfill the objective include material ones such as architectural elements of the caves, written ones such as piligrimages, travellers’ notes about visits to the Holy Land, the biography of hegumeness Arseniya (Sebryakova). Analysis and Results. The caves under consideration were created in the second half of the 19th century by hegumeness Arseniya (Sebryakova). There was a sacred space of the Holy Land reconstructed: “Stations of the Cross” and “Sorrowful Way of the Holy Mother”. The stone with the image of knee and palm prints symbolizes the place where the Christ fell down after being arrested. Premise no. 8 with a step can symbolize the Holy Sepulcher with the tomb of Jesus. To improve the recreational potential of Ust- Medveditsky convent it is necessary to control microclimatic conditions, support the cave surface natural stone relief and colour, decorate the key sacred spaces with thematic icons.
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T, Raja Sornam`. "Theological principles in the epic of Jesus." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, S-2 (April 30, 2021): 228–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21s243.
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Jesus Christ is one of the most remarkable in the history of the world, the "sovereign" of many who enriched spiritual morality. Many scholars have created the biography of Jesus and a portion of the epic as a book. Among them were Veeramamunivar, The works of Krishnapillai, John Palm, Kannadasan and Nirmala Suresh are remarkable. The bead of this epic is the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ. This hill fall is also referred to as 'Puratchi Osai'. The purpose of this article is to know the principles of the ology that jesus compares the blessed part of the epic mountain shower and the biblical gospel with it.
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Sieradzan, Jacek. "Jezus Chrystus jako model dla postaci Apolloniusza z Tiany." Vox Patrum 46 (July 15, 2004): 415–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.6843.
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In this short article the author present Jesus Christ of the Gospel as the model for the life of Apollonios of Tyana's biography by Flavius Filostratos. Author found out 28 analogies in hagiographies of both, and in addition 12 analogies in miracles activity.
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Jonge, M. De. "The Earliest Christian use ofChristosSome Suggestions." New Testament Studies 32, no. 3 (July 1986): 321–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500013606.
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Anyone who wants to say something about the earliest Christian use ofChristosshould start with the oldest written sources: the (genuine) letters of Paul.1.1.1. Paul's use χριοτòς has been set out convincingly by N. A. Dahl1and W. Kramer.2The apostle uses the term very frequently: 270 out of the 531 occurrences of the word in the New Testament are found in the genuine letters of Paul.3He also uses it in combinations with other words: Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ the Lord; but never in the combination κúρως χριτóς.4Certain patterns can be recognized in the use of Jesus Christ and Christ Jesus and also in the use of the article with χριτóςbut nowhere with a clear difference in meaning.5Dahl says: χριτóς is never a general term; the word is also never used as a predicate. Paul never feels the necessity to state ‘Jesus is the Christ’; a genitive is never added (Paul does not use χριτòς κυριου or related expressions) and also Ίηιοṽςò Χριιτóς is not found.6
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CAPES, DAVID B. "Imitatio Christi and the Gospel Genre." Bulletin for Biblical Research 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26422777.
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Abstract This article considers that the Gospel genre belongs to the category of ancient biography designed to provide the reader and hearer with a pattern to imitate. The literary and cultural ethos of the formative period of early Christianity prepared the first disciples to "imitate Christ" whenever the Gospels were liturgically read. In fact, the ethical instructions "walk as he walked," "imitate Christ," or even "follow me" required a narrative definition. So the imitatio Christi provided a significant impulse for the writing of the Gospels, and concomitantly, the Gospels provided the narrative definition for what it meant to follow Jesus.
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Neumann, David J. "Christ as Yogi: The Jesus of Vivekananda and Modern Hinduism." Church History 90, no. 1 (March 2021): 117–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640721000767.
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AbstractSwami Vivekananda was the most influential pioneer of a Yogi Christ, illustrating well over a century ago how the life and teachings of Jesus might be incorporated within a larger Hindu worldview—and then presented back to Western audiences. Appropriation of Jesus, one of the central symbols of the West, might be viewed as the ultimate act of counter-Orientalism. This article begins by providing a brief biography of Vivekananda and the modern Hinduism that nurtured him and that he propagated. He articulated an inclusivist vision of Advaita Vedanta as the most compelling vision of universal religion. Next, the article turns to Vivekananda's views of Christianity, for which he had little affection, and the Bible, which he knew extraordinarily well. The article then systematically explores Vivekananda's engagement with the New Testament, revealing a clear hermeneutical preference for the Gospels, particularly John. Following the lead of biblical scholars, Vivekananda made a distinction between the Christ of the Gospels and the Jesus of history, offering sometimes contradictory conclusions about the historicity of elements associated with Jesus's life. Finally, the article provides a detailed articulation of Vivekananda's Jesus—a figure at once familiar to Christians but, in significant ways, uniquely accommodated to Hindu metaphysics. Vivekananda demonstrated a robust understanding and discriminating use of the Christian Bible that has not been properly recognized. He deployed this knowledge to launch an important and long-lived pattern: an attractive, fleshed out depiction of Jesus of Nazareth, transformed from the Christian savior into a Yogi model of self-realization. Through his efforts, Jesus became an indisputably Indian religious figure, no longer just a Christian one. The Yogi Christ remains a prominent global religious figure familiar to Hindus, Christians, and those of other faiths alike.
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Mukhlif KHUDAIR, Ismael. "THE STORY OF THE MESSIAH, JESUS, SON OF MARY, IN THE INTERPRETATION OF AL-ALUSI RUH AL-MAANI." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 08 (November 1, 2021): 259–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.8-3.20.
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The Story of Christ Jesus Ibn Maryam in the interpretation of Al-Alusi, the spirit of the meanings) The First International Remar Conference for Contemporary Studies in Social Sciences. The scholar Abi al-Thana’ al-Alusi dealt with this story in his interpretation of Ruh al-Ma’ani. I have consulted the original sources and the Bible Dictionary to document the facts. The research was divided into an introduction، five chapters، and a conclusion. Keywords: Christ Jesus Ibn Maryam, Ruh al-Ma’ani, Messiah
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Jesus Christ – Biography – Sources"
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Homolka, Walter. "Claiming a place in pluralist society : Jewish Jesus research in post-colonial perspective." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683030.
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Moran, Maureen. "Jesus the Galilean in his First Century context : a little tradition perspective." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13528.
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More than two thousand years after his death the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth are still proclaimed, listened to and believed in. They form a part of the Great Tradition of Christianity in which Jesus is perceived as both "fully human and fully divine". In first century CE Palestine, however, they functioned very differently. In this thesis we seek to re-root Jesus of Nazareth, his teachings and his actions, in his first century Galilean context. In Chapter One of this study, we therefore examine Galilee, its economic, political, religious and social makeup in order not merely to provide a framework for Jesus' ministry, but rather to determine the milieu in which he was socialised and formed. The Galilee into which Jesus was acculturated was not, we conclude, a Hellenised region of trading and opportunity, as some modem scholars have suggested, but a land in which the peasantry struggled to meet their subsistence needs and in which an increasing number were forced into the forfeiture of their patrimonial land. In this light, we turn our attention, in our second chapter, to forms of non-elite resistance to elite oppression. We describe five forms of non-elite response. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Social Banditry, The City Mob, Prophecy and Prophet Led Movements and Messiah/Deliverer Led Movements, each of which, we argue, coheres with the values inherent in the little tradition of the peasantry. The Prophet and Messiah Led Movements prove particularly significant in so far as they also provide the categories within which Jesus' social identity could be understood. In Chapter Three we reconsider four of Jesus' parables illustrating the extent to which they reflect the little tradition themes of reversal, abundance and condemnation of an exploitative elite. Similarly, we present his healings as a challenge to the religious elites' manipulation of the purity and debt codes, and his exorcisms as a condemnation of a social system which leaves the marginalised more vulnerable to demon possession. His practice of table fellowship with tax collectors and sinners not only foreshadows the messianic banquet, it also demonstrates the little tradition value of reversal (Chapter Four). In Chapter Five we illustrate that through his action in the Jerusalem temple, Jesus condemns the oppressive behaviour of the socio-religious elite and offers a new vision of the temple as a 'house of prayer' built on the values of the kingdom of God. The trial and crucifixion of Jesus, we present as the elite response (Chapter Six). The words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth and his identification by at least some of his followers with the social role of messiah provoked the ire of the Judean elite. They also, we contend, led the Roman authorities to crucify him as 'King of the Judeans'.
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Coffey, Rosemary A. "Man of sorrows of Giovanni Bellini sources and significance /." Champaign, Ill. : Estate of Rosemary Coffey, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21829626.html.
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Farnes, Sherilyn. "Fact, Fiction and Family Tradition: The Life of Edward Partridge (1793-1840), The First Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2302.
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Edward Partridge (1793-1840) became the first bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1831, two months after joining the church. He served in this capacity until his death in 1840. The first chapter examines his preparation for his role as bishop. Having no precedent to follow, he drew extensively upon his background and experiences in civic leadership, business management, and property ownership in order to succeed in his assignment. Partridge moved to Missouri in 1831 at the forefront of Mormon settlement in the state, where on behalf of the church he ultimately purchased hundreds of acres, which he then distributed to the gathering saints as part of the law of consecration. In addition, he prepared consecration affidavits and oversaw each family's contributions and stewardships. The second chapter examines Partridge's ability to succeed in his assignment, and the tensions that he felt between seeing the vision of Zion and administering the practical details. Forty years after his death, his children began to write extensively about their father. The third chapter of this thesis examines their writings, focusing on how their memories of their father illuminate their own lives as well as their father's. The final chapter finds that the three published descendants' modern attempts to chronicle the life of Edward Partridge each fall short in at least one of the following: the field of history, literature, or a faithful representation of his life.
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Holt, Kamia Walton. "The Sound of Utah: the Presence of Geographical Elements in Music Written About the State of Utah." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1997. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,35377.
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Cope, Rachel. "John B. Fairbanks : the man behind the canvas /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access CLICK HERE for online access, 2003. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/MormonThesesC,7523.
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Dijkhuizen, Pieternella. "An investigation into the historical, hermeneutical and Gospel-critical parameters for the interpretation of the symbol of resurrection." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2140.
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`Resurrection' can be approached from several angles. The most common angle is what this study avoids: pressing for a `yes' or a `no' answer as to whether `Jesus really rose from the dead'. That is, demanding a definitive and final outcome from the discipline of historical-critical research. This study treats resurrection as a symbol. Symbols intrinsically generate multiple meanings. Historical, hermeneutical and gospel-critical parameters are the constraints within which reflection on the symbol of resurrection must take place, and the validity of perspectives be established.
John Dominic Crossan's view of the resurrection is the focal point of discussion in this thesis, for two reasons. (1) He has clearly mapped out his method. (2) He occupies a middle position, by interpreting resurrection metaphorically and theologically. This sets him apart from those who interpret the resurrection literally and historically and those who accept the negative or uncertain outcome from the side of historical-critical inquiry as the death sentence for Christian faith.New Testament
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Coffey, Rosemary A. "The man of sorrows of Giovanni Bellini sources and significance /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18250966.html.
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Bacchioni, Philip Louis. "The Jesus mystery : a biblical, historical and Christological study of Jesus." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18026.
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The Jesus of history and the Christ of faith are two different figures. Two centuries of
search for the historical Jesus has led to greater awareness and better use of New
Testament criticism, had salutary effects on proper historical biblical research and the
desire to look beyond the paucity of material about Jesus in the canonical gospels.
Despite proven difficulties the historical Jesus is an endless enterprise eliciting an equally
endless fascination.
The solution to the Jesus mystery appears better linked to Paul who has never been
subjected to the same degree of historical research as Jesus. The figure, character,
preaching, and teaching of Jesus was fashioned by the gospel authors not just to fit in. with
the primitive church but to provide a natural linkage with Pauline Christianity.
Christian faith is only loosely intertwined with Jesus of Nazareth and has everything to do
with the Christ de"-ised by Paul.Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
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Slaymaker, Peter James Victor. "Augustine and the Trinity vision in the Vita Sancti Augustini Imaginibus Adornata." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3886.
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Who is Jesus Christ?: A primary source reader. Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press, 2011.
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Gálik, Marián. "Jesus the Proletarian: A Biography by Zhu Weizhi (1905-1999)*." In The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ: Volume 3b, 1335–51. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315086934-3.
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"Jesus' faith in extra-biblical sources." In The Faith of Jesus Christ in Early Christian Traditions, 175–212. Cambridge University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511470493.008.
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"Ekklēsia in Early Christ-follower Sources." In The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement, 150–262. BRILL, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004344990_005.
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"Index of Ancient Sources." In Jesus Christ as the Son of David in the Gospel of Mark, 221–31. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108569835.009.
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Roy, Louis. "Can We Either Absolutize or Relativize Jesus Christ?" In Revelation in a Pluralistic World, 271—C9.P73. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864840.003.0010.
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Abstract This chapter comes up with a construal of the centrality of Jesus Christ as revealer. Can he be considered the only revealer of God, or rather the medium of revelation par excellence, without excluding other mediators? Speaking of God the Father, St John of the Cross wrote, ‘In giving us his son, his only word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word – and he has no more to say.’ David Walsh stated the following about Christ: ‘He is the highest realization of mundane existence because he is the fullest manifestation of transcendent reality within the world. No fuller revelation of divine presence is possible within a human being or toward human beings.’ The chapter concludes that we should speak, not of a ‘Christocentrism’, but of a ‘Christomorphism’: not every aspect of revelation ought to be directly related to Christ, but Christ is the best model or form (morphe, in Greek). Therefore theology can focus on Jesus Christ while not neglecting other sources of Christian revelation.
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Starr, Chloë. "Zhao Zichen and a Creative Theology: The Life of Jesus (1935)1." In Chinese Theology. Yale University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300204216.003.0004.
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The Christian intellectuals and leaders who inherited the mission legacy and its rhetoric and remained within historic denominations occupied a demanding mediating position: interpreting Christian thought to China and Christ into Chinese modes. Zhao Zichen (T. C. Chao) was at the forefront of those conceptualizing and realizing a Chinese Protestant church. Chapter Three discusses Zhao’s 1935 Life of Jesus (Yesu zhuan), a semi-fictional biography written to respond to the call for a new “Chinese Christian Literature.” In its study of this highly readable short work, replete with Chinese literary references, the chapter focuses on the structure of the narrative, on Jesus’ self-understanding as the Messiah and on the role of landscape in the novella.
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Harper, Steven C. "Gone Are the Days." In First Vision, 247–58. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0029.
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Richard Bushman’s 2005 biography of Joseph Smith incorporated the findings of the New Mormon history. Bushman saw changes over time in Smith’s vision accounts and granted the critics that point, just not their interpretation that it meant Smith did not experience what he claimed. Bushman did not question whether Smith told the truth about his vision, only what truth he told he time he recorded it. Bushman’s Joseph Smith is therefore not the deceived or deceiving one of Fawn Brodie or Wesley Walters, but neither is he the simplified teenage prophet of the movies and manuals. Though initially barred from use in LDS religious education curriculum, provided the standard interpretation of Smith’s first vision adopted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by 2018. This was most evident in “First Vision Accounts” and Saints: The Standard of Truth, volume 1—products espoused and promoted by LDS leaders.
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Pulido, Elisa Eastwood. "Introduction." In The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista, 1–8. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190942106.003.0001.
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The spiritual biography of Margarito Bautista (1878–1961), a Mexican cultural nationalist and Mormon evangelizer of Mexican and Mexican Americans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this book follows Bautista’s journey into and out of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and his subsequent founding of a polygamist utopia in Central Mexico. It argues that Bautista’s insistence on indigenous ecclesiastical self-governance led to his estrangement from the Mormon Church. Bautista’s prolific writings allow a view of his life and thought in his own voice. The book embeds Bautista’s experience in the religious history of the borderlands by devoting beginning chapters to the loss of indigenous spiritual authority at the time of the Spanish Conquest and the arrival of Mormonism in Mexico in 1875. Subsequent chapters follow Bautista’s preaching of a Mexican exceptionalism founded on the Book of Mormon, for which he was ultimately excommunicated in 1936.
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Hobson, Suzanne. "The ‘Death of God’ in New Testament Biofiction." In Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture, 93–125. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846471.003.0004.
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Chapter 3 examines the interwar revival and transformation of a genre that had a Rationalist agenda inbuilt: New Testament biofiction or, in Graham Holderness’s words, the Jesus-novel. Following in the wake of Higher Criticism, this enormously popular genre mixed biography and fiction in its retelling of the life and death of Jesus, a process that often reduced Christ to man rather than god, and the Gospels to literature rather than scripture. This chapter emphasizes the influence of George Moore’s The Brook Kerith (1916) on later versions of the Jesus-novel by D. H. Lawrence, H.D., Mary Borden, and Iwan Nashiwin. Moore’s version emphasizes the virtues of oral presentation as a means of getting the story straight; his vernacular approach sought to cut through the rhetorical tricks and literary seductions that disguised the truth of Jesus’s life and death on the cross. Lawrence and H.D. adopt a more heavily symbolic and stylized prose in their New Testament stories but do so with similar ends in mind. In engaging with the events of Jesus’s life, and especially those connected to the crucifixion and resurrection, these authors foreground questions of belief in a way that stories based on other historical and mythological lives do not. More pointedly, this chapter argues, they counter the popular view of unbelief as a recent or modern development by locating its origins at the very beginnings of Christianity itself.
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Superson, Jarosław. "Próba wskazania chrześcijańskiej przestrzeni przeznaczonej do sprawowania liturgii w przedkonstantyńskim Rzymie : (pierwsze dwa wieki chrześcijańskiej obecnośći)." In Przestrzeń liturgiczna. Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15633/9788374387828.03.
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An attempt to indicate the Christian space intended for celebration of liturgy in pre-constantinian Rome (first two centuries of presence) In this study, the author, analyzing relevant written sources and using the fruits of archaeological work, explained how the followers of Jesus Christ settled in or near Rome, during the first two centuries of their presence, managed the space for the needs of their faith before they were given the Basilica of Constantine on Lateran. Written sources and archaeological excavations do not provide information about the equipment of the halls used for liturgy, or domi ecclesiae or their location in Urbe. Also underground cemeteries – the catacombs, built by Christians, do not provide us any information about the use of these facilities for the weekly liturgical assembly.