Author: Charles Christian Hennell
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity
Author: Charles Christian Hennell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
An Inquiry concerning the Origin of Christianity ... To which is added Christian Theism ... Third (people's) edition of both works
Author: Charles C. Hennell
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith
Author: James L. Kinneavy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
What is the true of Christian faith? Are the roots of this concept the same in both the Old and New Testaments? With semantic, historical, and analytic evidence, Kinneavy develops his hypothesis that the origin of some major aspects of the Christian concept of faith - pistis in Greek- can be traced to Greek classical rhetoric. Kinneavy presents his case cumulatively, with each stage differing substantially from traditional scholarship. He begins by examining the notion of faith formulated by eight major Christian and Jewish theologians, demonstrating that faith and rhetorical persuasion share certain important semantic elements which have made it possible for reach to accommodate the other. The book goes on to present a meticulous cas for the historical influence of Greek rhetoric on Hebraic thought, specifically in the writers of the New Testament. Contending that the effects of Hellenization were strongly felt, particularly in the areas of Palestinian education and civic life, his analysis opposes the prevailing isolation theories of early Christianity. Kinneavy concludes with a novel rhetorical study of the everal hundred occurences of the Greek terms for "faith" and "to believe," searching for evidence of the contemporary meaning of persuasion, and emerging with overwhelming support for the Greek influence on Christian faith. A controversial and clearly argued work, Greek rhetorical origins of Christian faith is a very original attempt to answer the age-old question "whence does faith spring?" and is an important contribution to the history of rhetoric.-- Front flap.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
What is the true of Christian faith? Are the roots of this concept the same in both the Old and New Testaments? With semantic, historical, and analytic evidence, Kinneavy develops his hypothesis that the origin of some major aspects of the Christian concept of faith - pistis in Greek- can be traced to Greek classical rhetoric. Kinneavy presents his case cumulatively, with each stage differing substantially from traditional scholarship. He begins by examining the notion of faith formulated by eight major Christian and Jewish theologians, demonstrating that faith and rhetorical persuasion share certain important semantic elements which have made it possible for reach to accommodate the other. The book goes on to present a meticulous cas for the historical influence of Greek rhetoric on Hebraic thought, specifically in the writers of the New Testament. Contending that the effects of Hellenization were strongly felt, particularly in the areas of Palestinian education and civic life, his analysis opposes the prevailing isolation theories of early Christianity. Kinneavy concludes with a novel rhetorical study of the everal hundred occurences of the Greek terms for "faith" and "to believe," searching for evidence of the contemporary meaning of persuasion, and emerging with overwhelming support for the Greek influence on Christian faith. A controversial and clearly argued work, Greek rhetorical origins of Christian faith is a very original attempt to answer the age-old question "whence does faith spring?" and is an important contribution to the history of rhetoric.-- Front flap.
An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity
Author: Charles Christian Hennell
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342394470
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342394470
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674037863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today.,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674037863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today.,
History of Christianity
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451688512
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 805
Book Description
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451688512
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 805
Book Description
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith
Author: John Rawls
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674033313
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls’s undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. “On My Religion,” a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context. The texts display the profound engagement with religion that forms the background of Rawls’s later views on the importance of separating religion and politics. Moreover, the moral and social convictions that the thesis expresses in religious form are related in illuminating ways to the central ideas of Rawls’s later writings. His notions of sin, faith, and community are simultaneously moral and theological, and prefigure the moral outlook found in Theory of Justice.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674033313
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls’s undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. “On My Religion,” a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context. The texts display the profound engagement with religion that forms the background of Rawls’s later views on the importance of separating religion and politics. Moreover, the moral and social convictions that the thesis expresses in religious form are related in illuminating ways to the central ideas of Rawls’s later writings. His notions of sin, faith, and community are simultaneously moral and theological, and prefigure the moral outlook found in Theory of Justice.
A History of the Christian Church
Author: Williston Walker
Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity
Author: Charles C. Hennell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland].
Author: Robert Aspland
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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