Shepherd of Hermas Collection [2 Books]

Shepherd of Hermas Collection [2 Books] PDF Author: Shepherd of Hermas
Publisher: Aeterna Press
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
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Shepherd of Hermas Collection [2 Books]

Shepherd of Hermas Collection [2 Books] PDF Author: Shepherd of Hermas
Publisher: Aeterna Press
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
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The Shepherd of Hermas

The Shepherd of Hermas PDF Author: Daniel Robison
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781480147898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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The Shepherd of Hermas was one of the most popular books--if not the most popular book--in the Christian Church during the second, third and fourth centuries. Believed by the early Christians to have been the work of the Hermas referred to by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans, this book was regarded as inspired Scripture by many and even included in several of the early canons. At the very least, the historical and universal acclaim of this work by those who were still burning with the recent fire of Pentecost demands a serious consideration of the message it gives to us; a message that, after nearly two thousand years, still exhales the prophetic fragrance of the ancient, apostolic faith. This version has been updated into modern language for a new generation to rediscover this captivating work of the early Church.

The Shepherd of Hermas

The Shepherd of Hermas PDF Author: Hermas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The Shepherd of Hermas

The Shepherd of Hermas PDF Author:
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN: 1078733961
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Languages : en
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The book consists of five visions granted to Hermas, a former slave. This is followed by twelve mandates or commandments, and ten similitudes, or parables. It commences abruptly in the first person: "He who brought me up sold me to a certain Rhoda, who was at Rome. After many years I met her again, and began to love her as a sister." As Hermas was on the road to Cumae, he had a vision of Rhoda. She told him that she was his accuser in heaven, on account of an unchaste thought the (married) narrator had once had concerning her, though only in passing. He was to pray for forgiveness for himself and all his house. He is consoled by a vision of the Church in the form of an aged woman, weak and helpless from the sins of the faithful, who tells him to do penance and to correct the sins of his children. Subsequently he sees her made younger through penance, yet wrinkled and with white hair; then again, as quite young but still with white hair; and lastly, she shows herself as glorious as a Bride.

Book of Similitudes

Book of Similitudes PDF Author: Billy R. Fincher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530890477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Introduction. The Shepherd of Hermas consists of the Book of Visions, with 10 visions granted to Hermas, a former slave. This is followed by the Book of Commands with twelve mandates or commandments, and the last is the Book of Similitudes with ten similitudes, or parables.

The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy

The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy PDF Author: Jonathan E Soyars
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004402586
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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In The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy, Jonathan E. Soyars confronts the scholarly consensus and argues that Hermas’s visions reflect an extensive encounter with texts ultimately included in the corpus Paulinum.

The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden PDF Author: Rutherford Hayes Platt
Publisher: Nelson Bibles
ISBN:
Category : Apocryphal books
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Presented here are two volumes of apocryphal writings reflecting the life and time of the Old and New Testaments. Stories told by contemporary fiction writers of historical Bible times in fascinating and beautiful style.

Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament

Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament PDF Author: Jonathan Bernier
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1493434675
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how quickly early Christians produced what became the seminal texts for their new movement.

Community Building in the Shepherd of Hermas

Community Building in the Shepherd of Hermas PDF Author: Mark Grundeken
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004299637
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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In Community Building in the Shepherd of Hermas, Mark Grundeken investigates key aspects of Christian community life as reflected upon in the early Christian writing the Shepherd of Hermas (2nd century C.E.).

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

Thrice-Greatest Hermes PDF Author: G. R. S. Mead
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674819
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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This is the edition including all three books. The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars. G. R. S. Mead has issued a translation of the whole body of extant literature, with extended prolegomena, commentary, etc. There is a wide difference of opinion as to the date at which this literature was produced. Mead believes that some of the extant portions of it are at least as early as the earliest Christian writings, while von Christ assigns them to the third Christian century, and thinks that they show the influence of neo-Platonism. To affirm that they influenced New Testament usage would be hazardous, but they perhaps throw some light on the direction in which thought was moving in New Testament times.