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Author: Jacob Albert van den Berg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-12-07
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9004180907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a reconstruction and analysis in context of the Disputationes, a treatise of Mani’s missionary Adimantus. In it, Adimantus, like Marcion, placed parts of the Old and New Testament opposite each other.
Author: Jacob Albert van den Berg
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9789004180345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Johannes van Oort
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9004255060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on several newly discovered texts, Augustine and Manichaean Christianity provides groundbreaking discussions of the relationship between the most influential church father of the West and the religion of his formative years. Augustine’s connection with Manichaean Christians was not only intense, but also enduring. This book unearths the essential background of writings such as Augustine’s Confessiones, De ordine and De vera religione, and discloses many a hidden Manichaean source of his powerful concepts of memory and the vision of God. Contributions by, among others, Iain Gardner, Therese Fuhrer, Jason BeDuhn, Majella Franzmann, Josef Lössl, Annemaré Kotzé and Nils Arne Pedersen.
Author: Terry C. Muck
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1441205268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The current religious climate poses unique challenges to those engaged in mission. Thus the authors of this book propose a new, yet very biblical, model for interacting with people of other faiths. They term this model giftive mission, as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. We bear the greatest gift possible--the gospel message. Adopting this perspective not only has the potential for greater missionary success but also enables us to more closely imitate God's gracious activity in the world. The core of the book explores eleven practices that characterize giftive mission. Each practice is illustrated through the story of a figure from mission history who embodied that practice. Further discussion shows how to incorporate these practices in specific mission settings.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-07
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9004445463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Manichaeism and Early Christianity discusses where and how Gnostic Manichaeism interfered not only with other forms of Gnosticism, but above all with a number of writings and representatives of mainstream Christianity during the early centuries of our era.
Author: Håkon Fiane Teigen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9004459774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay Manichaeans in the fourth century CE. Manichaeism has often been perceived as an elitist, esoteric religion. Challenging this view, Teigen draws on social network theory and cultural sociology, and engages with the study of lived ancient religion, in order to apprehend how laypeople in Kellis appropriated Manichaean identity and practice in their everyday lives. This perspective, he argues, not only provides a better understanding of Manichaeism: it also has wider implications for how we understand late antique ‘religion’ as a social phenomenon
Author: Jonathan Yates
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-07-20
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1614516499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook explores the formation of Christianity in Northern Africa from the second century CE until the present. It focuses on the reception of Scripture in the life of the Church, the processes of decision making, the theological and philosophical reflections of the Church Fathers in various cultural contexts, and schismatic or heretical movements. Volume one covers the first four centuries up until the time of Augustine.
Author: J. van (Johannes) Oort
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 9004189971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume in honour of Prof. Dr. Johannes van Oort offers a rich variety of in-depth studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the rich variety of the honorand’s research interests.
Author: Jonathan P. Yates
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-11-06
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 311049261X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second volume delves into the intricate dynamics that surrounded the use of Scripture by North African Christians from the late-fourth to the mid-seventh century CE. It focuses on the multivalent ways in which Scripture was incorporated into the fabric of ecclesial existence and theological reflection, as well as on Scripture’s role in informing and supporting these Christians’ decision-making processes. This volume also highlights the intricate theological and philosophical deliberations that were carried out between and among influential North African Christian leaders and scholars—in diverse cultural and geopolitical settings—while paying attention to the complex manner in which these Scripture-laden discourses intersected the wide variety of religious opinions and ecclesiastical and/or theological movements that so clearly marked this region in this era.
