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Author |
: Shelly Matthews |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804780404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804780407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis First Converts by : Shelly Matthews
It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms. It also shows how these sources can be used in reconstructing women's history, thus engaging current feminist debates about the relationship of rhetorical presentation of women in texts to historical reality. Because many of these texts speak of high-standing women's conversion to Judaism and early Christianity, this book also engages in the current debate about whether early Judaism was a missionary religion. The author argues that focusing on these stories of women converts and adherents, which have been largely ignored in previous discussions of the missionary question, sets the missionary question in a new, more adequate framework. The first chapter elucidates a story in Josephus's Antiquities of the mishaps of two Roman matrons devoted to Isis and Jewish cults by considering the common Hellenistic topos linking high-standing women, promiscuity, and religious impropriety. The remaining chapters demonstrate that in spite of this topos, Josephus, Luke, and other religious apologists did tell stories of rich women's associations with their communities for positive rhetorical effect. In so doing, the book challenges the widespread assumption that women's association with "foreign" religious cults was always derided, questions scholarly arguments about public and private roles in antiquity, and invites reflection on issues of mission and conversion within the larger framework of Greco-Roman benefaction.
Author |
: Patrick Allitt |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501720536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501720538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Catholic Converts by : Patrick Allitt
From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.
Author |
: Gary Underwood |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 78 |
Release |
: 1978-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0891377093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780891377092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis First Principles by : Gary Underwood
Author |
: Joshua Toulmin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 138 |
Release |
: 1788 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064370219 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Conduct of the First Converts to Christianity by : Joshua Toulmin
Author |
: Elsie Emilie Egermeier |
Publisher |
: Warner Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1593173369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781593173364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Egermeier's Bible Story Book by : Elsie Emilie Egermeier
As a more economical alternative to the standard hardbound edition, this softbound version of Egermeier's Bible Story Book brings you all the same text, artwork and study guides (minus the expanded map section).
Author |
: Henry Hart Milman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1112 |
Release |
: 1887 |
ISBN-10 |
: MSU:31293500307511 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire by : Henry Hart Milman
Author |
: Maretu |
Publisher |
: [email protected] |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9820201667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789820201668 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cannibals and Converts by : Maretu
Story of the Cook Islands immediately before the coming of Europeans written by a Rarotongan missionary.
Author |
: Henry Hart Milman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1112 |
Release |
: 1883 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435028601151 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Latin Christianity by : Henry Hart Milman
Author |
: Edward Baring |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2019-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674238985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674238982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Converts to the Real by : Edward Baring
In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg’s The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force—Catholic intellectuals—behind the growth of phenomenology in the early twentieth century, and makes the case for the movement’s catalytic intellectual and social impact. Of all modern schools of thought, phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of “continental” philosophy. In the first half of the twentieth century, phenomenology expanded from a few German towns into a movement spanning Europe. Edward Baring shows that credit for this prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Placing phenomenology in historical context, Baring reveals the enduring influence of Catholicism in twentieth-century intellectual thought. Converts to the Real argues that Catholic scholars allied with phenomenology because they thought it mapped a path out of modern idealism—which they associated with Protestantism and secularization—and back to Catholic metaphysics. Seeing in this unfulfilled promise a bridge to Europe’s secular academy, Catholics set to work extending phenomenology’s reach, writing many of the first phenomenological publications in languages other than German and organizing the first international conferences on phenomenology. The Church even helped rescue Edmund Husserl’s papers from Nazi Germany in 1938. But phenomenology proved to be an unreliable ally, and in debates over its meaning and development, Catholic intellectuals contemplated the ways it might threaten the faith. As a result, Catholics showed that phenomenology could be useful for secular projects, and encouraged its adoption by the philosophical establishment in countries across Europe and beyond. Baring traces the resonances of these Catholic debates in postwar Europe. From existentialism, through the phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to the speculative realism of the present, European thought bears the mark of Catholicism, the original continental philosophy.
Author |
: Henry Duff Traill |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 850 |
Release |
: 1909 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:32000007474218 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis From the earliest times to the accession of Edward the First.-v.2. From the accession of Edward the First to the death of Henry the Seventh.-v.3. From the accession of Henry the Eighth to the death of Elizabeth.-v.4. From the accession of James the First to the death of Anne.-v.5. From the accession of George the First to the Battle of Waterloo.-v.6. From the Battle of Waterloo to the present day by : Henry Duff Traill