Science and the Early Christian Church

The start of the early Christian church is recounted in the book of Acts. In Acts 2 (NKJV) shares that after the outpouring of the Spirit of God, over 3,000 believers gather themselves together, where they “held everything in common, shared their resources, and that each person’s needs were met (Acts 2:42, The Message). The following article takes a bird’s eye view that assists us, as social workers, in understanding the importance of community practice. Community calls us to a sense of belonging and inclusion with a group of people. Community also calls us to consider again our shared values and resources. This article grounds us in the Biblical narrative, moves to our social work skills and knowledge base, and then concludes with thoughts that encourage us to address the “wicked problems” by being disruptive forces in the planned change process which is at the heart of community practice.

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Ground penetrating radar data used in discovery of the early Christian church of Notre Dame de Baudes near Labastide-du-Temple, France

Data in Brief ◽

10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.057 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 1588-1593 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ted L Gragson ◽

Victor D. Thompson ◽

David S. Leigh ◽

Florent Hautefeuille

Keyword(s):

Ground Penetrating Radar ◽

Radar Data ◽

Christian Church ◽

Early Christian ◽

Ground Penetrating

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Christian Antiquity and the Anglican Reception of John Locke’s Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul, 1707–1730

Locke Studies ◽

10.5206/ls.2020.10597 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 1-36

Author(s):

Jacob Donald Chatterjee

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Church Of England ◽

Historical Research ◽

Christian Church ◽

Primary Motivation ◽

Early Christian ◽

Early Eighteenth Century ◽

Theological Thought

The study of John Locke’s theological thought has yet to be combined with emerging historical research, pioneered by Jean-Louis Quantin, into the apologetic uses of Christian antiquity in the Restoration Church of England. This article will address this historiographical lacuna by making two related arguments. First, I will contend that Locke’s Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul (1705–1707) marked a definitive shift in his critique of the appeal to Christian antiquity. Prior to 1700, Locke had largely contested these references to the precedent of the early Christian Church by making a narrowly philosophical case against arguments from authority in general. However, the controversial reception of Locke’s theological writings in the 1690s, compelled him to develop historical and methodological arguments in the Paraphrase against the witness of Christian antiquity. Secondly, I will argue that Locke’s repudiation of the witness of Christian antiquity was the primary motivation for the diverse responses to the Paraphrase by early eighteenth-century Anglican writers, such as Robert Jenkin, Daniel Whitby, William Whiston, Winch Holdsworth and Catharine Cockburn.

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Mathematical-geographical intention in orienting mediaeval churches of the Serbian monastery Gradac

Glasnik srpskog geografskog drustva ◽

10.2298/gsgd1104141t ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 91 (4) ◽

pp. 141-158

Author(s):

Milutin Tadic ◽

Aleksandar Petrovic

Keyword(s):

Virgin Mary ◽

13Th Century ◽

Christian Church ◽

Patron Saint ◽

Early Christian ◽

Exact Analysis ◽

John The Baptist ◽

The Subject ◽

The Church

The subject of the paper is an exact analysis of the orientation of the Serbian monastery churches: the Church of the Virgin Mary (13th century), St. Nicholas' Church (13th century), and an early Christian church (6th century). The paper determines the azimuth of parallel axes in churches, and then the aberrations of those axes from the equinoctial east are interpreted. Under assumption that the axes were directed towards the rising sun, it was surmised that the early Christian church's patron saint could be St. John the Baptist, that the Church of the Virgin Mary was founded on Annunciation day to which it is dedicated, and that St. Nicholas' Church is oriented in accordance with the rule (?toward the sunrise?) even though its axis deviates from the equinoctial east by 41? degrees.

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