Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion - Erwägungen zur frühchristlichen Religionsgeschichte

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Religion ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian History

Formation of axiological orientations of newly baptized Ukrainians

2000 ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Olga V. Nedavnya
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Volume History

Among the scientific heritage of B.O.Lobovyk is a particularly interesting work - works devoted to the study of the pre-Christian religiosity of Ukrainians and the peculiarities of the emerging Christianity of Kyivan Rus. In particular, Section III: Religious Beliefs of the Chronicles of Slavs and Section IV: The Old Ukrainian Political Thought 1 so the ten-volume "History of Religion in Ukraine" not only affects the breadth and depth of the problem's coverage, phenomenal encyclopaedic erudition and culture of the author's words, but also wake up new questions and induced to their research. Thus, BOloobovik carried out a detailed analysis of the religious complex of Ukrainians in their pre-Christian period and an analysis of the features of early Christian Ukrainian thought highlights: who believed in the worship of our ancestors. In our opinion, one of the logical directions of the continuation of these studies is the elucidation of what the Ukrainians appreciated before Christianization in the world and what transformations of axiological orientations were experienced by Ukrainian neophytes.

scholarly journals Tradition, experience, interpretation: a dialectical model for describing the development of religious thought

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-226
Author(s):  
Heikki Räisänen
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
New Situation

The term "experience" points to that "something" which stands "between" a tradition and its reinterpretation. From one point of view that means new situations or new contexts. But reinterpretation is accomplished by persons and groups. "New experience" equals "new situation" as perceived by persons or groups. Tradition and experience are inseparably connected. Both in trying to work out a history-of-religion account of early Christian thought', and in trying to understand the Qur'an with empathy, the author has often found it useful to envisage religious thought in terms of a dialectic between tradition, experience and interpretation. This means that religious thought develops in a process in which traditions are time and again interpreted in the light of new experiences, and vice versa: experiences are interpreted in the light of traditions. In other words, elements of the tradition are reinterpreted, but this happens in the framework of the very tradition in question. The emphasis can be put on different sides, either on tradition or on experience. The point is to underline the "process" and its dynamics — to call attention to change, reinterpretation, actualization and reapplication of traditions.

Many deep baptisms: reflections on religious, chiefly Muslim, conversion in Black Africa

1994 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humphrey J. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Personal Concern ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Christian History

The primary purpose of this paper—apart from a personal concern to offer a token of affection and respect to a friend and colleague of many years’ standing—is to consider two analytical models (one drawn from early Christian history, the other from the history of science), and to suggest ways in which these may help us to interpret the data of religious, and in particular Muslim, change in sub-Saharan Africa.

ΓΝΩΜΑΙ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΟΙ.: The Origin and Nature of Diversification in the History of Early Christianity

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Koester
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian History

I. The Crisis of the Historical and Theological Criteria.Already Walter Bauer, well known as a lexicographer, but unfortunately little known as a historian of the Ancient Church, in his ingenious monograph Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christentum (1934), had demonstrated convincingly that such Christian groups which were later labelled “heretical,” actually dominated in the first two or three centuries, both geographically and theologically. Recent discoveries, especially those of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, have made it definitely clear that Walter Bauer was essentially right and that a thorough and extensive re-evaluation of early Christian history is called for.

Gnosis in Corinth: I Corinthians 8. 1–6

1980 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Horsley
Keyword(s):  
Full Scale ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of

Scholars are gradually relinquishing the belief that the Corinthians were Gnostics. As a noted student of Gnosticism concludes, we find in Corinth ‘at most only the first tentative beginnings of what was later to develop into full-scale Gnosticism’. In fact, a kind of agnosticism has emerged with regard to the early Christian community in Corinth. ‘The position in Corinth cannot be reconstructed on the basis of the possibilities of the general history of religion.’ I suggest, however, that it is possible to determine with some degree of precision the nature and background of the ‘proto-Gnosticism’ in Corinth: Hellenistic Jewish religiosity focused onsophiaandgnosis.

Melania

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Travel Patterns ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Christian History

The lives of Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger span one of the most important periods of Christian history, reaching from the reign of Constantine through the reign of Theodosius II. They and their family members were well known to some of the most influential political and cultural figures of the period; their patronage promoted the work of major Christian thinkers from both before their time and during it. Their property and travels connected the political, economic, and religious worlds of the late antique Mediterranean. This volume examines the history of early Christianity as it was created and imagined through the lives of the two Melanias. The volume overlays the history of Christianity with a set of narratives that explore themes in the lives of the Melanias, such as constructions of gender, asceticism, orthodoxy and heresy, family and wealth, travel, patterns of memory, worship and hagiography. The resulting collaborative portrait of this family, its influence, and its interests offers a new window on to early Christian history, not by portraying Christianity as a timeless entity unfolding over centuries, but by considering in more complex ways the lives, representations, and later reception of two late ancient persons who attempted to be Christian.

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

How the Bible Feels

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorina Miller Parmenter
Keyword(s):  
Affect Theory ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Christian Leaders ◽  
Christian History

Despite Christian leaders’ insistence that what is important about the Bible are the messages of the text, throughout Christian history the Bible as a material object, engaged by the senses, frequently has been perceived to be an effective object able to protect its users from bodily harm. This paper explores several examples where Christians view their Bibles as protective shields, and will situate those interpretations within the history of the material uses of the Bible. It will also explore how recent studies in affect theory might add to the understanding of what is communicated through sensory engagement with the Bible.

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