scholarly journals Les cerf - le canthare - les quatre fleuves du Paradis dans la mosaïque chretienne de Tunisie. Les catechumenes et le Bapteme / Les fideles et l’Eucharistie : une contribution a l’iconongraphie paleochretienne d’Occident

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
P. Silvio Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Rural Churches ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Iconography

The figures of deer, of kantharos (cantharus), and the four rivers of Paradise are all part of a rich catalog of early Christian iconography in Tunisia. We often find this iconography in the mosaics of baptisteries, as well as mosaics in the basilicas. The presence of such iconographic figures in all Tunisia, whether in prominent basilicas or in small rural churches reflects the unity of the Christian faith throughout the territory, as well as the firmness of the Christian traditions that came from the East. In this article, we will first explain the spiritual and Christian signification of these iconographic figures and afterwards we will present the models in mosaics found in Tunisia within their archeological context. Las figuras de los ciervos, del cántaro y de los cuatro ríos del Paraíso son parte del rico repertorio de la iconografía paleocristiana en Túnez. Estas imágenes plasmadas especialmente en mosaicos, las encontramos frecuentemente en contexto bautismal como decoración de pavimento, y en contexto eucarístico decorando el suelo de las basílicas cristianas. La presencia de estas imágenes iconográficas en Túnez, ya sea en las grandes basílicas como en las pequeñas iglesias rurales, muestra la unidad de la fe católica en todo el territorio como también la solidez de las tradiciones cristianas heredadas de Oriente. Este artículo explicaremos primero el significado espiritual de estas figuras y luego presentaremos los ejemplares que la arqueología ha encontrado en las distintas regiones de Túnez. Les représentations de cerfs, de kantharos (cantharus) et des quatre fleuves du Paradis font partie d’un riche répertoire dans l’iconographie ancienne tunisienne. Souvent, ces représentations iconographiques se retrouvent dans les mosaïques des baptistères ainsi que dans les celles des basiliques. La présence de ces types d’images dans toute la Tunisie, que ce soit dans de grandes basiliques ou dans de petites églises rurales, reflète l’unité de la foi chrétienne sur tout le territoire, ainsi que la force des traditions chrétiennes venues d’Orient. Dans cet article, nous expliquerons d’abord la signification spirituelle et chrétienne de ce style de décoration,que nous appuierons à travers des modèles dans les mosaïques trouvés en Tunisie dans leur contexte archéologique

scholarly journals The transfiguration at Shivta. Retracing early Byzantine iconography

Zograf ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Maayan-Fanar
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Negev Desert ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Christian Iconography ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy ◽  
Early Byzantine

The Transfiguration constitutes one of the most important events in the New Testament. Yet, only few pre-iconoclastic examples of the Transfiguration scene have survived: S. Apollinaire in Classe, Ravenna, St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai and Porec in Istria, each has its unique iconography. Therefore, scholars have concluded that the Transfiguration scene became widespread only after the iconoclastic controversy. We aim to show, that Transfiguration scene in Shivta, an early Byzantine settlement in the Negev desert, allows a glimpse into the early Christian iconography of the well-known scene, providing a missing link to its development in the post-iconoclastic period.

The Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World

1992 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
Howard Clark Kee
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Sexual Boundaries ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Church

“[T]he vitality of the church is regained when it recovers the revolutionary insights of its founders, Jesus and Paul. In the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century and in the renewal movements that have taken place in both Roman Catholic and Protestant circles in the present century, it has been the fresh appropriation of the insights of Jesus and Paul about the inclusiveness of people across ethnic, racial, ritual, social, economic, and sexual boundaries that has restored the relevance and vitality of Christian faith and has lent to Christianity as a social and intellectual movement a positive, humane force in the wider society.”

Staging the Gaze: Early Christian Apocalypses and Narrative Self-Representation

1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry O. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Gaze

In Minucius Felix'sOctavius, the pagan Caecilius offers an intriguing critique of the Christian God. Having pilloried Christian faith as trust in a “solitary, forlorn God, whom no free nation, no kingdom, no superstition known to Rome has knowledge of,” he goes on to mock him as a voyeur:[W]hat monstrous absurdities these Christians invent about this God of theirs, whom they can neither show nor see! That he searches diligently into the ways and deeds of all people, yea even their words and hidden thoughts, hurrying to and fro, everywhere present at once; they make him out to be a troublesome, restless being, who has a hand in everything that is done, is shamelessly curious, interlopes at every turn, and can neither attend to particulars because he is distracted with the whole, nor to the whole because he is engaged with particulars.

Reconfiguring Early Christian ‘Faith’

Ecclesiology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Horrell
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Important Study ◽  
The New Testament

Teresa Morgan’s Roman Faith and Christian Faith provides a major new study of the lexicon of ‘faith’ (pistis/fides) in the early Roman Empire. This review essay provides a summary of the book’s contents as well as a critical assessment. The book begins with study of uses of pistis and fides in Greek and Roman sources, in domestic and personal relations, in military and religious contexts. It then moves to the Septuagint, before turning to the New Testament, which is considered in detail. The early Christian sources are unusual in the prominence and weight they give to pistis, but their usage nonetheless fits within the wider social and cultural matrix, in which pistis and fides primarily express the notion of trust and express the importance of trust and fidelity in a wide range of social and religious relationships. In these early Christian sources there is a heavy focus on divine-human pistis, but this creates networks of trusting and trustworthiness that are crucial to the formation and cohesion of early Christian communities. Some critical questions may be raised – for example, concerning Morgan’s heavy focus on divine-human pistis, and her arguments against the early emergence of a titular usage of pistis to denote the early Christian movement – but overall this is an important study which should reconfigure our sense of early Christian (and especially Pauline) pistis, which is less about ‘belief’, whether salvific or propositional, and more about relationships of trust, which are the foundation of community.

scholarly journals Reflections on the City of Alexandria and the growth of the early Christian faith

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Theological School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coptic Church ◽  
The City

The city of Alexandria in Egypt was and remains the centre of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, and it was one of the major centres of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire. St. Mark the Evangelist was the founder of the See, and the Patriarchate's emblem is the Lion of Saint Mark. It was in this city where the Christian faith was vigorously promoted, and in which Hellenic culture flourished. The first theological school of Christendom was stablished which drove catechesis and the study of religious philosophy to new heights. It was greatly supported in its quest by numerous champions of the faith and early Church Fathers such as inter-alia, Pantaenus, Clement, Dionysius, Gregory, Eusebius, Athanasius, Didymus and Origen. Both the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and also the Coptic Church, lay claim to the ancient legacy of Alexandria. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641 CE, the city had lost much of its significance. Today the Greek or Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria remains a very important organ the dissemination of Christianity in Africa especially due to its missionary activities. The head bishop of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa, Theodore II, and his clerics are performing meritorious works on the continent to the glory of God’s Kingdom. This article traces, albeit it in a limited sense, the history of the faith in Alexandria using a desk-top research methodology. In order to trace Alexandria’s historical development and especially its Christian religious focus, existing relevant primary and secondary data considered to be relevant was utilised including research material published in academic articles, books, bibliographic essays, Biblical and Church documents, electronic documents and websites.

scholarly journals Fulfillment in Continuity: The Orthodox Christian Theology of Biblical Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Demetrios E. Tonias
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
The Church

Abstract Concentrating on the Orthodox theology of biblical Israel within the context of fulfillment theology, the argument is that the early Church envisioned itself as the continuation of Israel of the Jewish Bible rather than its replacement. In the author’s view, the current understanding of the distinction between replacement and fulfillment theology, the early Christian theological conception of the Church as Israel, and the ways in which both contemporaneous pagans and Jews viewed the nascent Christian faith support this assertion.

scholarly journals Two Aspects of Early Christian Faith

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 6-31
Author(s):  
Teresa Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
The Church

‘Faith’ is one of Christianity's most significant, distinctive and complex concepts and practices, but Christian understandings of faith in the patristic period have received surprisingly little attention. This article explores two aspects of what Augustine terms fides qua, ‘the faith by which believers believe’. From the early second century, belief in the truth of doctrine becomes increasingly significant to Christians; by the fourth, affirming that certain doctrines are true has become central to becoming Christian and to remaining within the church. During the same period, we find a steady growth in poetic and imagistic descriptions of interior faith. This article explores how and why these developments occurred, arguing that they are mutually implicated and that this period sees the beginning of their long co-existence.

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