Prophecy in Carthage

Prophecy in Carthage

Author: Cecil M. Robeck

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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From the perspectives of a laywoman, a bishop, and a theologian, he looks at connections between prophetic phenomena - on the rise in Carthage at that time and in decline elsewhere - and ecclesiastical expectations.


The New Prophecy and "New Visions"

The New Prophecy and

Author: Rex D. Butler

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0813215900

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In this book, Rex D. Butler examines the Passion for evidence of Montanism and proposes that its three authors--Perpetua, Saturus, and the unnamed editor--were Montanists.


Major Bible Prophecies

Major Bible Prophecies

Author: John F. Walvoord

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1999-12

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0310234670

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This is a review of 37 crucial prophecies that affect us today.


Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments

Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments

Author: William Tabbernee

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9004158197

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"Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments" is an insightful case-study of the opposition to Montanism, an early-Christian prophetic movement, by Church and State both before and after 'catholic' Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.


Women Writing Latin

Women Writing Latin

Author: Laurie J. Churchill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1136742921

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This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume One covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity.


From Prophecy to Preaching

From Prophecy to Preaching

Author: A. Stewart-Sykes

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9004313338

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This book seeks to determine the origins of preaching in Christianity, and to trace its history before Origen. On the basis of a examination of the external evidence for Christian preaching before Origen and of cognate activities in the ancient world which might have influenced Christian practice, and on the basis of a narrative hypothesis on the nature of the development of Christianity, a history is traced by which prophecy gives way to Scripture as the primitive Christian oikos becomes the oikos theou. The homily is seen to emerge from the practice of submitting prophecy to judgement and application, which comes to employ Scripture and in time is employed on Scripture itself. This is the first attempt to answer the questions of how, when and why preaching entered Christian worship.


Rescue for the Dead

Rescue for the Dead

Author: Jeffrey A. Trumbower

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0195140990

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Christianity is a religion of salvation in which believers have always anticipated some type of post-mortem bliss. This belief in salvation for the faithful has usually meant non-salvation for others. This text examines the establishment of this view.


Portraits of Spiritual Authority

Portraits of Spiritual Authority

Author: Jan Willem Drijvers

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9004295917

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This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe. The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth.


A Visible Unity

A Visible Unity

Author: Josiah Baker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-09-16

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1978717202

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The work of uniting churches is slow, challenging, and multifaceted; and it changes in each generation and location. In this book, Josiah Baker studies the efforts of believers towards reconciliation as something significant for how we understand the church. He offers a theology for laborers, people for whom unity is not only an idea but a calling and sure hope. A Visible Unity is a study in systematic theology on the relation of ecumenical methodology to ecclesiological convergence, how acting together results in the churches being together. Ecumenical work informs ecclesiology because it involves the actions of Christians together in accordance with their shared views of the church. Whenever this work changes, the partnering churches change their relations and further resolve their divisions. Baker studies ecclesiology by telling stories about a person—the Pentecostal ecumenist Cecil Robeck—for Robeck’s decades of leadership in American and global ecumenical settings. By narrating his activities and analyzing his thought, the book offers a window into the interrelation of different portions of the ecumenical movement and how the movement has changed over the years. Baker compiles archival materials and personal interviews to tell stories about ecumenism never before published.