Early Latin theology: selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and JeromeStanley Lawrence Greenslade |
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... matter . Apart from that , he genuinely tried to under- stand Christianity as divinum negotium , as Revelation , as some- thing that God has done . With all his exaggerations and per- versions of detail , he was yet a major force in ...
... matter . Apart from that , he genuinely tried to under- stand Christianity as divinum negotium , as Revelation , as some- thing that God has done . With all his exaggerations and per- versions of detail , he was yet a major force in ...
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... matter , and Heracleitus comes on the scene when anything is being laid down about a god of fire . Heretics and philosophers per- pend the same themes and are caught up in the same dis- cussions . What is the origin of evil , and why ...
... matter , and Heracleitus comes on the scene when anything is being laid down about a god of fire . Heretics and philosophers per- pend the same themes and are caught up in the same dis- cussions . What is the origin of evil , and why ...
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... matter , time , and limitation . As to matter , you are to consider what is to be sought ; as to time , when ; and as to limita- tion , how far . What you must seek is what Christ taught , and precisely as long as you are not finding it ...
... matter , time , and limitation . As to matter , you are to consider what is to be sought ; as to time , when ; and as to limita- tion , how far . What you must seek is what Christ taught , and precisely as long as you are not finding it ...
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... matter Man and God , whatever faith he taught , whatever reward he promised , himself declared , while he lived on earth , what he was , what he had been , how he was fulfilling his Father's will , what he was laying down as man's duty ...
... matter Man and God , whatever faith he taught , whatever reward he promised , himself declared , while he lived on earth , what he was , what he had been , how he was fulfilling his Father's will , what he was laying down as man's duty ...
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... matters of dispute . Now to the critical mind which demands evidence , it is not good enough that Paul should himself profess to have been changed from persecutor to apostle . Even the Lord did not bear witness of himself . However ...
... matters of dispute . Now to the critical mind which demands evidence , it is not good enough that Paul should himself profess to have been changed from persecutor to apostle . Even the Lord did not bear witness of himself . However ...
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Page 334 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 319 - For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace; as in all churches of the saints.
Page 351 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest...
Page 131 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 382 - Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2.
Page 133 - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof : from such turn away.
Page 123 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 375 - O Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thy house, and the place where Thy glory dwelleth.
Page 364 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men.
Page 319 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
References to this book
The Lord's Prayer Through North African Eyes: A Window Into Early Christianity Michael Joseph Brown No preview available - 2004 |