The Evolution of Western Individualism Louis Dumont has shown how Western individualism is rooted in religion. He explained the rise of modern inworldly individualism as the result of a transformation of outworldly individualism in early Christianity, brought about by a chang... A Buss - 《...
400 AD, the Pianabella Basilica is one of the few unambiguously Christian monuments from Ostia in the Late Antique period. Consequently, it provides evidence for the continuities and transformations of late Roman culture during the period of Christianity's rise to prominence. Examination of the ...
Through an analysis of their theological perspectives, discernible elements can be identified within both Islam and Catholicism that foster civic autonomy(Jelen, 2017), An analysis of religious and cultural discourse reveals that the political impact of Catholicism (or Christianity) and Islam do not ...
-- Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary How I wish someone had put a book like this into my hands 50 years ago -- N. T. Wright, Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of St. Andrews, Scotland ...
Reading Asceticism: Exegetical Strategies in the Early Christian Rhetoric of Renunciation When in early Christianity the ascetic body came to occupy a central discursive position, exegetes needed to find in Scripture ballast for their changing cultural project. This essay identifies three strategies by ...
Craig is a sought-after speaker, writer, and lecturer on the subject of New Testament cultural backgrounds. Craig has authored 20 books, four of which have won Christianity Today Book Awards. His IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (IVP, 1993), now in its 2nd r...
The Crimean War started when the Russian Empire began threatening the Ottoman Empire over control of the Holy Lands (the Crimea and Turkey being extremely close to the lands of Palestine, Persia and Arabia, the birthplaces of Islam, Christianity and Judaism). When Russia forced itself into Ottom...
early ChristianityGreco-Roman influencesJewish lawJudaismNew TestamentRoman ruleSummary This chapter highlights the fact that all interpretation of the New Testament, its literature, its concepts, its practices, its social histories, only makes sense through being situated in a background context that ...
ChristianityWomen account for over 50% of all undergraduates, and one third of all faculty in the United States (American Council on Education, 2000; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2000). But in 1995 women held only slightly more than 16% of chief executive positions in higher ...