early ChristianityGerman identityGerman origin mythsScandinavian animal styleIn this article, I attempt to show how the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period in Early Chiristian Europe (c. AD 400500) created
There is certainly evidence of an intention to preach Christianity in Ireland before Patrick's time, and this evidence itself affords evidence of a still earlier teaching. In speaking of the visit of Germanus to Britain to put down Pelagianism, the first of two...
During the earliest Christian period, Christianity was illegal. Christians could have their property seized or could be murdered in gruesome ways, including being crucified, fed to lions, or having their skin removed. As such, Christian art had to be kept secret.View...
By the mid-2nd century bce the Greeks had come under Roman control, and the vast Roman Empire brought to the conquered parts of Europe the civilization the Greeks had begun. It was through the Romans that Christianity penetrated Europe. The Roman Empire in the West finally collapsed in the ...
Try looking at the interplay between Christianity and Islam, for instance. How do different religions borrow from each other, both in the modern day and throughout history? Ethical Dilemmas Think about the ways that cultures and religions borrow from each other. Do you think that kind of ...
, Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity (New York: Routledge): 23–46; Google Scholar K.P. Luria (2005), Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press). Google Scholar E. Carlebach (...
toolbox built to analyse cultural translation (II), and then explain the basics regarding the sacrament of the Eucharist and the theology of transubstantiation (III), understanding this belief formation as the object that had to be translated and explained for the believers in Latin Christianity. ...
Europe,he says,was not a bunch of conservative priests trying to shut down a noble,free,secular ancient world,but a new idea of "a voluntary basis for human association in which people joined together through will and love rather than blood or shared material objectives".Christianity declared ...
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in New Spain (Mexico) and in the Philippines,Footnote6the latter becoming one of the places of refuge for Catholics exiled from Japan. Martyrdom in Catholic Christianity went through a renaissance in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it is no coincidence that Early Modern...