Euhemerism went under significant modification in order to fit into the early Christian apologetic argumentation. After such a modification, the theory came to be known to subsequent periods, including our own, only through this Christian usage. Taking Celsus' attack on the Christians regarding the ...
The church, which is actually a small cave cut into a mountain, is said to be the earliest place where the early Christians met and prayed secretly. A small tunnel inside the cave was used at that time to evacuate the community in the event of sudden attacks by their eventual persec...
be other sources of divine natural law because their authors are said to have been inspired by a divine spirit. Some Christians point to theCanon Lawof the Catholic Church, which was applied by the ecclesiastical courts of Europe during the Middle Ages, as another source of divine natural law...
Four hundred years ago these same Amboinase were dreaded far and wide as the most voracious cannibals of the Pacific Ocean.Today they are exemplary Christians although, curiously enough, they have given the Dutch East Indian army its best fighting regiments. Borneo, the main remnant of the old...
with its habitual use of direct anthropomorphisms. The early Christians in antiquity, like the Jews, were quite comfortable with this anthropomorphist God in whose image and likeness man was created. This would not be the case for long, for within a few centuries the Christians would feel a...
“Finding Spiritual Freedom” is the metaphoric message of the biblical Passover story. Many Jews and Christians annually remember and ritually observe the biblical Exodus story about God miraculously rescuing Jews from bondage as slaves in Egypt, with Christians recalling that a Passover Sede...
by Brunelleschi and Alberti, the writings of Goethe, or the mathematical models inspiring Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.\nPlato made light the earthly counterpart of the Good; the early Christians believed the command "Let there be light" unleashed a power that shaped and energized the world. ...
For most of European history, people found little pleasure in mountain landscapes. Mountains were a nuisance––obstacles to travel and economically unproductive. And they had little value as scenery. Their artless, irregular shapes disturbed classical ideals of order. Christians of the Middle Ages wo...
… By embracing the scandal of the cross, and joyfully accepting its shame, these early Christians discovered the true character of God, and found that the true source of joy consisted in becoming like him. (p. 141) Share this: Loading... Thanks, Elizabeth Warren On March 6, 2020 By ...
Paul's words to the Corinthians call upon Christians to treat the homosexual as a person who is in need of forgiveness and transformation, but not to treat him or her differently than those who have fallen victim to other types of sin. Since those who are covetous find a place on the sa...