White believes that the Christian interpretation of this verse teaches man to be arrogant toward nature and that God gives man the green light to exploit nature as man pleases. White has levelled serious accusations against the early Christians. This article interprets the ancient eastern and ...
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...
That changed in the nineteenth century with the arrival of Psychology, which has ever since spent a lot of time considering both sexuality and nature or nurture. Richard von Kraft Ebbing and Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, both Germans, were early into the fray and took opposite sides in the nature o...
Early Christian theology, like its close cousin, Jewish theology, was built upon a literal reading of the Hebrew sacred writings (aka Old Testament scriptures) with its habitual use of direct anthropomorphisms. The early Christians in antiquity, like the Jews, were quite comfortable with this ...
To be sure, Christians in the Middle Ages professed that all people are born equal in the eyes of God, but this kind of equality was compatible in their eyes with great inequalities in life here on earth. What counted was the state of one's soul, not one's status in society. Yet ...
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet.In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wo...
His new book includes chapters on the nature of the Bible, the history of prophecy, the meaning of apocalyptic writings, the interpretation of Daniel and Revelation, the expectations of Jesus, and the hopes of the early Christians. ... CC Hill 被引量: 6发表: 2002年 ...
WP Mcdonald - 《Journal of Early Christian Studies》 被引量: 16发表: 1999年 Origen of Caesarea: Creating Christian identity in the third century The formation of Christian identity was on going in the third century, and the theologian Origen stands as both witness and participant to this pr...
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...
Basically, the big difference between a teenage, early 20’s brain and an adult brain over 30-years is the area of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex. This area becomes active when you think about yourself, especially the emotional situation to yourself. As one grows from child to...