Each of the three sources depended on the other two for validation; thus, one could determine which purportedly scriptural writings were genuinely apostolic by appealing to their conformity with acknowledged apostolic tradition and to the usage of the apostolic churches, and so on. This was not a...
in the writings of canonists and theologians, side by side with the more prominent concern with papal primacy. The great conciliarists active at theCouncil of Constanceattempted unsuccessfully to balance these two emphases, and even in the modern period, despite the growing prominence of ultramont...
Define Roman Catholics. Roman Catholics synonyms, Roman Catholics pronunciation, Roman Catholics translation, English dictionary definition of Roman Catholics. adj. Abbr. RC Of, relating to, or being the Roman Catholic Church. n. A member of the Roman Ca
The first section locates the impetus for the thesis, namely in the mid-second-century writings of Justin Martyr who candidly admitted that the Gospel accounts applied this familiar ancient convention to the founder of the Christian movement, that there was indeed "nothing new" about the so-...
25 Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, 26 but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God...
Arguably the most important of all the early missionaries, though, was Paul of Tarsus. His tireless efforts in Greece, Asia Minor and throughout those provinces which make up modern Turkey, helped establish pockets of Christians all over the east. His writings are the source for much of the ...
Christ and Caesar: The Gospel and the Roman Empire in the Writings of Paul and Luke It shows the militaristic desires of Judas as an anti-Roman terrorist, and of Paul as imperial preacher, against the family-man potential of Jesus beyond the cross after his mystical visions in the desert,...
Instead, justification by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone was something the Bible proclaimed in both the Old and the New Testaments, and affirmed by many in the early Church fathers, even to men like Augustine (who was often quoted in the Reformers’ writings). The ...
As to be expected, the common Jewish attitudes towards what was seen as the depravity of the Gentile world were echoed in the writings of the Jew Paul, a leading figure in the early decades of the movement of the followers of Jesus. When Paul, for instance, planned to visit Rome, a co...
The humanists gave primacy to Cicero because his writings were both elegant and filled with moral values (Grendler 1991, p. 221). In 1a passage from Cicero’s De Officiis (book I, 37–38), the great Roman orator explains that one of the components of moral rectitude is that attitude ...