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- Sat May 11, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Rome and early Christianity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 78
Re: Rome and early Christianity
What about the hypothesis, “Romans / Alexandrians invented Christianity”? Lots of commonality between Philo and Christianity; Philo writes in the same time period; Philo’s writings were treasured by the early church (do we have more of his writings than anyone else’s?); Philo’s prolific output hints...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 59
What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
In the psalms, you occasionally see the act of speaking to one’s soul, or asking or persuading the soul. Augustine makes use of inner dialogue in his soliloquies: https://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/90312/excerpt/9780521190312_excerpt.pdf https://revistia.org/files/articles/ejls_v1_i3_15/Halil.pdf...
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: According to Gill’s Exposition, the Ethiopic Bible has a different reading of Luke 12:52?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 100
According to Gill’s Exposition, the Ethiopic Bible has a different reading of Luke 12:52?
It says: “The Ethiopic version reads, "two shall be separated from three, and one shall be separated from two".” I can’t find this passage anywhere. Which Ethiopic version is he referring to? I’ve always felt that Luke 12:49-53 hints at something deeper: 49“I came to cast fire on the earth...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Book 6.5.3 of Wars of the Jews.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1084
Re: Book 6.5.3 of Wars of the Jews.
Lots of early / medieval nativity art show a cow or ox right next to the stable.Joseph D. L. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:51 am A cow gave birth to a lamb? Huh. I really didn't see that one coming.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in Romans 10:6-8 be understood?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 596
How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in Romans 10:6-8 be understood?
The sequence of thought is very strange to me. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Chr...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Melito called Jesus the Father. What are some other strange Christologies found in the Church Fathers?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 288
Melito called Jesus the Father. What are some other strange Christologies found in the Church Fathers?
In On Pascha 8-9 Melito writes For he was born a son, and led as a lamb, and slaughtered as a sheep, and buried as a man, and rose from the dead as God, being God by his nature and a man. He is all things. He is law, in that he judges. He is word, in that he teaches. He is grace, in that he saves. H...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:54 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 361
What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
What were their primary means of revenue (donations from individual rich donors versus average “member” collections)? What percentage of the revenue went where? This I am really interested in: what percent went to expensive incense and oil, what percent to feasts, what percent to aiding the poor, wh...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 682
Re: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
they can say for sure. I went down a rabbit hole on the letter I mentioned and still have more to read about it before a proper reply (apparently there is considerable controversy about it which I hadn’t realized, my fault for trusting Wikipedia — some translated it as “no desire to write in Hebrew...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:57 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 682
Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
There is at least one professor who entertains the idea Jesus spoke Greek during his teachings: https://www.wisluthsem.org/did-jesus-speak-greek/ It is odd that if Jesus spoke Aramaic primarily, the gospel writers would translate into Greek using the same basic language with mostly just additions or...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 69
- Views: 8551
Re: History trumps Theology
whitewash its anti humanitarian reality disturbing If it is anti-humanitarian, then we should see that humanitarianism begins with non-Christians. We would also see that Christians donate the least to humanitarian organizations. We don’t see this. Some of the first humanitarians were Christians and...