... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is characterized by specific expectations in the realm of gender roles and sexuality, expectations which can be interpreted as heteronormative symbolic boundaries...

..., a tradition which anticipated that the enslaving powers of a broken world would be defeated by a decisive unveiling of God’s power. For early Christians, specifically, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ marked God’s victory over the world’s structuring “powers,” including the power of death...

...Phillip Maciak Abstract Generally overlooked by scholars, the final scene of D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—in which Jesus Christ is superimposed in an apocalyptic revelry—is crucial to understanding Griffith’s aesthetic project. While it may seem an odd culmination...

... no man can acquire knowledge of Him except through Jesus Christ, mediator between God and men. The creation of the universe, which is neither independent of time nor established by a new plan of God, suggested a later purpose which earlier God had been unwilling to carry out. It also considers...

...This chapter addresses the seminal minjung aspect of Korean biblical interpretation through the work of Ahn Byung-Mu’s reading of the Gospel of Mark. The three core themes integral to Ahn’s biblical hermeneutics are reviewed. First, Ahn articulates the “Jesus Event” as a political...

...This article examines the relation of Jesus to his apostle Paul. It begins with a discussion of Paul’s knowledge of Jesus and his reference to Jesus in his letters, as well as the lack of explicit tradition about Jesus in Paul. It then explains how Paul’s own sense of apostolic authority as one...

...This chapter describes the nature of human biological relatedness. It examines the social reasons why people keep reinventing the concept of race, even after it has been discredited. It offers a detailed examination and critique of the biological construct of race. It is believed that Jesus...

..., for intellectual and religious satisfaction, to describe the saving God revealed in Jesus and in Scripture. In addition, his description of divine will and nature reflects the tension for a Christian in philosophical and theological concerns. In general, Origen's cosmology reflects the varied experience of his...

..., rather than implying any sort of automatic causality. As an apologist, Eusebius presents an optimistic and universal account of divine power and human progress founded on the historical evidence of Jesus' life and the triumph of the church. Alexander of Alexandria Arius Asterius Constantine Marcellus...

... to everybody during times when people were looking for a sense of safety and well-being. With its central message of salvation through Jesus Christ for all people, Christianity could offer such a benefit, and its program of benevolence during the period of crisis undoubtedly reinforced its attractiveness...

..., leaving aside claims of divinity, miracles, and resurrection and focusing only on the ideas of self-sacrifice and martyrdom in the Gospels. The authors ask how (without divine intervention) the story of Jesus could have had such remarkable success. What was it about Jesus’s martyrdom that made it the best...

...The original Christian revelation was the teaching of Jesus about the broad outlines of which we can obtain moderately accurate information from the New Testament, treated as an ordinary historical document. This evidence indicates that he taught that he was divine and made atonement for our sins...

...This chapter surveys views of private property in the official teaching of the Christian Church in the five centuries following Jesus’s life and death. The New Testament left a deeply ambiguous account of the morality of private property, both in the explicit teachings of Jesus and in the ‘communal...

...This chapter first explains the reluctance of Protestants to deal with the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a reaction to certain later developments in the life of the church. In the Middle Ages as well as in the earlier age of the fathers, Mary increasingly became an object of interest...

...-minded examples from the Church's life and thought, ranging from more abstract problems like the theoretical role of historical criticism to such painfully concrete issues as the commandment of Jesus to forgive unforgivable wrongs....

...The problems associated with recovering the teachings of the historical Jesus from the written records of the same are examined. The various criteria that have been used to build a case for or against probable authenticity are individually described and evaluated, with special attention being given...

...The precise relationship of James and Jude to Jesus is examined on the basis of the evidence of early Christian writings and in dialogue with the classical positions of Epiphanius, Jerome, and Helvidius and their modern proponents. The evidence for the timing of Jesus' half-brothers' conversion...

... on the sayings of Jesus, particularly in regard to forgiveness, almsgiving, and other facets of piety, and upon the teaching of James, particularly in regard to proper care in speech and the question of human responsibility, is explored in detail. Points of disagreement are also examined. 13 52 20–23 Jesus...

... the later Hasmonean and early Herodian rulers. The Psalms of Solomon provide an exceptionally clear snapshot of these expectations. The piety, ethics, and eschatology of these texts are explored, with an eye to their impact upon Jesus' teaching and degree of conformity to popular messianic paradigms...

... is made that the one person, God the Son who is Jesus, suffered, bears among us the power of God. Taking upon the doctrine from the 14th-century “Thomas Aquinas of Byzantium,” Gregory Palamas: Jesus as a man “receives in himself the fullness of perfect and full deity,” so that his creaturely actuality...