... 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 © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected] 2012 Abstract Generally overlooked by scholars, the final scene of D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—in which Jesus Christ...

... Testament books may be thought of so as to sense a unity. Every writing in the New Testament collection is a ‘Jesus book’. However, distinctions must be made between them. Each book of the New Testament has a view of Jesus of one sort or another. Of all the topics taught by Jesus, the one that has...

...In the years between the death of Jesus and the gospel-writing period, sayings from Jesus, stories about him, collections of parables or miracle stories, glimpses of the Passion, and resurrection experiences had been told, heard, and eagerly told. For centuries, Christianity assumed the priority...

...The Revelation of Jesus Christ is an amalgam of visions, letters, and sequences of catastrophic judgements, which devastate the sinful world, particularly the oppressor ‘Babylon’; all interspersed with precious glimpses of hope, including a thousand-year reign by Christ and then the consummation...

... approach to biblical truth acknowledges that truth is to be found primarily in the whole Bible. Jesus Christ is the Truth, attested prophetically in the Old Testament and apostolically in the New. Ultimately biblical truth is something to be lived and practised. A closed list of inspired...

...Jesus’ words about salvation and damnation reveal an extraordinarily heightened sense of the absolute claims the spiritual makes upon us, independently of belief in a future state. Jesus enforces with prodigious power the sense that failure to live with total confidence in God's fatherhood forfeits...

... figures religion and film Jesus and film theology and film theology When is theology an integral part of a film, and when is it brought to a film? To help answer these questions I offer a critique of the increasing tendency among a number of theologians and religious...

...Because so many of Jesus’ sayings, especially his parables, feature the figure of the slave, they create the impression that Jesus was as familiar with the everyday world of slaveholding and enslavement as with the worlds of farming and fishing. The parables represent slaves in managerial roles...

... Province. One of the articles in the table of contents is titled “The True Meaning of the ‘New Woman.’ ” Credit: Holy Spirit Times, July 20, 1928 Figure 4.6 True Jesus Church Deaconess Huang Li Xia (1868–1942), featured alongside Deaconess Yang Zhendao...

...Figure 8.1 Exterior of True Jesus Church with sign reading “Chaozong Street Chapel” in Changsha. This church was not a research site for this book. Credit: Anonymous photographer. Within China’s diverse civil society, certain groups including Christian churches like the True...

...Figure 9.1 Members of the True Jesus Church kneel in prayer during a worship meeting. This church was not a research site for this book. Credit: Anonymous photographer. In the charismatic culture of the True Jesus Church in contemporary China, extraordinary occurrences...

...Chapter 8 explores how early Christian theologians envisioned creation and recreation playing out in the ministries of Jesus and the Spirit. Not just the preexistent but the incarnate Son was active agent of creation and redemption. Patristic theologians thus interpreted individual...

.... Central for the argument are Herder’s Christliche Schriften (1793–8), the Ideen (1801–4), and the Adrastea (1801–4). anthropology Jesus of Nazareth religion Christianity God Humanität theology Irmscher Hans Dietrich Koepke Wulf Auch eine...

...This chapter highlights the role of Jesus for human salvation, the function of the Church in communicating salvation, and the place of Israel in the divine plan of salvation. The original followers of Jesus held him to be the unique and universal Saviour because only Jesus can save men and women...

...This chapter examines Mark's narrative about the death and resurrection of Jesus. The parts of Mark's structure that are especially interesting in examining him as a witness to Jesus' death and resurrection are the last section of the fourth part (“Act III”) (15:37-47), which tells of the death...

... first, at least in canonical 160 order of the New Testament. As we have seen, Matthew records for us a story that was, he says, ² put about by the priests from the very beginning: that the disciples had come to the tomb and stolen the body of Jesus while the guards were asleep (Matt 28:11...

... of deification. They include Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria in the Great Declaration, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. A brief conclusion treats the relevance of self-deification mythology for today....