...The topic of religious identity in late antiquity is highly contentious. How did individuals and groups come to ascribe identities based on what would now be known as ‘religion’, categorizing themselves and others with regard to Judaism, Manichaeism, traditional Greek and Roman practices...

... The biblical dualism Herbert Zbigniew neo Manichaeism soul Alexandrine caesura humanity Kochanowski Jan 13 Mickiewicz Adam Poland rhythm Newton Isaac reductionism Darwinism enlightenment Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Romanticism Zach Joanna Auschwitz Chwin Stefan insects Marxism suffering...

... the seeds of a “totalitarian” worldview and of violence, especially in its Soviet forms. consciousness flesh From the Rising of the Sun Miłosz humanity immanence maladjustment Manichaeism mirror totalitarianism ‘Accuser The’ Miłosz Hebrew Lipking Lawrence prose purity subjectivity symbolism...

... Manichaeism Roman imperialism languages social classifications In her maturity, Zenobia became the most powerful person in Palmyra. She was nearly the most powerful person in the Roman Empire. But even Zenobia was defined by limits. People do not cultivate selfhood in isolation. They learn who...

... of Egypt monk Basil bishop of Caesarea monks Pachomius Cyprian bishop of Carthage Decius emperor martyrs persecution Valerianus emperor Diocletian emperor Lactantius teacher Manichaeism Constantine emperor Eusebius church historian Hypatia philosopher Cyril bishop of Alexandria Nicaea...

... Pelagianism causal determinism Manichaeanism mystery Augustine Confessions 2 moral weakness motivation wrongdoing Manichaeism One of the most memorable passages in the Confessions is St. Augustine’s account, in Book 2, of his youthful theft of pears. It is also one of the most...

... Christians. He also appears to have accused his opponents of heresy, especially ‘Manichaeism’. For example, he charged that Ambrose was guilty of heresy for teaching that Mary the mother of Jesus remained physically intact in the process of giving birth (virginitas in partu). Jovinian...

...Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, represents the third-century Mesopotamian outgrowth of second-century Christianity in its pre-canonical character and valuation of the logia of Jesus over gospel narrative. He followed Marcion in his special esteem for Paul, critique of gospel authorship...

..., Middle Persian, Sogdian, and Uighur Turkic). It focuses on how East Syriac Christianity entered into dialogue with the religious traditions (Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism) encountered on the caravan routes of the Silk Road and how Christian communities from Merv to Turfan shaped their identity...

... Augustine’s experience of ordination. It argues that Augustine understood his ordination as divine chastisement for his own arrogance. Church Creation Fall of Adam the soul Old New Testament De moribus ecclesiae et Manichaeorum De musica Adam Gnosticism Manichaeism ordination Origen providence...

... Baptism Creation death Fall of Adam the soul Monnica sin spirit Church Hortensius Manichaeism Platonism Platonists concupiscence Cross Crucifixion prayer pride Enarrationes in Psalmos medicine providence authority fear education happiness Paul Carthage Neoplatonism Neoplatonist...

... study of Ultimate Reality Anthropomorphism Process Theism One and Many Whitehead Hartshorne Manichaeism Zoroastrianism Morality §18. Solving the problem of the One and the Many—which is to say, explaining how the many determinate objects and processes of reality are related to each other...

... Tibet’s ancient indigenous traditions, that are still perceptible both in their persistent survivals and in elements of the earliest written records, early medieval Tibet knew of Chinese historiography and Greek medicine, Nepalese sculpture and Sogdian textiles, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism...

... Prologue De philosophia ex oraculis Tripartite Soteriology Nicaea Council of Salvation Jesus Christ Isis Mithras Manichaeism Cybele Jupiter Dolichenus Sol Invictus Imperial Cult Constantine Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me...

... on sexual purity to his notion of a monastic clergy. faith good moral exhortation Theodore of Mopsuestia virtue discipula multa turba Asella Manichaeism Marcella monasticism New Testament books Old Testament books orthodoxy patronage Paula Portus rhetoric Rome virginity ἐργοδιώκτης...

...To deal with the religious movements of Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the area of Sohag presents a good many problems and raises several questions that will perhaps never be answered. This fact depends on our lack of evidence concerning these two strong “enemies” of the Christian “orthodox” faith...

... Gibbon Edward Byzantium Charlemagne Constantinople famine war impact of climate change plague Abbasid caliphate Danube Manichaeism Marcus Aurelius emperor Septimius Severus emperor silk route Justinian emperor Procopius historian Vandals Virgil Berbers Gelimer Vandal king Edward Gibbon...

... Eustochium daughter of Paula Manichaeism Paula patron of Jerome Altar of Victory Ambrose bishop of Milan Constantius II emperor bishops Ambrose Benedict Hebrew Manichaeism prefect Septuagint Religion as an aspect of politics is a modern interpretation. Many of the texts which survive from late...

...This chapter explores Didymus’ ontological grounding of virtue in the Trinity, not as identical with the Godhead or any of the three persons, but as permanently real and instantiated in a way that evil is not. In controversy with Manichaeism Didymus portrays evil as insubstantial, an unintended...