Dialogues (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 39) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialogues (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 39) write by Pope Gregory I. This book was released on 1959. Dialogues (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 39) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No description available
Dialogue with Trypho (Selections from the Fathers of the Church, Volume 3)
Dialogue with Trypho (Selections from the Fathers of the Church, Volume 3) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialogue with Trypho (Selections from the Fathers of the Church, Volume 3) write by Saint Justin Martyr. This book was released on 2003. Dialogue with Trypho (Selections from the Fathers of the Church, Volume 3) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No description available
On Animals: Systematic Theology
On Animals: Systematic Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Animals: Systematic Theology write by David L. Clough. This book was released on 2012-02-02. On Animals: Systematic Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book-length study of the place of animals in systematic theology.
Heaven's Purge
Heaven's Purge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heaven's Purge write by Isabel Moreira. This book was released on 2010-11-17. Heaven's Purge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The doctrine of purgatory - the state after death in which Christians undergo punishment by God for unforgiven sins - raises many questions. What is purgatory like? Who experiences it? Does purgatory purify souls, or punish them, or both? How painful is it? Heaven's Purge explores the first posing of these questions in Christianity's early history, from the first century to the eighth: an era in which the notion that sinful Christians might improve their lot after death was contentious, or even heretical. Isabel Moreira discusses a wide range of influences at play in purgatory's early formation, including ideas about punishment and correction in the Roman world, slavery, the value of medical purges at the shrines of saints, and the authority of visions of the afterlife for informing Christians of the hereafter. She also challenges the deeply ingrained supposition that belief in purgatory was a symptom of barbarized Christianity, and assesses the extent to which Irish and Germanic views of society, and the sources associated with them - penitentials and legal tariffs - played a role in purgatory's formation. Special attention is given to the writings of the last patristic author of antiquity, the Northumbrian monk Bede. Heaven's Purge is the first study to focus on purgatory's history in late antiquity, challenging the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.
Pope Gregory and the Brides of Christ
Pope Gregory and the Brides of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pope Gregory and the Brides of Christ write by John R. C. Martyn. This book was released on 2009-10-02. Pope Gregory and the Brides of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Letters of Gregory the Great, pope from 590 to 604, have long been viewed as an indispensable resource for scholars of the early medieval period. John Martyn’s knowledge of these letters is well nigh unsurpassed, In this book he turns his attention to a hitherto neglected subject; those letters of Pope Gregory which pertain to nuns and convents. Despite the fact that scholarship on the Middle Ages has in the last thirty years been transformed by feminist contributions, and there has developed, as a result, a heightened awareness of the presence of women in medieval life, both secular and religious, only two of the thirty-six letters identified by Martyn have previously been discussed by scholars. This edition of the letters in both Latin and English is therefore of inestimable value to scholars and will act as a spur for further research. This sizeable collection of letters are analysed in company with other, better-known, writings about nuns from Gregory’s dialogi. In the introduction Martyn argues that his upbringing, dominated by his mother and four devout aunts, might reasonably have inculcated in him a deep and abiding concern for women, the religious in particular. This is evidenced by his friendships with Theoctista and Gordia, the sisters of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice, and with his wife, the pious Constantina. and with a number of abbesses, including Respecta (from Marseilles) and Talasia (from Autun). Gregory’s deep interest in the religious life of women, and his concern for their safety and wellbeing, are apparent throughout the letters. Martyn’s translations are clarified and enhanced by a commentary.
