A Short World History of ChristianityWestminster John Knox Press, 2006 |
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... Greeks, or Hellenists. In his subduing of Persia, Alexander the Great brought the eastern Mediterranean area (including Judea) under the sway of Greek power. After his death (as we will see) the land was contested by various different ...
... Greeks, or Hellenists. In his subduing of Persia, Alexander the Great brought the eastern Mediterranean area (including Judea) under the sway of Greek power. After his death (as we will see) the land was contested by various different ...
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... Greek wisdom and Hebrew revelation, he believed, could work together. Others were not so sure. The gymnasium, symbol of the Hellenistic world, where naked young men exercised their bodies, and the Jewish Temple, where pious men in long ...
... Greek wisdom and Hebrew revelation, he believed, could work together. Others were not so sure. The gymnasium, symbol of the Hellenistic world, where naked young men exercised their bodies, and the Jewish Temple, where pious men in long ...
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... Greek,” and in this he meant that the message was for both Jews and Greeks. One practi- cal reason this could be so was that Greeks and (most) Jews shared a common language. If Alexander provided a common language, Rome created a common ...
... Greek,” and in this he meant that the message was for both Jews and Greeks. One practi- cal reason this could be so was that Greeks and (most) Jews shared a common language. If Alexander provided a common language, Rome created a common ...
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... Greek ) was present at creation and was part of the eternal order . It was God in action . John continued , “ and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . ” In Jesus , the eternal word took on human form . The term that would later be ...
... Greek ) was present at creation and was part of the eternal order . It was God in action . John continued , “ and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . ” In Jesus , the eternal word took on human form . The term that would later be ...
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... Greek-speaking Jews who were deeply involved in Hellenistic culture. Acts records that the Hel- lenists who lived in Jerusalem did not believe that their needs were being met by the ruling apostles. Out of this concern the office of the ...
... Greek-speaking Jews who were deeply involved in Hellenistic culture. Acts records that the Hel- lenists who lived in Jerusalem did not believe that their needs were being met by the ruling apostles. Out of this concern the office of the ...
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Página 7 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Página 35 - Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Página 16 - Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Página 9 - Art Thou He that cometh or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go your way and tell John the things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up and the poor have good tidings preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me.
Página 22 - For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word...
Página 195 - Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
Página 213 - Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild — Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's Burden...
Página 12 - The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Página 13 - I have said these things to you while I am still with you. 26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.
Página 71 - Manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Onlybegotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation...