Introduction to the New Testament, Vol 1, History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age

Koester, Helmut

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“…Individo priklausomybė nuo nekintamų ir gailestingumo nežinančių siderinių galių, net jei jų projekcijas ir buvo galima apskaičiuoti, pasmerkė jį visiškam astrologiniam determinizmui. (Koester 1982;153) Niūraus istorinio fatalizmo akivaizdoje Poseidonijas buvo tas vidurinės Stojos atstovas, kuris rūsčiame naujajame pasaulyje pasistengė žmogiškosios laisvės idėjai suteikti bent jau elementarias galimybes išlikti. Lemties determinizmo jis pabandė išvengti, nustatydamas naują būties hierarchiją: "Dzeusas pirmas, gamta (physis) -antra, Heimarmenė -trečia" (Diogenas Laertijas 7.148).…”

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The Crisis of the Political. An Individual and the Cosmopolis

Kazlauskas

2022

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the most important problems of the crisis of the political in the first stage of Western civilization – the Greek world in the IV–II centuries BC. The crisis of the political is treated as a unique constellation of political, supra-political, and apolitical factors. The paper explores a hypothesis of how the power elite eliminates the core features of the political – tensions of consciousness and natural human hostilities – and substitutes them with management techniques that cause public apathy towards previously established democratic institutions. A theatrical model of life with an intensified function of individualizing social roles is an unavoidable result of such processes.

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The Crisis of the Political. An Individual and the Cosmopolis

Kazlauskas

2022

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“…He appears in various forms and shapes: a child carried in the arms of his mentor Silenus. 55 Sometimes he appears as a young man with almost female features or a bearded older adult. Liefeld notes that he was traditionally Thracian in origin as the god of wine.…”

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Mystery Religions and their Influence on the New Testament and Early Christianity

Fai¹,

Olagunju²

2022

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This article discusses mystery religions and how they influenced the New Testament and early Christianity. It is library research and is descriptive. Data was gathered from books, journal articles, and internet sources. The research findings reveal that mystery religions influenced the New Testament to the extent that the knowledge derived from it sheds more light on the background of some New Testament texts, such as John 12:24 and Matthew 17:1-13. Also, some practices in the New Testament times, such as baptism, meal fellowship, the veiling of women, and other early Christian practices, were influenced by mystery religions. Both the mystery religions and New Testament contain the same linguistic form. Therefore, this article recommends that mystery religions be studied to gain background knowledge of particular texts in the New Testament. Also, the language in mystery religious texts can be examined since it can aid the understanding of New Testament writings at times. Keywords: Mystery, Religions, Influence, New Testament

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“…Isis was worshipped as the goddess of navigation, a deliverer from struggles and crises, the goddess of heaven, the mother of the universe, and she was identified with wisdom (Balch 2003;Koester 1982 Goodenough ( 1935:45) has noted that no matter how different each goddess was in detail; all were celebrated with common elements. Goodenough noted these common elements as being the Great Mother, the Female Principle and the Universal Queen.…”

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Mutual-mothering as wise living or living wisely

Nortjé-Meyer

2017

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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In the 1970s, feminist biblical scholars began to conduct research on the biblical traditions of wisdom and the manifestation of female images of God, named Sophialogy. There are different focus areas within Sophialogy, but the formulation of Wisdom/Sophia goals for liberation and equality was inter alia the focus area of feminist biblical interpretation. According to this approach, Jesus as the prophetic messenger of Wisdom/Sophia activates the Sophia tradition through his works or deeds of compassion for the poor, the outcasts, and all those suffering from injustice. Women in Africa interpret these deeds as communal ‘wise living’ and the custodians of justice. This culminates in a motherhood agenda, namely, making peace for life; ensuring mutual respect, honour and care for life; looking for fairness; reciprocity; wholeness and inclusiveness. The aim of this paper is to discuss mutual-mothering in the African context as an ethos for living wisely and justly. Having instincts to care and to protect are not exclusively female attributes, but include also males.

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Introduction to the New Testament, Vol 1, History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age

Cited by 7 publications

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The Crisis of the Political. An Individual and the Cosmopolis

The Crisis of the Political. An Individual and the Cosmopolis

Mystery Religions and their Influence on the New Testament and Early Christianity

Mutual-mothering as wise living or living wisely

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