‘Two Powers in Heaven’ and Early Christian Trinitarian Thinking

Segal, Alan F.

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“…This source, called God in Christianity, appropriated successfully and in its idiosyncratic way some arguments from Neoplatonism (Beierwaltes, 1998;O'Meara, 1982). An additional complexity was included in the Christian God because this monotheistic divinity appeared itself to have a triple personality, brought into view in the Trinitarian concept of Christendom (Atherton, 1976;Segal, 2001). A good example of the overturning of meanings ushered in by Christianity is the vindication of infinity as one of the substantial predicates of the Christian God (Mühlenberg, 1966;Sweeney, 1992).…”

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The Renaissance Concept of Space: Notes on the Interaction between Arts and Sciences in History.

Undusk¹

2015

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The "Renaissance concept of space" harbors surely some definite bonuses for anybody embarking on a study of the inventive role that philosophy has had, in its happiest moments of life, for human cognition. First, the new suppositions related to physical space emerge in the renaissance as derivative from the theological-philosophical assumptions of the era: what renaissance space is can be enunciated quite convincingly on the basis of the intellectual collisions that the era was allotted to deal with. thus, as a re-generator of classical culture, the renaissance had to a degree dug up the finite substructure of ancient thinking; however, as an inheritor of the Middle Ages, it had been requested to square finitism with transcendency. Second, much of what we can today fit under Renaissance space is in fact delivered to us in the artistic form of painting, which means that, in addition to the challenge set by philosophy to the spatial knowledge of the era, there was postulated as well a mediatory agency of art in the realization and conveyance of this new knowledge. Thus we can suppose that the solution offered by Renaissance art to the problem of space on its fictional plane comprised the germ of some modern knowledge about space in reality.

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The Renaissance Concept of Space: Notes on the Interaction between Arts and Sciences in History.

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2015

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“…21 Early Christian binitarianism, as defined by Hurtado or Segal, is also "a primitive effort at what later became trinitarian doctrine" 22 . It is significant in this respect that Segal authored a study entitled " 'Two Powers in Heaven' and Early Christian Trinitarian Thinking" 23 , and that, towards the end of his magisterial volume, Hurtado speaks about "[t]he struggle to work out doctrinal formulations that could express in some coherent way this peculiar view of God as 'one' and yet somehow comprising 'the Father' and Jesus, thereafter also including the Spirit as the third 'Person' of the Trinity" 24 .…”

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“Early Christian Binitarianism”: From Religious Phenomenon to Polemical Insult to Scholarly Concept

Bucur

2010

Modern Theology

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This article discusses the use of “binitarianism” and related concepts in the study of early Christian writings. A survey of past and present uses of “binitarian monotheism” reveals that there are at least two quite distinct uses of this term, developed in distinct scholarly contexts, each informed by specific theological presuppositions, and assuming specific theological agendas. A certain discrepancy becomes evident between the early Christian phenomenon termed “binitarianism” and its scholarly description. These observations make it necessary to ask whether the flaws of this concept outweigh its usefulness for scholarly reconstructions of early Christian thought.

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“…The reference to 'the God of Israel and the Angel / Messenger of his truth' in 1QS 3.24, for example, has been noted in this regard. 14 The latter title, moreover, is widely considered to refer to the figure Melchizedek of 11QMelch 2. 13.…”

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“…[10][11] and is expected to execute it in vengeance upon the forces of evil (2. [12][13][14]. This is followed by the citation of Isa.…”

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Michael or Yhwh? Toward Identifying Melchizedek in 11Q13

Water

2006

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

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Scholars are still divided over the identity of the figure Melchizedek in 11Q13. Is he an angel, or is 'Melchizedek' simply another title for Yhwh? This article argues that these two opposing views can be reconciled by seeing the figure Melchizedek as an expression of what the early rabbis called belief in 'two Powers in heaven'. The way he is portrayed in 11QMelch is comparable to Philo's concept of the divine and the belief of the 'Magharians'. While there are clear indications in 11Q13 that Melchizedek is an intermediary, there are equally compelling arguments that he is Yhwh. The author of 11Q13 uses a collage of biblical texts to present him as a divine intermediary. The fact that a number of biblical messianic titles are conflated in the person of Melchizedek encourages seeing other Qumran descriptions of exalted figures as referring to him as well.

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‘Two Powers in Heaven’ and Early Christian Trinitarian Thinking

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The Renaissance Concept of Space: Notes on the Interaction between Arts and Sciences in History.

The Renaissance Concept of Space: Notes on the Interaction between Arts and Sciences in History.

“Early Christian Binitarianism”: From Religious Phenomenon to Polemical Insult to Scholarly Concept

Michael or Yhwh? Toward Identifying Melchizedek in 11Q13

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