Christians

1 Corinthians 11:17–34 contains the earliest reference to the celebration of the official meal of the early Christians, commonly known today as the Lord’s Supper or the Eucharist. In this passage, Paul addresses what he considered to amount to abuses of this Christian practice (…

This research illuminates the role of communication technologies and expanding social networks in influencing the trajectory of Muslim-Christian relations. While it brings attention to perceived negative uses of such resources to provoke tension and fundamentalism, its primary o…

There exist some very good reasons that Jewish/Christian/Muslim interfaith dialogue avoids the topic of the military conflict in Israel/Palestine, for the contentiousness it evokes runs counter to dialogic courtesy and prevents valuable relationships from forming. However, avoid…

In this dissertation, I examine Cyril of Jerusalem's construction of Christian identity for those who were preparing to enter into full communion with the church at Easter. In order to include the full catechetical teachings of the fourth-century hagiopolite tradition, I have ex…

The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate that the theory presented by scholars such as Bruce, Betz, Longenecker, Fung, Carson, Witherington, Perkins, and Cummins—that Peter withdrew from table fellowship with Gentile Christians at Antioch (Gal 2:11-14) due to concern about ri…

This dissertation examines the relationship between the cultic languages in Hebrews 10:19–20 and the sanctuary imagery of the Synoptic Gospels (Matt 27:53/Mark 15:38/Luke 23:45). The work consists of six chapters. The first chapter provides a survey of the history of research re…

Examined here are "Arguments for the Existence of God" and "Arguments Against the Existence of God," hereafter collectively referred to as the "Arguments." The study reviews and analyzes some prominent and not so prominent Arguments that have been proffered for and against the e…

The objective of this thesis is to observe and analyze the function that the obstacle accomplishes in the dramatic structure of Lope de Vega's Muslim and Christian Comedias. The Corpus of the study constitutes thirty plays written between 1579 and 1629. From the methodological p…

Many Early Christians used Jesus' ascension to reflect upon their own heavenly ascents. Scholars of Jesus' ascension have often neglected this link, over-emphasizing both the role of Luke---Acts in development of ascension belief and the connection with his resurrection. In the …

Among the Maronites, a Lebanon-based indigenous Christian community in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, funeral rituals play a central social role. These rituals both inform us about the local attitudes toward life and death and give us access to old practices that were…

The Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) witnessed military conflicts between the major religious communities, including Christians and Druze. It resulted in the displacement of a third of the population into religiously homogenous areas. One of the major goals of International Develo…

The main hypothesis of this paper argues that dispensationalism, specifically dispensational pre-millennialism, has significantly impacted a segment of evangelical Christian attitudes toward Muslims in the post-9/11 era, primarily in a negative fashion. The central concept of th…

This dissertation contributes to the study of late antique demonology and the development of Christian monasticism in fourth century Egypt. In particular, I explore the relationship between the development of the Pachomian Koinonia and the belief its members held about demons. W…

Medieval Toledo was a political and economic center whose ethnic diversity promoted cultural variety. It was the first place where Castilian Christians lived beside large numbers of Jews and Muslims for extended periods of time. The norms of coexistence that developed there duri…

La presente recherche etudie le motif de l'Election chez Paul, tel qu'il est exploite en Rm 9-11, et son apport a une theologie du dialogue entre Juifs et chretiens, de maniere a articuler exegese et hermeneutique. D'une part, d'un point de vue exegetique, une lecture nouvelle d…

This thesis traces a set of economic, political, and religious themes woven through the mythology of King Arthur during the reign of the Tudor monarchs. Beginning in the reign of Henry VII, the story of King Arthur as told by Sir Thomas Malory underpinned a Celtic cultural reviv…

Western contact with the highland Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, began in the period following the Second World War. By the 1960s, most highland Dani accepted evangelical mission Christianity as a response to the outreach of Westerners and Indonesian missionaries. The demise of …

Historians used to suspect that the decline of city-states in the last centuries of Roman rule coincided with a resurgence of the countryside; subject peoples threw off the yoke of their Roman masters. In recent years, scholars have recoiled from such nationalist or class interp…

What do American Jews really know about Muslims? What do American Muslims really know about Jews? These questions undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreli…

Through case study research The Church of Israel was examined to determine whether it should be considered as part of the Christian Identity movement, or simply a church that teaches Biblical Aryanism and racial separatism. They contend they mean harm to no group of people and a…