Essays about: "apostle"

Found 4 essays containing the word apostle.

1. 1. First blood: Menarche as the foundation for women's self-realisation

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Elena Iacovou; [2023]
   Keywords : Parthenogenesis; goddess-worshipping; religion; religious studies; rites of passage; liminality; existential health.;

   Abstract : Goddess-based civilisations worshipped the divine as a parthenogentic primordial creative force. Parthenogensis a Greek word that derives from parthenos “virgin” and genesis “from the beginning” was the path of liberation or rebirth into one’s divine nature. READ MORE

3. 2. The Apostle to the Intelligentsia : Father Alexander Men’ and the Rediscovery of the Russian Silver Age

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Robert Lindsay; [2021]
   Keywords : religion; Russian Orthodox Church; Alexander Men’; Vladimir Solovyov; Nikolai Berdyaev; Nadezhda Mandelstam; Silver Age; philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to shed light on a remarkable figure in Russian history, Father Alexander Men’. How and why did Men’ identify Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and other pre-revolutionary cultural figures as representatives of authentic Russian religious culture? Why would a popular Russian Orthodox priest present the writings of mystics, anarchists, and the Silver Age counterculture as the antidote for seventy years of Soviet materialism? What role did Judaism and the Russo-Jewish intellectual tradition have on Men’s identifications as an Orthodox priest? I use a semiotic theory of culture following Yuri Lotman and the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School as a framework to analyze the historical development of Orthodox personalism. READ MORE

4. 3. Why was Paul upset? (Gal. 2.11-14)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Luka Hansen; [2014]
   Keywords : Paul; Peter; apostle; Antioch; church; Galatians; Zetterholm; Nanos; Dunn; Martyn; exegesis; Roman; Greek; Judaism; Gospel; new perspective on Paul; radical perspective on Paul; old perspective on Paul; Vestergaard; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : The tension between Jews and Gentiles is a well-recorded and pregnant debate within the field of biblical exegesis today. One of the biblical passages that directly relates to this special situation, often labelled the ‘incident of Antioch’, is Gal 2.11-14. READ MORE

5. 4. Perceptions of Sacred Hamburgers : Alternation Processes Regarding Food Restrictions in the Apostolic Decree and the Clashes of Symbolic Universes

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Niklas Rosenlund; [2013]
   Keywords : Sacred Hamburgers; Symbolic Universes; Sacrificial meat; Antioch; The Apostolic Decree; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : The Apostle meeting in Jerusalem is an important event that leads to the Apostle Decree, condensing all rules into four main ones, in order to include the Gentiles. Regarding food restrictions in the Decree, what could have started a Gentile alternation of their old symbolic universe, in order to internalize a new plausibility structure? The focus seems to have been to describe in what way the Gentiles reacted on different sets of rules, thus disregarding the Jewish faction of Jesus-believers that created them. READ MORE