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by Raja Abillama
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Free Download Alexei M. Sivertsev, "Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images before Iconoclasm"
English | ISBN: 100942453X | 2024 | 294 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Between the sixth and eighth centuries CE, the image emerged as a rhetorical category in religious literature produced in the Mediterranean basin. The development was not a uniquely Christian phenomenon. Rather, it emerged in the context of broader debates about symbolic forms that took place across a wide range of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups who inhabited the late Roman and early Byzantine world. In this book, Alexei Sivertsev demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important, and until recently overlooked, witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Addressing the role of the image as a rhetorical device in Jewish liturgical poetry, Sivertsev also considers the theme of the engraved image of Jacob in its early Byzantine context and the aesthetics of spaces that bridge the gap between the material and the immaterial in early Byzantine imagination.

Free Download The Philosophy of the Few Against the Christians: An Inquiry Into the Textual Transmission of Porphyry's Philosophy According to the Chaldean Oracles
by Pier Franco Beatrice
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004680063 | 601 Pages | True PDF | 4.88 MB

Free Download Nadya Williams, "Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World"
English | ISBN: 0310147816 | 2023 | 256 pages | EPUB | 896 KB
In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. The treatise appears even more striking, once we realize that the scandalous virgins to whom it was addressed were single women who had dedicated their virginity to Christ.

Free Download Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since 1500 By Robert Eric Frykenberg (editor), Alaine Low (editor)
2003 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0700716009 | PDF | 6 MB
The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and write about India are often not aware that Christianity is a non-western religion, that in India this has always been so, and that there are now more Christians in Africa and Asia than in the West. Recognizing that more understanding of the separate histories and cultures of the many Christian communities in India will be needed before a truly comprehensive history of Christianity in India can be written, this volume addresses particular aspects of cultural contact, with special reference to caste, conversion, and colonialism. Subjects addressed range from Sanskrit grammar to populist Pentecostalism, Urdu polemics and Tamil poetry.

Free Download Sin Wen Lau, "Overseas Chinese Christians in Contemporary China Religion, Mobility, and Belonging "
English | ISBN: 9004438556 | 2020 | 166 pages | PDF | 1021 KB
Overseas Chinese Christians in Contemporary China offers a study into how overseas Chinese in Shanghai are changing the way they understand themselves in relation to China through their Christian faith.

Free Download Noel B. Reynolds, "Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0934893020 | EPUB | pages: 397 | 0.6 mb
This book takes a fresh look at the apostasy of the early Christian church. Most Latter-day Saint scholars and leaders previously based their understanding of the Christian apostasy on the findings of Protestant scholars who provided a seemingly endless array of evidences of apostasy in Christian history.

Between Allah and Jesus What Christians Can Learn from Muslims by Peter Kreeft | 956.6 KB
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Title: Between Allah & Jesus
Author: Peter Kreeft
Year: 2010

Free Download The Ottomans and Christians: The History and Legacy of the Ottomans' Conflicts with Catholic and Orthodox Nations (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868633096 | 2024 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Jim Walsh
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.

Free Download Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND THE LAW - 1200 to 1700"
English | ISBN: 3111215903 | 2023 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 100 MB
How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to 1700, this book shows that people in both these worlds invested considerable energy in worrying, debating, and writing about proscribed practices. It compares how people in the two worlds came to terms with the proscriptions of sodomy, idolatry, and usury. When historians speak of the gap between premodern practice and the legal theory of the time, they tend to ignore the myriad of justifications that filled this gap. Moreover, a focus on justification evens out many of the contrasts that have been alleged to exist between the two worlds, or the Muslim and Christian worlds more generally. The similarities outweigh the differences in the ways people came to terms with the various rules of divine law. The level of flexibility of the theologians and jurists in charge of divine law varied more over time and by topic than between the two worlds. Both worlds also saw the development of ever more sophisticated justifications. Amid the increasing complexity of justifications, a particular kind of reasoning emerged: that good outcomes are more important than upholding rules for their own sake.