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    1 Corinthians 15
    2009 Kelly, Michael ; Kelly, Michael
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    1 Corinthians 8.4-6: An Inter-cultural Reading from the Political Context of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
    (US-China foreign language; 15 ) 2017 Kwon, Oh-Young
    This article explores an inter-cultural reading of 1 Corinthians 8.4-6 from the political and ideological contexts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or North Korea; DPRK afterwards) today. The Pauline passage (1 Cor 8.4-6) indicates Roman imperialism and the Imperial cult(s) that had a heavy impact upon the life of people (including Christ-believers) in Roman Corinth of the first century CE. In Roman Imperial cult(s), the Roman emperors were worshipped as divine, and people in the Roman Empire were compelled (at least by social pressure) to honor them as gods. This notion is, to some extent, reflected in the Pauline language—“there may be so-called gods…on earth…there are many gods and many lords” (1 Cor 8.5). The Roman emperors would be seen as amongst these many gods and these many lords in the Pauline description. The DPRK’s culture and society is primarily shaped on the foundation of Juche ideology. The Juche literarily means “self-reliance” and emphasizes the DPRK’s independence from other countries in terms of its political, ideological, and economic systems. Furthermore, in this Juche ideology Kim Il Sung the founder of the DPRK’s communism is claimed as a divine figure, and the people of the DPRK are compelled to venerate and worship him. The discovery of such social, cultural, and religious similarities in the two polarizing contexts encourages me to attempt inter-cultural dialogues between the Christ-believers in first century Corinth and the people of the DPRK today, who appear to see the Juche ideology as the religion officially constituted and recognized in their country today. This attempt makes a contribution to recent Asian Biblical scholarship that would acknowledge and encourage Asian Christians and scholars to read Christian Scriptures from Asian cultural, social, religious, and political contexts.
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    1 Samuel
    2003 Campbell, Antony F. ; Knierim, Rolf P. ; Sweeney, Marvin A.
    This form-critical analysis of 1 Samuel highlights the literary development of the text itself and its various meanings for its audiences. The tensions and contradictions in the text reflect the massive socio-poplitical upheavals within the life of ancient Israel.
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    1 Timothy
    2020 Porter, Christopher ; Tucker, J. Brian ; Kuecker, Aaron
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    1968: THE YEAR OF MOUNTING LUCIDITY
    (Verbum SVD; 59 (1-2) ) 2018 Prior, John
    1968 was for the author "a year of mounting lucidity". The year of turmoil among students throughout the western world saw him complete three years of tertiary education in the west of Ireland, and commence four more years in north London, UK. This esays brings out decisive influences by key books and persons that have directed his life over the past half century. Accepting the naivity of youth, yet as the bibliography shows, he commited to a clear direction which he has attempted to follow subsequently in both academic and pesonal life.
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    1–2 Samuel; 1–2 Kings
    1998 Campbell, Antony F. ; O'Brien, Mark ; Farmer, William R. ; LaCocque, Andre ; Levoratti, Armando ; Dungan, David L.
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    2 Samuel
    2005 Campbell, Antony F. ; Knierim, Rolf P. ; Tucker, Gene M ; Sweeney, Marvin A.
    The volume 2 SAMUEL is a commentary on the second book of Samuel, with particular attention (as required by the FOTL series) to issues of literary form and genre and detailed tabular presentations of the structural analysis of each passage of text. The book concludes with an Afterword on the Bible's basic role.
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    2 Timothy
    2020 Porter, Christopher ; Tucker, J. Brian ; Kuecker, Aaron
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    “21 Martyrs of Libya”: Presenting Holiness in the Contemporary Coptic Church
    (IKON ) 2021 Tumara, Nebojsa
    In the Coptic tradition, recognition of someone’s holiness is a rather spontaneous process and the Holy Synod of the Church rarely announces new saints. Nevertheless, a new trend has become evident. In 2013 the Church officially canonized Patriarch Cyril VI of Alexandria (1902-1971) and Archdeacon Habib Gerges (1876-1951), and in February 2015, the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Tawadros II, canonized twenty-one Coptic Christians, a week after the media of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) uploaded a video onto social media showing their beheading. The video on social media depicting their vivid and horrid staged execution inspired the iconographic presentations of the event. Following the newly established, diverse, and ever-growing iconographical and hagiographical tradition around the newly recognized martyrs of the Church, this paper will examine how holiness is visually constructed in the Coptic Church, in light of the legacy of late professor Isaac Fanous (1919-2007), who established the canons of the Neo-Coptic School of Iconography.
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    4Q521 and Luke’s Magnificat and Benedictus
    2009 Hultgren, Stephen ; Garcia Martinez, Florentino
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    A Art Historian Reflects on Modes of Visual Exegesis
    (Colloquium; 47 (1) ) 2015-05 Renkin, Claire
    Brief introduction to how art historians understand the concept of exegesis. What disciplinary assumptions underlie the word-image relationship?
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    A Barthian Theology of Interfaith Dialogue?
    (Pacifica; 3 (3) ) 1990-10 Boyd, Robin
    Abstract currently unavailable on this website.
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    A Bastard in the Royal Family: Wither Mission?
    (Princeton Theological Review; 16 (1) ) 2010 Flett, John
    "Flett highlights the incongruity between statements of the missionary nature of the church and the subordinate position assigned the subject by the theological guild. He locates the problem in the mistaken assumption that mission is a temporary activity, a means and not an end. The theological warrant for mission is not an external command of God confined to this age, but rather, Flett argues, God’s own life of self-witness." - Cambria Janae Kaltwasser
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    A Body Broken for a Broken People. Divorce, Remarriage, and the Eucharist
    2016 Moloney, Frank
    The writings of the New Testament, without fail, indicate that the Eucharist is not a reward for the perfect, but God's gracious remedy and nourishment for the weak. The Gospels of Mark (14:17-31) and Matthew (26:20-35) locate Jesus' final meal with his disciples within a narrative "frame" that tells the audience that he breaks his body and spills his blood for them: betrayers and deniers. In a bold final move, Professor Moloney examines the New Testament's discussion of divorce, remarriage, and access to the eucharistic table. The earliest Church's accommodation of Jesus' teaching is part of our inspired Sacred Scriptures. The contemporary Church needs to question whether the current tradition concerning the divorced and remarried has not "distorted" the original revealed Tradition. Paul tells us why: "For God has called us to peace" (1 Cor 7:15).
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    A Cabinet of Curiosity: an early English japanned cabinet in the collections of the NGV
    (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria; 53 ) 2015 Martin, Matthew ; Cains, Carol
    In 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria was gifted an early seventeenth-century cabinet decorated in a fashion which imitates Asian lacquer work. This cabinet appears to belong to a small but little understood group of early seventeenth century objects which represent the earliest known examples of imitation Asian lacquer (‘japanned work”) produced for European markets. A number of questions about this cabinet–and the larger group of objects of which it forms a part–have yet to be answered. The place of manufacture of the cabinet (Europe or Asia) remains in doubt, as do the sources and character of the cabinet’s scheme of painted decoration: connections may be drawn with European print sources, Chinese and Japanese lacquer and porcelain motifs, Indian textiles and ivory carving. These questions raise the larger issue of the place of hybrid Asian-European artistic productions in the Early Modern encounter between the two cultural spheres. Through an examination of this cabinet in the broader context of lacquer and furniture exported to Europe from Asia in the seventeenth century, we will explore the cultural space these hybrid works occupy and how they facilitate Early Modern European imaginings of Asia.
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    A Call to Contemplation: Peace Politics and the Church
    (Pacifica; 1 (3) ) 1988-10 Kane, John F
    Abstract currently unavailable on this website.