The Role of Martyrdom and Persecution in Developing the Priestly Authority of Women in Early Christianity: A Case Study of Montanism

1980 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick C. Klawiter
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Status ◽  
Saint Jerome

Recently, attention has been given to understanding the status of woman in early Christianity. As expected, the light has been focused on Saint Paul, Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine, but so far, no one has examined one of the most fascinating movements of the second century—Montanism. Perhaps this is because Tertullian is remembered as both a Montanist and a notorious misogynist. Given the boldness and originality of Tertullian's thought, however, it would be perilous to assume that Tertullian's view of women was identical to that originally held by the Montanists of Asia Minor. Indeed, as this study of Montanism in Asia Minor will show, it is highly probable that from the beginnings of Montanism, women were permitted to rise to ministerial status through their role as confessor-martyrs in the early Christian church.

Enterprise Systems Projects: The Role of Liminal Space in Enterprise Systems Implementation

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica L Wagner ◽  
Sue Newell ◽  
William Kay
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Systems ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Systems Implementation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Is Design ◽  
Roll Out

We investigate information systems (IS) projects as a liminal space ‘betwixt and between’ the status quo and the new environment, using a case study of the implementation of an enterprise system (ES). This liminal space provides a stabilizing platform whereupon the project team can develop new and potentially transformative IS. However, after a project team has completed its initial IS design for roll-out, this liminal space must be bridged to incorporate process-generated learning and new systems back into the organizational working environment. We demonstrate how this bridging involves negotiations that attempt to reconcile divergent perspectives by adopting a conciliatory or peacemaking attitude. As such, our analysis focuses on the IS project as a multi-phased process that includes the creation of a liminal space for the project team during development and on the negotiations that ensure the ES becomes a working IS in the post-implementation environment.

scholarly journals Religious Subcultures and Reading Culture

Quaerendo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-385
Author(s):  
Jan van de Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
The North ◽  
Religious Books ◽  
The Status ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Religious Subcultures ◽  
Roman Catholics

Abstract For religious subcultures, the reading of religious books was of great importance, even for Roman Catholics, renowned for their ritual-mindedness and the prevailing limitations in terms of religious reading for laypeople. This article aims to reveal the extent to which the status and role of a subculture affected the printing history and reception of religious books. The Post-Reformation Low Countries – split into the South, where the Catholics were a dominant culture, and the Dutch Republic in the North, where they were a subculture – provides an excellent case study. A very popular meditation book serves as the source for the study, namely Sondaechs Schoole (Sunday school) (1623).

Laying Out the Fleece

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Kelly J. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Near East ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Different Cultures

Chapter 3 approaches Gideon’s story in three different ways: the role of divine signs in the ancient Near East; the portrait of Gideon as a hesitant solider in need of divine assurance in the biblical stories of Judg 6:36–40, 7:1–8, and 7:9–15; and the ways that early Christian exegetes interpreted Gideon’s requests for divine assurance. The chapter continues to trace how masculinity is constructed in different cultures, including the Greco-Roman world of early Christianity, where men were encouraged to fight spiritual battles rather than physical battles. These interpretations serve as a powerful reminder that masculinity is always “in crisis,” tending toward transformation and change, depending on cultural context.

scholarly journals Cognitive Science in the Study of Early Christianity: Why It Is Helpful – and How?

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risto Uro
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Human Thinking

In recent years, a number of New Testament and early Christian scholars have begun to use cognitive science approaches in their work. In this paper, I situate those efforts within the larger framework of the changing humanities, and the increased interest among humanistic scholars and social scientists in drawing on the growing body of knowledge on the cognitive and evolutionary roots of human thinking and behaviour. I also suggest how cognitive historiography can be helpful in shedding new light on issues discussed by New Testament scholars, by elaborating a case study: an analysis of the rite introduced by John the Baptist.

scholarly journals Enhancing The Role of Business in Transferring Research Results into Agriculture: Case Study in Moc Chau District, Son La Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngo Thi Phuong Quy
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Agriculture ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Status

In recent years, Vietnam’s agriculture has developed strongly thanks to the application of scientific and technological advances in production. Business is a key factor in attracting investment, expanding markets for agricultural products, and an important focal point for transferring research results into agriculture. Based on the assessment of the status of transferring research results into agriculture in Moc Chau district, Son La province over the past time, the paper proposes views and solutions to enhance the role of business in promoting the transfer of research results in local agriculture such as tax favors for business, linkages between business and researchers and enhance the quality of human resources.

scholarly journals The Role Of Communication In Women’s Status: A Case Study Of UNESCO Activities

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Abida Perveen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Images Of Women

This article reviews the activities and research of UNESCO related to mass media and its role enhancing the status of women in the women’s decade. The role of communication in changing the status of women is important because of its influence on our daily routine, behaviour, attitude, life styles and choices. It also highlight the initial researches conducted by UNESCO to evaluate the change in the images of women after women decade.

scholarly journals Ritual, Memory and Writing in Early Christianity

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
RISTO URO
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Religious Teaching ◽  
Christian Literature

The article examines ways in which the views of biblical scholars as to the transmission of early Christian traditions, especially the Jesus traditions, have been revolutionized by so-called orality/literacy studies since Werner Kelber’s seminal The Oral and the Written Gospel (1983). In the 2000s, an important turn in the study of orality and literacy in early Christianity took place with the discovery of memory. This has given rise to a focus on theories of collective memory and more recently on the cognitive aspects of individual memory, producing fresh new insights into the close intertwining of orality and literacy in ancient literary activity. The last part of the article brings up the role of ritual in the transmission of early Christian traditions, an aspect that has received less attention in the discussion. For purposes of further analysis, three perspectives on the role of ritual in the study of orality and textuality in early Christianity are highlighted and elaborated. The first underscores the need for a fresh analysis of the numerous liturgical passages in the New Testament identified by the generation of form critics. The second focuses on oral-aural (‘liturgical’) aspects of early Christian literature as part of the larger phenomenon of Greco-Roman literary culture, in which literacy was defined by public performance and recitation to a degree that differs substantially from the modern use of printed books. The last perspective highlights the important question of ritual’s capacity to function as an instrument of religious teaching and doctrinal consolidation.

‘Is the Lord One of the Two Angels?’: Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, Early Christian Hermeneutics, and Justin's Pneumatological Christian Readings

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Wilhite
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Early Formation ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Argument Proceeds

In second-century Trinitarian thought, some early figures may often overlook the role of the Holy Spirit in contrast to providing a more secure identity for the Son. This contrast seemingly appears in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho. In 2008, Michel Barnes wrote an essay on the early formation of Christian Pneumatology. As Barnes’s argument proceeds, Justin and Trypho focus upon the clarity of language that concerns the Son: (1) a triumphant and (2) suffering Messiah. Yet, with regard to the Holy Spirit, both Trypho and Justin do not appear to question the terminology that one another employ. So, Barnes suggests that both Trypho and Justin maintain a similar pneumatological presupposition that overlaps with Jewish Pneumatology. This article revisits how Justin addresses the pneumatological language in the Dialogue with Trypho and inquires what pneumatological discontinuities exist between Justin and Trypho. Even if Justin coheres with many facets of Jewish pneumatological ideas, he still distinctly represents, though incipiently, a Christian pneumatology.

scholarly journals Prophylactic Role of Mandukasan and OM Chanting Patients Who Survives with Diabetes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Ramkanya Menariya ◽  
Harshwardhan Singh ◽  
Parmesh Tank ◽  
Jeevan Menaria
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Parameters ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Yoga Therapy ◽  
Type 2 Diabetics ◽  
Yoga Group ◽  
The Status ◽  
Drug Doses ◽  
Ancient Times

Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most chronic non-communicable diseases in the enire world. Yoga is an part of Indian culture which doing ancient times by our rishi munis. Nowadays science has been considered yoga for management of various diseases i.e. hypertension, diabetes, asthma. In this case study had been conducted to understand effect of yoga in type 2 diabetics.  Yoga group were put through mandukasanasana and mandukasan with OM chanting for 40 days. Biochemical parameters was performed i.e. FBG, PPBG and HbA1C. It can be concluded that mandukasan with OM chanting has been helpful as an adjunct to medical therapy to minimize the biochemical parameters. Yoga therapy helpful for the status of diabetics in terms of reduction of drug doses, physical and mental alertness and prevention of various complications related to diabetes. Keywords: Mandukasan, OM Chanting, Diabetes

The Years 375 to 371 Bc: A Case Study in the Reliability of Diodorus Siculus and Xenophon

1980 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. J. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Diodorus Siculus ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

Neither the chronology nor the interpretation of the history of the years 375 to 371 BC is yet settled. The date of the peace that followed the Athenian naval victory over Sparta at Alyzeia in Scirophorion 375 is put variously in the second half of 375 or 374 or even in spring 374. The status of the Boeotian cities at the time of the peace as well as the role of the King and the participation of Thebes are controversial, and this affects the interpretation of the peace itself.

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