Author: Inger NI KuinPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472133349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata
Lucian’s Laughing Gods
Author: Inger NI KuinPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472133349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata
Lucian's Dialogues, Namely the Dialogues of the Gods, of the Sea-Gods, and of the Dead, Etc
Author: WilliamsGods of Ancient Greece
Author: Jan N. BremmerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748642897
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This collection offers a fresh look at the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. Bremmer and Erskine bring together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity. The Gods of Ancient Greece looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity and presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.
Trying Man, Trying God
Author: Meira Z. KenskyPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161504099
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2009.
Lucian Divine
Author: Renee CarlinoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539459842
Category : Dating relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Renée Carlino, comes a totally unique love story that is sure to make you question what's out there . . . or who. "My guardian angel is a drunk." Evelyn Casey's life is at a standstill. She's in her mid-twenties, struggling with the dating scene in San Francisco. Nothing seems to be working out, and she's starting to think that she'll live out her days in her crummy apartment with her overbearing roommate, Brooklyn. It's absurd, but sometimes Evey longs for a guardian angel to show up and save the day. And then he does. Seriously. His name is Lucian and he's a guardian angel, been on the job for two thousand years. His sudden presence in her life is both good-he's brilliant, witty, and warm-and bad-he's brilliant, witty, warm, and hot as ----. But as perfect as Lucian seems, he's got problems of his own. He's taken up drinking and he's brazenly inserted himself into Evey's life, going against the greatest cosmic law ever created. For Evey, the rules are simple: You are not allowed to hook up with your guardian angel. But sometimes fulfilling your destiny requires a leap of faith, a confrontation with God. Yes, God as in God.
Lucian's Dialogues
Author: Lucian (of Samosata.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, Egyptian
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Lucian
Author: Francis Greenleaf AllinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Satire, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Gregory of Nyssa and the Concept of Divine Persons
Author: Lucian TurcescuPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195174259
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Turcescu offers an in-depth analysis of Gregory's writings about the divine persons. Turcescu's work not only contributes to our knowledge of the history of Trinitarian theology but can be helpful to theologians who are dealing with issues in contemporary ethics.
How Jesus Became God
Author: Bart D. EhrmanPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062252194
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first. A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus’s transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus’s followers had visions of him after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today. Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.
A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Athanasius: Select works and letters. 1892
Author: Philip SchaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description