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Holidays And Holy Days: The Significance Of The Pagan/Christian Calendar In The French Vulgate Account Of King Arthur And His Round Table, Mark Lee Patterson
Holidays And Holy Days: The Significance Of The Pagan/Christian Calendar In The French Vulgate Account Of King Arthur And His Round Table, Mark Lee Patterson
Conversations: A Graduate Student Journal of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology
The Merlin section of the thirteenth-century Old French Vulgate Cycle focuses on Arthur’s birth and the now iconic events that accompany his divine selection and coronation as King of Britain. A close reading of this account reveals that significant story events usually coincide with religious holidays. The transition from the pagan to the Christian calendar and the symbolic impact of the calendar on the early formation of the round table in the French Vulgate Cycle has been mostly overlooked by scholars. In this paper, I address this lacuna by examining the role the calendar plays in the development of characters …
Whispering Determinism: A Critique Of Sartre’S Theory Of Radical Freedom, Shiniece Owens
Whispering Determinism: A Critique Of Sartre’S Theory Of Radical Freedom, Shiniece Owens
Agora
No abstract provided.
Hindu Avatar And Christian Incarnation: A Mystery Of The Presence Of God, Flora Visser
Hindu Avatar And Christian Incarnation: A Mystery Of The Presence Of God, Flora Visser
Consensus
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The Totality Of Christian Justice: Aquinas's Three Spheres In David Adams Richards's Mercy Among The Children, Mikala Gallant
The Totality Of Christian Justice: Aquinas's Three Spheres In David Adams Richards's Mercy Among The Children, Mikala Gallant
Agora
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Christianity Without Ressentiment: Nietzsche’S Jesus, Weak Theology, And The Possibility For A New Christian Ethics, Alan Reynolds
Christianity Without Ressentiment: Nietzsche’S Jesus, Weak Theology, And The Possibility For A New Christian Ethics, Alan Reynolds
Agora
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Interpretations Of Jesus And The Virgin Mary In The Quran And The Bible: A Possible Contribution To Muslim-Christian Cooperation?, Jon Armajani
The Journal of Social Encounters
This essay explores Muslim and Christian understandings of Jesus and his mother Mary, which may provide a basis for possible cooperation between the two religious communities. The similarities and differences in views are discussed, with an understanding that there are differences in views not only between but also within the two religious communities. The essay concludes with a discussion of seven types of interreligious dialogue as articulated by Sallie B. King, and how they apply to Muslim-Christian dialogue related to Jesus and Mary.
A Dialogue On Disaster: Antichrists In Jewish And Christian Apocalypses And Their Medieval Recensions, Natalie E. Latteri
A Dialogue On Disaster: Antichrists In Jewish And Christian Apocalypses And Their Medieval Recensions, Natalie E. Latteri
Quidditas
This paper examines textual and iconographic representations of antichrist personae in medieval Christian and Jewish manuscripts. Through a common language of polemics, Christians and Jews conflated antichrist personae to represent a more generalized category of apocalyptic antagonist that reflected the most significant temptations and threats to each respective religious community. As will be argued here, the greatest temptation and threat for Christians and Jews alike were those posed by members of the other religious group