Theological Anthropology

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J. Patout Burns
Fortress Press, 1986 - 130 páginas
"Treated thematically under the headings 'The Gnostic Movement,' 'Christian Platonism,' and 'Fourth Century Developments,' it is possible to see how different ideas of humanity could lead to varieties of theological interpretation."--Donald Skyes

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I Introduction
1
THE ASCETIC MOVEMENT
3
CHRISTIAN PLATONISM
6
FOURTHCENTURY DEVELOPMENTS
10
AUGUSTINE
12
THE AUGUSTINIAN TRADITION
19
II Irenaeus of Lyon
23
III Gregory of Nyssa
29
V The Canons of the Council of Carthage AD 418
57
VI Augustine
61
ON REBUKE AND GRACE
96
VII The Synod of Orange AD 529
109
CANONS OF ORANGE
112
THE DEFINITION OF FAITH
118
SELECTIONS FROM THE HOLY FATHERS
120
Bibliography
129

IV LETTER TO DEMETRIAS
39

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Página 125 - My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
Página 126 - I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
Página 99 - Unhappy man that I am ! Who will deliver me from the body of this death ? The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 125 - I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
Página 73 - When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Página 46 - I am, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of thy fathers; go down into Egypt, and bring forth my people.
Página 23 - ... last times, when He had summed up all things into Himself, came to us, not as He might have come, but as we were capable of beholding Him. He might easily have come to us in His immortal glory, but in that case we could never have endured the greatness of the glory ; and therefore it was that He, who was the perfect bread of the Father, offered Himself to us as milk, [because we were] as infants. He did this when He appeared as a man, that we, being nourished, as it were, from the breast of His...
Página 49 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.

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