Iesus Deus
The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
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M. David Litwa
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What does it mean for Jesus to be “deified” in early Christian literature? Although the divinity of Jesus was a topic of profound and contested discussion in Christianity’s early centuries, believers did not simply assert that Jesus was divine; in their literature, they depicted Jesus with the specific and widely-recognized traits of Mediterranean deities. Relying on the methods of the history of religions' school and ranging judiciously across Hellenistic literature, M. David Litwa shows that at each stage in their depiction of Jesus’ life and ministry, early Christian writings from the beginning relied on categories drawn not from Judaism alone, but on a wide, pan-Mediterranean understanding of deity: how gods were born, how they acted to manifest power, even how they died----and, after death, how they were taken up into heaven and pronounced divine. Litwa’s samples take us beyond the realm of abstract theology to dwell in the second- and third-century imagination of what it meant to be a god and shows that the Christian depiction of Christ was quite at home there.
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- Narrado por: Jason Pflug
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall.
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Captivating look at people who’ve sought to become God, in some sense
- De Bruce en 05-08-25
De: M. David Litwa
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Early Christianity in Alexandria
- From Its Beginnings to the Late Second Century
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: George Ellington
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Alexandria was the epicenter of Hellenic learning in the ancient Mediterranean world, yet little is known about how Christianity arrived and developed in the city during the late first and early second century CE. In this volume, M. David Litwa employs underused data from the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings to open up new vistas on the creative theologians who invented Christianities in Alexandria prior to Origen and the catechetical school of the third century.
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Fantastic book
- De Jacob Kilgore en 04-17-25
De: M. David Litwa
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Hermetica I
- The Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius, and Nag Hammadi Hermetica Ordered as a Path of Initiation
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Elegwen O'Maoileoin
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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The Hermetic corpus is a spiritual and intellectual treasure stemming from ancient Egyptian sages who could write and think in Greek. Since the Renaissance, this corpus has appeared in an order that does not fit the path of spiritual initiation suggested by the corpus itself.
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Wonderful Reading/Ordering of This New Translation
- De Matt Barker en 05-10-25
De: M. David Litwa
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The Naassenes
- Exploring an Early Christian Identity
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Jason Pflug
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the late second and early third centuries CE. The work provides basic data on the date, genre, and provenance of the Naassene discourse as summarized by the author of the Refutation (or Refutator).
De: M. David Litwa