Monday, December 30, 2024

A proposed etymology for "Shaumau" based on šammā (height)

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  My friend Robert F. Smith, in his “ Some ‘Neologisms’ From Mormon Culture ,” wrote the following:   A. van Selms has similarly disting...

Icon Veneration in Eastern Orthodox Catechisms and The Synodikon of Orthodoxy

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    Confession of Dositheus (1672)     Question 4: Of the Honor Given to Icons and the Saints.   How ought we to think of the Ho...

Baptismal Regeneration in Various Eastern Orthodox Catechisms

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    The Confession of Dositheus (1672)     Decree 16: Of Holy Baptism.   We believe Holy Baptism, which was instituted by the Lo...

Quinten Zehn Barney on the Relationship between Hieroglyphic Captions and Associated Pictures

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The following comes from:   Quinten Zehn Barney, “ The Neglected Facsimile: An Examination and Comparative Study of Facsimile No. 3 of t...

Gerald Hiestand on Irenaeus' Theology of the Millennium

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    There is debate about the extent to which Irenaeus maintained a literal thousand year reign. A number of recent interpreters of Irenae...

Gerald Hiestand on Creation Ex Materia in Athenagoras and Justin Martyr vs. Irenaeus' Doctrine of Creation Ex Nihilo

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    Athenagoras seems to assume the basic Platonic account of creation, where the demiurge shapes matter, rather than bringing it into exi...

Marcos Antonio Ramos on Irenaeus' Low Mariology In Spite of His Belief Mary is the "New/Second Eve" in Against Heresies 3.16.7

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    . . . there is never a hint of seeing Mary as something other than a human being called to an extraordinary mission, a mission and a v...