Creatio ex nihilo and the theology of St. Augustine the anti-Manichaean polemic and beyond / by Torchia, N. Joseph (Natale Joseph), 1953-

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The insight of unbelievers Nicholas of Lyra and Christian reading of Jewish text in the later Middle Ages / by Klepper, Deeana Copeland

Table of Contents: “….: mediating Hebrew traditions for a Christian audience -- The challenge of unbelief: knowing Christian truth through Jewish scripture -- Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's quodlibetal questions and anti-Jewish polemic -- Christian ownership of Jewish text: Nicholas of Lyra as an alternative Jewish authority.…”
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Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / by Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…"Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.…”
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The trinitarian theology of Hilary of Poitiers by Weedman, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The shape of Hilary's trinitarian theology: Exegeting Scripture -- Strategy 1: polemical exegesis -- Arian, not Homoian -- Polemical exegesis of the Genesis theophanies -- Strategy 2: Philippians 2 as a hermeneutical guide -- The name and birth of God -- Name and birth in De trinitate 7 -- The birth of the Son in Hilary's exegesis of John -- Name and birth in Greek trinitarian theology -- Origen on naming -- Athanasius and the Father of the Son -- Name and birth in the early Homoian controversy -- The incarnation and passion of the Son -- Forma servi-forma dei in De trinitate 9-10 -- The background of Hilary's forma servi-forma dei model -- Philippians 2 in Latin trinitarian theology -- Basil of Ancyra on Philippians 2 -- The passion of the Son in De trinitate 10 -- Eschatology and christology in De trinitate 11 -- The generation of the Son -- Analogy and the infinite nature of God -- Proverbs 8:22 and the eternal generation of the Son.…”
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