1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792832303321

Autore

Graham Christopher A.

Titolo

The church as paradise and the way therein : early Christian appropriation of Genesis 3:22-24 / / by Christopher A. Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34208-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Collana

The Bible in Ancient Christianity, , 1542-1295 ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

262/.7

Soggetti

Church - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Paradise Lost Again: Introduction -- Paradise as Preface: Ancient Reception of Gen 3:22–24 -- Far from Paradise but Near the Way: Early Christian Reception of Gen 3:22–24 -- The Lukan Ways Back to Paradise -- Irenaeus’s Church: Paradise in This World -- One Way: Irenaean Appropriation of Way-Language -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Modern Reception History of Appellative Way-Language -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Names and Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 , Christopher A. Graham demonstrates that early Christian authors employed the words “paradise” and “way” as allusions to the expulsion narrative (Genesis 3:22–24) to signify that the benefits available in protological Paradise were once again accessible in and through Jesus and the Church. The centrality of the expulsion narrative in their literary milieus gave these authors confidence that readers would discern these allusions. After considering the reception of the expulsion in texts circulating within the early Christian milieu, Graham turns to the texts of Luke and Irenaeus of Lyons. Both authors drew from an interpretive tradition in which a return to Paradise was desirable. Both celebrated Jesus's reversal of Adam's expulsion and the constitution of Jesus's followers as the location and means by which humanity could continue to access divine truth and life. For both authors, the Church is Paradise and the



way therein.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157571003321

Autore

Cary Joyce

Titolo

An American Visitor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 1961

©1961

ISBN

1-78720-150-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

823.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

An American visitor and uninvited guest in the village of Nok, Marie Hasluck is an irrepressible anthropologist who believes that she has found the Kingdom of Heaven in the forests of Nigeria. There, to her eyes, the Birri tribesmen make love and war unfettered by the constraints and complications of Western civilisation; a state which Marie finds enviable and which she does her best to emulate.However, all is not well even in this pagan paradise: white prospectors are staking claims within Birri territory and the eccentric District Officer, Bewser, can no longer keep them at bay, for all his promises to the villagers. As the Birri warriors become increasingly enraged by the colonialists' betrayal and as her own involvement with Bewser deepens, Marie finds that her position as a charmed but distanced onlooker is inevitably compromised.