The topic of this book is martyrdom understood as a philosophical category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death. Looking upon martyrdom through the perspective of ancient philosophy clarifies why it might have been considered as an important proof of Christian doctrine also by pagans.
The topic of this book is martyrdom understood as a philosophical category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witnes...
The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch. The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning. The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus and comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist. With this...
The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicu...
The author presents a new approach to the study of manna, which does not concentrate only on one particular representation of the bread from heaven (especially Ex 16). Additionally, he investigates the interconnections between Ps 78:23-25, Wis 16:20-13; 19:21 and Jn 6:22-59 and he explores the new ideas of each of these texts. He also strongly asserts that Hellenistic Judaism, represented by the Book of Wisdom, is not -a second-class Judaism-. This fact is proved with the example of manna as the food of immortality, an idea not introduced by Christians in the Fourth Gospel, but already...
The author presents a new approach to the study of manna, which does not concentrate only on one particular representation of the bread from heaven...
This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential way, of the Acts of the Apostles. This strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains the Matthean relocations of the Marcan and Lucan material, numerous Matthean modifications thereof, and many surprising features of the Matthean Gospel. Critical explanations of such...
This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure...
This monograph demonstrates that the Fourth Gospel is a detailed, sequentially organized reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains John's modifications of the synoptic material, relocations thereof, additions to it, and many other surprising features of the Fourth Gospel.
This monograph demonstrates that the Fourth Gospel is a detailed, sequentially organized reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The strictly sequentia...