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Jean Danielou's 'Philo of Alexandria' illuminates the life and work
of a key figure in the history of religious thought. Philo of
Alexandria was a first-century Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who
was born into a wealthy and prominent family in Alexandria, in the
Roman province of Egypt. Educated in both Jewish culture and Greek
philosophy, Philo believed that literal interpretations of the
Hebrew Bible would distort the Jewish people's perceptions of a God
too complex to be understood in literal, human terms. He became one
of the first religious thinkers to initiate a strong allegorical
reading of Scripture. Jean Danielou places Philo's writing in
context, detailing the remarkable events of the philosopher's life,
including a diplomatic mission to present himself before the Roman
Emperor Caligula on behalf of the persecuted Jews of Alexandria.
James Colbert's English translation provides a highly accessible
introduction to this important figure, a pioneer of biblical
commentary whose work has had a lasting influence on Christian
theology. It is essential reading for those interested in
patristics, exegesis, or the history of religious and philosophical
thought.
Fr. Jean Danielou discusses the mission of the angels by following
a historical order, looking at guardian angels, the angels and the
sacraments, the spiritual life, death, and the Second Coming.
The truth about angels according to the Fathers of the Church.
These pages lean on the works of the early Fathers of the Church to
show us who the ministering angels really are, and how in every
instant and in every way they are working for your salvation and
mine.
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Origen (Hardcover)
Jean Danielou
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R1,050
Discovery Miles 10 500
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Pere Danielou speaks about the relationship between the first
Christian community and the Jewish society of this community. The
studies of this subject were reanimated by the discovery of the
Dead Sea-scrolIs and the gnostic scripts in Nag' Hammadi which
throw light on a heterodox Christianity strongly influenced by
Jewish institutions. Therefore the sub ject of this lecture is the
specific type of Christianity fashioned by J ewish culture. The
members of the Christian Community were obliged to observe Jewish
customs with a strictness depending upon the intensity of the
conflict between Israel and the Roman Empire up to the crisis in
the year 70. This would seem to confirm the theory that St. Paul
had to fight against a mighty Judaic Christianity his whole life
long and that his victory was only a late victory. There were
different currents within the Judaic Christianity as Judaism at the
time of the beginning of Christianity was highly complex and many
sided, currents starting hom a central orthodox Judaism and ranging
to more and more developing side currents. One of these currents
appears to be very dosely related to the society we learn about in
the Qumran scripts and leads us nearer to the question as to the
origin of a certain type of asceticism found to be distinctly
marked in early Christianity."
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Philo of Alexandria (Hardcover)
Jean Danielou; Translated by James G. Colbert
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R1,159
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Discovery Miles 9 210
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Philo of Alexandria (Paperback)
Jean Danielou; Translated by James G. Colbert
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R651
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Discovery Miles 5 200
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To a deplorable extent, Christians accept Church rituals as sacred
but baffling heirlooms from the Church's past. It is to remedy this
situation that Father Danielou has written this book. The Bible and
the Liturgy illuminates, better than has ever before been done, the
vital and meaningful bond between Bible and liturgy. Father
Danielou aims at bringing clearly before his reader's minds the
fact that the Church's liturgical rites and feasts are intended,
not only to transmit the grace of the sacraments, but to instruct
the faithful in their meaning as well as the meaning of the whole
Christian life. It is through the sacraments in their role as signs
that we learn. So that their value will be appreciated, Danielou
attempts to help us rediscover the significance of these rites so
that the sacraments may once again be thought of as the
prolongation of the great works of God in the Old Testament and the
New.
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