Pagan benevolence and Christian grace: how the cross challenges our social realities
Our understanding of Christianity acquires a sociological dimension when we see it as a challenge to elsewhere prevailing practices of religiously motivated giving, here termed benevolence. The "benevolence" of pagan societies (ancient and modern), paradigmatically expressed in the symboli...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SPCK Publishing
2009
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Theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 112, Issue: 865, Pages: 33-42 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gift
/ Humanism
/ Grace
/ Christianity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations NBK Soteriology |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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