Pentecostal ecumenical impulses: Past and present challenges by Marius Nel

“…Several leaders in the early Pentecostal movement interpreted the outpouring of the Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission and other places as a sign that the Spirit would now unite Christians across the borders of denominations in a new Pentecost that concurs with the events of Acts 2 which led to the formation of the Early Christian Church. They did not actively pursue ecumenism, but expected it as a natural and spontaneous result of the Spirit’s work, carried by their primitivist and restorationist impulses. …”
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A.B. Ranovich's legacy in the context of studying the Hasmonean state by M.N. Karanaev

“…They finally broke through it with the discovery of the Qumran Caves Scrolls (1948) and the development of new methods of studying the early Christian texts, i.e., after the death of A.B. Ranovich. …”
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Midrash in the New Testament: John vs. Synoptikoi by Alexeev Anatoly

“…Another way of development of the early Christian thought from messiology to theology was liturgical practice and corresponding word usage. …”
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Mesambria Pontica – coevolution of maritime community and coastal landscape by Hristo Preshlenov

“…As a result of the negative geodynamic processes and, above all, the destructive sea abrasion and regional seismic activity, which have reworked the sea terrace, formed at 8–15 m and the shelf terrace up to the 4–5th isobath, the following sites and buildings have been brought down and “submerged” into the sea – most of the ancient and medieval fortifications, the northern nave of the basilica “The Holy Mother of God Eleusa”, the church of “St Protomartyr Stephen”, the temple of Zeus and Hera, an early Christian basilica, whose sacred space has been renewed by the church of “St George the Old”, and the ancient theatre. …”
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"Not to offer himself again and again": an exegetical and theological study of repetition in the letter to the Hebrews by Moore, NJ

“…The uniqueness of Christ and of his death construed as a sacrifice, developed from concepts of singularity in Day of Atonement and early Christian crucifixion traditions, forms a unifying strand in the letter’s Christology. …”

The patristic concept of the deification of man examined in the light of contemporary notions of the transcendence of man by Cullen, J, Cullen, John Austin

“…</p> <p>The first issue addressed is what it means to speak of man participating in divinity, and this notion is then traced through the religion and philosophy of the ancient classical world and the later Graeco-Roman world as the background against which early Christian doctrine emerged. Some modern interpretations of the notion of transcendence as it relates to the human existent are then reviewed, with particular attention being given to the suggestion that it is legitimate to speak of man rather than God as the 'locus' of transcendence by virtue of the inherent openness of human nature to the transcendence of being that meets it in its ex-sisting in being.…”

Contest and community: wonder-working in Christian popular literature from the second to the fifth centuries CE by Schwartzman, L, Lauren J. Schwartzman

“…I suggest that the texts present a model for how one could decide what the ‘true faith’ was and how one could practice it in the turbulent environment that early Christians faced both before and after Constantine.…”

Studies on the design of a room for worship by Spruill, Albert Westley

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Black Goddess: A Critical Analysis of Traditions on the Destruction of al-’Uzzā in Early Islamic Sources by zahra mohagheghian

“…Their purpose in this reconstruction has been to remove the veneration of the pagan deities forever just as the early Christians have used the same trick to eliminate the gods worshiped by their opponents. …”
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'Жряху им, наричюще богы' ('They feel themselves the gods'): Sources of the content of ancient Russian pagan sanctuaries and their priests by M.N. Kozlov

“…The written sources date back to the 6th – 17th centuries, including data on the cult system of the early Slavs in the pagan and early Christian epochs. They are native chronicles of the 11th – 14th centuries (Primary Chronicle, Hypatian Codex, and Novgorod First Chronicle), Lives of Saints, Legend of Yaroslavl Foundation. …”
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Romanesque mural painting in Catalonia by Montserrat Pagès

“…The surviving frescoes were mainly inspired by the art of early Christian Rome and that of the Gregorian reform, yet also by Byzantine sources and by Lombard and Germanic styles and prototypes, all translated into highly original programmes of images. …”
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Buildings of the John Paul II Center – a challenge for civil engineering and architecture by Bogumił Wrana, Jan Wrana

“…Mary Church and the Wawel Cathedral), 1978-2005 – the pilgrim-pope from Rome, who confirmed the mission of the Church continuing the tradition depicted in the early-christian churches on the wall mosaics (the Basilica of San Vitale and the Basilica of Sant’ Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna).…”
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Émile Mersch and theology of the russian diaspora by Pavel Khondzinskii

“…In 1933 the Catholic scholar Emile Mersch published his work “The Mystical Body of Christ” (Le Corps mystique du Christ), in which the concept of the “mystical body” was traced from early Christian times to the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Christ the Communicator and Educator by Mike Megrove Reddy

“…This article investigates how Christ communicated with others, which resulted in His disciples establishing the early Christian church as a religious movement which eventually established a separate religion from Judaism, although greatly based upon it. …”
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“The Staff of Isaiah”: Catacomb Discourse in Arseny Tarkovsky’s Poetry by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Medvedev

“…In his model of the poet, Tarkovsky focuses on the biblical and early Christian tradition, in which the poet appears as a prophet, messiah, spiritual leader of the people (Isaiah, John the Baptist, Christ), emphasising not mystical or ritual but social ethics, characteristic of the Russian intelligentsia of the nineteenth century, with its moral uncompromisingness (“straight” ways). …”
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Fra huskult til basilika by Per Bilde

“…It is still an astonishing fact that no material remains of early Christian churches have been found antedating the building in Dura-Europos at the Euphrat River in present day Iraq. …”
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Considering the Contradictions of Religion and Orthodox Christianity as concomitantly endorsing strife and accord – a Social Capital Perspective by Francois du Toit (RIP), Angelo Nicolaides

“…Unity amongst the early Christians proved elusive and the absence of heterogeneity as a requirement for socially cohesive networks and groups served to explain this challenge. …”
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Clement’s New Clothes. The Destruction of Old S. Clemente in Rome, the Eleventh-Century Frescoes, and the Cult of (Anti)Pope Clement III by Lila Yawn

“…Clement III (Wibert of Ravenna) died in 1100, not long after the execution of an extensive fresco cycle in the early Christian basilica celebrating the miracles and cult of the first-century pope and martyr St. …”
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Requirements for Becoming a Catechumen: Experience the Transfiguration Brotherhood in the Context the Catechetical Practice of Ancient Church by Maria Dikareva

“…In terms of conditions for the restoration of early Christian norms for entering the catechumenate, we might point to the lengthened period for bearing witness and to the development of the practice of sponsorship, particularly in the experience of the Transfiguration Brotherhood. …”
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Jerusalem as the Central Place for Paul and Acts by Eyal Regev

“…Thus, despite his debates with Peter and James, Paul not only accepts that the early Christian leadership dwells in Jerusalem, but he also designates the center of the Jesus movement as “Jerusalem”. …”
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