Religion and its History offers a reflection of our operative concept of religion and religions,
developing a set of approaches that bridge the widely assumed gulf between analysing …

In the minds of some, universal salvation is a heretical idea that was imported into
Christianity from pagan philosophies by Origen (c. 185–253/4). Ilaria Ramelli argues that …

The aim of this paper is to provide the historical research on both religion and the city with a
serviceable analytical distinction between 'urbanisation'and 'citification'as two sets of socio …

" What did people in the early Christian period (4th-7th century CE) think about the ancient,
pagan inscriptions filling their cities? Why, for example, is the famous Res Gestae of the" …

The article argues that just as religion is manufactured or invented, so is tradition and
history. This starting point is worked out with reference to history as a discursive …

With the rise of originalism as an interpretive strategy, history has come to play an
increasingly prominent role in the reasoning and methodology of the United States Supreme …

Philosophical and religious voices in the imperial period and Late Antiquity emphasized
individual responsibility and free will, including, from the early Christian side, anti …

This broad-based critical edition is the first-ever modern translation of all of three
adaptations of the hagiography of St. Abercius, the 2nd-century bishop of Hieropolis, based …

While studies of how Paul and the Pauline letters were received in early Christianity
continue to appear at an ever-quickening rate, there are still corners of early Christian …

Before looking back into early Jewish-Christian relations, we need to note that as with all
retrospective historiography, 1 so also in comparing entities and their links, it is 'the scholar's …