I. THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION The history of parabolic interpretation can be divided into four relatively distinct periods. During the Period of the Early Church (to 540) a tendency toward allegorical interpretation was firmly established. Despite certain protests the three-fold method of allegorical interpretation championed by Origen dominated the exegesis not only of the par...

As a religion based on the teaching of Jesus Christ, from the outset Christianity has developed a completely different attitude toward health and illness than the Old Testament. Health and illness are now viewed through the eyes of Jesus Christ the redeemer, who accepted each and every man. The history of Christianity has had its episodes of masochistic attitude toward illness, but today it cle...

This article explores the labeling of the iPhone as the ‘Jesus phone’ in order to demonstrate how religious metaphors and myth can be appropriated into popular discourse and shape the reception of a technology. We consider the intertextual nature of the relationship between religious language, imagery and technology and demonstrate how this creates a unique interaction between technology fans a...

The event of Peter’s denials of Christ is a frequent subject of Sunday sermons. The prediction and outplaying of the denials, as recorded in the four Gospels, is a powerful reflection of a condition of our relationship with Christ—that our faith is more vulnerable than we care to admit.1 But a small thorny issue surrounds the Gospel accounts of this event, one that is a nagging distraction to s...

The article describes the preconditions for establishment of collegium Society Jesus in Lviv second half 16th century. By analyzing existing sources and studies on history Jesuit order, it is relatively easy to notice a significant bias favour studying their educational activities. At same time, almost no exist which could illustrate development facility itself context events those times. Hence...

Abstract The Johannine commandment of love aims not only in an ethical-ecclesial sense at the cohesion church, but a mission-theological winning new church members. Jn 15.1–17 explains how mutual immanence God, Jesus and his disciples enables followers to gain fruit members through love. This continues christological-ecclesial interpretation Jesus’ foot-washing from John 13. symbolic action ill...