The Fourth Book of Maccabees (4 Macc) in the description Eleazar's prayer, before he suffered a martyr’s death (6:29) as well martyrdom seven brothers and their mother who for nation (17:21), term ἀντίψυχος (which means “given exchange life”) is used twice. This adjective appears only twice Septuagint (LXX), to be precise, 4 Macc context both passages suggests broader meaning term, translated w...

Abstract The terms „Socinian“ and „Arminian“ (despite their often equivocal polyvalent use) refer primarily to the members of two small Christian communities viewed with great suspicion by established churches: Ecclesia minor Polish Brethren, on one hand, Dutch Remonstrant Brotherhood, other. These were numerically marginalized groups, but capable influencing substantial numbers theologians int...

This essay focuses on Paul Auster’s novel, Invisible (2009), aiming to explore the text’s intricate metafictional dimensions, especially deployment of metalepsis as main organizing principle its narrative structure. The author argues that novel employs a subtle metaleptic structure, which moves beyond classical postmodernist phase textual experimentation, and serves means raising questions ethi...