The interpretation of Old Testament theophanies was crucial for early Christianity’s theological appropriation of the sacred history of Israel, and igured signiicantly in the antiJewish, anti-dualistic, and anti-monarchian polemics of the second and third centuries. A Christian continuator of Philo’s “noetic exegesis,” Clement of Alexandria inaugurates an approach to theophanies that is differe...

The article examines the evolution of Western patristics from Augustine to Gregory Great and Isidore Seville in a dual aspect: power discourse power. former draws on truth, “place” which, according Aristotle, is judgment, while latter represents policy pursued by government. this case implemented as spread Christian education. realized form decisions legislative acts authorities, guided Roman t...

ABSTRACT In contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, there has been substantial debate between religious and secular theorists about what would make life meaningful, with a large majority of the philosophers having drawn on Christianity. this article, in contrast, I draw Judaism, aims articulating characteristically Jewish approaches to life's meaning, which is kind intellectual history, providi...

A 20 century German Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig promoted a new approach to knowledge, an approach in which in addition to logical reasoning, coming up with stories with imagined additional details is also important. This approach is known as midrashic since it is similar to the use of similar stories – known as midrashes – in Judaism. While stories can make the material interesting, tra...

This study integrated the computers as social actors (CASA) framework with objectification theory to predict that traits, such as sexism, influence perceptions of virtual representations as well as attributions of the source and message. Participants (N= 397) received a message about dating or job interviews presented by a virtual woman in either context-appropriate or context-inappropriate dre...