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The present volume offers a partial presentation of research that has been prosecuted, in one form or another, over the past decade and more. Some early, misguided ideas about the relationship between Hellenism and the Umayyads as manifest in the paintings of Qusayr Arma appeared in chapter 6 of Garth Fowden, "Empire to commonwealth: Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity (1993); while in chapter 6 of "The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran" (1999), Elisabeth Key Fowden looked at the relationship between Christianity and Islam in Umayyad al Rusafa. A...

The descent of the Holy Fire at the Tomb of - Christ every Holy Saturday is the only miraculous event in human history which has taken place each year on the same day for more than one thousand years. Covering a period of eight centuries, from the 9th to the 16th century, this book assembles historical accounts of the celebrated event. Forty-five authors - ten French, five Muslim Arabs, five Byzantine Greeks, five Germans, four Englishmen, three Russians, three Muslim Persians, three Icelanders, two Armenians, one Syrian, one Moldavian, one Swiss and one Italian -describ...

- Άραγε η Μαρία η Μαγδαληνή παντρεύτηκε τον Ιησού; - Και μάλιστα απέκτησαν παιδιά, τα οποία έπειτα ενώθηκαν διαμέσου επιγαμίας με κάποια Γαλλική βασιλική οικογένεια; - Έκρυψε, τάχα, η εκκλησία αυτή την αλήθεια, για αιώνες; Ο Dan Brown, στο βιβλίο του "Ο Κώδικας Da Vinci", θολώνει τις γραμμές ανάμεσα στην ιστορία και τη μυθιστοριογραφία, αφήνοντας τον αναγνώστη να διερωτιέται: Είναι δυνατόν αυτά να είναι αλήθεια; Με τη διαστρέβλωση της αλήθειας, ο Brown δηλώνει ότι ο Χριστιανισμός βασίζεται σε ένα ψέμα. Ο παγκόσμιος γνωστός, θεολόγος και καθηγητής της Βίβλου, Erwin W....

In spite of the fact that marriage is recognized as a sacrament by the Church, the attitude of Christian thought towards the sexual relationship and its spiritualizing potentialities has been in practice singularly limited and negative. From the start Christian authors have been ill at ease with the whole subject. Sexual activity tended to be seen as a sign of man's sinful and degenerate state and the modern Christian is taught tο distinguish between love in the New Testament sense -agape -and eros, and tο see eros as a debased form of agape, if not actuaIly opposed tο i...