Matthean
- noun
- /məˈθiːən/
- As a Matthean, she dedicated her studies to understanding the teachings attributed to the apostle Matthew.
- Matthean faith
- Matthean style
Examples
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The late Roman legal system provided a cultural context in which the Matthean style of faith could more exactly take account of every sin and measure the virtuous recompense owed to God, a calculation that mirrored the secular amnesty that violators of imperial law sought from the emperor.
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Exceptions to the general opposition to divorce hearkened back to the Matthean exceptive clause and the precedents established by the Cappadocians and others.
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The situations in Corinth and then the Matthean community are early illustrations of this process.
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There's even a Matthean priority group still out there, though they are out of the mainstream.
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I have distinguished only two styles of Christian faith: Pauline and Matthean, on the basis of their history of effects on the Christian tradition.
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But the Matthean style of faith presupposes the believer's active responsibility before real alternatives in eternal destiny.
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Christian faith in the Late Antique world developed along the lines of this Matthean style of faith, proliferating as a religious perspective that Peter Brown has called the "peccatization" of the world.
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The loss of competitive religion may have resulted in the collapse of a Matthean style of faith, but the rise of a noncompetitive style of faith may have recovered Pauline dimensions of the Catholic tradition that have been too long overlooked.
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Even though we find these beliefs about judgment in all three Synoptic Gospels, they are so pointedly expressed in Matthew that I will name this style of faith "Matthean."
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The notion of visio Dei is based in large part on the Matthean beatitude, "Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God" (Mt 5:8).
Academic text (2009)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Matthean comes from the name Matthew ('gift of God') and the ending -an meaning 'related to'. So a Matthean is a person 'connected to Matthew', either a follower of his teachings or a scholar who studies the Gospel of Matthew.