Matthean

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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.

  Academic text (2008)

• Exceptions to the general opposition to divorce hearkened back to the Matthean exceptive clause and the precedents established by the Cappadocians and others.

  Academic text (2004)

• The situations in Corinth and then the Matthean community are early illustrations of this process.

  Academic text (2004)

• There's even a Matthean priority group still out there, though they are out of the mainstream.

  Blog text (8)

• I have distinguished only two styles of Christian faith: Pauline and Matthean, on the basis of their history of effects on the Christian tradition.

  Academic text (2008)

• But the Matthean style of faith presupposes the believer's active responsibility before real alternatives in eternal destiny.

  Academic text (2008)

• 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.

  Academic text (2008)

• 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.

  Academic text (2008)

• 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."

  Academic text (2008)

• 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)

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