Did Christianity Cause Western Values? –Video Sources

An Eccentric Tradition: The Paradox of “Western Values”

Peter Harrison. 1 17 2018. ABC Religion & Ethics.

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/an-eccentric-tradition-the-paradox-of-western-values/10095044

Did Christianity Create Liberalism?

Samuel Moyn. 2 9 2015. Boston Review.

https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/samuel-moyn-larry-siedentop-christianity-liberalism-history

The Great Subversion: The Scandalous Origins of Human Rights

Ronald Osborn. 2015. The Hedgehog Review.

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/43764901/The_Great_Subversion.pdf?1458094956=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Great_Subversion_The_Scandalous_Orig.pdf&Expires=1634828634&Signature=Bq-TvvZ5pjPOMeRGyhw1YMxFZgLTcW~5GIYahqf2yKdRzaDDd-NgbBtacJWiCXI~azEODmKrhYuRXJY3~O2WYXZAy39RiWt3VCHw~KriRKS5ppXGH25ZJxVRh445abfISg7TWaLveGs6Rffud-mCCNpCIXhL6tVlXB7KJ6UzpfnwB2a4iWDWrGbu6G-n4cjRrF3tHCGjBigb-QlOMARdekR9PfnCwSSgNp6jKyjRZUtVck0Gko4NrPriQXosm9UffR0t-elV3Jo7ArxBMicB2m32vR7EUEaRy9j7eI0kxJhe-S47jZrD~LDoGrMjdxm-mVOLBX5la6KzeSDzKpF53Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

The values of liberty, tolerance and rational inquiry are not the birthright of a single culture. In fact, the very notion of something called ‘western culture’ is a modern invention

Kwame Anthony Appiah. 11 9 2016. The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture

Modernity and Christianity Reconsidered

Brian C. Anderson. 1998. Leaderu.

http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9806/reviews/anderson.html

Prof. Peter Harrison – Science, Religion and Modernity

Peter Harrison. 7 21 2011. The University of Edinburgh

Dumont’s hierarchical dynamism. Christianity and individualism revisited

Joel Robbins. Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2015.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.14318/hau5.1.009

A sacred social: Christian relationalism and the re-enchantment of the world

Nofit Itzhak. 3 31 2021. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.13494

Inventing the Individual: the Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop – review

Nicholas Lezard. 1 27 2015. The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/27/inventing-individual-origins-western-liberalism-larry-siedentop-review

Inventing the Individual

Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979888

Book Review: ‘Inventing the Individual’ by Larry Siedentop

Alan Roxburgh. 2015. Journal of Missional Practice.

https://journalofmissionalpractice.com/book-review-inventing-the-individual-by-larry-siedentop/

Jesus Will Set You Free

John Gray. 2 2014. Literary Review.

Christianity to Liberalism: An Interview with Daniel Klein

Peter J Olsson. 8 28 2020. Svensk Tidskrift

https://www.svensktidskrift.se/christianity-to-liberalism-an-interview-with-daniel-klein/

How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and the Success of the West

Rodney W. Stark. 12 2 2005. Independent Institute.

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1809

The Religious Origins of the Rule of Law

P.J. Hill. 8 2020. Intellectual History.

https://intellectualhistory.net/new-work/the-religious-origins-of-the-rule-of-law

‘Inventing the Individual’, by Larry Siedentop

David Abulafia. 1 24 2014. Financial Times.

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Did Christianity Invent the Individual?: A review

Simon Kennedy. 1 7 2016. The Calvinist International.

https://calvinistinternational.com/2016/01/07/did-christianity-invent-the-individual-a-review-of-inventing-the-individual-by-larry-siedentop/

Reviewed Work: Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop

Matthew J. Tuininga. 10 2015. Journal of Law and Religion.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24739262?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

Evaluating the potential of Protestant Christianity to stimulate democracy and good governance in sub-Saharan Africa through the valuing of the individual

Nicola de Jager and Phillip de Jager. 8 7 2018. Democratization.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2018.1515918

Human Rights and Asian Values

5 25 1997. Amartya Sen. Carnegie Council.

https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/morgenthau/254

IS THE NOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
A WESTERN CONcept?

R Panikkar. University of California, Santa Barbara.

http://niu.edu.in/slla/is-the-notion-of-human-rights-a-western-concept.pdf

Confucian Values and Democracy
in South Korea

Chulhee Chung. 12 2013. The Review of Korean Studies.

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Values Change and Support for Democracy in East Asia

Yida Zhai. 9 2021. Social Indicators Research.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-021-02807-3

Does respect for human rights vary across ‘civilizations’? A statistical reexamination

Wade M Cole. 11 2013. International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

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The Asian Values Thesis Revisited: Evidence
from the World Values Surveys

Christian Welzel. 2011. Japanese Journal of Political Science.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian-Welzel-2/publication/231927258_The_Asian_Values_Thesis_Revisited_Evidence_from_the_World_Values_Surveys/links/5449292a0cf2ea6541302f70/The-Asian-Values-Thesis-Revisited-Evidence-from-the-World-Values-Surveys.pdf

Cultural Diversity and Change in Post-Cold War Europe

Plamen Akaliyski. 2019. University of Oslo.

https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/70318/PhD-Akaliyski-2019.pdf?sequence=1

A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

Henry E. Hale and Marlene Laruelle. 2021. Nationalities Papers.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/new-wave-of-research-on-civilizational-politics/02DD1E75853C169A1DEE226F5C128764/share/3a95953da17ff5c2e370c3b14f3db5c3788b4bdf

Universal Human Dignity: Some Reflections
in the Asian Context

Man Yee Karen Lee. 2008. Asian Journal of Comparative Law.

file:///E:/05%2012%202014/Vblog/political/Religion/Western%20values%20and%20Christianity/Saved%20Research/AJCL_K%20Lee.pdf

Christianity’s impact on Western civilisation

Clinton Chisholm. 8 5 2015. The Gleaner.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20150808/christianitys-impact-western-civilisation

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL
RELATIVISM

Lucrezia Alberti Corseri. 2015. LUISS Guido Carli [I think this is a dissertation or something]

http://tesi.luiss.it/14858/1/alberti-corseri-lucrezia-tesi-2015.pdf

Human Dignity in Islam

Mohammad Hashim Kamali. International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia.

file:///C:/Users/ajk13/AppData/Local/Temp/Human_Dignity_in_Islam.pdf

Islamic View of Human Dignity

Ehsan Aliakabari Babookani et al. 2020. Journal of Xi’an university of Architecture & Technology.

https://www.xajzkjdx.cn/gallery/96-july2020.pdf

Human Dignity In Islam

Ahmad UbaiDillah. 6 12 2020. Medium.

https://medium.com/any-writers/human-dignity-in-islam-78ee7c47d93a

Human Dignity and War: the Islamic Perspective

Mohammad Amin Al-Midani. ACIHL. 2007.

https://acihl.org/articles.htm?article_id=27

Dignity: An Islamic Perspective

Zeki Saritoprak. 2020. John Carroll University. 

https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=fac_bib_2020

Human Dignity: An Islamic Perspective

Mohammad Hossein Mozaffari. 12 2011. Hekmat Quarterly Journal.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327237458_Human_Dignity_An_Islamic_Perspective

Concept of Human Dignity in Islamic Thought

Dr. Vaffi Foday Sheriff. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science. 1 2019.

https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/Digital-Library/volume-3-issue-1/148-155.pdf

Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea

Kurt Bayertz. 1996. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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Existimatio as “human dignity” in late-classical Roman law

Jacob Giltaij. 2016. Fundamina.

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Dignity and Status in Ancient and
Medieval India

Timothy Lubin. 2018. Academia.

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/57018890/Lubin-Dignity_StatusIndia-abstract-180717-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1635875308&Signature=XHNqwuFF5muYSsNsWfRnzZDzq8OCtnZaOOwcRriOZwuLVfzOxH6Ailo7UOvRom5i2XOWWsy7Z7wN1Y3Q12zoXIG2F5WVudST21KkIJcDIwOqkWgpzMpA2LpJrQtBWynUdvkTHuNCEihKkqftOj1qBNzAqgebuK6JCOyMdDrGWvvrz4FvkDgq4bCIkuCKFqFRmzpQBF0phlwsZRJp7AsEK9l6ts0RJmHRHZTQWb21O2TvSz9XTEP1f3nmIM-apeqlOF6UMgY3CvM4lslVIjzZSQucpO2DsrKfoo2q-WjEGNtJx3pYwjYItOjxATCClBRRKsGKMxEpJ-iYnz8wz-02OA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

Human Value in the Ancient World

Humphrey Clarke. 2 17 2009. Quodlibeta.

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Larry Siedentop: Inventing the Individual – The Origins of Western Liberalism (2014)

Daniel Klein. 7 19 2020. George Mason University.

https://intellectualhistory.net/reading-groups/larry-siedentop-inventing-the-individual-the-origins-of-western-liberalism-2014-698jr-4nxly

The Birth of Human Rights.

Humphrey Clarke. 11 25 2008. Quodlibeta.

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The Birth of Human Rights – Part Two

Humphrey Clarke. 12 4 2008. Quodlibeta.

https://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2008/12/birth-of-human-rights-part-two.html

Greek Roman thoughts in concept of Rights

Punsara Amarasinghe. 6 2016.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322405457_Greek_Roman_thoughts_in_concept_of_Rights

Why were new born children left to die in ancient Rome?

JV99. 6 15 2016. Lucius’ Romans.

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How the poor became blessed

Pieter van der Horst. 3 14 2019. Aeon.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-poor-might-have-always-been-with-us-but-charity-has-not

Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for Early Christian practice

P. Lampe. 2016. Acta Theologica.

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1015-87582016000200002

Some Athenian Presuppositions about ‘The Poor’

Vincent J. Rosivach. 10 1991. Greece & Rome.

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INDIVIDUALISM: ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION

Mohd. Akhtar Khan. 3 1987. The Indian Journal of Political Science.

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Forgotten Roots of Individualism

Jan Olof Bengtsson. 1997. Humanitas.

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Individualism in Classical Chinese Thought

Erica Brindley. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought

Barry Alan Shain. 1994.

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THE STATUS OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN ISLAM

Fazlur Rahman. 12 1966. Islamic Studies.

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Session 1: Origins of Individualism: The Age of the Individual: 500 Years Ago Today

The Center on Capitalism and Society. 11 29 2017.

Dominion

Tom Holland. 2019. Basic Books.

Nietzsche Was Right

Tim Keller. 2020 9 23. The Gospel Coalition.

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Eternal resurrection

James Orr. 12 2019. The Critic.

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Review – Tom Holland “Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind”

Tim O’Neill. 2020 1 11. History for Atheists.

https://historyforatheists.com/2020/01/tom-holland-dominion/

Nightshadetwine Comment on Article.

Nightshadetwine. 1 12 2020. History For Atheists.

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Comment on: How accurate is Tom Holland’s claim in his book Dominion that most of our current values, including human rights and secularism, are based on Christianity?

J-Force.  8 2021. Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/p5niz5/how_accurate_is_tom_hollands_claim_in_his_book/

The Lost Stories Of Ancient Rome’s Citizens | Meet The Romans with Mary Beard | Timeline

Mary Beard. 2021 6 29. Timeline – World History Documentaries.

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The Founder’s First Principles: Learning from the Greeks and Romans

Commonwealth Club of California. 2020 11 17.

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Emperor Wuzong of Tang

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The Great Appeal

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The Main Causes Contributing to the Spread of Christianity

Gregory Aldrete. 2020 9 19. The Great Courses Daily.

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Thomas Ricks on What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans

Matt Lewis. 2020 12 14. Thomas E. Ricks.

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Islam, Christ, and Liberty | Mustafa Akyol | The JBP Podcast S4: E56

Jordan B Peterson. 2021 10 18. Mustafa Akyol

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Religious views of Adolf Hitler

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Hitler hated Judaism. But he loathed Christianity, too.

Michael S. Rosenwald. 2019 4 20. The Washington Post.

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Hitler’s Religion

Richard Weikart. 2016. Regnery History.

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Was Adolf Hitler religious?

William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson. 2018 7 20. Deseret.

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Was Hitler a Christian? — A Look at the Sources

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Hitler’s faith: The debate over Nazism and religion

Samuel Koehne. 2012 4 18. ABC(Australia).

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African Ethics

Kwame Gyekye. 9 9 2010. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home

Thomas Donaldson. 1996. Harvard Business Review.

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Could the world ever agree on shared ethical principles? People have been arguing for millennia, says Simon Beard, and reaching an answer is harder than it seems.

Simon Beard. 2019 6 18. Future.

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What Is Wrong with a Rights-based Approach to Morality?

Rajesh Kapoor. 2019 8 29. Journal of National Law University Delhi.

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Human rights and faith: a ‘world-wide secular religion’?

Henri Feron. 2014 12 11. Ethics & Global Politics.

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ethics of care

Brian K. Burton. Britannica.

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Prof Dame Mary Beard – Them and us

Mary Bears. 2019 5 28. The University of Edinburgh.

Love Your Neighbor: A Common Theme in Major Religions

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Comment on: Is “love your neighbor” a “religious” concept?

Frans du Plessis. 2016. Quora.

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Excerpts from Religious Texts

Joan Barnatt. ASIA Society.

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Hinduism

Wendy Doniger. Britannica.

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History of Hinduism

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Roots of Hinduism

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The Story and Spread of Hinduism

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History of Hinduism

Gavin Flood. 2009 8 24. BBC.

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Secularism in India

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When did India became secular country?

Pat Bauer. 2020 7 31. Britannica.

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Secularism: Why Nehru dropped and Indira inserted the S-word in the Constitution

Adrija Roychowdhury. 2017 12 27. Indian Express.

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Why India is not a secular state

Ashwini Anand. 2015 12 7. India Times.

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The Fate of Secularism in India

Christophe Jaffrelot. 2019 4 4. Carnegie.

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Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan – S3: French Revolution – Episode 47

Mike Duncan. 2018 4 22. Khwarezmid

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How Did Universal Religions Change the World

Maltaweel and Eric Lambrecht. 2020 12 3. Daily History.

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Islam and secularism

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Is Religion-State Separation Possible in Islam?

Ahmet T. Kuru. 2019 6 13. Cambridge.

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What can Islam Teach Us About the Separation of Church and State?

Shlomo C. Pill. 2019 10 30. Canopy Forum.

The Advantage to Islam Of Mosque-State Separation

Alexander Bendard. 2008 1 29. Hoover Institution.

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Islam, Catholicism, and Religion-State Separation: An Essential or Historical Difference?

Ahmet T. Kuru. 2020 11 22. International Journal of Religion.

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Conscience across Cultures: The Case of Islam

Paul L. Heck. 7 2014. The Journal of Religion.

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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Ahmet T. Kuru. 2020 10 30. Stanford CDDRL.

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker et al. 6 2020. IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

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Chapter 14: Democracy, development and Islam

Michael T. Rock and Soli Ozel. 2021 3 23. Democracy and Development.

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Zoroastrianism

Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin. Britannica.

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Zoroastrianism

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Zoroastrianism

History.com. 2019 10 8.

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The Moral Life of the Early Romans.

Frank Granger. 1897. International Journal of Ethics.

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The Influence of Christianity upon the Roman Empire

Arthur Cushman McGiffert. 1909. The Harvard Theological Review.

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Reddit Question: In the Roman Empire, was there ever any significant debate about the moral issues with slavery?

Variety of Answerers. 2017. Reddit: r/AskHistorians.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8mbt4i/in_the_roman_empire_was_there_ever_any/

Quora: Did ancient Romans have any ethical dilemmas around slavery?

Garrett Ryan et al. 2020. Quora.

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A: abandonment and infanticide.

Roberta Wollons. University of Chicago.

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Charities and Philanthropies in the Roman Empire

Adeline Belle Hawes. 1913. The Classical Weekly.

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Christians Did Not Invent Charity and Philanthropy

Richard Carrier. 2017 5 24.

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Philanthropy in ancient times: some early examples from the Mediterranean

Sarah Bond. 2011 4 2. Sofii.

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Ancient Roman Munificence: The Development of the Practice
and Law of Charity and Law of Charity

William H. Byrnes IV. 2004. Texas A&M. Rutgers L. Rev. 1043.

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“Charity” and Benevolence in the Greek & Roman Eras

Larry Hurtado. 2015 7 8. Larry Hurtado’s Blog.

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SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE
GRECO-ROMAN WORLD AS
A BACKGROUND FOR EARLY
CHRISTIAN PRACTICE

P. Lampe. 2016. Acta Theologica.

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Imago Dei (“image of God”)

PBS

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What does it mean that humanity is made in the image of God (imago dei)?

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What Does “Image of God” Mean?

Pete Enns. 2010 7 27. BioLogos.

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Image of God

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