Essays Tagged: "Ephesus"
Biography on the Apostle John.
ristianity era, according to his gospel. He played a huge part in the Christian church. He moved to Ephesus just before the destruction of Jerusalem. He became pastor there and sent out letters to the ... ostles to be martyred.Domitian was anxious to be rid of John, and he had him brought in chains from Ephesus to Rome. John had been thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil before the Porta Latina at Rome ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Heraclitus
Introduction1. Fl. 500 B.C. in Ephesus, north of Miletus in Asia Minor. He was known in antiquity as "the obscure." And even today, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
The City of Ephesus in Biblical Times
The City of Ephesus in Biblical TimesThe city of Ephesus was known as ?The Gateway of Asia? a very large Metropo ... ty was definitely counter-culture to the people of this great city.One wonders what was the city of Ephesus like, or how might it have looked? Where the building might have been located? What were the ... ng might have been located? What were the people like? What exactly was the atmospherein and around Ephesus? Well when glancing at the City of Ephesus it may be assumed that the people were ignorant, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
The "One-woman Man" Qualification for an Elder. This essay is based on the qualifications for an elder set forth in the book of Timothy in the Bible.
m to look after the Ephesian church. After Paul realized that it might take him longer to return to Ephesus, he wrote his first letter to Timothy to instruct him so that he "may fight the good fight, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
1 timothy 3:1-13
y, who as a young evangelist is facing serious challenges to faith an doctrine within the church at Ephesus (Narrated 1613)." Paul talks about matters of church organization and conduct, the role of w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
What can be learnt from the Acts of the Apostles about life and society in the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1st century A.D?
archaeological sources" . In my essay, the life and society will be examined in the four cities of Ephesus, Caesarea, Antioch and Corinth.When looking at Acts, the historical Accuracy can also be que ... , still provide evidence to prove the accuracy of Luke's writings.The Information within Acts about Ephesus is detailed and very significant to this study. Pliny, a historian writing around 20-30 A.D, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
The Role of Women in the Church
aul to a young preacher named Timothy. Timothy waspresumably preaching at the church in the city of Ephesus. Paul startsout the letter by telling him to stay in Ephesus and correct falseteachers who w ... ted that this teaching could have had some influence in thefalse teachings that were encountered in Ephesus and Corinth in regardto women. Christ himself taught that in the afterlife, men and womenwou ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Pericles
or the storm won't stop, and Pericles complies. Thaisa's body is put in a chest, which washes up in Ephesus, where it is brought to the attention of Cerimon, a generous doctor. He discovers that Thais ... ted, but Pericles is exhausted, and in his sleep the goddess Diana tells him to go to her temple in Ephesus and tell of his experiences. When he wakes, he promises Marina to Lysimachus, and they set o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Hippocrates
available today must be based on many years of oral tradition and are thus unreliable.[6]Soranus of Ephesus, about whom little is known, was Hippocrates's first biographer and is the source of most in ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
On R. Kent Hughes book "EPHESIANS: The Mystery of the Body of Christ"
t HughesReligion/Christianity/Biblical CommentaryThe Apostle Paul and the 'Saints' of the church in EphesusBOOK REPORT by WMNot knowing what to expect when I ordered this book I was comforted to see t ... grouping of passages from this letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the 'Saints' at the church in Ephesus.The Book of Ephesians tells us of the mystery of the union of between Christ Jesus and the C ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
St. John the Evangelist
council, which the apostles held at Jerusalem.Later his life was passed chiefly in Jerusalem and at Ephesus. He founded many churches in Asia Minor. Brought to Rome, tradition relates that he was by o ... unhurt and was banished to the island of Pathmos for a year. When age and weakness grew upon him at Ephesus so that he wasn't able to preach to the people, he used to be carried to the assembly of the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Ist Corinthians
thians is a single, whole document written by Paul in the early 50's C.E. The letter was written in Ephesus, and intended for the members of a church that had been newly built in Corinth, Greece. Paul ... ul along the way. Paul stayed in the city of Corinth for about a year and a half, before sailing to Ephesus. It is from this city that Paul wrote the letters to the church in Corinth.The people of Cor ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Chalcedon, Did The Council Do Its Job?
, was the fourth ecumenical council in Church history (the councils were as such, Jerusalem, Nicea, Ephesus). There were 630 Bishops who had met up from the 8th of October to November 1st of the year ... rom the 8th of October to November 1st of the year 451. This Council was preceded by the Council of Ephesus by only twenty years, and the Council of Robbers (not an ecumenical council) by two years (4 ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Pre- Socratic
e something permanent underlying this world of change?" A philosopher named Heraclitus from Ephesus in Asia Minor had his own ideas about these questions. Heraclitus said that fire is the matt ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Pre- Socratic
e something permanent underlying this world of change?" A philosopher named Heraclitus from Ephesus in Asia Minor had his own ideas about these questions. Heraclitus said that fire is the matt ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
It is not uncommon to hear of siblings being separated
both named Antipholus. They were shipwrecked and separated at a very young age. Now, one resides in Ephesus while the other lives in Syracuse. While the family was on the ship, Egeon (the twins' fathe ... ughn 14).The conflict of the play comes into play when "the four young men who are wondering around Ephesus unaware of each others' existence" finally begin to suspect that something is suspicious (Fo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
HERACLEITUS
HERACLEITUSHeraclitus was born 540, Ephesus, in Anatolia and he died 480. He was one of the Greek philosophers. Heraclitus was called "T ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Gladiators
Subjects: Literature Research Papers