The more one searches through the texts of Emmanouil Roides, the more unique literary treasures one discovers, where the great author from Syros masterfully combined the offering of rare historical information with critical thinking and profound reflection.
This essay does not only address the issue of the Apocryphal Gospels and other early Christian texts that were excluded from the Ecumenical Councils and never received the honorable title of "canonical," but it goes even deeper into describing the psychology of the first Christians and highlights in an unprecedented way the remarkable participation of women in the struggles to spread the new religion.
However, Roides emphasizes that Christian doctrine was from the beginning and remains misogynistic, despite the multitudes of women who selflessly suffered martyrdom for its sake, because while... “the religion of the ancients was nothing but the glorification of human nature, the essence of Christianity lies in the condemnation of this nature...”
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- Synaxari
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- Synaxarion, Church History & Archaeology, Theology & Doctrine
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- Soft
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- Greek
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- 9789606165658
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