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She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity (thesis)
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ... -
A Social Gospel of Antiquity: Examining Walter Rauschenbusch's Description of Early Christianity Through the Life and Works of Saint Basil of Caesarea
Walter Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel, criticized early Christianity's rejection of property, the “ascetic tendency,” as antithetical to social reconstruction. Two contributing factors to this antithesis ...