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The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24
In The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, Christopher A. Graham demonstrates that early Christian authors employed the words “paradise” and “way” as allusions to the expulsion narrative (Genesis 3:22–24) to signify that the benefits available in protological Paradise were once again accessible in and through Jesus and the Church. The centrality of the expulsion narrative in their literary milieus gave these authors confidence that readers would discern these allusions. After considering the reception of the expulsion in texts circulating within the early Christian milieu, Graham turns to the texts of Luke and Irenaeus of Lyons. Both authors drew from an interpretive tradition in which a return to Paradise was desirable. Both celebrated Jesus's reversal of Adam's expulsion and the constitution of Jesus's followers as the location and means by which humanity could continue to access divine truth and life. For both authors, the Church is Paradise and the way therein.
In the Eye of the Animal
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detailed in Genesis—and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of genres of ancient Christian texts? In the Eye of the Animal complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how textual and artistic images and interpretive procedures actually...
History of the Clewell Family in the United States of America, 1737-1907
Franz Clewell (1720-1798) was a son of François Clavel and Louise Frache, Huguenots who had fled to Germany after the Edict of Nantes. After his father's death, his mother married again and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1737. Franz married Salome Kuechley, and settled in Oley Hills near Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and elsewhere.
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