It had a tremendous influence on the early church, the canonization of the New Testament, and continues today to influence the understanding of Christianity. ... In addition, Marcion, a radical exegete of Paul tinged with gnostic assumptions, founded a group and made the first attempt to create a closed canon of the New Testament. ... Reaction to gnostic concerns exerted a formative influence on the shape and content of Christian doctrine, views of tradition, New Testament canon, and ecclesiastical structure. ... In the story of Mary's encounter with the resurrected Jesus. ... Mary...

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When we speak of life beyond death, or of a resurrected body, or of a new heaven and a new earth, we speak in images, metaphors and parables" (Calvin). ... In brief, Christian hope enlivens rather than paralyzes human imagination and action in the direction of God's coming new heaven and new earth. ... Parousia means arrival or coming and refers in the New Testament to the coming of the crucified and risen Jesus in glory. ... He continues to come into the World and sacrament and in ever-surprising encounters of his presence among the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the imprisoned who ...

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