A Critical Examination of the Church’s Reception of Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan of AD 313
Since its enactment in AD 313, the Edict of Milan (sometimes referred to as ‘the Edict of Toleration’), an edict that freed Christianity from empire-wide persecution, Constantine’s declaration has received a significant amount of attention within ...
Mutie Jeremiah
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St. Gregory the Theologian and St. Damasus of Rome: comparative analysis of theological and church-political positions [PDF]
This article gives a comparative analysis of theological and political views of two most important representatives of the Nicene party at the fi nal stage of the Arian controversy, namely St. Damasus of Rome and St. Gregory the Theologian.
Georgy Zakharov
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“Apostolic” and “Imperial” discourse in the development of the Roman Primacy in the 4th century [PDF]
The article is devoted to the evolution of the Roman primacy in the 4th century. The Christianization of the Empire accelerated the process of regional consolidation of the episcopate, but did not lead to the emergence of specific «imperial ecclesiology».
Zakharov Georgii
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General principles of Church organisation and the ways of its development in the East and West in light of the legacy of the Council of Nicaea (325) [PDF]
This article attempts to reconstruct the system of church organization based on the documents of the Council of Nicaea (325) and the letters of Emperor Constantine the Great reporting its results. The scholarly relevance of a separate examination of this
Georgy Zakharov
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Roman council of 382 in the context of ecclesiastical andpolitical activities and ecclesiological views of St. Damasus of Rome and St. Ambrose of Milan [PDF]
This article is devoted to the historical signifi cance and ecclesiology of the council of Rome, 382. It considers this council to be the fi nal point in the history of the Arian crisis in the Latin West.
Georgy Zakharov
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The aryans and the ancient system of caste [PDF]
Over the last century or two, the dominant accounts of the caste system have looked for its roots in the ancient history of India. More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the ...
Keppens, Marianne
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«Intellegentia simplicitatis»: the Doctrine of Divine simplicity in Marius Victorinus: its philosophical Sources and theological Significance [PDF]
In this article the author examines Gaius Marius Victorinus’ contribution to the development of the doctrine of divine simplicity, which occupies the central place in his philosophical and theological doctrine.
Alexey Fokin
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The Platonist Christianity of Marius Victorinus
Marius Victorinus is the first representative of Platonist Christianity in the Latin church whose works display knowledge of Plotinus and Porphyry. Scholarship prior to the work of Pierre Hadot in the mid-twentieth century tended to treat him as an ...
Stephen A. Cooper
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The Roman Synodal Letter Confi dimus Quidem in the Context of Relations Between the Churches of East and West (370–379) [PDF]
The article is devoted to the reconstruction of the project of the Arian crisis’s resolution proposed by the Roman and Italian Churches to the local Churches of Illyricum and East (370(1)).
Zakharov Georgii
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Private Creeds and their Troubled Authors [PDF]
This article defends the disputed label “private creeds” as a useful one for describing a number of fourth century texts. Offering such a confession was the normal method for clearing one’s name on charges of heterodoxy in fourth-century Greek ...
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
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