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Byzantine Theme of Chios

open access: yesVestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, 2016
The article is devoted to the study of the Byzantine theme system in the 10th - 11th centuries. The author believes that the reign of Basil II (976-1025) was marked by the mikra themata in Balkans and on Aegean Sea islands. They were in need of effective border defense.
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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
wiley   +1 more source

The Theological Poetics of Pauline κένωσις in Patristic Authors: A Dialogue with Michael C. Magree☆

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review engages in dialogue with Magree's methodological assumptions (literary, rhetorical, philosophical and theological) and approach to the history of reception of this critically important Pauline passage (Philippians 2:7) and then provides a critical assessment of the textual evidence for his contention that Origen of Alexandria ...
Margaret M. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

The Conquest of Constantinople [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2007
One of the most important events in the history of Islam and even the history of the world is the conquest of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror.
Mohammad-e Taheri
doaj  

Randomized Byzantine Agreement [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1985
A randomized model of distributed computation was recently presented by Rabin [ 81. This model admits a solution to the Byzantine Agreement Problem for systems of n asynchronous processes where no more than t are faulty. The algorithm described by Rabin produces agreement in an expected number of rounds which is a small constant independent of n and t.
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
wiley   +1 more source

Human Destiny and the Natural Law in St Maximus the Confessor: A Contribution to Orthodox Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantine Preferential Voting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the Byzantine agreement problem, n nodes with possibly different input values aim to reach agreement on a common value in the presence of t < n/3 Byzantine nodes which represent arbitrary failures in the system. This paper introduces a generalization of Byzantine agreement, where the input values of the nodes are preference rankings of three or ...
Darya Melnyk   +2 more
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source

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