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Representation c. 800: Arab Byzantine Carolingian [PDF]

, 2009
What could or should be visually represented was a contested issue across the medieval Christian and Islamic world around the year 800. This article examines how Islamic, Byzantine, Carolingian and Palestinian Christian attitudes toward representation ...
Brubaker, Leslie
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The Christology of John Duns Scotus

Religions
The subtle Christology of John Duns Scotus has been the focus of intense study and dispute since his death in 1308. Of note are the Scottish theologian’s positions on the predestination of the Incarnation, his definition and metaphysical account of ...
Jared Isaac Goff
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Ignatius the Deacon: on the Sacred Images - the Theology of a Hagiographer [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2015
The author examines the theology of Ignatius the Deacon regarding the holy icons, a Byzantine author who wrote around the cusp of the eighth and ninth centuries.
O. IZOTOVA
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Byzantine Theology and Islam: Paul of Antioch’s Irenic Approach

Edinost in dialog, 2019
For the West, Islam has generally been seen as a typical example of exotic, dangerous and unknown culture, whereas for the Byzantines, Islam was much better known, since they have to live together with Muslims for centuries and therefore their attitude could not have been uniformly hostile but consisted of manifold attempts to hold a (theological ...
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Tajemství Velikonoc v byzantském ritu prostřednictvím mysticko-teologické reflexe

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2020
This article interprets the secret of Easter in the Byzantine rite by means of mystic-theological reflection, or by means of spiritual development of a personality as perceived in the Christian mystic tradition.
Karel Sládek
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The Influence of Greek Spirituality on Russian Culture

Religions, 2021
In this article, we will analyze the influence of Greek spirituality on Russian culture in the second half of the 18th century, when Enlightenment ideas infused Russian society.
Ján Zozuľak
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Christian in the modern world: S. S. Averintsev's mission [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The methods of study and presentation by S. Averintsev Orthodox Christian tradition were considered. The role of the semiotic method in the study of Christianity by Averintsev was defined and the relationship of this method and content of the results of ...
Kuzmin Platon
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To Each According to their Needs: Anarchist Praxis as a Resource for Byzantine Theological Ethics [PDF]

, 2018
I argue that anarchist ideas for organising human communities could be a useful practical resource for Christian ethics. I demonstrate this firstly by introducing the main theological ideas underlying Maximus the Confessor’s ethics, a theologian ...
Dewhurst, Emma Brown
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The Past Requires Reconciliation

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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