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Symbol wiary jako przedmiot Disciplina arcani w Kościele starożytnym

Vox Patrum, 2018
Explanation of Creed, known also as Symbolum, was an essential part of ca-techumen’s preparing for baptism in the ancient Church. Catechesis in the last weeks of the Lent were dedicated to that question. These catechesis were related to the solemn rites
Antoni Żurek
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Hearers of the Word : Luke\u27s Gospel as Sacramental Formation for a Liturgical Community [PDF]

, 1999
(Excerpt) It is privilege to return to the Institute of Liturgical Studies after a long absence, especially on a subject that has consumed me in one way or another over the last fifteen years. I am very grateful to the advisory council for assigning me a
Just, Arthur A, Jr.
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Architect of the Image: Argumentation, Economy and Translation in Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this contribution to a book symposium on Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image, Morwenna Ludlow reflects on John Behr’s attention to the literary structure and argumentative flow of the book, its interplay with the similarly structured Timaeus of Plato and the difficulties of translating a work of such rhetorical and pastoral sophistication
Morwenna Ludlow
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Changes in Religiosity as a Challenge to Family Catechesis: the Situation in Poland

The Person and the Challenges
The concept ‘catechesis’ has always been vital to pastoral mission in Roman Catholic Church and has been used officially with a basic fidelity to its etymological roots (an echoing of faith between believers and with fidelity to its context in the early
Elżbieta Osewska
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The Importance of Catechesis in Environmental Education

Paedagogia Christiana, 2011
Nowadays ecological problems are frequently addressed and in variouscontexts, also with reference to education in a broader sense. The Church participatesin the education, especially through catechesis. This reflection presents the strongestarguments for
Stanisław Dziekoński
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Private Creeds and their Troubled Authors [PDF]

, 2016
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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Early Interaction Between Scripture, Rule of Faith, and Evolving Christian Doctrine and Tradition: A Response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine examines the interplay between Scripture, the Rule of Faith, and evolving Christian doctrine and tradition. Focusing on McGrath’s critique of Lindbeck’s presentation of doctrinal modalities, the article explores how doctrinal formation involves primarily synchronic (canonical),
Tomas Bokedal
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