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Specific differences in the approach to the use of old testament imagery in early Christian exegesis and iconography [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
One of the peculiarities of early Christian art was its regular recourse to stories and images borrowed from Old Testament history. Art historians reasonably assume that the use of such images could not have been purely illustrative, and that such images
Olga Nesterova
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Text analysis, Godden, Catholic Homilies, Homily II.40

, 2021
In his homily for the Dedication of a Church (In Dedicatione Ecclesiae) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric offers an allegorical interpretation of Solomon's ...
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Divine Breath and the Process of Creation. The Allusions to Gen 2:7 in the Catechetical Rhetoric of Cyril of Jerusalem

Vox Patrum
Previous scholarship inadequately acknowledged the diverse ways in which Cyril of Jerusalem employed the breath-related vocabulary related to or derived from Gen 2:7.
Harri Huovinen
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Text analysis, Godden, Catholic Homilies, Homily II.15

, 2017
In the homily for Easter (Sermo de Sacrificio in Die Pascae) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric treats the topic of the ...
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
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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Architect of the Image: Argumentation, Economy and Translation in Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 151-160, April 2026.
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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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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What has Nicaea to do with Canterbury? Creeds, Councils, Tradition and the Fathers in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 525-549, October 2025.
Abstract This article charts the Council of Nicaea's (325) relevance to the Anglican Tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day, as manifested through Anglicanism's engagement with the Nicene Creed, its attitude towards early ecumenical councils, its appeals to ‘the Fathers’ and its approach to ‘tradition’, particularly in relation to ...
E. S. Kempson
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