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Chalcedon on the Road to Justice and Peace

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 261-280, April 2021., 2021
Abstract In the context of the bilateral dialogue between the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht, the question of Christology – and with that the joint reception of the conciliar tradition of the early church – played an important role, given the “families” of churches that both traditions belong to: “Western ...
Peter‐Ben Smit, Adrian Suter
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A sixteenth‐century Russian Vita of Girolamo Savonarola

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 803-815, November 2020., 2020
Abstract The article provides an annotated edition and an English translation of a sixteenth‐century Russian vita of Girolamo Savonarola composed in Muscovy by one of his followers, Maximus the Greek. This text is to be considered a unique document, which illustrates the extent to which Savonarolan ideas spread across Europe after his trial.
Ovanes Akopyan
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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

open access: yesInternational 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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The Past Requires Reconciliation

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 3-4, Page 205-221, July–October 2025.
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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Peace‐making Through the Blood of Christ: Insights from Nicholas Cabasilas and the Orthodox Tradition

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 467-481, July 2025.
Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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Exile in Barbary: English‐speaking expatriates, biblical theology, and mercantile ethics in the seventeenth‐century Maghreb☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 81-103, February 2025.
Abstract During the seventeenth century, thousands of English‐speaking Protestants went to the Maghreb as captives, diplomats, traders, and travellers. Distant from the guiding and controlling hands of monopoly trading companies and the established churches, and placed under various pressures by non‐Christian neighbours, colleagues, and captors, these ...
Nat Cutter
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The Nicene Creed, the Church, and Christian Mission

open access: yesInternational Review of Mission, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 311-323, November 2024.
Abstract This article critically examines the significance of the Nicene Creed for mission within the evolving missional context of 2025, particularly in Southern Africa. In an era defined by the globalized nature of mission, the church is no longer viewed as the sender but as the one being sent, reflecting the missio Dei framework.
Johannes J. Knoetze
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On the Homoousia

open access: yesInternational Review of Mission, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 261-279, November 2024.
Abstract The affirmation of the co‐equality (homoousia) of the first and the second persons of the Trinity at the Council of Nicaea is a major milestone in the history of theology and the church. Established at a time when the Roman empire developed its Christian identity, it has often been assumed that Nicene theology was imperial theology.
Joerg Rieger
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.
This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2021
Stryamets N   +7 more
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