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The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 249-262, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the phrase “light from light” in the 4th‐century Nicene and Nicene‐Constantinopolitan creeds. The article begins by presenting the earliest use of light as a metaphor for Christ and his agency, as well as examples of similar language outside “orthodox” Christianity. It goes on to examine the meaning and use of “light from
Maria Munkholt Christensen
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 295-310, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article contributes to the growing scholarship on minority politics in the Middle East by arguing that if minorities are socially or politically constructed then the meaning and implications of minority terminology requires greater historical contextualisation.
Elizabeth Monier
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Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt
Development Policy Review, Volume 40, Issue 4, July 2022., 2022 Summary Motivation The relationship between heritage and international development has been understudied despite more recent attempts to highlight the role of culture, and heritage as an element of it, for holistic and sustainable conceptions of development.
Mariz Tadros
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Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives
Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 318-337, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The Origenist controversy at the end of the fourth century was largely played out within a monastic context, and had, moreover, an immediate and extensive impact on the movement. In spite of this, studies of the controversy and its causes have mainly focused on the dogmatic issues foregrounded in the controversy, neglecting the more ...
Samuel Rubenson
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Images as Messengers of Coptic Identity. An Example from Contemporary Egypt
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 During the past thirty years the production of two-dimensional images designed to be used in religion has flourished in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.
Ragnhild Finnestad
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The Coptic Church in South Africa: The meeting of mission and migration
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Previously identified as an entrenched Egyptian community, Copts have propelled themselves into the greater Africa through two main phenomena: migration and mission.
David A. Ogren
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Afriques, 2017 The Orthodox Christian Church of Ethiopia was statutorily a Coptic bishopric. From the fourth century until the middle of the twentieth century, its metropolitan bishops were appointed by the Patriarchal See of Alexandria.
Anaïs Wion
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Legal Roots of Christian Anthropology
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2021 Purpose of the article is to reconstruct the legal sources of Christian anthropology. Theoretical basis. The methodological basis of the article is the understanding of the fundamental foundations of Christian anthropology in the context of Roman legal ...
A. V. Halapsis
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Impact of Christians fasting in type 2 diabetic patients among Egyptian coptic orthodox
Journal of Diabetology, 2018 Context: Religious fasting has a variable metabolic impact health. Studies on Orthodox Christian fasting in diabetic patients are very scarce, and studies on health effects of Christian fasting in Egypt are lacking.
Adel Abd El-Aziz El-Sayed +4 more
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John, Bishop of the Eastern Old Believer Church in Poland
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2020 The aim of this article is to present the personality of Ignacy Jan Wysoczański, an outstanding adventurist who frequently changed his religion, was twice ordained as a priest, and behaved immorally (he spent three and a half years in prison and had ...
Zoja Jaroszewicz-Pieresławcew
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