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A Federative Model of the Church in Orthodox Theology [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви
The author continues his study of the ways in which the political concept of federation is used to describe church organisation, this time taking as a basis the texts of Orthodox authors. These writers borrowed the idea of a federative structure of early
Pavel Ermilov
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Nikolai Berdyaev’s Personalism [PDF]

International Journal of Orthodox Theology, 2015
The author portrays Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev as a pioneer in Eastern Orthodox theology with his ideas of freedom and personality. After his deportation from the Soviet Union in 1922, Berdyaev expounded persona-lism in opposition to Western ...
Richard A. Hughes
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In Search of Common Ground: How Can Eastern Orthodox Theology Develop a Natural Law Theory? [PDF]

Studies in Christian Ethics, 2023
While natural law theory plays an important role for Catholic moral theology, it is true that Orthodox ethics has not endeavoured to develop its own theory of natural law. This article demonstrates the existence of the concept of natural law in Eastern Orthodox theology and argues that the main reason for this neglect is Eastern Christianity's ...
Mavropoulos, Angelos
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Missio Dei – the contemporary missionary paradigm and its reception in the Eastern Orthodox missionary theology [PDF]

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu, 2017
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reception of the missio Dei paradigm in the Eastern Orthodox theology of mission. We will start with a short presentation of the genesis of the concept, and we will continue with its reception in the Protestant and Roman Catholic theology, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox thinking ...
Cristian Sonea
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Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology [PDF]

Studies in Christian Ethics
Scholars have often focused on the doctrinal and canonical reasons for the lack of a just war tradition in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The consensus seems to be that the Eastern Orthodox Church, for historical as well as theological reasons, has never developed a doctrine for the justification or the containment of war but was rather orientated to the
Paipais, Vassilios
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Christos Yannaras's View on the History of Western Theology from St. Augustine to Nietzsche

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2023
The article analyzes the anti-Western and radically anti-ecumenical theology of the Greek Orthodox thinker Christos Yannaras and his idea of gradual centuries-old deviation of Western theology from the authentic tradition of the early Church Fathers ...
Andrii Shymanovych
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The Neoplatonic Substructure of Russian Orthodox Iconography and Theology

Визуальная теология, 2023
This paper aims to uncover the underlying Neoplatonic ideas embedded in Russian Orthodox iconography and theology. The focus is on two earlier figures of Neoplatonism, namely, Iamblichus and Plotinus.
Emile Alexandrov
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Is there an Orthodox anthropology? [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022
The critical article states and briefly analyses the main problems related to Orthodox anthropology (a small section is devoted to particular points of anthropology in Eastern religions).
Dunaev Alexey
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The care of persons with intellectual disabilities in Eastern Europe and the need for rethinking the notion of perfection in Eastern Orthodox Theology

, 2019
The difficult situation of persons with intellectual disabilities in Romania has figured in the reports of the European Commission (EC) for many years. And despite the best efforts of the EC nothing changed. In fact, in 2019 a new case of abuse in state institution emerged in the press.
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Ecumenical Convergences: Romanian Evangelicals Exploring Orthodoxy

Religions, 2021
Historically, in Romania, the relations between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the evangelical communities have been characterized by tension and mutual distrust.
Cristian Sonea
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