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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
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“Rightly proclaim the word of Thy truth” [ὀρθοτομοῦντα τον λόγον τῆς σῆς ἀληθείας]. How can the bishop “cut” the word of truth?

Studia Humanitatis, 2020
The expression “rightly proclaim the word of Thy truth” from the formula of the Eucharistic ascension of the Bishop’s name is one of the most difficult to understand and difficult to translate in Orthodox worship.
Pushkov Feognost
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‘The very deceitfulness of devils’: Firmilian and the doubtful baptisms of a woman possessed by demons [PDF]

, 2016
In the mid-third century, a controversy relating to the validity of baptism by the lapsed broke out between Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Stephen, bishop of Rome.
Methuen, Charlotte
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Спомињање на Предложењу и ходатајствена молитва

Godišnjak
Analyzing the rite of Prothesis (Proskomedia) on the basis of sources and patristic interpretations of the Holy Liturgy, as well as relevant contemporary studies, we have tried to explain the process of this rite’s complication and distancing from its ...
Ненад Тупеша
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Baptism [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter surveys commonalities and divergences with regard to the theology and practice of baptism that are reflected in the World Council of Churches convergence document on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, and considers in particular the Anabaptist,
Wood, Susan K.
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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