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The theory of eucharistic presence in the early Caroline divines, examined in its European theological setting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The question of Christ's presence in the eucharist was an issue which caused great controversy in the Reformation period, and which continued to evoke dispute during the seventeenth century. Various interpretations of the Caroline divines' teaching on
Frank, Gary Lee Chrysostom
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In the Age of the Post-Ecclesiality (The Emergence of Post-Ecclesiological Modernity)

open access: yesForum Theologicum Sardicense
Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas, In the Age of the Post-Ecclesiality (The Emergence of Post-Ecclesiological Modernity). Since the Crusades, the three major Christian denominations—Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians—have developed conceptions
Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas
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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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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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A Normative Model for God-Inspired Action: The New Textbook on Pastoral Theology in the Context of the 20th-Century Russian Tradition of Pastoral Theology [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии
This article is devoted to an analysis of the textbook Pastoral Theology (2021), edited by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), in the context of the development of the Russian pastoral-theological tradition of the 20th century.
Kirill V. Aleksin
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Mainstreaming Disability Theology: A Review Essay

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 135-157, March 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay offers both a review of recent texts in disability studies and religious ethics as well as appreciation in the guild's growing interest in disability ethics. When the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) solicited this essay, I felt a sense that recognition of the important work that disability ethics offers to our guild had arrived ...
Mary Jo Iozzio
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'In this sacrament the whole of what our religion means is expressed' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A passage from C. H. Dodd's Christian Worship provides the basis for an examination of Holy Communion in the life and worship of a community and a survey of recent work by scholars of the Reformed tradition on development of thought and practice on the ...
Falconer, Alan D.
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Baptismal Ecclesiology

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 1-2, Page 54-63, January–April 2025.
Abstract This article discusses baptism as expressing the four‐fold relationality of life based on God, creation, neighbour, and self, as found in the second narrative of creation in the book of Genesis. Based on this understanding of baptism, baptismal ecclesiology can be defined as an understanding of the church that is primarily grounded in the ...
Antje Jackelén
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The ecclesiology of stanley hauerwas: resident aliens and die concrete church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This thesis focuses on Stanley Hauerwas' thought about the church insofar as it represents a concrete ecclesiological approach. I argue first that concrete ecclesiology, while often appearing in the work of its proponents as methodological ...
Hawksley, Theodora Lucy
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Before the Eucharist, a Familial Morality Arises

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2017
While differing ecclesiologies have informed family ethics, families can be understood as having a common sacramental backbone. To demonstrate this thesis, I first look at Virgil Michel, O.S.B., who uses a Mystical Body of Christ ecclesiology to argue ...
Matthew Sherman
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