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The competition for souls: Sava of Serbia and consumer choice in religion in the thirteenth century Balkans [PDF]

, 2006
SUMMARY The word αίρεσις , heresy means choice and in a world where religious belief was taken for granted the history of Catharism in Europe can be explained through believers exercising many of the criteria they were later to adapt to choosing secular
Roach, A.P.
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The Past Requires Reconciliation

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
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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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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On the problem of Ethnophyletism: a historical study. Part I

Studia Humanitatis, 2016
The Holy and Great Council on Crete, 2016 has risen an important issue of Ethnophyletism. Russian, Georgian, Bulgarian, and Antiochian Orthodox Churches delegations were not present at the Great Council and were criticized for Ethnophyletism at the ...
Venediktov Vadim Yuriyevich
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The Criticism of Vahhabism’s Thinking Foundations in Leadership, Heresy and its Manifestions by Emphesising Allameh Tabatabaei’s Views [PDF]

پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2015
Wahhabism has particular views on various topics apart from other religions and Islamic sects. One of the specific beliefs of this sect is differences in explaining issues related to leadership and the saints of God, which is based on the special ...
Kavoos Rouhi Barandagh, Leila Moradi
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Architect of the Image: Argumentation, Economy and Translation in Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this contribution to a book symposium on Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image, Morwenna Ludlow reflects on John Behr’s attention to the literary structure and argumentative flow of the book, its interplay with the similarly structured Timaeus of Plato and the difficulties of translating a work of such rhetorical and pastoral sophistication
Morwenna Ludlow
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La contagion des péchés (xie-xiiie siècle). Aux origines canoniques du biopouvoir

Tracés, 2011
In the latin and christian world, we find the first regular uses of the words contagium and contagio in the doctrinal and normative literature which severly condamns the heretic groups.
Arnaud Fossier
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Heretical thoughts about science and society: Frederick S. Pardee distinguished lecture, November 1, 2005 [PDF]

, 2005
A version of this essay was delivered in November 1, 2005 as the Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture at Boston University.Freeman Dyson illuminates the importance of having heretics to challenge assumptions, and gives six heretical predictions of ...
Dyson, Freeman
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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