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Free Beauty and Functional Perspective in Medieval Aesthetics

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The concept of functional beauty is characterized by including an aesthetic appreciation of objects that evaluates their efficiency in terms of satisfaction of attributions.
Adrián Pradier
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Porta clausa es, virgo. Exegeses on Ezekiel’s Porta clausa by some Latin Church Fathers and Theologians between the 6th and the 12th Centuries

open access: yesCauriensia, 2022
This paper is limited to highlight a selection of exegetical comments through which, from the 6th century until the 12th, many Latin Church Fathers and theologians deciphered the eastern shut door of the temple (porta clausa) revealed by Yahweh to ...
José María Salvador-González
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UNIVERSITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CONTEXT OF INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS. PART I

open access: yesВекторы благополучия: экономика и социум, 2023
The cultural renaissance of the XII century – «Romanesque Renaissance» – is designated in the article as an epoch which intellectual movements ensured the flourishing of the culture of Latin patristics, inherited from Rome in the Middle Ages. It is shown
Mikhail A. Kornienko
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Intimations of Revelation 19–21 in the Early North African Christian Communities

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2021
The purpose of this article is to provide a survey of the interpretation of Revelation 19–21 in the early North African Christian communities (II–III century).
Vercesi Martina
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From rational creatures to the rational Creator: ancient and patristic analogies of the “fine-tuning” argument [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017
In this article the author deals with the proofs of the existence of God, based on the fact of the presence of rational beings in the world. These proofs can be found in Greek and Roman Classical philosophy and early Patristics, and can be viewed as an ...
Alexey Fokin
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St. Augustine’s treatise ‘’On the spirit and the letter’’: its historical background and principal set of ideas [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020
This article is devoted to the treatise On the Spirit and the Letter, one of the earliest anti-Pelagian works of St. Augustine. It describes the historical and literary context of the initial stage of the Pelagian controversy, which had a decisive infl ...
Dmitrii Smirnov
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Methodological approaches for comparative theological research on St. Augustine of Hippo and The Gospel of John

open access: yesCuestiones Teológicas, 2022
This review article concerns Augustine of Hippo’s (354-430 A.D.) specific and sustained reception of John’s gospel. Here, the author summarizes and evaluates a series of research methods for contextualizing core elements of the bishop of Hippo’s ...
Joseph Grabau
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Criticism and apology of the doctrine of “homoeousia” in latin patristics of the 4th century: Marius Victorinus vs. Hilary of Poitiers [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2019
This article studies the doctrine of “homoeousion” (“similarity in substance”) of Father and Son in Latin patristics of the 4th century. It highlights a non-concordant reaction of Western Niceans to this doctrine, which was proposed in 358 by the leader ...
Alexey Fokin
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Die mediëvalistiese karikatuur van seksuele verval in Laat-Middeleeuse vrouekloosters

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2022
The medievalist caricature of sexual regress in Late-Medieval female monasteries: This article confronts the widely published medievalist caricature of sexual regress in Late-Medieval female monasteries by presenting a statistical analysis of the ...
Johann Beukes
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Christ as main foundation of theology and spiritual experience of Ambrose of Milan [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2018
Following a number of other scholars, the author of this article attempts to demonstrate main aspects of not only thoughts (theology and spiritual refl ection), but also of actions of Ambrose in order to present his image in a more contextualised ...
Paul Mattei
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