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Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous, in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation.
Rowan Williams
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 293-308, April 2026.
Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 11-26, February 2026.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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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

International 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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Tertullian and the Montanism

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov, Tertullian and the Montanism. Montanism is a popular ancient Christian movement. Its most ardent followers were in Phrygia, Asia Minor, but during the first eight centuries it spread all over the Mediterranean world.
Archimandrite Stefanov
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Thomas Aquinas on the Predestination of Christ

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 684-705, October 2025.
Abstract In this article, I examine the development of Thomas's doctrine of the predestination of Christ against the broader backdrop of thirteenth‐century scholasticism, highlighting its distinctively Christocentric character. Pauline texts (Eph. 1:4; Rom.
Joshua H. Lim
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QUEERING THE HORIZON: GENDER ABOLITION, TRANSGENDER IDENTITY, AND THE ESCHATOLOGY OF GREGORY OF NYSSA

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 351-366, July 2025.
Abstract In line with José Esteban Muñoz's claim that ‘[t]he future is queerness's domain’, this article presents an approach to transgender and non‐binary identity that is orientated towards a horizon in which there is ‘no longer male and female’ (Galatians 3:28).
Sam Fletcher
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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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