The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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“Servicio de Dios y provecho y salud de las almas”. La predicación mendicante en el arzobispado de Sevilla durante la Baja Edad Media [PDF]
The mendicant orders were born from a desire for renewal that the Church used as an important instrument of reform. Franciscans and Dominicans, with a significant academic training, dedicated to preaching and confession.
José María Miura Andrades
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Citations of \u27noster\u27 John Pecham in Richard Fleming\u27s Trinity Sunday sermon: evidence for the political use of liturgical music at the Council of Constance [PDF]
This article examines a sermon for Trinity Sunday that was delivered by Richard Fleming at the Council of Constance in 1417. The author argues that Fleming’s citation of liturgical chant and a homily composed by John Pecham, together with certain ...
Nighman, Chris L.
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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But we had hoped ... : The Road We\u27ve Traveled; the Road that Lies Ahead [PDF]
(Excerpt) It is a privilege to be here with you at this annual gathering to explore matters of consequence affecting our churches at the beginning of this new millennium.
Bernstein, Eleanor
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«Dominus vobiscum». Presenza del Cristo, ecclesiologia e sacramentaria in Pier Damiani
Peter Damian’s epistle 28, usually called Dominus vobiscum, shows a complex theological discussion. In fact, the author intertwines different subjects: the reform of the Church, the exaltation of monasticism, and, in particular, the primacy of the ...
Riccardo Saccenti
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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After All, Africa is Largely a Nonliterate Continent : The Reception of Vatican II in Africa [PDF]
The article examines critical factors that determined the impact, reception, and implementation of Vatican II in Africa. Drawing on historical accounts, the author identifies and analyzes personalities, contexts, and issues that conditioned and shaped ...
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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