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Olon Sume Fortified Settlement and Nestorian Relics
This paper is dedicated to Nestorian antiquities from archaeological sites left by the ancient Ongut tribe. The Onguts settled north and south of the Yinshan mountain range, northeast of the Huanghe River, in what is now Inner Mongolia.
Zheng Yu, Wei Jian, Naga Terbair
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John of Damascus: rewriting the division of heresy and schism
St. John Damascene’s writings on heresies – specifically those texts against Nestorianism and Monophysitism – demonstrate a careful consideration of how thin the line is between schism and heresy.
Zachary M. Keith
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Comparisons Ancient and Modern: Was Cyril of Alexandria a Good Reader of Paul?
Abstract Cyril of Alexandria is the final stop on Michael Magree's analysis of the patristic interpretation of Pauline kenosis, serving as the culmination of the historical arc he surveys. Although Magree is careful to avoid overtly judging the success of various interpreters as readers of the Apostle, it is clear that he finds Cyril's appropriation of
Matthew R. Crawford
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Tradition and Perspectives of Arab Herbal Medicine: A Review
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), including herbal medicine, are popular in the general population worldwide. Parallel to the increasing interest in ‘modern’ CAM therapies and the historical importance of Arab medicine, there is also a similar trend in research activities dealing with the efficacy and safety of medicinal plants in our ...
Bashar Saad, Hassan Azaizeh, Omar Said
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The Theological Poetics of Pauline κένωσις in Patristic Authors: A Dialogue with Michael C. Magree☆
Abstract This review engages in dialogue with Magree's methodological assumptions (literary, rhetorical, philosophical and theological) and approach to the history of reception of this critically important Pauline passage (Philippians 2:7) and then provides a critical assessment of the textual evidence for his contention that Origen of Alexandria ...
Margaret M. Mitchell
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Nestorian Christians in Frontier History
Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two characters, the man and the divine or Son of God. Nestorios, the patriarch of Constantinople taught that thesis in the churches, but the synod of Ephesus in 431 declared it as a heretical ...
Borbála Obrusánszky
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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The Incarnation and Jesus’ apparent limitation of knowledge
One of the problems confronting the doctrine of the Incarnation concerns Jesus’ apparent limitation in knowledge. This paper assesses various constructive proposals by modern theologians and philosophers, focusing on three of the most widely discussed ...
Loke, TEA
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Liberatus de Carthage ou l'historiographie comme service diaconal
International audiencePartisan of the Three Chapters, the deacon Liberatus wants to revive the resistance in front of a unbearable movement of counciliar revisionism.
Blaudeau, Philippe
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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