Gnosticism, church unity and the Nicene Creed
Gnosticism (derived from the Greek word “gnosis; knowledge”) is the well-known phenomenon or movement which dates from the first centuries of church history.
C. F.C. Coetzee
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THE APOSTLES’ CREED (SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM) IN THE CHURCH SLAVONIC TRANSLATION BY Dm. GERASIMOV. INTRODUCTION. INTERLINEAR EDITION [PDF]
In the present paper the Church Slavonic translation of the Latin Apostles' Creed with commentary, made by the famous Novgorodian translator Dmitriy Gerasimov in the rst half of the 16th century, is published for the rst time.
Vittorio Springeld Tomelleri
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An ‘Old Amharic’ Commentary on the Nicene Creed
Translation of a pre-modern Amharic commentary on the Nicene Creed in English. The text of a Commentary on the Nicene Creed (ṣälotä haymanot) which forms the subject of this paper appears at the end of a copy of the Psalter and Wǝddase Maryam belonging ...
David L. Appleyard
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Canon 7 of the III Ecumenical council: its history and reception in the context of the issue of the Immutability of the creed [PDF]
This publication discusses the history of the origin and reception of the definition of the Third Ecumenical Council on the Creed. This definition, drawn up in connection with the rejection of the statement of faith by Theodore of Mopsuestia, should ...
Petr Paskov
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The Ecumenical and Reformed Creeds and Confessions hold a continuity of Trinitarian doctrine as formulated since the Nicene creed (325 AD). Yet the role of the spirit seems to be undermined in such formulations. The historical context of the Nicene creed
A. Santoso
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The Roman Synodal Letter Confi dimus Quidem in the Context of Relations Between the Churches of East and West (370–379) [PDF]
The article is devoted to the reconstruction of the project of the Arian crisis’s resolution proposed by the Roman and Italian Churches to the local Churches of Illyricum and East (370(1)).
Zakharov Georgii
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Private Creeds and their Troubled Authors [PDF]
This article defends the disputed label “private creeds” as a useful one for describing a number of fourth century texts. Offering such a confession was the normal method for clearing one’s name on charges of heterodoxy in fourth-century Greek ...
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
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‘I am the Living Bread’: Ram Mohan Roy’s Critique of the Doctrine of the Atonement [PDF]
A striking aspect of Vedantic Hindu and Christian devotional universes is the theme of the humanity of God. Jesus and Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, the transcendental source of worldly reality, are also intensely human figures – they live with and amidst human beings,
Barua, Ankur
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‘Three Subsistences … One Substance’: the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Second London Confession
This article examines the doctrine of the Trinity taught in the Second London Confession of Faith of 1677. It begins by examining a trinitarian controversy among the Particular Baptists of England in the mid-seventeenth century.
Weaver Steve
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The authority of the Council of Nicaea in the letters of st. Leo, Pope of Rome [PDF]
This study is dedicated to assessing the place of the First Ecumenical Council (Nicaea, 325) in the corpus of letters of St. Leo the Great, Pope of Rome.
Petr Paskov
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