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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender

International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.
Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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Dracontius et les Vandales : résistance, médiation, échec

Cahiers Mondes Anciens
In Dracontius’ works, we recognize the different attitudes adopted by an Afro-Roman intellectual who seeks a dialogue with the Vandal power and tries to propose a modus uiuendi between (Arian) rulers and (Catholic) people.
Giampiero Scafoglio
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Baptismal Ecclesiology

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 1-2, Page 54-63, January–April 2025.
Abstract This article discusses baptism as expressing the four‐fold relationality of life based on God, creation, neighbour, and self, as found in the second narrative of creation in the book of Genesis. Based on this understanding of baptism, baptismal ecclesiology can be defined as an understanding of the church that is primarily grounded in the ...
Antje Jackelén
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The Spirit of God in the New Testament: Diverse witnesses

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1999
The article begins with a discussion of the development of the doctine with regard to the Holy Spirit. This development took place in three phases: from apocalypticism to the Nicene Creed to the Reformation.
Andries van Aarde
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The Logical Space of Social Trinitarianism [PDF]

, 2016
I try to lay bare some of the conceptual space in which one may be a Social Trinitarian. I organize the paper around answers to five questions. These are: How do the three Persons of the Trinity relate to the Godhead?
Davidson, Matthew
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African Controversy: The Inheritance of the Donatist Schism in Vandal Africa [PDF]

, 2014
A sense of an ending dominates accounts of African Christianity after the Vandal conquest of the 430s, not least as a result of the apparent disappearance of the Donatists in an Africa now ruled by Homoian Christians.
Robin Whelan
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Nicaea and Women’s Ordained Ministry

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 1-2, Page 109-119, January–April 2025.
Abstract Looking to the forthcoming Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, we might recollect that the fifth conference at Santiago de Compostela in 1993 spoke of “continuing our study” on the ordination of women, but this ambition has never been carried out.
Maria Munkholt Christensen
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The Spirit as Plural Person

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.
Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 96-119, January 2025.
Abstract Rowan Williams's trinitarian ontology rests on the affirmation of eros within God and the ‘irreducible otherness’ of the divine persons to one another. The divine persons are accordingly conceived in ek‐static terms as ‘giving more than they are’.
Patrick John McGlinchey
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Out of Africa, For the World: The Creed of Nicaea 325

African Christian Theology
The original Nicene Creed of 325 is of particular importance to those who are interested in African theology.  The debates which led to the Council of Nicaea had been sparked by the great third-century African theologian Origen, and they were worked ...
Sara PARVIS
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