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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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Intellect or Heart, Reason or Faith?

Diakrisis, 2020
Addressing the imputed opposition between Christian theology and metaphysics from the premise of the inadmissibility of severing ties with the Holy Fathers of the Church, this paper argues for the necessity of revisiting dogmatical works like the ...
Paul Andrei Mucichescu
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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The Phenomenon of Eucharistic Renewal in the Romanian Orthodox Church from the Twentieth Century into the Early Twenty-First

Religions
This article investigates the theological and pastoral debate on the frequency of eucharistic communion in the Romanian Orthodox Church during the twentieth century and early twenty-first century.
Mihail Khalid Qaramah, Dumitru Adrian Vanca   +1 more
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Méthodes scientifiques de recherche en théologie – Influences externes [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
This article concerns external methodological influences in theological research. We propose, on the one hand, a brief presentation of traditional Orthodox theology and current Orthodox theology, with respectively the sub-branches and subjects of ...
Cristina-Alice TOMA, Alexandru ARION
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ON THE CONCEPT «PERSONALITY» IN REFATION TO THE TRIUNE GOD AND THE GODMAN JESUS CHRIST INT HE ORTHODOX DOGMATIC THEOLOGY [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2009
The criticism of the concept of personality in modern Orthodox theology is the main issue of this paper. In the fi rst part the usage of this concept in the «Dogmatic theology» by V. N. Lossky is considered.
Y. SHICHALIN
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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi ...
Fenggang Yang, Joey Marshall
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Elder Gerontius (Gherontie) of Tismana and the Paradigm of the Fool for Christ—Contemporary Perspectives on Paradoxical Holiness

Religions
This study examines the phenomenon of “foolishness for Christ” as reflected in the contemporary Orthodox figure of Elder Gerontius of Tismana. Starting with a general review of the diverse phenomena of divine madness present in various world religions ...
Răzvan Brudiu, Călin-Alexandru Ciucurescu   +1 more
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