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Patristics in the light of present-day studies [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021
This article deals with issues in the current study of ancient Christian theological legacy and uses an extensive material of Russian and foreign historiography. The article proposes a clear-cut typology of the main approaches to the study of patristics.
Petr Mikhaylov
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Eastern Patristics on Human’s Free Will and Divine Predestination: Conceptual Continuity in the Contemporary Russian Culture

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This article deals with the most crucial philosophical and theological issue of correlation of freedom, freedom of will, and Divine predestination, which arose in shaping the Christian doctrine and remains emergent for contemporary Russian culture and ...
Olga Chistyakova, Denis Chistyakov
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Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human—Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within the Early Byzantine culture. The notion “Patristics” is reasoned as a corpus of ideas of the Church Fathers, both Eastern and Western.
Olga Chistyakova
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Testimony to the Enlightened about the Church in Preaching on the Creed (examples from mid-fourth and early-fifth century catechetical homilies) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021
This article analyses the early Christian experience of interpreting the ninth article of the Creed in the catechetical practice of the mid-fourth and early fifth centuries (based on the example of the catechetical homilies of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St.
Olesya Sidorova
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From Fear to Theosis: Patristic Reflections on Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yesBogoslovni Vestnik, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already become a ubiquitous and autonomous force transforming our society and how humans interact with the world around them and each other.
Octavian-Mihai Machidon
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Neoplatonism and Byzantine Patristics: The Relationship of Plotinus’ Concept of the Triad and the Christian Doctrine of the Holy Trinity

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022
Traces the continuity of the ideas of Neoplatonism in Greek-Byzantine Patristics in the process of developing the orthodox doctrine of the Holy Trinity by the Church Fathers.
Denis I. Chistyakov
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Electing and educating priests in the Church of Antioch in the second half of 4th century according to st. John Chrysostom’s "De sacerdotio" [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2022
The dialogue De sacerdotio is the first patristic text in which author tries to sketch the theology of the priesthood, namely as a synthesis of the ideals of strict ascetic life characteristic of monasticism and the life of the Christian community ...
Alenka Arko
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Black and slave? ‘Mestizo’ Augustine on Ham

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
After discussing the so-called Ham myth in South Africa, my focus is on the African church father Augustine (354–430). All texts from his immense oeuvre in which he mentions biblical Ham are reviewed in chronological order.
Johannes van Oort
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Contemporary Historiography on Christianity in Roman Africa

open access: yesRevista de Historiografía, 2021
This essay follows the broad contours of patristic and ecclesiastical history relative to African Christianity. Rival Catholic and Protestant narratives of the origin and trajectory of African Christianity in the early modern period continued to ...
Alden Bass
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Images of Priesthood and Monasticism in the Works of John Chrysostom: Rhetoric and Historical Reality

open access: yesНаукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2023
The article provides a comparative analysis of the attitude to priests and monks, the manifestations of which can be found in the works of the outstanding thinker and theologian, representative of patristics, John Chrysostom (347–407 A. D.).
Yuliia Rozumna
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