Christian City Oxyrhynchus. On the History of N. V. Gogol’s “Spiritual City” [PDF]
Два века русской классикиThe task of adequately understanding Gogol’s legacy became acute for Russian science in the early 1990s. Gogol’s own comments on his works, in particular, the play The Denouement of the Government Inspector (1846), where the writer suggested seeing in ...
Igor A. Vinogradov
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From Patristics to Postmodernity: Does a Message Still Exist? [PDF]
, 2015 Dr. David Wheeler once advised that while not all are called to be an evangelist, all Christians are called to be evangelical. Although some may counter that postmodernity is waning, the question remains how one might be evangelical in a postmodern world.
Taylor, Douglas
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'Fides quaerens intellectum practico-socialem' in the Writings of Adalbert-G. Hamman (1910-2000): Some Footnotes to the Pro-existential Attitude of the Fathers [PDF]
, 2004 The author of the article -- a qualified Hamman scholar and researcher -- delves into one of the most characteristic features of this French patristic scholar who was an expert on Christian antiquity and on early Christian prayer.
Scerri, Hector
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God, memory and beauty: A Manichaean analysis of Augustine’s Confessions, Book X
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 The article first sketches some main trends in the recent study of Augustine’s Confessions as a work aimed at Manichaean readers. It then detects and analyses the Manichaean-inspired parts in Book X of the Confessions. Augustine’s famous theory of memory
Johannes van Oort
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Irenaeus’s knowledge of the Gospel of Judas: Real or false? An analysis of the evidence in context
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 This study discusses Irenaeus of Lyon’s testimony of the famous Gospel of Judas, offering both a historical and, in particular, linguistic analysis and retranslation of Against Heresies 1.31.1.
Johannes van Oort
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Reflections on the ongoing dialogue between Renaissance and Reformation [PDF]
, 2014 Euan Cameron’s paper revisits a recurring theme that was central to his father’s (and to his own) historical endeavour: the relationship between Renaissance humanism and the Reformation.
Cameron, Euan
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Brilliance of a fire: innocence, experience and the theory of childhood [PDF]
, 2011 This essay offers an extensive rehabilitation and reappraisal of the concept of childhood innocence as a means of testing the boundaries of some prevailing constructions of childhood.
Baker +76 more
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Augustine’s baptism: Its significance once and today
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 The article describes in broad outline Augustine’s baptism in Milan (386) and stresses its significance for Augustine’s transition from Manichaean Christianity to Nicene Catholic Christianity.
Johannes van Oort
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The Use of term “Matter” (ὑλη) in St. John Damascene
Forum Theologicum SardicenseThe current paper examines firstly the important distinction between created (κτιστον) and uncreated (ἀκτιστον), as well as between originated (γενητὸν) and unoriginated (ἀγενητον).
Ioannis Kaminis
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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2019 Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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