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Hesychasm and Psychedelics: Altered States, Purgation, and the Question of Authentic Mysticism
Journal of Contemplative StudiesThe purpose of this essay is to introduce the reader to the tradition of Hesychasm—a form of monastic asceticism rooted in the tradition of the Desert Fathers and given a systematic articulation by the Byzantine author Gregory Palamas (1296–1359)—and to ...
Thomas Cattoi
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Made, Not Born: The Church As Baptismal [PDF]
, 1981 (excerpt) An editorial in a recent issue of Time magazine notes that the real failures of the past decade have been future planners. Changing scripture slightly, the editorial states: The decade just ended left behind a great many fresh reminders of why ...
Quinn, Frank
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A házasságban élő keresztény lét lelkisége és teológiája
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica, 2018 Spirituality and Theology of the Married Christian Being. The „Milieu” where a modern Christian marriage exists, seems to be among not to easy circumstances. It is a double sided situation behind of you with God when you are together with your husband
Tamás KRUPPA
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Theses on Inter-Church Relations [PDF]
, 1975 Joint Commission on Inter-Lutheran Relations (JCILR ...
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‘The very deceitfulness of devils’: Firmilian and the doubtful baptisms of a woman possessed by demons [PDF]
, 2016 In the mid-third century, a controversy relating to the validity of baptism by the lapsed broke out between Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Stephen, bishop of Rome.
Methuen, Charlotte
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 As the uniquely Christian form of worship, the Eucharist is studied by ‘systematic’ theologians in terms of its coherence with revelation as a whole, and by ‘dogmatic’ theologians in light of historic definitions that still impact the churches of today ...
John Stephenson
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Unitas and concordia in the confessions: significance for fellowship among Lutheran churches [PDF]
, 1981 There is a sufficient basis in the Augsburg Confession for doctrinal and confessional unity among Lutherans. The paper suggests that while sufficient debate has taken place on the theological substance of the Confessions, not enough attention has been ...
Nostbakken, Roger W.
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 Baptism (from the Greek baptizo: to immerse, to submerge) is a ritual that is practised in practically all Christian churches and communities. It involves a person being immersed in water – or having water poured over them – along with the spoken ...
Dagmar Heller
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The “Seven Sacraments” of Russian Baptists
Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2014 This paper addresses the Orthodox impact on the ecclesiology of the ECB brotherhood and especially on the doctrine of church ordinances (sacraments). The author shows that in the RussianUkrainian Baptist brotherhood, any symbolic interpretation of the ...
Constantine PROKHOROV
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