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Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
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Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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Towards an Interpretation of the Ch. 13 from Georges Moschambar’s Antirrhetics against Veccus within the Context of the Byzantine Doctrine of the 13th–15th Centuries on the Interpenetration of the Persons of the Holy Trinity [PDF]
The author analyzes two crucial ideas from Chapter 13 of the Antirrhetics against the Doctrines and Writings of Veccus, penned in 1281 by the Byzantine anti-Latin polemicist Georges Moschambar, a prominent representative of the proto-Palamite tradition ...
Dmitry I. Makarov
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“Where Now for Visible Unity?”
Abstract This article provides a short introduction to the activities and the spirit of the World Council of Churches for the ecumenical year 2025 by paying particular attention to the commemoration and anniversary celebration of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which will take place in October 2025 in Egypt under the theme “Where now for ...
Martin Illert
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One of the issues debated by St. Gregory Palamas in the sentential treatise Capita 150 is the practical problem of the genealogy of virtue, which he approaches in an eminently epistemological context. Palamas distinguishes between two modes of knowledge
Picu Ocoleanu
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Being and Naming God: Essence and Energies in St. Gregory Palamas
St. Gregory Palamas (1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. An Athonite monk, abbot, and later Metropolitan of Thessalonica, Gregory is remembered especially for his distinction between God’s essence and ...
Pino, Tikhon Alexander
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Gregory Palamas’ treatise Against the False Writings by Gregoras is not only a theological and polemical treatise on the nature of the Taboric light, as well as on the essence-energy relation in God, but also a pamphlet (psogos), shaping a negative image
Dmitrii Igorevich Makarov
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Abstract This review article examines and summarizes the key ideas and contributions of Nikolaos Loudovikos' book Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self – Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism in the Patristic Era. The book offers a reimagining of Christian anthropology and the understanding of the self by critiquing what the author sees
Sotiris Mitralexis
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ANTINOMY IN DOGMATICS AND ETHICS [PDF]
The article clarifies the meaning of antinomy in Christian doctrine and moralizing. The key thesis of the study is that in dogmatics, antinomy serves as a boundary for rational cognition; in the moral sphere, antinomy is unacceptable as opening the way ...
Priest Daniil A. Goryachev
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