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Christian Family as Domestic Church in the Writings of St. John Chrysostom [PDF]
John Chrysostom, the most famous preacher of the Eastern Empire, exerted an important influence on the formation of family. In his homilies he instructed fathers and mothers about their pedagogical tasks, and spoke of religious upbringing of children ...
Norbert Widok, Wacław Grzybowski
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John Chrysostom was the most prolific Byzantine Church father, reaching high levels of prominence in the Byzantine Church for both his rhetorical prowess and spiritual instruction. Nevertheless, the process itself of the development of his cult in Byzantium has never been systematically studied. Moreover, one of the single most popular texts attributed
Mark Huggins
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The Word of God: Catechesis and the Sacraments [PDF]
This article reveals and substantiates the direct link between the sacraments and catechesis. The author examines the evidence from the Holy Scriptures, as well as patristic and liturgical sources, and shows with examples that baptism, chrismation and ...
Fr Andrew Lossky
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Testimony to the catechumens of faith in the Church (on the example of early Christian sources from the 2nd to the 5th centuries) [PDF]
The article is devoted to the understudied issue of the testimony to the catechumens of faith in the Church. On the example of early Christian sources from the 2nd to the 5th centuries, a comparison is made of the usage of three definitions in ...
Olesya Sidorova
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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Eros and Distance: Transformation of Desire in St Gregory of Nyssa*
The paper aims to analyze the relation between the notion of love or desire (eros) for God, and the notion of distance (diastema) between God and the created beings in the works of St Gregory of Nyssa.
V. Cvetković
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Pope Francis’ Vision for a Synodal Church
Abstract ‘Synod’ and ‘synodality’ have become synonymous with Pope Francis. Since Pope Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops as a permanent office in 1965, there hasn't been any pontificate that has given these matters as much profile and attention as his has. Why is this the case, and what is Pope Francis’ vision for a synodal Church?
Eamonn Conway
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The material study of American Protestantism
Abstract This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid‐1990s,
Jamie L. Brummitt
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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