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Pope Francis’ Vision for a Synodal Church

New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1113, Page 511-525, September 2023., 2023
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

Religion Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11-12, November-December 2022., 2022
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

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022
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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Internal Difficulties in the Theology of Karl Rahner

Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 637-661, July 2021., 2021
Abstract Criticism of the theology of Karl Rahner is most often made from bases external to his thought. When the ever greater ascendancy of transcendentality in Rahner’s thought is juxtaposed with areas of his theology concretely differentiated by symbol and history, however, internal difficulties arise that jeopardize the coherence and integrality of
Henry Shea
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Christian Family as Domestic Church in the Writings of St. John Chrysostom

Studia Ceranea, 2013
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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INVISIBLE IN THE VISIBLE: IMAGES OF NATURE IN THE REPRESENTATION OF MORTAL SINS (the Case of Ukrainian Religious Discourse)

Записки з українського мовознавства, 2017
This article deas with the metaphoric conceptualization of human internal mental sphere categories in the Christian religious discourse.The object of this study are mortal sins, dominant Christian anti-values as they have deen verbalized in Ukrainian ...
О. В. Ясіновська
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Basic Tendencies in the Sermon Discourse Study

Записки з романо-германської філології, 2015
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the sermon definitions existing in rhetoric and homiletics. The study of the developed sermons classifications contributes to more detailed and profound investigation of sermon discourse The existing definitions ...
Н. О. Кравченко
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Specific differences in the approach to the use of old testament imagery in early Christian exegesis and iconography [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
One of the peculiarities of early Christian art was its regular recourse to stories and images borrowed from Old Testament history. Art historians reasonably assume that the use of such images could not have been purely illustrative, and that such images
Olga Nesterova
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Divine Breath and the Process of Creation. The Allusions to Gen 2:7 in the Catechetical Rhetoric of Cyril of Jerusalem

Vox Patrum
Previous scholarship inadequately acknowledged the diverse ways in which Cyril of Jerusalem employed the breath-related vocabulary related to or derived from Gen 2:7.
Harri Huovinen
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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