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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, философияOne 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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In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200-1550) [PDF]
, 2017 In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son provides a comprehensive history of the function of the parable of the prodigal son in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe.
Delcorno, P
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Participation in Psalmody and Church Membership in Cyril of Jerusalem [PDF]
, 2023 Cyril of Jerusalem’s notion of ecclesiastical music and praise has received very little attention in academic research. When mapping this territory, I found that the Cyrilline gradation between each stage of the ecclesial initiatory process was reflected
Huovinen, Harri
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Modern Greek orthodox sermon: linguistic features [PDF]
, 2017 The paper focuses on the essential problem of religious communication analysis. It is aimed to study linguistic means representing Orthodox sermon in Modern Greek. 2000 Orthodox sermons of the 20th century in Modern Greek were analysed.
Shepitko, Svitlana, Smyrnova, Mariia
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Vox PatrumPrevious 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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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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The Legend of Arius' Death: Imagination, Space and Filth in Late Ancient Historiography [PDF]
, 2015 In this piece, I consider the late ancient legend of Arius's death and explain the context in which the legend developed. As I do so, I explore the relationship that late ancient Christians had to their own past, thinking about how they imagine the ...
Ellen Muehlberger
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Motivated for Action and Collaboration: The Abrahamic Religions and Climate Change [PDF]
, 2016 Leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have publicly advocated action to mitigate the adverse effects of human-forced climate change. Particularly prominent prior to, during, and after the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations ...
Schaefer, Jame
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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