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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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Architect of the Image: Argumentation, Economy and Translation in Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this contribution to a book symposium on Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image, Morwenna Ludlow reflects on John Behr’s attention to the literary structure and argumentative flow of the book, its interplay with the similarly structured Timaeus of Plato and the difficulties of translating a work of such rhetorical and pastoral sophistication
Morwenna Ludlow
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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 Morphing Portrait of a Church Father: Evidence from the de morte (PG 4886) attributed to John Chrysostom.

, 2016
This article investigates the ecloga of passages on death collected from works attributed to John Chrysostom and preserved in New College Manuscript 83, which is classified as CPG 4886.
Ellen Muehlberger
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Rediscovering Mystagogy through the History of Christianity [PDF]

, 2010
Mystagogy was developed within early Christian communities, particularly with regard to the Sacraments of Christian Initiation. The idea of mystagogy was conceived in patristic time during the fourth and fifth centuries.
Budi Wibowo, Antonius
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

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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Baptismal Spirituality in the Early Church and Its Implications for the Church Today [PDF]

, 1999
(Excerpt) Let me begin with two quotes from a recent collection of essays by British Methodist liturgical theologian Geoffrey Wainwright, both of which, I believe, speak to the overall theme of this year\u27s liturgical institute.
Johnson, Maxwell E
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What has Nicaea to do with Canterbury? Creeds, Councils, Tradition and the Fathers in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 525-549, October 2025.
Abstract This article charts the Council of Nicaea's (325) relevance to the Anglican Tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day, as manifested through Anglicanism's engagement with the Nicene Creed, its attitude towards early ecumenical councils, its appeals to ‘the Fathers’ and its approach to ‘tradition’, particularly in relation to ...
E. S. Kempson
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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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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