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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Orthodoxy and Protestantism through the Centuries

, 2018
The aim of this paper is to describe the history and actual relations between the Orthodox East and the Protestant West. This paper will both examine and show the beginning, the continuation and the present situation of the Protestant-Orthodox dialog ...
Gjorgjevski, Gjoko
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Divine madness: the dilemma of religious scruples in twentieth-century America and Britain [PDF]

, 2009
Religious scruples were a major problem within Roman Catholic circles until the late twentieth century. This article traces the shift from the cure of scruples being seen as the responsibility of religious advisers to them being labled an obsessional ...
Bourke, Joanna
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AUTONOMY AND ORTHODOX DIASPORA FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE DOCUMENTS ADOPTED BY THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 2017
Since the beginning of the debates on the topics which could be discussed at the Orthodox Church’s Synod, autocephaly, autonomy, the Orthodox diaspora and the diptychs were part of the proposed themes. Their analysis during the preparatory process highlighted the fact that Orthodox Churches cannot reach a consensus regarding two of them: autocephaly ...
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Early Interaction Between Scripture, Rule of Faith, and Evolving Christian Doctrine and Tradition: A Response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine examines the interplay between Scripture, the Rule of Faith, and evolving Christian doctrine and tradition. Focusing on McGrath’s critique of Lindbeck’s presentation of doctrinal modalities, the article explores how doctrinal formation involves primarily synchronic (canonical),
Tomas Bokedal
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Person and Nature, Hypostasis and Substance: Philosophical Basis of the Theology of John Philoponus [PDF]

, 2016
The theological teachings of John Philoponus are important for several reasons: a) to see the real achievements and influences of Aristotelian logic in regard to theology, b) to see the real consequences of not accepting hypostasis as relational and ...
Djakovac, Aleksandar
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A CANONICAL AND THEOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION OF THE DOCUMENT “THE IMPORTANCE OF FASTING AND ITS OBSERVANCE TODAY” OF THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL OF CRETE

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 2018
In this paper, I tried to examine the first four paragraphs of the document The Importance of Fasting and Its Observance Today, of the Holy and Great Council of Crete (2016), from a canonical and theological point of view, by taking into consideration its development, the pre-conciliary debates, and its final form.
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The meaning and the effects of the II Vatican Council for the inter-religious relations of the catholic church in India [PDF]

, 1999
Well before, even centuries before the II Vatican Council there were a lot of theological ac-tivities in India in the context of the different religions, particularly in the context of Hindu-ism.
Menacherry, Cheriyan
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Engineering the bacterial nutrition strategy to control plant diseases

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.
This commentary on Wang et al. (2025) and Phan et al. (2025) highlights previously undiscovered Xanthomonas pathways for nutrition acquisition, explains how Xanthomonas bacteria hijack host molecular machinery through their effector proteins, and discusses how these studies can be used to develop new disease resistance mechanisms.
Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Shahid Mansoor, Muhammad Naveed Aslam   +2 more
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