Abstract This article gives an account of the discussions about the creed that took place at the Council of Nicaea in 325. It considers major problems regarding its origin and history and outlines the circumstances of its composition, its peculiar structure, and its purpose on the basis of the latest research. Finally, it discusses the legacy of Nicaea
Wolfram Kinzig
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Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife
Abstract Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d.
Justin Willson, Ashley Morse
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Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives
Abstract The Origenist controversy at the end of the fourth century was largely played out within a monastic context, and had, moreover, an immediate and extensive impact on the movement. In spite of this, studies of the controversy and its causes have mainly focused on the dogmatic issues foregrounded in the controversy, neglecting the more ...
Samuel Rubenson
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What to do about #MeToo? Consent, autonomy, and restorative justice: A case study
Abstract This article asks: Is it possible to craft a form of engaged, anti‐carceral, feminist political practice that carves out a space for sexual negotiation, exploration, sex positivity, and changing conceptions of consent in an era shaped by hypermediation and, for the purposes of this paper, #MeToo?
Tina Sikka
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Islamic Traditionalists: “Against the Modern World”?
The Muslim World, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 333-354, Summer 2023.
Jacob Williams
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The first book in the arabic script printed in the world of Islam from the collections of the Institute of oriental manuscripts of the Russian academy of sciences [PDF]
In this article its author describes and examines a copy of the bilingual (Arabic-Greek) Missal published in the monastery of Snagov, not far from Bucharest in AD 1701 by the famous printer and Church hierarch Anthim the Iberian (Georgian) and kept now ...
Serge Frantsouzoff
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Abstract This article offers a critical assessment of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church that took place in Crete in 2016. It argues that the situation facing the Orthodox churches after the Council of Crete is far more important than everything that directly preceded it, and that the Orthodox are only at the beginning as far as the ...
Assaad Elias Kattan
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Soviet State and Relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Middle Eastern Orthodox Patriarchates in the 1970s [PDF]
The article concentrates on the relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem in the 1970s.
Georgij O. Borkoniuk
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«MIKRON BIBLION» BY NICON OF THE BLACK MOUNT(XI C.) AS A NEW SOURCE ON THE EASTERN CHURCH HISTORY [PDF]
This contribution encompasses a preliminary description of the unpublished source on Antiochian Church history the «Mikron Biblion» by Nicon of the Black Mount (around 1025 – after 1100).
K. MAKSIMOVICH
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. A Religious Minority and a Global Player [PDF]
As primus inter pares of the Orthodox Churches, the Ecumenical Patriarchate takes its historical position very seriously, especially in respect to the responsibility for preserving the unity of all Orthodox Churches.
Athanasiou, Stefanos
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