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Conflicting Tendencies in the Development of Scientific and Technical Language Varieties: Metaphorization vs. Standardization [PDF]
The present paper discusses relations between meaning and context as an interactive process that promotes cognition and communication, both intralingual and interlingual.
Iļjinska, Larisa, Smirnova, Tatjana
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Importance. The Holy Land, centered in Jerusalem, has always been for Russia not only one of the most important spiritual centers, but also an object of foreign policy interests (within the framework of the political strategy of the Russian Empire, the ...
F. V. Georgi, D. G. Georgi
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Czarist Missionary Contact with Central Asia: Models of Contextualization?
Although the Western church knows little of these ventures, Russian Orthodoxy in fact has a rich missionary heritage. There have been instances of great courage, passion, and cultural sensitivity in Orthodox attempts to bring the Gospel to the Muslim ...
Johnstone, David M.
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The Past Requires Reconciliation
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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Greek Orthodoxy in Australia [PDF]
More than three million Greek Orthodox people exited Hellas, during the last four hundred years, in an effort to fulfil their personal ambition to amass wealth or to survive as the consequence of a long period of foreign domination and financial ...
Tamis, Anastasios M
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Establishment of Orthodox Palestine Society and Activities of M.P. Stepanov (1881-1883)
This article explores the involvement of Colonel General Mikhail Petrovich Stepanov, an officer of the General Staff, in the formation of the Orthodox Palestine Society under Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
A. A. Sorokin +2 more
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Russian Orthodoxy and the challenge of modernity: the case of Archimandrite Makary [PDF]
The challenge of modernity for Orthodoxy as experienced by Archimandrite Makary (Mikhail lakovlevich Glukharev) is presented here through a brief exposition of Makary\u27s career, its successes, failures and inner tensions.
Valliere, Paul
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Novgorod’s crucial positioning between the Baltic and the north-eastern Rus principalities yielded a textual culture that was highly distinctive, especially in its use of birchbark documents, yet widely connected.
Bogatyrev, S
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Church unions and their consequences in Poland [PDF]
Orthodox Christians in Poland have faced numerous attempts to be forced into union with the Roman Catholic Church, ranging from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.
Mironowicz, Antoni
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