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The Teaching of Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Man’s Ascent to Theosis as Presented in His Work «The Ten-Voiced Spirit-Moving Trumpet» [PDF]

Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии
The present paper attempts to investigate for the first time the main written work of St. Joseph (Kottis) the Hesychast known as The Ten-Voiced Spirit-Moving Trumpet, from a scientific perspective.
Hieromonk Pavel (Egor O. Polevoy), Priest Andrei E. Lysevich   +1 more
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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

For the (Eternal) Life of the Whole World: The Cosmic Dimension of Theosis in the Orthodox Tradition

Religions
The doctrine of theosis, or deification, is a distinctive feature of Eastern Orthodoxy. In recent centuries, it has also become a pursuit across various Christian traditions. Although theosis was historically associated with humanity, modern theology has
Nikolaos Asproulis
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Orthodox Moral Theology and Shared Metanorms: A Philosophical‐Theological Reading of the Social Ethos Document

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 153-179, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent years, Orthodox Christianity has gained increasing visibility in global discussions on social ethics, encompassing issues such as climate change, environmental protection, peace, and human rights. The following paper examines the underlying metaethical framework of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Social Ethos Document, analyzing how it
Alexander Kriebitz, Stefanos Athanasiou
wiley   +1 more source

THEOSIS AND PERSONHOOD FROM A PROTESTANT PERSPECTIVE:SALVATION AS AN INTERPERSONAL EXPERIENCEIN THE CONTEMPORARY ORTHODOX THEOLOGY

Українське Pелігієзнавство
This article offers a theological-anthropological analysis of contemporary Eastern Orthodox interpretations of theosis, with particular attention to personhood and the ecclesial character of salvation.
Denys Kondyuk
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Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Homo deificatus

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2015
Theosis (deificatio) was one of the major theological topics early in both, Eastern and Western Churches. The concept of theosis wouldn’t be a favorite tool for contemporary theologians to express the basic call of the human being to become like God ...
Andrzej Jastrzębski
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Divine Incomprehensibility in Eastern Orthodoxy and Reformed Theology

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2021
This article examines the views of the Eastern Orthodox and the Reformed on the subject of divine incomprehensibility. The two regard God to be entirely incomprehensible, but differ in the way that he can be known or experienced.
Тім Шимко
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‘NICHTS ALS DIE HÖLLENFAHRT DER SELBSTERKÄNNTNIS BAHNT UNS DEN WEG ZUR VERGÖTTERUNG.’ HAMANN'S CONCEPT OF LITERATURE AS SELF‐REFLECTION

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 413-431, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article presents a conception of literature as self‐reflection, derived from the writings of Johann Georg Hamann (1730–88). Starting from an intertextual analysis of Hamann's statements on self‐knowledge as a descent into hell that paves the way to divinisation, the article presents Hamann's intertextual writing practice (‘neuer Begriff ...
Anna Żymełka‐Pietrzak
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