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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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Deification for all in and through reformed sacramental liturgy

Verbum et Ecclesia
This article proposes a theological reformation within the Dutch Reformed Church by advocating for the integration of three interrelated concepts: Theosis [deification], a fully sacramental liturgy centred on the Eucharist and Apokatastasis [universal ...
Dieter de Bruin
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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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Resonant preaching, sounding theosis: An exploration of liturgical homiletics

Verbum et Ecclesia
Hartmut Rosa invites us to dream of resonant relations of all to the world. This paper will endeavour to envision what resonant relations would mean in the theological register of deification: God and the whole cosmos resonating with one another.
Dieter de Bruin
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QUEERING THE HORIZON: GENDER ABOLITION, TRANSGENDER IDENTITY, AND THE ESCHATOLOGY OF GREGORY OF NYSSA

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 351-366, July 2025.
Abstract In line with José Esteban Muñoz's claim that ‘[t]he future is queerness's domain’, this article presents an approach to transgender and non‐binary identity that is orientated towards a horizon in which there is ‘no longer male and female’ (Galatians 3:28).
Sam Fletcher
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Being and Becoming a Monk on Mount Athos: An Ontological Approach to Relational Monastic Personhood in the “Garden of the Virgin Mary” as a Rite of Passage

Open Theology, 2020
This paper brings together ethnography as practice research, and theology as experiential theory, towards an ontological interdisciplinary understanding of relational personhood on Mount Athos.
Paganopoulos Michelangelo
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Hierarchies or direct relation to god: A new interpretation [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013
In this paper it will be questioned that the hierarchies play an important role in Byzantine church decoration. There are only a few examples which probably could be interpretated as depictions of hierarchies. But even they are far from certain.
Altripp Michael
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Beyond the Anthropocene: Construction of Human Agency within Lutheran Eco‐Theology

Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 83-89, Summer 2025.
ABSTRACT For several decades, Lutheran theologians have wrestled with the issue of the climate crisis. This has resulted in a body of scholarship that utilizes Christological frameworks to articulate agential constructs. While recognizing such contributions as inherently valuable and highly significant, this article suggests that Lutheran eco ...
Hilla Lahtinen
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Augustine on theosis and divine illumination as the theologic framework for decolonisation

Verbum et Ecclesia
This study examined the plausibility and role of theosis in Augustine’s theory of divine illumination as a theologic framework for decolonising theology. Theologic refers to God’s revelation about himself and his nature. Therefore, through an analysis of
Godfrey T. Baleng
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 166-192, April 2025.
Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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