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Introduction. The purpose of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the doctrine of St. Gregory Palamas and the doctrine of Grigory Akindin, to identify significant contradictions regarding different understanding these authors of the ...
D. V. Vorobev
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St. Gregory Palamas, Divine energies, uncreated light, Tabor light, Palamism, mystical experience, vision of God (theophany), knowledge of God, deification, palamite vs. hesychast controversy [PDF]
This article examines one of the least studied aspects of the theological and philosophical thought of St. Gregory Palamas, viz. his doctrine of the Divine selfcontemplation.
Vadim Elimanov
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The Relationship Between the Sociology of Christian Religion and the Metaphysics of Morality [PDF]
The objective reality of the moral Christian act is composed of four structural elements of social organization: 1. the individual human subject; 2. its manifestation as a concrete act; 3. the moral rules of the Scripture and 4.
MIHAI C. TEODORESCU
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In this paper, icons are understood as holy images in a broad sense, including murals, mosaics and miniatures. An icon is considered as a channel of communication with the sacred reality revealing itself through the icon.
Sergey Morgachev / Сергей Васильевич Моргачёв
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Experiencing living in God through uncreated divine energy
The transcendence of God requires that human spirituality seeks to experience it, through accessible, intelligible means, but constantly aware of the fact that the inexpressible cannot be expressed. The correct relation of the human to the divine transcendence is the foundation of what we call apophatic theology, the theology that defines God as being ...
George Daniel Petrov +1 more
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Triune Agency, East and West: Uncreated Energies or Created Effects? [PDF]
Abstract The present paper situates the Western and Eastern models of divine agency within their respective ontological frameworks. I show how the Western conception of divine agency as the production of ‘created effects’ is rooted in a particular understanding of the relationship between transcendence and immanence, but also in a ...
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Why Rāmānuja? Some Reflections on Christian-Vaiṣṇava Comparative Theology [PDF]
This paper examines the very idea of developing a Christian-Hindu comparative theology by focusing on Rāmānuja in particular. The paper begins by reflecting on some possible reasons--social, political, theological and philosophical—that Rāmānuja, instead
Gupta, Gopal
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Introduction. This work is intended to examine the use and interpretation of Byzantine hymnographic texts of Hieroschemamonk Anthony (Bulatovich), who was the leader of the Athonite Onomatodoxists during the 1910s, written during his defence of the ...
Tatyana A. Senina (nun Kassia)
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Introduction. The purpose of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the doctrine of St. Gregory Palamas and the doctrine of Nikephoros Gregoras, to identify significant contradictions regarding different understanding these authors of the ...
D. V. Vorobev
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Palamite soteriology in Augustinian dress? Observations on Prochoros Kydones' writings and translations of works of Augustine [PDF]
Augustine’s influence on medieval Latin theology is thoroughly known. What is less well recognised is the fact that through the translation and reception of some of his works Augustine also influenced certain developments in Byzantine Greek theology ...
Cardiff University, Lossl, Josef
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