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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Eastern Orthodox"”.
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Cum illi Graeci sint, nos Latini : Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church
… of Julius Joseph Overbeck to the Russian Orthodox Church in London. Since that time, there have been attempts and successes in establishing a Western Rite in the Eastern Church. This thesis approaches Western Rite Orthodoxy as an established phenomenon in Eastern Christianity, especially …
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Freedom and Sin in John Chrysostom and Nikolai Berdyaev: A Study on the Problematics of Eastern Orthodox Therapeutics
… and the Russian Religious Renaissance margins of Eastern Orthodoxy. In its pages, the writings of these thinkers are analysed in order to respond to a tendency among some Orthodox Church leaders, particularly in Orthodox-majority southeastern European countries, to use therapeutic sin language …
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Eastern Orthodox theological and ecclesiological thought on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations in the contemporary world (1975-2008)
… examines the distinctly ecclesial dimensions of Orthodox thinking on Islam and Muslim-Christian encounters within the context of the modern theological renewal in the Orthodox Church over the past few decades. It shows how by building on the patristic, ecclesial, and liturgical revival over the …
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The Use of Eastern Orthodox Chants and Their Impact on the Harmonic Language of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's All-Night Vigil
Composed between 1881 and 1882, the Russian Orthodox liturgical work All-Night Vigil, op.52 by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky exhibits two distinctive characteristics. One is that Tchaikovsky used the Eastern Orthodox chant melodies, and second he makes the submediant chord a significant part of his …
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A strategy for church-based leadership training in Romania
… of the Romanian people. The situation of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Romania is presented by highlighting those historical and theological elements that have influenced and continue to impact the way of living and thinking of most Romanians. The situation of the evangelical churches in …
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Convoluted conjugality: Hymnographic repression, transference and co-optation in the Byzantine sanctoral's commemoration of married saints
… The second surveys the thought of representative Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine-Rite Catholic theologians regarding marriage, in order to establish a theological reference point for the liturgical analysis of the hymnography. The third part provides a historical contextualization of the theory and …
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Cyprianic Ecclesiology: Redefining the Office of the Christian Bishop
… powers of the bishop and built upon the existing orthodoxy of the Church. The actions of Cyprian will be viewed as a microhistory. Cyprian is not a fringe character in history; he is a well-known Church father and a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Thus, this microhistory …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
… and forensic in character. In contrast, the Eastern Orthodox tradition has been often characterized by the doctrine of theosis (or deification), understood as a process of ontological transformation culminating in union with God. These distinctive perspectives represent theological …
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Combat-Activated Thymic Disorientation
… of early Christianity, and its current use in Eastern Orthodox Christian monastic tradition. This diachronic perspective provides an existential understanding of certain features of such combat-related disorientation that were previously unidentified. More specifically, it discerns a systemic …
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The (in)significance of the filioque in contemporary inclusive soteriologies
… this dissertation. Chapter 3 examines various Eastern Orthodox theologians, both past and present, and argues that inclusivists have misappropriated Orthodox theology. Specifically, this chapter argues that Orthodoxy has historically viewed the work of the Spirit as inextricably connected with …
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The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
… exists in all forms of Christianity, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and the various forms of Protestantism, the expression and development of experiential Protestantism faces interesting historical challenges. The first challenge is grounded in the community’s conception of …
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The question of deification in the theology of John Calvin
… theological tradition through the lens of the Eastern idea of deification. The studies of the theology of John Calvin, who is a leading figure in the Reformation tradition, cannot avoid such a tendency, either. Not a few scholars have affirmed Calvin's doctrine of deification, in a way, akin to …
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John Henry Newman and Georges Florovsky: An Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue on the Development of Doctrine
… thinkers in their respective Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Newman's theory of doctrinal development proposes that divine revelation has been given once and for all, but that the Church is still growing in its understanding of this revelation. This growth sometimes results in new …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
… into what we now know as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Historians have typically viewed the history of southern-Italian monasticism in this period around the notion of a cultural conflict between Latins and Greeks, either arguing for or against the idea that the Italo-Normans …
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The person of Christ in the Seventh–day Adventism: doctrine–building and E. J. Wagonner’s potential in developing christological dialogue with eastern Christianity
… in Developing Christological Dialogue with Eastern Christianity,” this thesis presents the historical context and the essence of the debates in which the Seventh–day Adventists adopted the belief that Jesus Christ is fully divine and eternal, and abandoned the Arian, and semi-Arian teachings …
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
This study posits that the Eastern Christian doctrine of theosis, or deification, informs, enhances and illuminates Eucharistic understanding. It argues that the Eucharistic vision of Orthodox priest and theologian, Father Alexander Schmemann, offers the most cogent evidence in support of the …