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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Orthodox Christianity"”.
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Konfliktas ankstyvosios krikščionybės srovėse: Evangelijos pagal Mariją atvejis /
… the conflict in the trends of the early Christianity, which occur in the text of the Gospel of Mary. The Gospel of Mary, written in the middle of the 2nd century A. D., is an important monument of gnostic literature. The collision of Gnosticism and orthodox Christianity is pronounced in …
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Persons Unknown
… I discovered in college with my conversion to Orthodox Christianity in my early twenties.</p>
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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
… 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 of its …
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The reception and teaching of Shakespeare in nineteenth and early twentieth century America
… justifying such study within the frameworks of orthodox Christianity and Unitarianism, respectively, and utilizing an aesthetic emphasis made possible by Romantic critical theory. The aesthetic approach to the texts competed for a time with the German-inspired philological approach, but a …
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Byzantium and beyond: the Medieval Roman Empire and its world through the letters of patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos, 901-925 CE
… Nicholas’s thinking as well as efforts to spread orthodox Christianity to non-Christian peoples living in the Eastern Black Sea Region. The assemblage and analysis of this corpus not only presents a cogent image of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea in the Early Middle Ages, but also presents …
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From public person to private prisoner: the changing place of women in medieval Russia
… sovereignty; the evolution of Russian forms of Orthodox Christianity; and the emergence of serfdom as the basic production organization of the realm. These are, of course, the three most significant internal developments of the Muscovite era. Their effect upon women has been largely ignored, …
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Keys to a Russian national composer: An introduction to Georgy Sviridov
… old Russia was replaced by new Russia, Orthodox Christianity by Communism, the peasant and peasant life by the factory worker and the industrial military machine, and, ultimately, man's dignity by a seventy-four-year-old lie. As a true patriot, Sviridov ponders the meaning of his …
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Desecularization of the state as a resistance to the globalization: a case study of the criminalization of blasphemy in Russia.
… the 90s, Russia has opted for tried and tested Orthodox Christianity to fill that void and to form a new post-Soviet Russian identity. In the uncertain socio-economic conditions of post-Soviet Russia, many Russians looked to the Orthodox Church for guidance. The Church was frequently invoked in …
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Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn
… The first movement, Time, is dedicated to Orthodox Christianity; the second movement, Cry, is dedicated to Sunni Islam; the third movement, Kam, is dedicated to the old pagan religion of the Turkic people (Tengriism); the fourth movement, Triangle, is dedicated to Catholic Christianity; the …
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Retrieving Eternal Procession: A Dogmatic Western Account of the Holy Spirit’s Relation to the Father and the Son in the Triune God’s Divine Life
… this dissertation, I argue for the necessity of orthodox Christianity (1) to clarify the meaning of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession from the Father and the Son, and subsequently, because of contemporary denials, (2) to confess the doctrine as classically conceived because the …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… texts that are consistent with the tenets of orthodox Christianity. Sacred texts in this context include biblical texts, Christian hymn texts, metaphysical poetry, ancient prayers, traditional carols, and religious folk and humorous texts. Twenty-four composers are represented in this survey. …
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Religious intellectual encounters between Byzantium and the Ottomans in the fourteenth century: The Case of Gregory Palamas
… the origin of the Ottomans’ knowledge of Christianity, the reliability of information, and the degree of their knowledge of Orthodox Christianity in this period. Chapter 5 examines the origin of Palamas’ knowledge of Islam and the way this knowledge is being used in his Epistle. The …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… to the institutional affiliation to Islam and Orthodox Christianity captured Christian - Muslim intermarriage with different Muslim populations: Near, Middle East and South East Asian Muslim-born immigrants, native minority Muslims and Greek converts to Islam. I follow intermarriage as an …
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Whatever Happened to Respect? Values and Change in a Southwest Ethiopian (Aari) Community
… the Evangelicals’ current struggle to mobilize Christianity as a way to confine people’s feverish quest for development and the antagonisms that are its result. And I analyse the recent emergence of an Ethiopian Orthodox community in Dell as an attempt to rebuild relations centred on …
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'After Modernity', from Solovyov to Bulgakov
At the height of the Sophiology-controversy in the mid-1930s, Fr Sergii Bulgakov identified the basic aspiration of his theological programme as a ‘positive overcoming of Modernity’. In this, he was seeking to consummate the reconstruction of Christian thought and culture undertaken in the last two …
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The Controversy Surrounding the Ministry of Harry Emerson Fosdick in the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, 1922-1925
… to maintain and defend traditional Christian orthodoxy, and the modernists, who drew from the heritage of European and American liberal Protestantism and insisted upon reinterpreting Christianity in order to reconcile it to the extensive scientific and social developments which American …
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For many are called, and few are chosen: eternity and peoplehood amongst Orthodox Christians in Serbia
… and spiritual identities in a postsocialist, Orthodox context. It demonstrates the ways in which those identities mutually reinforce one another, and the tensions which this inevitably produces. Overall, it heeds Herzfeld’s (2002) suggestion that the Orthodox desire for ‘reenchantment’ …
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The Oriental Orthodox Communion in Modern Egypt: The Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syriac Orthodox Churches, 1805 CE- Present
<p>The Oriental Orthodox communion of churches is bound by a common Christological confession, dating to the fifth century CE Council of Chalcedon. The Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, and Ethiopian churches demonstrate a profound sense of theological and cultural unity. This study delineates the …
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Spiritual Struggle and Gregory of Nyssa’s Theory of Perpetual Ascent: An Orthodox Christian Virtue Ethic
… especially suitable lens by which to develop an Orthodox Christian ethical model generally. At the same time, virtue ethics carries with it some complexities that are in turn mitigated by the particulars of this Orthodox model—spiritual struggle and perpetual progress, or <em>epektasis</em>. …
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Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88)
… elements associated with historical Russian Orthodox sacred music and Russian folkloric tradition with his own unique esthetic goals and personal compositional style to produce a blended, universal musical language.
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