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Ecumenical Dialogue Between Reformers And Orthodox Under The Ottomans (15-16th Century), Svetoslav Svetoszarov Ribolov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Despite the capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453, the Orthodox Church continued to make contacts with the West. In the 15^th and 16^th centuries, Patriarchs Joasaph II and Jeremias II had ecumenical contacts and theological dialogues with two generations of Reformers. Martin Luther and Melanchthon, and later Martin Crusius, Jakob Andrеä, and their associates in Wittenberg took up the initiative for a serious ecumenical dialogue with Constantinople. Despite a sincere desire on both sides, lack of a common methodological framework in the talks did not allow for significant results. In the end, both sides did not …

Religion And Atheism In Everyday Day Life Of The Ukrainian Educators In The 1920s-1930s, Oleksandr Lukyanenko, Vitaly Dmytrenko, Vita Dmytrenko

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article illustrates the process of formation of the atheist worldview of Soviet citizens under the pressure of Bolshevik propaganda in the context of student-teaching communities of higher educational institutions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The study shows two poles of the life of teachers: the limit of involvement in the work in the societies of militant God-fighters and the marginal position of the believers with all the resulting negative consequences for the personality, which the atheistic totalitarian state tried to create for a person. Along with highlighting the state-wide patterns of the anti-religious struggle in the Ukrainian socialist …

Review: Oliver Jens Schmitt, Biserica De Stat Sau Biserică În Stat? O Istorie A Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Editura Humanitas, București, 2023, Csaba Szabó

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

A review of Oliver Jens Schmitt, Biserica de stat sau biserică în stat? O istorie a Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Editura Humanitas, București, 2023. 457pp.

ISBN: 978-973-50-7919-2

Sacred Architecture And Interreligious Dialogue In The Concept Of The “Russian World”, Oleksandr Lukyanenko

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article continues a series of studies illustrating the formation of the idea of the “Russian world” in the religious discourse of Orthodox Russia. The main attention is paid to ideological stamps used by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow during sermons and public speeches. The study summarizes the idea of the exclusivity of the Russian spiritual path in contrast to the West, which supports the annexation geopolitical policy of Vladimir Putin. The article provides examples of falsification of historical facts in the religious and political spheres in order to create a powerful propaganda background in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war. …

Why On Earth Does “Tongue(S)” Become Ecstatic Speech?, Ekaputra Tupamahu

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

This chapter deals with the history of interpretation. Why is the phenomenon of “tongue(s)” in the New Testament understood today as ecstatic speech? In the history of interpretation, there are two major modes of reading the phenomenon of speaking in tongue(s) in the New Testament: the “missionary-expansionist” and the “romantic-nationalist” modes of reading. The earliest readers of the New Testament up until those of the mid-nineteenth century commonly understood the phenomenon of tongue(s) as a miraculous ability to speak in foreign languages—often called xenolalia—for the purpose of expanding Christianity and preaching the gospel. The shift in understanding began to …

Meals, Mouths, And Martyrs: Paulinus Of Nola And Sacrificial Spaces (Chapter 6 Of Food, Virtue, And The Shaping Of Early Christianity), Dana Robinson

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

In January 406, Paulinus of Nola devotes his twelfth Natalicium, or birthday poem, in honor of St. Felix’s festival day (Carm. 20), to three miracle stories about local farmers and devotees of the saint.1 Each one vows to bring a fattened animal – two pigs and a calf, respectively – to the shrine of Felix as a devotional offering. After much misadventure, and thanks only to Felix’s intervention, each one successfully performs his vow. The first “cuts the throat of the fat beast he had vowed, as men bound by a promise do.” The second brings a pig who “demands …

Cone And Fazios' "Forged From Reformation: How Dispensational Thought Advances The Reformed Legacy" (Book Review), Kyle D. Diroberts

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Williams' "Matthew: Interpreted By Early Christian Commentators" (Book Review), Kyle D. Diroberts

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Love Et Al. "Unitery Of The Church And Human Sexuality: Toward A Faithful United Methodist Witness" (Book Review), Craighton Hippenhammer

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Grabbe's "Faith And Fossils: The Bible, Creation, And Evolution" (Book Review), D. Jason Gardner

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Houston And Zimmermanns' "Sources Of The Christian Self: A Cultural History Of Christian Identity" (Book Review), Robert Lancaster

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Collins' "Scriptures And Sectarianism: Essays On The Dead Sea Scrolls" (Book Review), Randall Mckinion

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Davies' "The History Of Ancient Israel: A Guide For The Perplexed" (Book Review), Sean Mcnulty

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Amstutz's "Just Immigration" (Book Review), Rebekah Phillips

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Fuhr And Yates' "The Message Of The Twelve: Hearing The Voice Of The Minor Prophets" (Book Review), John Palmer

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Burke And Landaus' "New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures" (Book Review), Dennis Ingolfsland

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Sawyer's "Resurrecting The Trinity" (Book Review), Howard Merrell

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Shenoute’S Feast: Monastic Ideology, Lay Piety, And The Discourse Of Food In Late Antiquity, Dana Robinson

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

In the fourth and fifth centuries c.e., food provides a dense and value-laden web of meaning which lay and monastic Christians use to negotiate their identity with the culture at large, but also vis-à-vis each other. The works of Shenoute of Atripe are a valuable source of insight into the workings of this discourse in a Christian community, since they embrace both internal monastic instruction (the Canons) and public sermons (the Discourses). The first half of this paper constructs Shenoute’s ideology of the Christian meal in terms of the larger discourse of food in which it participates. He …

Faith And Practice: A Book Of Christian Discipline 2016, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Faith and Practice: A Book of Christian Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 2016. Publication of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Faith And Practice: A Book Of Christian Discipline 2012, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Faith and Practice: A Book of Christian Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 2012. Publication of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Faith And Practice: A Book Of Christian Discipline 2009, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Faith and Practice: A Book of Christian Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 2009. Publication of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Book Review Of At Peace And Unafraid: Public Order, Security, And The Wisdom Of The Cross, Ron Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

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Faith And Practice: A Book Of Christian Discipline 1998, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Faith and Practice: A Book of Christian Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends 1998. Publication of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Faith And Practice: A Book Of Christian Discipline 1987, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Faith and Practice: A Book of Christian Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1987. Publication of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Constitution And Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church 1979, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Constitution and Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1979. Publication of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Constitution And Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church 1975, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Constitution and Discipline, Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends 1975. Publication of the Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Constitution And Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church 1970, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Constitution and Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1970. Publication of the Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends, later known as the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Constitution And Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church 1958, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Constitution and Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1958. Publication of the Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends, later known as the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Constitution And Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church 1945, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Constitution and Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1945. Publication of the Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends, later known as the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting 1934, George Fox University Archives

Faith and Practice

Discipline, Oregon Yearly Meeting 1934. Publication of the Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends, later known as the Northwest Yearly Meeting.