A PRE-SCHISM EASTERN BISHOP ON THE TRUE CHURCH By JAMES LIKOUDIS
A PRE-SCHISM EASTERN BISHOP ON THE TRUE CHURCH By JAMES LIKOUDIS The publication of “Popes and Patriarchs” by a former British Catholic now living in Canada comes as a negative rebuke to contemporary ecumenical efforts to heal the ancient Schism between the Catholic Church and the autocephalous national Eastern Orthodox Churches. The author, Michael Whelton, had also written a previous book to justify his abandoning the Catholic Faith to become Eastern Orthodox by an appeal to history wherein he rehashed many of the puerile objections made by Anglican Protestant polemicists,...
Read MoreScott L. Montgomery. Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Exploring the transmission of science across The transmission of scientific knowledge is a complex process and more than often the result of a multi-cultural construction of impressions of thought. Scientists today often construct their ideas on theories that were formulated many centuries ago. They seldom think of the origins of those ideas. Moreover, they seldom consider the fact that what they have made their own in terms of their discipline are by no means the original languages in which the thoughts were formulated. Translation, the act “of rendering the words of one language into...
Read MoreBoyer’s Model of Scholarship: A Syriac Case Study From Seventh-Century Egypt / Peter A.L. Hill
1 Boyer’s Model of Scholarship: A Syriac Case Study From Seventh-Century Egypt1 Peter A.L. Hill Lecturer, Academic Development (Teaching Awards & Grants) Learning and Teaching Unit The question of scholarship is central to any discussion about the rôle of universities and their relevance within the seemingly ever-shifting contours of contemporary society. Yet although institutional statements about scholarly excellence abound, and despite the centuries of scholarly achievement that underpin the modern academy, it remains that no single, overarching definition of scholarship...
Read MoreTheodoret on the “School of Antioch”: A Network Approach / Adam M. Schor
Theodoret on the “School of Antioch”: A Network Approach Adam M. Schor Abstract The School of Antioch has more often been treated as a doctrinal abstraction than a social entity. This study reinterprets the Antiochene phenomenon as a socio-doctrinal network, a group of clerics bound by a call and response of doctrinal language. Conciliar documents and the letters of Theodoret of Cyrrhus showcase this network in operation in the 430s and 440s. For earlier, formative decades, the network must be approached indirectly through historical narrative. In his Church History...
Read MoreSacred Words, Anglo-Saxon Piety, and the Origins of the Epistola salvatoris in London, British Library, Royal 2.A.xx Christopher M. Cain Towson University
Sacred Words, Anglo-Saxon Piety, and the Origins of the Epistola salvatoris in London, British Library, Royal 2.A.xx Christopher M. Cain Towson University London, British Library (BL), Royal 2.A.xx (Mercia) is a late eighth- or early ninth-century florilegium of Biblical passages, liturgical extracts, apocrypha, and prayers from Anglo-Saxon England. Among the contents of this eclectic book are texts as fundamental as the Pater Noster, the Nicene Creed, and the Magnificat, along with more obscure materials such as an “Oratio Sancti Hygbaldi” and various hymns.1 The manuscript also...
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