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This article investigates a little-known yet highly significant facet of the Arabic liturgical Gospel books – the commentary that was introduced into the Gospel readings from at least the ...11th century to the 19th century, notably during the time of Patriarch Athanasios
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Dabbās, the last publisher to include this commentary. This study aims to shed light on the origin and evolution of this commentary, categorize its contents, and evaluate its theological importance in the context of the Arab Christian tradition. By offering fresh perspectives on the composition of Lectionary commentaries, this research enriches our comprehension of the history and theology of the Arab Christian tradition.
The article is devoted to the library of the Orenburg Theological Seminary, which was lost in 1918. It was based on the books of spiritual and religious content. The purpose of the library ...reconstruction is to create its approximate catalog at the time of the seminary closure. The article describes only that sections of the catalog that reflect physically preserved books: Holy Scripture, Dogmatic Theology, Homiletics, Pastoral Theology, Moral Theology, Asceticism, Ecumenism, Christian apologetics, Schismatic studies, history of non-Christian religions, history of the Russian Orthodox Church, etc. Only 35 copies have been survived to this day. All of them are monuments of book culture and give an idea of both the representativeness of the lost library itself and the preparation of clergymen for missionary activity in the Orenburg Orthodox Diocese.
The development of oral preaching and the genre of sermon in seventeenth-century Russia was primarily brought about by Ruthenian authors influenced by the Latin tradition, e.g., Ioannikiy ...Galyatovsky, Lazar Baranovych and Simeon Polotsky. These authors incorporated their general knowledge of cosmology, astronomy and astrology into their homilies, which present a valuable insight into the intellectual background of the period through the prism of cosmological elements used mostly as parts of rhetoric constructions. While the functions of the particular elements of natural philosophy varied in different authors, they shared certain concepts common to both scholastic thought and Baroque aesthetics. Despite being considerably distant from seventeenth-century science, the homilies also served educational purposes and may be perceived as a step towards the Westernisation and secularisation of Russian culture.
The Gospel of John, without having its own liturgical year, is typically assumed to have a supplemental homiletical role in the Revised Common Lectionary, and yet the Fourth Gospel is the designated ...Gospel reading for the festival Sundays of Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and Easter season. As a result, the theological themes of the Fourth Gospel anchor the church’s Trinitarian confessions and doctrinal imagination when it comes to preaching. In particular, as the assigned Gospel for the Sundays of Easter, the Gospel of John shapes resurrection proclamation. Resurrection proclamation, therefore, is animated by Jesus’ final words to his disciples found in the Farewell Discourse (John 14–17), where Jesus interprets his own ministry, commissions his disciples, testifies to the Paraclete, and prays for his followers. This essay will explore how the viewpoint of Jesus’ departing declarations makes a difference for preaching the resurrection. Through the lens of the Farewell Discourse, the promise of the resurrection takes on thematic issues that give important meaning to Jesus’ own revelation, “I am the resurrection and the life”.
This article is the third part of a series designed as a precursor of the forthcoming catalogue Bibliotheca Homiletica Balcano-Slavica. The series presents hitherto undescribed, unknown, or little ...known codices, all of which need some additional clarification of the information related to them. The present article introduces the hitherto undescribed Codex N 390 from the collection of the Hilandar Monastery in Mount Athos. The aim is to provide a complete description of the content of the manuscript, and also to give the basic and most important information about every one of the works included. Thе detailed description of the manuscript is of great importance for the completion of the catalogue Bibliotheca Homiletica Balcano-Slavica, and it will bring to the scholarly attention many valuable, unknown, or little known, mostly translated, works, enhancing our understanding of the reception of Byzantine rhetoric in the South Slavonic Medieval milieu.
This article focuses on the evangelical theology and revival practice of Charles Grandison Finney, popular in his time yet critically under-explored in American philosophy, specifically regarding his ...role in the emergence of American pragmatism. Spearheaded by American philosophers like Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, pragmatism argues that the significance of abstract concepts lies in their practical consequences in lived experience, as opposed to their internal logic or conformity to intellectual traditions. Whereas this philosophical method is often seen as predominantly secular in its origins, this article approaches pragmatic thinking and practice from the point of view of the spiritual conversion strategies of Charles Finney and antebellum evangelical culture more broadly. I expand on what Leonard I. Sweet has called Finney’s “pragmatic philosophy of revivalism,” addressing his theology and revival practice to disclose its latent pragmatic tendencies and those within antebellum evangelical culture. I argue that by looking at Finney as an early practitioner of this method, we must reappraise his and evangelicalism’s role in the emergence of philosophical pragmatism, challenge its putative secularity, and – as Charles Taylor has recently demonstrated – reassess what academic disciplines mean when they cite the presumed distinction between the religious and the secular.
While a number of studies have been published on homiletics within a Protestant context, fewer studies are available within the Catholic Church. Despite this lack of data, several recent magisterial ...documents have bemoaned the quality of preaching at Eucharistic liturgies. This article brings recent Catholic magisterial statements into conversation with two studies conducted within the Catholic Diocese of Dallas regarding attitudes toward preaching. Following the presentation of the official Catholic theology of preaching and research findings, the conclusion provides the authors' thoughts and recommendations for adjustments in the field.
As Pentecostalism continues to develop distinct processes, practices, and pedagogies as a unique worshipping community within the Church, little attention has been given to the production of a ...Pentecostal homiletic, or, at the very least, whether there is a need for one. Since Pentecostal hermeneutics has continued to evolve and solidify over the past century, it naturally follows that the next question to answer would be this: how do Pentecostals produce their sermons? This paper will address the philosophies of the Church; how worldview/hermeneutics/didoiesis build upon each other within the worshipping community; how Pentecostals view the church service, with specific attention to the sermon; and what Pentecostal homiletics would look like practically. Additionally, this paper argues that not only do Pentecostals provide renewal and re-enchanted views of scripture: but they also establish a unique 11-step homiletic, building upon the works of Karl Barth, James K.A. Smith, Chris E.W. Green, and Cheryl Bridges Johns.
Set within the discipline of cathedral studies, the present paper explores responses given to the sermon delivered by the Canon Scientist in the context of two afternoon carol services held on ...Christmas Eve 2019 in Liverpool Cathedral, drawing on qualitative responses to a survey. Some participants within the congregations, comprising mainly non-churchgoers, are shown to have engaged seriously with the biblical narrative of the incarnation as presented in the sermon and to have identified its implications for their own particular contexts in a deliberate manner. Commentary on the data is organised within six themes, concerning positive affective response, engagement with meaning, accessible pedagogy, perceived relevance, connecting with science, and negative affective response. The relevance of these qualitative findings are discussed for the trajectory of future quantitative research.
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