Knowing God in Eastern Christianity and Islamic Tradition: A Comparative Study by Nur Kirabaev, Olga Chistyakova

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Eastern Patristics on Human’s Free Will and Divine Predestination: Conceptual Continuity in the Contemporary Russian Culture by Olga Chistyakova, Denis Chistyakov

“…The article stands on the original teachings of prominent Saints of Eastern Christianity—Maximus the Confessor, Athanasius of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, John of Damascus, and Justin Martyr as a predecessor for both the Eastern and Western Patristics. …”
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Theology of Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers as a Specific Way of Philosophical Thinking in an Epistemological Context by Olga Chistyakova, Denis Chistyakov

“…John Climacus’s conception of human self-improvement and self-cognition on the path of theosis is revealed as one of the first philosophical and moral systems of early Byzantium and the source of subsequent Christian concepts of Eastern Christianity. Maximus the Confessor’s conception of the logoi—or energies—of God is presented as a system of symbols with profound philosophical and anthropological meaning. …”
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Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human—Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification by Olga Chistyakova

“…The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within the Early Byzantine culture. …”
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