Christian materiality between East and West: Notes of a Capuchin among the Christians of the Ottoman Empire by Ghobrial, J-P

“…Moreover, writers like Febvre also drew on the evidence of Eastern Christian religious practices as a way of defending Roman Catholicism against its Protestant critics. …”

The Flexibility of Thomistic Metaphysical Principles: Byzantine Thomists, Personalist Thomists, and Jacques Maritain by Mark K. Spencer

“…Challenges of this sort have been raised by Eastern Christian thinkers in the school of Gregory Palamas and by contemporary Personalists; they propose alternative metaphysics to explain these experiences. …”
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The yardsticks by which we measure Rus by Vukovich, A

“…The recent publication by Donald Ostrowski, Europe, Byzantium, and the “Intellectual Silence” of Rus’ Culture, is a further contribution to this debate that revisits the reasons for a differential development between Rus and medieval Europe, focussing on the intellectual contributions of the Eastern Christian Church and Latin Church to their respective spheres of influence. …”

Is T.T. Cloete ’n Calvinistiese digter? by B. J. Odendaal

“…In these respects his views, as expressed in his poetry, show similarities with those of the Catholic tradition, even with those of the Eastern Christian church.…”
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A Marked Absence: Pneumatic Abandonment as Desert Hermeneutic by Micah Hogan

“…Correcting a misconception popularized by Vladimir Lossky, this paper argues for a normative experience of divine abandonment in the Eastern Christian tradition via sustained engagement with the experience of those practitioners of desert spirituality. …”
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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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Reassessing the Periodization of Mural Paintings in the Cave Church of the Southern Mangup Monastery by Yuriy M. Mogarichev, Alena S. Ergina

“…Different artists, who were the representatives of various eastern Christian schools of sacred painting, made the murals. …”
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Manifestations of Authorship by Lidova, Maria

“… This paper is dedicated to the problem of artists’ signatures in Byzantium and, more specifically, to the question of anonymity, which is often considered to be a basic characteristic of Eastern Christian art. Declaration of authorship is traditionally seen as a sign of sinful vanity, antagonistic to the religious spirit of the Middle Ages. …”
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Manifestations of authorship: artists’ signatures in Byzantium by Lidova, M

“…This paper is dedicated to the problem of artists’ signatures in Byzantium and, more specifically, to the question of anonymity, which is ofen considered to be a basic characteristic of Eastern Christian art. Declaration of authorship is traditionally seen as a sign of sinful vanity, antagonistic to the religious spirit of the Middle Ages. …”

Hiérotopie de l'obscurité by Andrew Simsky

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Transposition — retelling — translation: the destiny of Areopagitica in Slavia Orthodoxa by Nataliya G. Nikolaeva, Anton V. Yermoshin, Anastasiya S. Volskaya

“…However, these works are unequivocally associat­ed with early medieval Eastern Christian mystical-theological thought, presumably from the turn of the 5th—6th centuries. …”
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The Human Being in Eastern Church Father’s and Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology by Nur Serikovich Kirabaev, Olga Vasilievna Chistyakova

“…Conclusions are made about the comparability and the presence of intersections between Eastern Christian, Byzantine, and Muslim types of thought.…”
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Nurturing Faith and Enlightening Minds: Assumptionist Education in the Ottoman Empire by Ediz Hazir

“…The text explores the educational activities of French Roman Catholic missions in the nineteenth century, as they evolved from serving local Catholic needs to becoming crucial assets in advancing France’s religious–cultural influences and the Holy See’s efforts to unify Eastern Christian Churches under Rome. Focused on the Mission d’Orient, initiated during Pius IX’s papacy, this study delves into the Assumptionists’ educational activities in the Ottoman Empire (1863–1914), which aimed to inculturate the Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire, achieve union with Rome, and build a bridge of knowledge between the Ottoman Orient and Europe. …”
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Russian Religious Philosophy Between the East and West. The Ways of Russian Sophiology by Nun Tereza (Obolevich T.)

“…On the other hand, since the 20th century we can observe the renewal of the Eastern Christian style of philosophizing typical for the creativity of the Fathers of the Church and developed in the shape of Neo-patristic synthesis. …”
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Explanations of words in Old Georgian exegetes' footnotes and the first Georgian explanatory dictionary by Bolkvadze, T

“…Old Georgian literary schools of 11th-12th centuries aimed at being deeper integrated into the eastern-Christian world. They though it expedient to master the Greeks' cultural achievements as much as it was possible for this purpose. …”

The Structures Outside the Town Gate atop the Plateau of Eski-Kermen: Reality and Conjectures by Irina Zavadskaya

“…As is known, gate churches as a type of church architecture appeared in the Eastern Christian world no earlier than the 10th or 11th centuries. …”
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Itineraries of Medieval Slavic Legal Texts: Byzantine “Farmer’s Law” in Ms. Slav. 466 from Hilandar Monastery by Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova

“…The current observations refer to the following spheres: the relationship between text and manuscript, the axiological significance of precedential texts in culture, the importance of this copy for Byzantine-Slavic interactions in the legal system, the uninterrupted cultural role of Holly Mountain’s monasteries for Eastern Christian culture. The Slavic copy of the “Farmer’s Law” in Hil. 466 is unique by structure and peculiarities. …”
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Features of Sacred Music in the Context of the Ukrainian Baroque by Natalia Kovalchuk, Olga Zosim, Liudmyla Ovsiankina, Irina Lomachinska, Oksana Rykhlitska

“…This direction was unique because it was a synthesis of Eastern-Christian and Western-Christian tradition (mostly by Catholic musical tradition as multi-chorus composition, musical rhetoric). …”
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“Resolving difficult cases that might happen during Divine Service”. On the sources of one plot in the Uniate liturgical literature of the early 17th century by Margarita Korzo

“…Petrovskij has already found out, a significant part of the cases analyzed in “Pripadki” that might happen during worship or Communion have parallels in apostolic, patristic, and conciliar decrees, in works of church literature, which have long existed in the Eastern Christian area. The author of the article argues, that the very effort of systematizing those difficult cases, also their analysis in the context of liturgical editions was borrowed by the compilers of “Pripadki” from the Latin tradition. …”
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‘Exploring finitude’: weakness and integrity in Isaac of Nineveh by Duca, V

“…In Isaac, whose writings had a profound influence on Eastern Christian thought, the engagement with one’s ‘weakness’ (mḥilutā, in Syriac) plays a major role, which scholars have not yet explored extensively. …”