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Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda
The automation of online social life is an urgent issue for researchers and the public alike. However, one of the most significant uses of such...
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Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience
This article is a theo-phenomenological study on discernment in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, particularly as it is described in the Philokalia and...
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Mosque as an Extracurricular Place of Learning
This article aims to explore the role of mosques as an extracurricular place of learning. In addition to its traditional function as a place of...
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Chapter Thirteen The Prayer of the Heart, and the Heart of Prayer: On the Eastern Orthodox Practice of Prayer
After discussing the Orthodox “Jesus prayer” and its relation to Orthodox prayer in general, the article outlines a “Topography of Prayer in Orthodox...
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Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda
The automation of online social life is an urgent issue for researchers and the public alike. However, one of the most significant uses of such...
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Deification in Two Early Writings of St. Maximos the Confessor: Attaining Likeness to God
For St. Maximos the Confessor, the seventh century Byzantine theologian, deification was the ultimate goal of the monk and an event that required...
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Measuring the Cardiac Lived Bodily Rhythms of the Heart of the Praying Person: An ‘Irréalisable’?
In this contribution, I investigate the interactions between body and emotions and, particularly, the intersectional role that the heart plays in it....
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Some Technical Issues and Problems in the Epistemic Model of Tawhidi Unified Reality
This chapter continues in a mix of abstract and applied philosophical issues of the socio-scientific field of inquiry. The focus is on the persistent...
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Falling Out of Love with God: A Spiral Descent into Self-Annihilation
Biondo understood the relationship with God in terms of ranks and hierarchyHierarchy. Men could upset their bond with God and thus begin a history of...
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The experiential problem for petitionary prayer
Sometimes people petition God for things through prayer. This is puzzling, because if God always does what is best, it is not clear how these prayers...
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Towards understanding the nature of theology in the thought of Frs. S. N. Bulgakov, G. V. Florovsky and the Venerable Sophrony Sakharov
This paper focuses on what can be said to be the definitive features of the approach to theology by three Russian theologians: Fathers Sergii...
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Atheists Giving Thanks to the Sun
I argue that it is rational and appropriate for atheists to give thanks to deep impersonal agents for the benefits they give to us. These agents...
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Kritoboulos, Michael
Late Byzantine author, scribe, and scholar. He held the position of governor of Imbros in the period 1456–1466 ca. His main work is a...
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Spiritual care in the dementia ward during a pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic and the repeated lockdowns have caused substantial spiritual and existential suffering, not the least for persons with dementia...
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Chapter Ten “As We Also Forgive:” Asceticism and Forgiveness in the Lord’s Prayer, According to St. Maximus the Confessor
“And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” (Matthew 6: 12) This verse from the “Lord’s Prayer” surely represents the most familiar...
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Structure and Authorship of the KusumÀ·jali
This paper suggests that the classic of Indian theology, the Nyāya-kusumâñjali is in fact two texts: an earlier treatise in 65 ślokas, and Udayana’s...
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Be Careful What You Grant
I examine the concept of granting for the sake of the argument in the context of explanatory reasoning. I discuss a situation where S wishes to argue...
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Did Anselm Define God? Against the Definitionist Misrepresentation of Anselm’s Famous Description of God
Anselm of Canterbury’s so-called ontological proofs in the Proslogion have puzzled philosophers for centuries. The famous description “something /...
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Towards the future of Orthodox theology: Bulgakov and cyborg enhancement technology
The relationship between the Sophiology of Sergius Bulgakov and the neo-patristic movement within Orthodoxy is well-known. The neo-patristic...
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On the incoherence of molinism: incompatibility of middle knowledge with divine immutability
We argue that there is an incompatibility between the two basic principles of Molinism, i.e., God’s middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely...