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ორიგენე ალექსანდრიელის პოლიტიკური ღვთისმეტყველება
No full textდღემდე გაბატონებული შეხედულების თანახმად, ადრეული ხანის ქრისტიანები არ იჩენდნენ განსაკუთრებულ ინტერესს პოლიტიკისადმი. ამ მხრივ, მეტად სიმპტომატურია ადრექრისტი-ანული ფილოსოფიური აზროვნებისადმი მიძღვნილი ჯორჯ კარამანოლისის ნაშრომი. მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ ავტორი ადრეული ხანის ქრისტიანი მოაზროვნეების შესახებ არსებულ მრავალ სტერეოტიპულ შეხედულებას ამსხვრევს და წარმო-გვიჩენს ამ მოაზროვნეთა საკმაოდ მდიდარ ინტელექტუალურ კულტურას, როდესაც ჯერი მიდგება მათ პოლიტიკურ შეხედუ-ლებებზე, ის აღნიშნავს: „ადრეული ქრისტიანი ფილოსოფოსები იჩენენ შეზღუდულ ინტერესს პოლიტიკური ფილოსოფიის მი-მართ, ისევე როგორც მათი თანამედროვე წარმართი ფილოსო-ფოსები“.
According to the prevailing view to date, early Christians showed no particular interest in politics. In this respect, the work of George Karamanolis, devoted to pre-Christian philosophical thought, is highly symptomatic. Although the author breaks down many stereotypical views of early Christian thinkers and presents a rather rich intellectual culture of these thinkers when Jerry approaches their political views, he notes: , As well as their modern pagan philosophers. "
 
"An Inauthentic Georgian Epistle Attributed to Cyril of Alexandria"
No full textThis article considers the authenticity of a letter attributed to Cyril of Alexandria that survives only in two Georgian manuscripts. This letter stands at the head of a catena of exegetical fragments dealing with the Pauline epistles, and its author claims responsibility for compiling the subsequent collection of extracts from patristic authors. Although its existence has been known since the early twentieth century, and it was included in Cyril's corpus in the Clavis Patrum Graecorum, a critical edition of the letter was only recently published in 2003. We provide the first modern translation of the letter, and argue on the basis of its contents that Cyril was almost certainly not its author
THEOLOGIA AND OIKONOMIA: THE SOTERIOLOGICAL GROUND OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’S TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY.
Full text linkThis dissertation explores the soteriological ground of the trinitarian theology of
Gregory of Nazianzus and establishes a consistent link in his thought between the
spheres of oikonomia and theologia. His writings are studied against the background of
contemporary theological and philosophical trends thus demonstrating the context
within which he elaborated his main theological concepts as well as their novelty.
Although Gregory drew heavily on the heritage of his intellectual master Origen, he
significantly changed his perspective from cosmological speculations to reflections on
the historical embodiment of Christ’s salvific activity. This shift was to lead Gregory
towards a positive view of the body and of bodily desire which he considered a vital
force in human existence capable of union with God in the process of deification.
Gregory thus fully identified Christ with humanity in its total manifestation, including
the human mind with its fallen and rebellious desire, now assumed and redeemed in the
incarnation. Hence Gregory placed the suffering image of Christ at the heart of his
trinitarian theological construction. As this thesis argues, around this image evolves the
whole dogmatic edifice of Gregory’s theology. Christ’s divine sovereignty is
understood not in separation and independence from the passion on Cross. Rather, its
full manifestation is only possible because of the cross, because of Christ’s free and
willing acceptance of it. The whole set of interrelationships between the suffering
Christ and the Father and the Holy Spirit are depicted according to the logic of
coincidence of sovereignty and humiliation. It is precisely in this combination of
theological themes – expressed with our new concept of “kenotic sovereignty” – that
the focus of the present thesis is located. This innovative spiritual disposition shapes
both Gregory’s theological epistemology and his hermeneutical strategy. Arguing for
the possibility of knowing the divine in and through human bodily existence and
corroborating this view with suitably interpreted Scriptural evidence, he opens the
horizons for the human ascension to the realm of the divine trinitarian life. In this way
Gregory envisages access to the transcendent theology of the Trinity which is
understood by him in purely personal terms, insofar as it implies the intimate
conversation of God with us “as friends” (Or. 38.7). This unique reworking of classical
and Christian themes is possible because of Gregory’s insistence that divine
sovereignty and transcendence become intelligible exclusively in the context of Easter.
Thus the habitually neglected narrative of the cross and resurrection of Christ in the
thought of the Theologian is the only key to unlock his understanding of the luminous
mystery of the Trinity
THE TEMPLE WITHIN: A FORGOTTEN THEME OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ECCLESIOLOGY
No full textIn the modern ecclesiological theories, there is chiefly accentuated the vision of the church as an institution and its order, which is supposed to mirror the future kingdom of God. Recently, the different models of eucharistic ecclesiologies have become particularly fashionable. They are centered on the liturgical celebration of the eucharist as a self-constituting act of the church. However, they pay almost no attention to the spiritual disposition of the members of the church who participate in the eucharist. In this article, I try to briefly demonstrate the contribution of the early Christian practice of the interiorization of liturgy to the search for a creative response to the challenges of the contemporary church.In the modern ecclesiological theories, there is chiefly accentuated the vision of the church as an institution and its order, which is supposed to mirror the future kingdom of God. Recently, the different models of eucharistic ecclesiologies have become particularly fashionable. They are centered on the liturgical celebration of the eucharist as a self-constituting act of the church. However, they pay almost no attention to the spiritual disposition of the members of the church who participate in the eucharist. In this article, I try to briefly demonstrate the contribution of the early Christian practice of the interiorization of liturgy to the search for a creative response to the challenges of the contemporary church
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF PERSONHOOD
No full textThe notion of personhood has become increasingly dominating modern theological discourse from the nineteenth century onwards. However, it has also become an object of critique by the historians of theology as we cannot find any kind of developed concept of personhood in the early Christian sources. So it was dismissed as a projection of our modern cultural concerns on the historical texts of the Church fathers. Although this critique does justice to the historical distance between our culture and the culture of late antiquity, this article attempts to demonstrate the presence of the theological vision of the human being as embodying individual free will as a gift of God. Certainly, the notion of free will was not a Christian invention as it had a long philosophical tradition in the ancient world beginning from Plato and Aristotle to the Stoics and Plotinus. However, the early Christian theologians were the ones who gave to the notion of markedly universal character, insofar as free will was not considered by them to be a matter of ascetic cultivation solely available to those trained in philosophy. Yet its theological provenance also shaped its structure in a paradoxical way: being the gift of God human freedom appears to depend on God, but this condition does not impose limitations on it but, on the contrary, enables it. The awareness of one’s freedom as a gift of the Other leads toward the formation of what might be designated as a “eucharistic self“. The exploration of the broad implications of this concept can open new avenues for envisioning society without conflict arising from competition between individuals and also help us find solutions to the ecological crisisThe notion of personhood has become increasingly dominating modern theological discourse from the nineteenth century onwards. However, it has also become an object of critique by the historians of theology as we cannot find any kind of developed concept of personhood in the early Christian sources. So it was dismissed as a projection of our modern cultural concerns on the historical texts of the Church fathers. Although this critique does justice to the historical distance between our culture and the culture of late antiquity, this article attempts to demonstrate the presence of the theological vision of the human being as embodying individual free will as a gift of God. Certainly, the notion of free will was not a Christian invention as it had a long philosophical tradition in the ancient world beginning from Plato and Aristotle to the Stoics and Plotinus. However, the early Christian theologians were the ones who gave to the notion of markedly universal character, insofar as free will was not considered by them to be a matter of ascetic cultivation solely available to those trained in philosophy. Yet its theological provenance also shaped its structure in a paradoxical way: being the gift of God human freedom appears to depend on God, but this condition does not impose limitations on it but, on the contrary, enables it. The awareness of one’s freedom as a gift of the Other leads toward the formation of what might be designated as a “eucharistic self“. The exploration of the broad implications of this concept can open new avenues for envisioning society without conflict arising from competition between individuals and also help us find solutions to the ecological crisi
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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