Metropolitan Amfilohije’s Views on St Gregory Palamas and Orthodoxy: A Return to Palamism

International Review of MissionVolume 74, Issue 294 p. 230-236 A LESSON IN EVANGELISM THE LIVES OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS Elias Voulgarakis, Elias Voulgarakis Elias Voulgarakis is professor of missiology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Athens, Greece. This article was translated from Greek by Xanthie Fitz-Patrick.Search for more papers by this author Elias Voulgarakis, Elias Voulgarakis Elias Voulgarakis is professor of missiology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Athens, Greece. This article was translated from Greek by Xanthie Fitz-Patrick.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1985 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1985.tb02580.xCitations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume74, Issue294April 1985Pages 230-236 RelatedInformation

Purpose: The aim of the present paper was to study the quantitative status of the theses and dissertations in humanities education with an Islamic approach at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 4 colleges including Letters and Humanities, Theology, Administrative and Economic Sciences, Education and Psychology, in a 31-years period (1984-2014) to determine the role of this university in science products with Islamic approaches. Methodology: This study was an applied research and was done by scientometrics methods. The research population consisted of all theses and dissertations in the field of humanities with an Islamic approach in the mentioned areas and period. There was no sampling in this study and all theses and dissertations with an Islamic approach were studied in four mentioned colleges. Findings:The results showed that during this period, 1201 theses and dissertations with Islamic approach were registered at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad among which the field of jurisprudence and Islamic law with 341 items had the highest frequency, and English language and literature and French language and literature, each with 5 items, the least numbers. Among the academic areas, the Faculty of Theology had the most contibution, and the Faculty of Education and Psychology had the least contribution in the production of theses and dissertations with Islamic approach. 1072 items were produced by Master’s and 129 items were produced by PhD students. Among the identified issues, the subject of the Quran, criminal law (jurisprudence) and Quran interpretations were identified as top issues.The average annual growth in the production of theses and dissertations in humanities with an Islamic approach was equal to 44.35%. According to an annual growth rate of 32.83% of the whole theses and dissertations in the areas of humanities education, this rate was much more. Out of 210 scientific papers extracted from identified theses and dissertations, 133 items were produced by M.A. and 77 by PhD students. Finally, the scientific map of detected Islamic theses and dissertations was drawn and analyzed using Vosviewer application. The results showed that the scientific map of theses and dissertations with Islamic approach in the mentioned population, based on the analysis of the co-vocabulary was composed of seven thematic clusters. The type of the co-vocabulary network was also continuous. Based on hierarchical clustering, 23 thematic clusters identified from which Quran identified as root and 22 other clusters were located in the heart of it. Conclusion: Although there has been and increasing trend in publishing theses and desertaions with humanities and Islamic approaches in Ferdowsi University, this growth has not been identical in different years. The authorities should encourage the students and scholars to learn the methodology of Islamic research to conduct more studies in the field of religion.

Kærligheden, mesteren og mesterlærenOle NyborgThe Concept of Love, the Master, and the Aprentice[1]In his dissertation Nyborg argues that Grundtvig’s sermons promote an educational theory that differs from the one found through standard interpretations of Grundtvig’s pedagogical thinking. In chapter three, which is printed in the journal, Nyborg describes a cognitive schema of fatherliness and paternalism that strongly influences how Grundtvig presents the concept of love in his sermons between the years of 1832 and 1849. Nyborg argues specifically that Grundtvig frequently interprets the expression “God is love” into an idea of paternal direction, chastisement, and education. Grundtvig contends that Christians must love their neighbors in the same way, within a hierarchical or asymmetrical relation. Christians emulate the Father by acting as stronger, more knowing, fatherly agents towards their neighbors. The purpose of this love becomes evident in the didactic element in Grundtvig’s sermons. Christians channel their love into thinking, feeling, relating, and acting to save their neighbors from the evil, darkness, ungodliness, carnality, and immorality of the world. Christian disciples learn this behavior through a sort of apprenticeship, which like any training is meant to help the apprentice grow and become like the master. Christian disciples get their training in the so-called school of the Lord, where the Master as strong father teaches them suffering, discipline, renunciation, and aspiration. Disciples are constantly tempted to leave he school and return to the pleasures of the world. In his sermons Grundtvig connects this type of school with its pedagogical theory with descriptions in the New Testament of the learning community of Christ and his disciples. The teleological end-point of this demanding and difficult education is a fundamental transformation of the motivation and character of the disciples. They begin their education contaminated and damaged physically, mentally, and morally; they end it justified, sanctified, and purified. Their motivation, thoughts, feelings, values, aspiration, nature, and personality are transformed. They move closer and closer to the central identity, competence, and nature of their Master who is the magnificent paragon and the pattern of love, morality, spirituality, and virtue.[1] Ole Nyborg died on 18 February 2014 – see the obituary in this journal. On 29 November 2013, he had defended his PhD thesis, titled Grundtvig og kærligheden – Kærlighedsforståelsen i N.F.S. Grundtvigs prædikener (Grundtvig and Love: Love Comprehension in N.F.S. Grundtvig’s sermons), at the Faculty of Theology in Copenhagen. In consultation with the family of Ole Nyborg and Niels Henrik Gregersen it was decided to publish the third chapter of the dissertation, which concerns the vision of religious educational upbringing in Grundtvig’s sermons. This summary is inspired by the summary in Nyborg’s thesis pp. 253-253. The thesis can be downloaded at: http://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/92172145/Ole_Nyborg_Grundtvig_og_Kaerligheden_til_CURIS.pdf ( 1. November 2014). The editors.

During the seventeenth century the emerging experimental activities focused, among other categories of knowledge, on the examination of the quality of cold. The interest in cold was closely connected to the new corpuscular theories on matter and the criticism towards Aristotelian and scholastic theory of matter. Three major series of experiments on cold were led by Robert Boyle (1627–1691), the Irish experimental philosopher, and similar experiments took place in two important institutions of that period: the Royal Society of London and the Florentine Accademia Del Cimento (During the period between its formation in 1660 and 1694, the members of the Royal Society conducted an important experimental activity on cold. The society’s experimental practice on cold is recorded in the society’s minutes as well as in a large number of its members’ essays and letters. The Accademia Del Cimento was founded by Prince Leopold de Medici in the Florentine court in 1657 and was active until 1667. The experimental practice of its members, as well as that referring to cold is presented in the published treatise of the academy Saggi (Accademia Del Cimento. Essayes of natural experiments made in the Academie del Cimento. Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York/London, 1964 (first edition 1684)). In this paper I focus on Boyle’s experiments on cold in order to show his contribution in the development of a new experimental field in natural philosophy (This paper is based on part of my PhD thesis (Christopoulou C, Experimental philosophy – 17th century: the case of Robert Boyle and his experiments on cold. PhD dissertation, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, 2008) There I focus on Boyle’s experimental practice on cold and present a comparative study between his experimental examination of cold and that of the Royal Society of London and the Florentine Accademia Del Cimento). I will firstly describe the historical context surrounding Boyle’s experimental practice and focus on presenting the various theoretical schemata related to the quality of cold. I will then set Boyle’s experiments on cold in the context of his other experimental inquiries. In the main part of this paper, I will focus on the analysis of the basic categories of experiments on cold conducted by Boyle and their significance for the reconceptualization of the concept of cold. I will try to underline the questions Boyle sought to answer, the new information given by his experiments and its relation to the inquiry into the nature of cold and the concept of cold he tried to put forward.

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

A German systematic theologian who focused on the work of the Holy Spirit in the church, Heribert Mühlen is regarded as one of the most significant Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Born April 27, 1927, he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1951 and a doctorate in theology in 1962. He was ordained in 1955, attended Vatican II as adviser to Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger, and served as professor of Dogmatic Theology and History at the Theological Faculty in Paderborn from 1964 to 1997.

ABSTRACTThis article presents a segment of the results gathered in a doctoral study that investigated information needs and behavior of Catholic priests in Croatia. The study focused on parish priests in particular and their information needs and behavior in the liturgy and care-giving role. The research was conducted with the help of quantitative and qualitative methodology. Print questionnaires were filled out by 327 respondents, while in the follow-up interviews 20 respondents took part. Research results show that respondents, in the care-giving role and liturgy, require information about theology, general culture, psychology, and pedagogy. More than half of respondents find information for liturgy on religious websites and in their personal parish libraries. However, in their care-giving role they seek information most often from their parishers, members in parish pastoral and economic boards, and from colleagues at their regular meetings organized by the (arch)diocese. Both in liturgy and care-giving role, respondents use religious publications to a much larger degree than secular books, magazines, or newspapers. The respondents explained that in liturgy they consult colleagues and parishers in order to exchange advices and ideas, while in the care-giving role some respondents also prefer to seek an advice from an expert in specific field. The results of this study can help Catholic Church and theological faculties when preparing the information literacy courses for future parish priests.

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When doctorate degrees are conferred by a faculty of Protestant theology in Germany, the academic degree awarded has traditionally been a »Doctor of Theology« (Dr. theol.). For some time now there has been a plan to establish other degrees for dissertations from certain theological disciplines, religious studies in particular, such as for example »Doctor of Philosophy« (Dr. phil.) or »Doctor of Religious Studies« (Dr. rer. rel.). The objections to this are not of a theological nature only, since these new degrees are also not compatible with the German law on institutions of higher education and the law governing the re lationship between church and state.

BOOK REVIEW Paul Nanu and Emilia Ivancu (Eds.) Limba română ca limbă străină. Metodologie și aplicabilitate culturală. Turun yliopisto, 2018. Pp. 1-169. ISBN: 978-951-29-7035-3 (Print) ISBN: 978-951-29-7036-0 (PDF).

In the history of Cracow catechetics an important role was played by Reverend Father Marian Jakubiec. Although the Faculty of Theology of the Jagiellonian University had the right to confer a degree of PhD Habilitation already in 1880, we had to wait for the first such a promotion in the field of catechetics until 1993. Then, no longer within the walls of the oldest Polish university, but in the premises of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow (the continuator of the Faculty of Theology at the Jagiellonian University), Father Marian Jakubiec obtained the academic degree of PhD Habilitated on the basis of the dissertation entitled: “The James M. Lee’s System in the Context of Catechetical Pluralism” and became the first independent researcher in the field of catechetics in Krakow. This article is devoted to presenting and saving from oblivion the figure of this priest and scholar.

UYEDA, Seiya was born on November 28, 1929 in Tokyo, Japan. He served initially as professor of geophysics at the Tokyo University until retiring in 1990. After this actuated in the Tokai University until 2008. During this period, he was a visiting scientist or professor at US and Europe as in Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, California (UCSD), Columbia (LDGO), Pierre et Marie Curie and Texas A&M universities, and Massachusetts (MIT) and California (Caltech) Institutes of Technology. His research covered rock magnetism, marine and land terrestrial heat flow, plate tectonics, geodynamics of subduction zone/island arcs, and earthquake prediction by seismic-electromagnetic methods. He has served for international projects and organizations, such as International Geodynamics (GDP) and Ocean Drilling (IODP), International Unions of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and Geological Sciences (IUGS). He has been conferred an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Athens, and foreign membership of United States National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Russian Academy of Sciences. These his many published scientific works he ended up receiving two awards throughout his career: Alexander Agassiz Medal, in 1972 and Walter H. Bucher Medal, in 1991.

REV. KRZYSZTOF RUDZIŃSKI was born in Suchowola in 1965. After being ordained to the priesthood in Bialystok in 1990, he served within different parishes in the Archdiocese of Bialystok. In 1995, he began biblical and pastoral studies at the Faculty of Theology ATK in Warsaw. In 1999, he successfully defended his Master’s thesis under the direction of Rev. Prof. Ryszard Rumianek and obtained a Master’s Degree in Theology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical Studies. Rev. Rudzinski subsequently pursued doctoral studies at the Faculty of Theology at UKSW in Warsaw, where he is currently continuing his studies. In 2000, he was sent as a missionary to France where he serves as a priest “fidei donum” in the Diocese of Nice.

It must have been around ten years ago, when I was invited to present my -shaky then but promising- progress of PhD thesis at the University of Athens, on social and economic trends in heritage management, discussing island cultural resources and the role of the interested communities. I remember myself at the end of my talk, standing in front of a bewildered and intrigued (in equal doses) audience, only to experience the -somehow- apologetic comment of the organising professor to the audience: “I see that we need to look into these things now, that all became science”. I have talked about this memory elsewhere in detail (Lekakis 2015) mainly to pinpoint that even though 40 years of concrete bibliography have then lapsed -McGimsey, for example, produced his seminal volume in 1972- there was still a lack of information about the concept and practices of public archaeology, at least in the Greek academic context.