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ARCHÆVS. Studies in History of Religions


Issue no.VI /2002


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Romanian Assoc. for the History of Religions & Inst. for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy

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 Articles 
    
SOMMAIRE: fasc 1-2    
European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR)    
La fonction catalytique de l'exaiphnes chez Denis    
Le dialogue interreligieux dans une société pluraliste    
The Unfolding of Truth Eunomius of Cyzicus and Gregory of Nyssa in Debate over Orthodoxy (360-381)    
Translated Title: The Unfolding of Truth. Eunomius of Cyzicus and Gregory of Nyssa in Debate over Orthodoxy (360-381)
Publication: ARCHAEUS. Studies in History of Religions (VI/2002)
Author Name: Neamţu, Mihail;
Language: English
Subject: Theology / Religion
Issue: VI/2002
Page Range: 69-120
No. of Pages: 52
File size: 386 KB
Download Fee: 6 Euro (€)
Summary: This study is a new attempt of reading the rich theological debates of the fourth century, which designed in different ways the Christian Creed of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381), focusing more especially the debate between the radical Arians (epitomized by Aetius and Eunomius) and the defenders of orthodoxy (represented at best by St Basil of Caesarea and St Gregory of Nyssa). By a short presentation of the struggle for orthodoxy during the forth century, I try to place St Gregory of Nyssa’s polemics with the radical Arians into a historical context. Subsequently, I pay attention to Aetius’ legacy in Eunomius’ works and biography, and their strong breaking points with the former tradition. The argument is carried on by a short presentation of Gregory’s explicit rejection of Eunomius’ theology. Consequently, I ponder upon the differences between the conflicting methodologies assumed by Eunomius and Gregory of Nyssa, respectively. The usage of rhetoric and dialectics for theological purposes is, in each case, highly significant. In contrast, I point out the importance of Basil and Gregory’s doctrinal and spiritual commitments, which I regard in continuity with the apostolic confession of Christ as ‘Lord and God’ (John 20: 24). I suggest that the Trinitarian controversy can be ultimately traced back to the most important question for the early Christian Church: the confession of Christ’s divinity and lordship. The present study also try to show that this confession is intimately related to the hermeneutical task of reading the Scriptures, which can always (and very easily) become an object of controversy when the ‘hypothesis’ of Christ’s natural sonship is lost on the way. Without this ‘hypothesis’, the texts of the Old and the New Testament were open to endless and polemical interpretations, and the borderline between ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘heresy’ is lost.
Deux problèmes d’histoire des religions au monde antique : i. Le dieu sabazios et le judaïsme    
Joshua: A Man for All Seasons?    
A History of Religion of the Other. Eliade’s Dialogical Methodology    
Toward a Philosophical Anthropology of Religion: Reconciling a Naturalistic Approach to the Study of Religion with the Belief of the Believer    
Eranos im Spiegel der geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts    
L’épilogue de la quatrième croisade vu par Henri de Valenciennes    
Straightening Some “tangles” in the Tale of Traité    
Publications reçues par la bibliothèque du Centre d’histoire des religions,Université de Bucarest (décembre 2001 - novembre 2002)    
SOMMAIRE: fasc 3-4    
„Wissensethik“ versus „Willensethik“. Zu Walter F. Ottos Sokrates Vorlesungen    
Deux problèmes d’histoire des religions au monde antique : II. Tacite et la « persécution néronienne »    
Eliade and Goethe    
Ioan Petru Culianu, ovvero la storia delle religioni come vita e come arte    
The Unpublished Correspondence between Mircea Eliade and Stig Wikander (1948-1977)    
Addendum I: Other Letters of Mircea Eliade    
Addendum II : Other Unpublished Letters of Stig Wikander    
Messaggeri e guerrieri alati nel basso Danubio (iii-xii secoli)    
Le dixiéme régal des Kernophoroi