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Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev by Sharipova, Liudmyla

“…It explores the ways in which the non-communal way of life in Eastern Orthodox convents impacted both upon the praxis of monastic existence within the convent walls, and the relations with the secular world without. …”
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‘… a highly practical thing for working and fighting…’ : the ecclesiology of G. K. Chesterton by De Santis, Anthony Nicholas

“…In terms of the constructive aspect, this thesis takes inspiration from Chesterton’s irenicism and therefore incorporates, for example, ecclesiological insights and elements from various ecclesial traditions, most notably, Anglican, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox.…”
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‘Saving Dionysius’: Aquinas’ Exemplary Reception of the Dionysian corpus -a Metacritique. by Darley, Alan Philip

“…The radically agnostic stream traceable to Plotinus runs through John Scotus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas de Cusa through to Hegel and his followers, whilst the orthodox stream flows through Augustinians like Hugh of St Victor, Denys the Carthusian, Robert Grosseteste and Aquinas. The Eastern orthodox reception also falls within the orthodox stream, except that this also retains some of Dionysius’ own ambiguity in its essence/energies distinction which (as far as the truth of things themselves is concerned), Aquinas helps clarify. …”
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