Zaprometova, Olga
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
This paper was presented at the international conference “Theology of the Holy Spirit: Personal Experience and Charismatic Movements in Contemporary Churches” held in Sibiu (2014). Although the role of the charismatic experience in the history of Christianity is a well-known fact it is still of particular interest for today due to the growth of Pen...
Ştefănică, Dragoș
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
The aim of the present article is to analyse the way in which the main Christian traditions define the charismata, or the gifts of the Holy Spirit. As we shall see, the definitions provided by the Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox or the Reformed Theologies are very broad, while in Pentecostal theology charismata have a rather technical meaning. Final...
Buda, Daniel
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
Toroczkai, Ciprian Iulian
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Bobkova, Kseniya
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The question of the place of the Holy Spirit in the Orthodox Ecclesiology is not a new one, but it still remains open. In this article special attention is devoted to the Eucharistic Ecclesiology of Nicholas Afanasiev, in which he has tried to give to the Person of the Holy Spirit an essential place, and to the ecclesiological ideas of George Floro...
Tobler, Stefan Pavel, Aurel
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Iperen, Wilbert van
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
In 1995 a movement - called the ‘Evangelisch Werkverband’ (ewv) - started its activities in the predecessors of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (pcn). Eight pastors came together to pray for this church they were part of. They were worried about members leaving the church and the omnipotence - in their view - of liberal theology. In this e...
T.N., Timothy Lim
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
This paper critiques the framing of the pneumatological underpinning of ecclesiology as an Orthodox-Catholic conversation. The context for the Joint Commission for Orthodox-Catholic dialogue warrants the use of the metaphor “two lungs of the church” by official church leaders, ecclesiologists and theologians to speak of the Spirit’s work in and bet...
Asproulis, Nikolaos
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
In this paper an attempt is made to discuss the importance of the Holy Spirit in the development of an Orthodox political theology, by bringing into critical dialogue the recent contributions of two of the most known Orthodox theologians of the young generation, namely A. Papanikolaou and P. Kalaitzidis. It is commonly recognized that the Holy Spir...
Kazmiruk, Maryna
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
The purpose of the paper is a critical analysis of the charismatic movement as an example of ecstatic groups of renewal in the Catholic Church in Belarus. During the analysis of this phenomenon in Belarus in example of charismatic communities of ecstatic orientation were uncovered phase formation and growth of charismatic groups, as well as the cha...
