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            <title><![CDATA[Book Reviews: Pekka Lindqvist and Lotta Valve (eds.), Herald of Good Tidings. Essays on the Bible, Prophecy, and the Hope of Israel in Honour of Antti Laato, Hebrew Bible Monographs 97, Sheffield Phoenix Press 2021, XXIII+413 p., ISBN: 978-1-914490-01-9.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book Reviews: Răzvan Perșa, Părintele Dumitru Stăniloae “i traducerea Filocaliei grece”ti. Surse, colaboratori “i receptare, [Father Dumitru Stăniloae and the Translation of the Greek Philokalia. Sources, Cooperators and Reception], Cluj-Napoca: Editura Renașterea 2024, 388 pp., ISBN: ISBN 978-606-607-457-5.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[In Memoriam Bernhard Waldenfels (1934–2026)]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Recognition of Religious Conversion in Asylum Procedure]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Political turmoil, war, and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa have challenged the system of international protection in Europe in both the quantity and diversity of asylum claims. An increasingly common ground for asylum is religious conversion and disa”liation. In such cases national immigration authorities conduct a credibility assessment which may include questionnaires on doctrine, testimonies from a religious community, and/or questions about personal experience and the meaning of conversion. This article analyses the Finnish Immigration Service’s asylum decisions in which religious conversion has been the basis of the asylum claim, and it discusses the frameworks for assessing authenticity and how they function in international protection decision making.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saint Priest Confessor Dumitru Stăniloae in Telegraful Român: Resolving the Authorship Issue and Mapping the Intellectual Influences]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Through a systematic reading of all 421 articles that Dumitru Stăniloae authored in the diocesan weekly Telegraful Român (1930-1945), the o#cial publication of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Metropolis of Transylvania, this paper aims to address the authorship issue and to trace Stăniloae’s intellectual influences. The authorship issue arises because not all the articles in Telegraful român when Stăniloae was the publication’s editor-in-chief are bylined. Lacking other sources such as diaries or correspondence, the intellectual influences on Stăniloae are documented in how he reviewed and quoted books, used various periodicals, and eulogized some of the prominent intellectuals of the time. An examination of the state of research shows that of the some 1,794 references to Stăniloae’s life and work in Romanian and foreign languages, only a handful of studies deal with the articles published in Telegraful român, despite the importance of his early journalism for his political, social, and later theological conception. The paper aims to make a preliminary contribution to the still unwritten history of Stăniloae’s ideas and to offer a new perspective on the more recent questions concerning the most prominent Romanian theologian’s engagement with the far right.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book Reviews: Athenagoras Y. Peckstadt, The Orthodox Parish of Saint Catherine in Amsterdam: Why Greek merchants in eighteenth-century Amsterdam strove to have their own church, and how they related to their Dutch environment. Athens: Apostoliki Diakonia, 2026, 541 pp.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Editorial RES i/2026: Miscellanea]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Editorial RES 2/2026: Multi-Confessional Aspects of Eastern European Printing in the Pre-Modern Era: Actors, Texts, and Iconography]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Book Reviews: Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer (ed.), The Concept of Evil in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 16, Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2025, 175 p., ISBN: 978-3111586229]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mihail Ștefan (Mikhail Stepanishvili) and the Emergence of Georgian Printing: New Archival Evidence]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The emergence of the Georgian printing press in the early 18th century is closely linked to the activities of Mihail Ştefan, also known as Mihail I5tvanovici or Stepanishvili/Stepanov, a typographer of Greek-Wallachian origin who worked in Tbilisi for the Georgian King Vakhtang VI between 1709 and 1711. Drawing on newly identified archival materials from Moscow, this essay reassesses the role of artisans and their networks in the development of print culture within the Orthodox Christian East. The connections linking Wallachia, Tbilisi, Moscow, and Western European centres such as Amsterdam highlight the circulation of technical expertise and typographic materials across a broad transregional space. Archival evidence from Moscow dated to 1712 and 1714 sheds new light on the final years of Mihail Ştefan’s life, as well as on his involvement in the interconnected printing enterprises in Wallachia, Georgia, and Moscow.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[„… den mit so gutem Erfolge betretenen Weg nicht zu verlassen“ Zur Rolle der Patrone beim Erhalt bzw. Verschwindenlassen der sorbischen Kirchensprache in der preußischen Lausitz zur Zeit des Wilhelminischen Kaiserreichs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article examines the role of church patrons in the process of Germanizing the Sorbian evangelical church communities in Prussian Lusatia during the time of Wilhelmine Empire (1871–1918). Sorbian historiography as it has been developped during the GDR era claimed that Germanization occurred primarily “in the interest of the Junkers” (i.e. aristocratic landowners). However, a closer look at the sources reveals that in reality, several patrons (Junkers) championed the Sorbian language, probably motivated by their conservative core values.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reconsidering the Birthplace of the Oldest Romanian Translation of the Psalter: Moldavia or Mount Athos?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Hurmuzaki Psalter occupies a central position among the earliest extant Romanian translations of the Psalter (15th-16th centuries) due to its archaic character and its role in shaping later versions. Yet, the origin of the earliest Romanian translation and the dating of the manuscript remain disputed. Recent studies place both of these in the 15th century, either in Moldavia or within the Athonite milieu, in connection with Moldavian or Aromanian monks. This study critically reassesses these hypotheses by correlating historical, codicological and philological evidence to reconsider the context of production and transmission. It concludes that none of the proposed theories is fully convincing and that the question of origin and dating remains open.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palamas in Slavic Orthodoxy: Doctrinal Continuity and Reception as a Hermeneutical Key for East-West Dialogue]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article examines the reception of Gregory Palamas in Slavic Orthodoxy as a hermeneutical key for East–West Christian dialogue. It argues that Palamite theology was preserved not only through formal dogmatic codification but through liturgy, monastic practice, ascetical literature, and later theological synthesis. The Slavic reception of the essence–energies distinction shows how doctrinal continuity may remain stable across cultural and linguistic plurality. The study reassesses Western misreadings of Palamas and proposes reception history as a theological category for contemporary ecumenical reflection.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Involvement of Chrysanthos Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem, in Arabic Printing in the Early 18th Century]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The article highlights the efforts of the renowned scholar Chrysanthos Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem, to articulate an Orthodox perspective through the printing of books in Arabic, as a response to the activities of missionaries sent by Rome to the Levant. Of particular significance are the discoveries regarding unknown or neglected editions published for this purpose with Notaras’s support in England in the early 18th century.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Contributions to the Graphics of Early Romanian Books Printed in Buda (1796–1827)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article examines six previously unstudied engravings and lithographs identified in four publications printed at the University Press of Buda between 1796 and 1827. Existing research on the graphic art of early Romanian books printed at Buda is expanded, demonstrating that the visual repertoire of this important printing centre was richer and more diverse than previously assumed. The corpus consists of an allegorical engraving from “Θησαυρὸς Γραμματικῆς” (The Treasure of Grammar), 1796, a portrait of the Banat scholar Ioan Tomici in “Cultura albinelor” (Beekeeping), 1823, and four illustrations included in the Serbian-language “Банатскій алманахъ” (Almanac of Banat), 1826–1827. Through iconographic and bibliographical analysis, the article identifies new connections between Romanian, Greek, Serbian, and Central European cultural environments. It also re-examines the place of publication of the first two issues of the Almanac of Banat, arguing that they were printed at Buda rather than Timi#oara. Special attention is paid to the role of images as vehicles of cultural, educational, historical, and identity-building messages and underscores the multicultural character of publishing activity at Buda during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Transfer of the Art of Printing from the Romanian Principalities to the Arabic-Speaking Christians in the Early 18th Century]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The beginnings of printing in Arabic, with Arabic type, in the Middle East was the focus of the TYPARABIC project, funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council since 2021. The international team hosted by the Romanian Academy in Bucharest and led by Ioana Feodorov, as Principal Investigator, has been studying the first Arabic books printed beyond the borders of Western and Central Europe, in Wallachia (1701–1702), the transfer of the printing technology and implements from Bucharest to a new printing press that worked in Aleppo by care of Athanasios Dabbās (1706–1711), and the printing works of Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Greater Syria. This contribution traces the progress of the TYPARABIC project, with a special focus on its unexpected outcomes and the benefits – and beneficiaries – of the team’s research work during this ERC-funded project, completed on June 30, 2026.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Implications of a Commentary: A Note on Questions Raised by the Roman Catholic Commentaries on the International Roman Catholic – Old Catholic Dialogue]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This contribution engages with the Roman Catholic commentary on the international Roman Catholic – Old Catholic dialogue as it was conducted during the first decades of the 21st century and seeks to contribute to its further reception. In doing so, it analyzes and discusses parts of the bipartite Roman Catholic commentary, in particular highlighting those issues that can be seen as also touching on other dialogues, in which the Roman Catholic Church is concerned and formulates questions regarding them. Issues addressed range from the ordination of women to the question as to which church has the appropriate authority to determine the faith.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Eastern Europe to the Christian Near East: The Transfer of Iconographic Elements in Printed Books, 16th to 18th Centuries]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This paper examines the iconographic and decorative features of early modern books printed for Arabic-speaking Christian communities, drawing on research conducted within the TYPARABIC project. It highlights Romania’s central role in shaping the visual language of Arabic printing and situates this activity within wider European artistic networks. The study shows how engravers combined Western and Eastern models, creatively adapting rather than directly copying their sources. Particular attention is given to recurring motifs, such as title-page ornaments, heraldic imagery, illustrations, headpieces and tailpieces, which reveal complex patterns of transmission across regions and confessions. The material demonstrates the mobility of visual models between Europe and the Arab Christian East and underscores the need for further iconographic research on this interconnected artistic landscape.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eighteenth-Century Melkite Psalters: Literacy, Catechesis, and Prayer]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article examines four eighteenth-century Melkite Psalters printed at Aleppo (1706), Shuwayr (1735), Bucharest (1747) and Beirut (1752). It analyses their printing context, structure, content and para-texts. In the Melkite tradition, the Psalter served both liturgical and educational purposes, functioning as the primary manual for teaching children to read. The 1724 schism in the Antiochian Church, which divided it into Catholic and Orthodox branches, shaped two distinct editorial paths. Greek-Catholic editions at Shuwayr incorporated post-Tridentine catechetical appendices influenced by Bellarmine’s model, while Orthodox versions maintained ties with the Romanian Principalities. The study reveals how Latin theological categories such as the sevenfold enumeration of sacraments and Augustinian formulation of original sin penetrated Orthodox catechetical literature, illustrating the phenomenon of theological “pseudomorphosis,” later criticised by the twentieth-century patristic renewal.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sylvie Avakian, ‘Being Towards Death.’ Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East, Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann, 191, Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2021, 340 p., ISBN: 978-3-11-070533-1]]></title>
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