Perichoresis

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Perichoresis is the theological journal of Emanuel University, the only government-accredited Baptist university in Europe. As an institution of higher learning, Emanuel University promotes a traditionally conservative and trinitarian theology, protestant and evangelical, which is reflected in the articles of the contributors who are part of its academic staff. Arti ...

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Editor-in-chief

Corin Mihaila, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

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Issue 2 (June 2026)

Issue 1 (March 2026)

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Issue 4 (December 2025)

Issue 3 (September 2025)

Issue 2 (June 2025)

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Issue 4 (December 2023)

Issue 3 (July 2023)

Issue 2 (June 2023)

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Issue 5 (December 2022) - Doctoral Supplement. Postgraduate Research in Contemporary Evangelical Higher Education: Academic Perspectives on Variegated Theological and Historical Topics. Issue Editor: Marcel V. Măcelaru

Issue 4 (December 2022) - Miscellaneous Theological Investigations. From Economy, Literature, and Hermeneutics to Christology, Exegesis, and Typology. Issue Editor: Corneliu C. Simuț

Issue 3 (July 2022) - A Multi-Angle Examination of C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces. Theological, Philosophical, Ethical, and Literary Insights from one of Lewis's Greatest Novels. Issue Editor: Zachary Breitenbach

Issue 2 (June 2022) - Reform according to Right Law: the Use of Legal Tradition in Reformation Theology. Issue Editor: André A. Gazal

Issue 1 (March 2022) - Confessing the Trinity. The Trinitarianism of Particular Baptists, 1640s-1840s. Issue Editor: Michael A. G. Haykin

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Issue 4 (December 2021) - Miscellaneous Theological Studies: Biblical, Apologetic, Historical, Patristic, Theodicean, and Systematic. Issue Editor: Corneliu C. Simuţ

Issue 3 (July 2021) - Islam and Islamism. The Challenge for Modern Liberal Democracies. Issue Editors: Raphael Lataster, Rumy Hasan

Issue 2 (June 2021) - Fundamental Aspects of Christological Anthropology: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives in Contemporary Debates. Editor: Christopher G. Woznicki

Issue 1 (March 2021) - Revivalism in Central European Protestantism, 1840-1940: Hungarian Calvinists, British Evangelicals & German-Austrian Pietists during the Spiritual Renewal of Protestant Churches in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Editor: Ábraham Kovács

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Issue 6 (December 2020) - The Catholic Reformation. Ecclesiology, Justification, Freedom, Sin, Grace & the Council of Trent. Editor: Eduardo J. Echeverria

Issue 5 (October 2020) - Roman Catholic, Reformed Catholic and Evangelical Protestant. Reformation Issues Five Hundred Years Later. Editor: Issue editor: Joshua R. Farris

Issue 4 (August 2020) - Issue 4 (Aug 2020): From Paris to Tortosa, via Barcelona (1240-1413), Characters, Issues and Problems in Medieval Jewish-Christian Disputations. Editor: Francesco Bianchi

Issue 3 (July 2020) - In the Footsteps of the Divine Artist. On the Religious and Spiritual Dimension in Art. Editors: Wessel Stoker and Frank G. Bosman

Issue 2 (June 2020) - De Corpore – ‘On the Body’ through the History of Idea, Views of the Body in Philosophy, Literature and Religion. Editor: Ramona Simuț

Issue 1 (March 2020) - Baptist and Reformed Theologies of Vision and Deification (2). Constructive Issues in Contemporary Research. Editors: Joshua R. Farris and Ryan A. Brandt

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Issue 4 (December 2019) - Patristic Thought in Byzantine and Protestant Theology. From Gregory Palamas and George Pachymeres to Luther, Calvin, Anglicans, and Anabaptists. Editor: Andre A. Gazal

Issue s2 (July 2019) - Single Author Supplement 2: The Background and Nature of the Dissensions in 1 Corinthians 1-4. Apollos' Role and Paul's Response. Author: Corin Mihăilă

Issue 3 (July 2019) - Contemporary Evangelicals on Carl F. H. Henry’s Theology. From Philosophy, Evangelism, and Apologetics to Education, History, and Practice. Editor: Robert W. Talley

Issue 2 (June 2019) - Baptist and Reformed Theologies of Vision and Deification. Editors: Joshua R. Farris and Ryan A. Brandt

Issue 1 (March 2019) - The Father, Son, and Spirit in Early Christian Theology, Second Century Examples. Editor: Paul A. Hartog

Issue s1 (January 2019) - Single Author Supplement 1: Theological Patterns in Reformation Thought. English, American, and Scottish Protestants on Christ, Revival, and the Covenant. Author: Dinu Moga

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Issue 4 (December 2018) - Tome huitième: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1518-2018. Contemporary Perspectives on History and Theology in British Baptist Thought. Scottish and English Baptists on Salvation, Politics, and the End of Times. Issue editor: Alasdair Black

Issue 3 (July 2018) - Tome septieme: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1518-2018. Teaching Leaders, Leading Teachers. Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Education and Leadership: Jeffrey M. Horner Issue editor: Jeffrey M. Horner

Issue 2 (June 2018) - Tome sixième: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1518-2018. Contemporary Perspectives on Molinism. Theories, Responses to Objections, and Applications, Issue editor: Kirk R. MacGregor

Issue 1 (April 2018) - Tome cinquième: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1518-2018. Insights into Contemporary Baptist Thought. Perspectives on European Baptist Theology and History, Issue editor: Toivo Pilli

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Issue 4 (December 2017) - Special Issue: Tome quatrieme: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1517-2017. Investigating the Magisterial Reformation and Its Radical Contenders. Contemporary Evangelicals on Reformation Research: from Lutheranism and Zwinglianism to Anabaptism and Baptism, Issue Editor: Marvin Jones

Issue 3 (October 2017) - Special Issue: Tome troisième: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1517-2017. Theologizing about Spirituality, Pedagogy, and Soteriology. Miscellanea Antiqua, Medievalia, Reformatorica & Moderna by Corneliu Simuț

Issue 2 (July 2017) - Special Issue: : Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1517-2017. ‘On the Soul’ through the History of Ideas. Views of the Soul in Philosophy, Literature & Relivion by Ramona Simuț

Issue 1 (May 2017) - Issue title: Tome premier: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation: 1517-2017. Anthologizing History, the Bible, and Theology. Miscellanea Celtica, Humanistica & Reformatorica by Thomas O’Loughlin and Corneliu C. Simuț

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Issue 3 (December 2016) - Avant-Premiere: Celebrating 500 Years since the Reformation, 1517-2017. Contemporary Perspectives on Reformed Orthodoxy. Reformed Confessions, Scholastic Thought, and Puritan Divinity in Post-Reformation Protestantism, Issue Editors: Gijsbert van den Brink, Aza Goudriaan

Issue 2 (October 2016) - Transformative Poetry and Its Role in Catholic Theology. Dutch Contributions to Contemporary Catholic Research. Issue Editors: Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, Marcel Sarot. Translator: Brian Heffernan

Issue 1 (June 2016) - African Hermeneutics in the Twenty-First Century. Social History and Indigenous Theologies in Contemporary African Research. Issue Editor: Zorodzai Dube

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Issue 2 (October 2015) - Issue title: The Long History of Lutheranism in Scandinavia. Contemporary Voices in Finnish Historical Research. Issue Editor: Pirjo Markkola

Issue 1 (June 2015) - Issue Title: The Value of Controversy. Defining Early Modern Religion through Ritual and Writing. Issue Editor: Angela Ranson

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Issue 2 (October 2014) - Special issue title: Exploring the Contours of Patristic Thought. Studies on Exegesis, Christology, and Soteriology in the Early Church

Issue 1 (June 2014) - Established and Emerging Voices in Richard Hooker Research, Issue Editor: Paul A. Dominiak

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Issue 2 (December 2013)

Issue 1 (June 2013)

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Issue 2 (June 2012)

Issue 1 (January 2012)

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Open Access

|Jun 2026

A Study on the Instruction of Discourse Cohesive Devices in CSL Writing Textbooks

Xiaomeng Tian and Xiaobing Zhou

Open Access

|Jun 2026

A Study on the Errors of Near-Referring and Far-Referring Demonstrative Reference Words Made by Chinese Learners with English as Their First Language

Chengxin-Zhao

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Episcopal Authority, Hierarchy, and Monasticism in Early Syriac Sources as a Context for Denys the Areopagite’s Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

Miklós Vassányi

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Standing by the Nicene Creed. The Confession of Debrecen New Orthodoxy Movement (1875). Its Emergence, Theological Views and the Encounter with Liberal Theology in Hungary

Abraham Kovacs

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Cursing Properly: The Terminological Conundrum of the Nicene Anathema in Light of the ‘Arian Trick’

István Pásztori-Kupán

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Case Studies of Ambiguous Passages in the Chinese Union Version Bible and the King James Version Bible from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Li-Jin Wang

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Editor-in-Chief
Corin Mihaila, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Deputy/Managing Editor
Dinu Moga, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

International Advisory Board
Torrance Kirby, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Frank A. James III, Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Hamilton Moore, Irish Baptist College, Lisburn, United Kingdom

Michael A.G. Azad Haykin, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, United States of America
André A. Gazal, North Greenville University, Greenville, NC, United States of America
Ábráhám Kovács, Debrecen Reformed Theological University, Debrecen, Hungary
Joshua R. Farris, London School of Theology, London, United Kingdom

Editors
Systematic Theology
Paul Negruţ, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Patristics and Classical Languages
Marius D. Cruceru, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Applied Theology
Adrian Giorgiov, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Old and New Testament Studies
Aurelian Botica, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Historical Theology
Dinu Moga, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Technical Editor
Dinu Moga, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Language Editor
Eunicia Ile, Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania

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Editor-in-Chief
Corin Mihaila
perichoresis@emanuel.ro

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eISSN: 2284-7308|ISSN: 1224-984X|Language: English|Publication frequency: 4 times per year

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Perichoresis

The Theological Journal of Emanuel University

About the journal

Editor-in-chief

All volumes and issues in this journal

Volume 24 (2026)

Volume 23 (2025)

Volume 22 (2024)

Volume 21 (2023)

Volume 20 (2022)

Volume 19 (2021)

Volume 18 (2020)

Volume 17 (2019)

Volume 16 (2018)

Volume 15 (2017)

Volume 14 (2016)

Volume 13 (2015)

Volume 12 (2014)

Volume 11 (2013)

Volume 10 (2012)

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