16 articles in this issue
Maxim Pylaev
The article analyses the concept of the Word of God in theocentric theology of Karl Barth, as well as a number of aspects of his early theology in terms of their philosophical foundations. The author compares the block of philosophical-theological themes:... see more
Elena Stepanova
Gradually, critical studies of the New Testament went beyond the limits of academic research, and became the subject of artistic reflection in numerous works of fiction and documentary literature, music, art, and cinema. The objec... see more
Mykhailo Cherenkov
The article is devoted to the conceptualization of Reformation and secularism in their correlation. The emphasis is made not as much on the historical or theological reading of the post-reform history of the secular world, but more so on the metahistorica... see more
Tatiana Nikolskai?a
A certain disagreement with the official church leadership was detected in the 1920-ies among both Evangelical Christians and Seventh-Day Adventists, first of all on the so-called “military question”. Adventists – the followers of... see more
Nazarii Petriv
The article examines the history of the Evangelical and Baptist movements in Western Ukraine (Galicia and Volyn’) in early 1920s. First of all, the author pays attention to social and cultural preconditions of the origin and ... see more
Viktor Zander
Slavic Baptists, who immigrated and are still immigrating to Australia, are descendants of the Radical Reformers, along with other Baptists around the world. They find themselves in a kind of ethnic-religious counterdirected relationship. Slavic Baptists ... see more
Mikhailo MOKIYENKO
Book review: Alister McGrath. Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution – A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First. - 656 ?. ISBN 978-966-378-548-6The 500th anniversary of the Reformation gave rise to a surge in publications... see more
Roman SOLOVIY
Book review: Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval. Heinz Schilling, trans. from German (Series “Church History”). Moscow: Izdatel’stvo BBI, 2017. xvi + 710 pp.; ISBN 978-5-89647-358-9Research of Heinz Schilling, Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Uph... see more
Andrei DUDCHENKO
Book review: Russkii baptism i pravoslavie (Seriia “Dialog”) [Russian Baptism and Orthodoxy (Series “Dialogue”]. By Constantine Prokhorov. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo BBI. 2017. Pp. 450. ISBN 978-5-89647-362-6
Sergiy Sann?kov
The article examines the need for Sola Scriptura at the first stage of the reformation movement as the main tool for solving epistemological problems in order to find a reliable source of knowledge of God, bypassing the mediating ... see more
Viktoriya Lyubashchenko
The article analyses the content of the chronicle of known Protestant leader of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Andrzej Wengierski “The Slavic Reformation”, which was published in Amsterdam in 1679. The author of the article be... see more
Anton Tikhomirov
After a short introduction on Philipp Nicolai’s (1556-1608) biography and his sharp polemic theology, two of his famous hymns, “the king and queen of Lutheran hymns” written during an epidemic of the plague in Unna, are analysed. ... see more
Evert Wilhelm Van de Poll
The idea of human rights is widely accepted as a foundation of legislation and political action. It is the cornerstone of liberal democracies, the ideal held out against oppression and injustice all over the world. At the same tim... see more
Oksana Kuropatkina
This article is dedicated to Pietism, a 17th century German Lutheran movement that called Christians to deep their life, prayer, and piety. In the 18th century, Pietism got from Germany to Scandinavian states and promoted schools,... see more
Varvara Samokhvalova
The paper aims to demonstrate dependence of specific content of epistemological constructions of Enlightenment philosophy from the degree of “reformation” impulse towards individualization of all life forms. Comparative analysis of epistemological concept... see more