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Forum Theologicum Sardicense Academic Journal of the Theological Faculty at Sofia University "St. Clement of Ohrid" Indexing ISSN 1310-7909 Forum Theologicum Sardicense is indexed in:

Guide for Authors Forum Theologicum Sardicense accepts manuscripts in English, Bulgarian, German, French, Greek, and Romanian. The literary style and adequacy are guaranteed by the author. Manuscripts that are going to be considered for publication include: original research, reviews, project-linked texts that have not been published or submitted elsewhere. All manuscripts should include the author's full name, institutional affiliation, professional email, ORCID and Web of Science link. All articles, regardless of the language of the text, should include an abstract, key words in English. By submitting a manuscript to FThS the author agrees that: - The submitted text is original, has not been published elsewhere and does not contradict existing copyright holders; - They grant the right to FThS to publish, distribute and popularise their work. - They will not publish the submitted manuscript online without the knowledge and agreement of the editorial board of FThS; Forum Theologicum Sardicense does not require a fee for the review and consideration of articles for publication. Upon submitting your manuscript please let us know if you would like to be part of the double-blind peer review of not. All manuscripts submitted without a marked preference will be treated as opting out of the double-blind peer review. Citation Requirements Maximum number of pages for the Journal Forum Theologicum Sardicense (Formerly “Bogoslovska Misǎl”[Theological Thought]) is 55 (1.800 characters) and up to 300 for the Yearbook of the Faculty of Theology, includingtables and illustrative materials. The papers should be written in MS Word (docx) format – latest version. Punctuation marks should be written immediately after the word without space, no more than one space is allowed between words and punctuation marks. Inserting footnotes should be done only with the standard Insert Footnote, while the footnote number in the main text should be placed before the punctuation mark. The text should not be loaded with additional characters and formats. Quotation marks should be written according to the Bulgarian State standard („.......“). It is obligatory to distinguish thehyphen (-), which is used only in grading and in double names or titles, e.g., greater, from the middle hyphen (–) (in all other cases, e.g., XX - XXI c. or [p], 10–14. As the hyphen is spaced before and after. The text should be typed on a standard sheet, A4 format, with 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman/ MinionPro fontsize 12 pt and alignment Justified; with 2.5 cm margins at the top, bottom, left and right and 1.25 cm indent of first line ofa new paragraph. Footnotes should be 10 pt font size, with common numbering and placed at the bottom of the page. Papers proposed for publication should use the Greek keyboard of Microsoft, which is included in every Microsoft package, along with the Old English fonts cyrillica Ochrid 10U and Cyrillica Bulgarian 10U. The title should be written in capital letters, centered, font style Bold with size 18 pt. The name of the author(s) shall appear also in capital letters, centered, font style Bold and with size of 14 pt, on a blank line above the title. In a footnote is indicated the academic position and institution in upper and lower letters. The title in English should be written on one black line followed by the authors(s)’ name(s) in Latin, in the same style. 5. At the beginning is placed an abstract in English, French or German in one paragraph that should consist 50-100 words in 11 pt fon size. Following the abstract and after one blank line, the key words (5-10) are written in English, French or German in thesame font size and and style as the abstract. Following one blank space the main text of the paper or scholar report is written in font size 12 pt and Justified alignment. The text can contain footnotes, have an internal structure according to the standard requirements for scientific publications, but without hyperlinks to web pages. Indents of a new line should not be made with a tab but with formatting. References used should be cited in the original language of the publication. Download Full Guide Submit a manuscript Or send directly to FThS@theo.uni-sofia.bg

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2018 / Issue 1 Front and Back Matter The New Testament Canon and the 39th Paschal Epistle of St. Athanasius of Alexandria Emil Traychev St. Athanasius of Alexandria in Exile (335-346) Aleksandar Omarchevski St. Athanasius' Faith against Arianism between Nicaea and Serdica Elena Nikolova The Great Constantine and Athanasius. A Meeting between Two Different Worlds Pavel Pavlov Apologetic Views in the Early Works of St. Athanasius the Great Dimo Penkov St. Athanasius of Alexandria's Teaching on the Holy Spirit Georgi Chochev The Consecration of the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre in the Context of the Council of Tire (335) Ekaterina Damianova Proverbs- 8-22-25 in the Context of the Antiarian Polemics of St. Athanasius' Second Oration against the Arians Rossen Roussev St. Athanasius' Orations against the Arians in the 1st Bulgarian Kingdom Svetoslav Ribolov Greek Researches on St. Athanasius the Great in the 20th Century Yoannis Kamminis Studies on St Athanasius of Alexandria in Bulgaria 20th and early 21st Century Angel Petkov

2015 / Issue 2 Front and Back Matter FATHER ARSENIE PAPACIOC AND THE PROPER ARRANGEMENT OF SPIRITUAL LIFE. Glimpses of His Experiences in the Communist Prisons Ion Marian Croitoru Is the Anthropic Principle Possible as a Theological Argument? Cvetin Cekov St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Virginity Georgi Chochev PĂRINTELE PROFESOR MARIN C. IONESCU – ORATOR TALENTAT ȘI MISIONAR CONȘTIINCIOS Pr. Nicuşor Beldiman Theology of Creation in the Bulgarian Theological Thought of the 20th Century Svetoslav Ribolov CANONICAL INSTITUTION OF AUTOCEPHALY AND DIASPORA THE RECENT CONFLICT BETWEEN THE JERUSALEM PATRIARCHATE AND THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE Iulian Mihai L. Constantinescu ΣΥΝΤΟΜΗ ΑΝΑΣΚΟΠΗΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΙΑΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΗΜΙΣY ΤΟΥ 13ΟΥ ΑΙΩΝΑ Petăr P. Simeonov ABORTION – MORAL, ETHICAL AND CANONICAL ISSUES Petcu Cristian Vasile DIE ORTHODOXIE IM DIALOG MIT DEM ISLAM (1986- 2012) – EIN VERGLEICHENDER ÜBERBLICK ZU THEMEN, METHODEN UND ERGEBNISSEN Dietmar Schon

2019 / Issue 1 Front and Back Matter Τρισάγιον – Trisvyatoe in the Byzantine and Old Bulgarian Liturgical Practice. Characteristics, Features and Use in the Liturgical Tradition of the Church Ivan Ivanov Theological Legacy of a Church Historian-Prof. Hristo Stoyanov Pavel Pavlov Distance Education in Religion and Catechesis during an Year of Pandemy Polina Spirova Novatian, Presbyter of Rome and Anti-Pope (251 – 258) Fr. Stephan Staykov Nichifor Krainic - Christian Nationalism Theodor Avramov Peculiarities of Holy Week According to the Typicon of the Orthodox Church and the Place of Orthros in the Liturgical Service and Tradition of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Based on Ancient Testimonies from the History of Worship Delyan Todev Strategies of Christian Apologetics according to Origen and the Basic Principles of the Modern Apologetics Atanas Vatashki Creativity and Neo-Patristic Synthesis in Fr. Georges Florovsky's Thought System (Princeton Insights) Rousssina Torosyan

2020 / Issue 2 Front and Back Matter St. Theodore Studites (759-826) and His Apologetical Approach in the Antirretics (Defense of the Icons) Dimo Penkov The Icon of Christ and Aspect and theoretical aspects on the Icons during the Period of Iconoclasm Lyubomira Stefanova Philosophical and Theological Arguments on the Holy Icons in the Work- Nicephorus and Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople and the Great Theodore the Studites against the Iconoclasts Ivan Christiov The Heresy 101 of St. John of Damascus- Doctrinal Differences between Christianity and Islam in Comparative Perspective Klara Toneva Haeresis 101 in the Liber de haeresibus of St. John of Damascus, and the Quranic Arguments against the Icons Zdravko Kanev St. John Damascene and His Contribution to the Medieval Controversy over the “Right Religion” Dietmar Schon A Spelling problem Chavdar Spasov The role of the teacher concerning the Holy Scripture lesson in the courses of Bulgarian language and literature (High School level) Chavdar Spasov The History of Christianity and its Role among the People Engaged with the the Romanian School in Rome (1922-1948) Protos. dr. Iuliu-Marious Morariu

2017 / Issue 1 Front and Back Matter Reflections on Religious Dialogue in Today’s Europe David Pestroiu Miraculous Submotives in the Martyrium of St Perperua and Felicitas Angel Petkov Evagrius of Pontus' Christology Ioannis Kamminis Apostolicity of the Church Aleksandar Aleksandrov Prison Letters of St. Ap. Paul – Theories about the Place of Writing Georgi Boev Being Risen or Being Raised Rossen Rousev Invisible War in the Works of St Nikodemus Hagioreite (The Struggle for Spiritual Perfection according to the Manual for Spiritual Advises) Archim. Emilianos Kazantzidis Affirmation of Love to Our Fellow Human (Pastoral Care for AIDS Patients) Ivo Yanev Our Relationship with Authority-Political, Religious and Ecclesiastical Dilyan Nikolchev

2013 / Issue 2 Front and Back Matter State and Church Relations under Communism, National Socialism and Fascism: Some Aspects of the Problem Plamen S. Tzvetkov Odessa Ecclesiastical Counter-Revolutionary Organization of 1931: Martyrs and Confessors Archimandrite Euphrosyne (Bilash) Dynamics of the Communist Repressions against the Church after the Coup of September 9th, 1944 Ventsislav Karavalchev Soviet Paralels in the Politics of Bulgarian State against the Church in the First Years of the Communist Dictature Ventsislav Karavalchev Vatican Radio: From “The Sofia Case of Murder” to the Goоd News Anna-Maria Krasteva Beginning of the State Security Operations against Exarch Stefan during the 40s of the 20th Century Dilyan Nikoltshev The Construction of the Sofia Largo in the 50s of the 20th Century and the Aborted Plans to Destroy the St Nedelia Church and the Banya Bashi Mosque Zhivko Lefterov Second Rome through the Εyes of the Τhird One. The Εvolution of the Ιmage of Byzantium in the Russian Social Consciousness Sergey Ivanov Russian-Soviet Religious Myth Production Oleg-Sandro Pamfilov Simplification of the Communist Past as the Source of the “Political Religion” Momchil Metоdiev Christianity and National Security Viktor Kostov In the Age of the Post-Ecclesiality (The Emergence of Post-Ecclesiological Modernity). Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas REVIEW: Fr. Radko Poptodorov, Diliyan Nikolchev: Exarch Stephan under the “care” of the Communist Security Services, Sofia: Military Publishing House 2016, 463 pp.