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Studia Humanitatis No. II (XX) / 2025 The spread of Christianity amongst the Georgians in the 1st–3rd centuries and the organisation of the first churches during that period Rev. Prof. Dr. Aleksi Kshutashvili

The organisation of the Georgian Christian Churches during the first three centuries, founded by the Holy Apostles in Cappadocia, Pontus and Iberia, is analysed in the light of the fundamental canonical principles: hierarchy, synodality, autocephaly, autonomy, ethnicity and ecumenicity. Sources such as the History of Kartli confirm the establishment of the hierarchy by divine right and the existence of distinct Georgian ecclesiastical traditions in the pre-Nicene era.

Studia Theologica No. II (XII) / 2021 Anthropological conflicts concerning the correlation between dogma and ethos within the Church Associate Professor Stoyan Chilikov

This article analyses the relationship between dogma and ethos in the tradition of the Orthodox Church, examining how secularisation – from Paul of Samosata and the schism of Novatus right up to the modern era – gives rise to two opposing distortions of this correlation: fundamentalism and liberalism. The reader comes to understand that both extremes share a common root in secularism and represent deviations from the authentic synthesis of dogma and ethos, as illustrated by Scripture, the Holy Fathers and hymnography.