European Journal of Science and Theology
ISSN 1842 – 8517
European Journal of Science and Theology is an international journal that accepts for publication reviewed original papers, short communications, reviews and conference proceedings on a broad range of topics of interest for both scientists and theologians working mainly in the area of Science & Theology.
The aim of the journal is to serve the theological community with information provided and arranged to help them better understand the new scientific discoveries and studies that may be connected by their relevance to their own field or in associated fields. On the other hand, the interested scientists may find here new insights or a more profound attempt of understanding of the results of their research work. EJST also reflect ethical, environmental and societal implications of the work performed by scientists and technologists, intending to contribute actively to European and international debates on these issues.
The journal will also provide students and newcomers in the field of Science & Theology, a basic tool with which to learn its fundamental and possible applied aspects.
Another aim of EJST is to foster the exchange of ideas among the many disciplines involved in the process of the restoration and conservation of religious artifacts. The journal presents updates of scientific and applied technical research in different fields connected to the conservation and restoration but also wants to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technology between the factors interested in this activity.
With regard to the theological task, European Journal of Science and Theology will deal mainly with the Christian viewpoints, but multi-religious reflections will also be accepted for analysis.
Vol. 1 no. 1
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- INFLUENCE OF CHURCH ON CULTURAL EVOLUTION
- EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATION AND THE IDEAL OF ALTRUISM
- DOES THEOLOGY NEED A PARADIGM?
- NEVER ENDING STORY HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS SCIENCE AND BIOETHICS
- SCIENCE & RELIGION IN RUSSIAN POST-SOVIET CONTEXT
- LASER CLEANING APPLICATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS OBJECTS
- ON THE ULTRASOUND CLEANING OF SILVER ICON WORKS
Vol. 1 no. 2
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- THE UNIVERSE TRANSCENDED GOD’S ‘PRESENCE IN ABSENCE’ IN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
- MODELLING THE PERSONALITY THE TRAINER’S DILEMMA
- “ANYTHING GOES?” THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN A CULTURE MARKED
- BY POSTMODERN THINKING?
- EASTERN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY AND PRACTICES RELATED TO ECOLOGICAL ISSUES
- SAINT PAUL’S CAPTIVITY VOYAGE TO ROME AND SHIPWRECK (ACTS 27-28) NEW EVIDENCES OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE SACRED TEXT AND REALITY
- THE CASTLE OF MICLĂUŞENI A SPACE OF FAITH, ART AND SCIENCE ASPECTS OF PRESERVATION-RESTORATION OF THE INDOOR PAINTING
- BOOK REVIEW
Vol. 1 no. 3
- CONTENTS
- PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN BYZANTIUM
- MYSTICISM AND RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY WHEN THEOLOGY MEETS PHILOSOPHY IN BYZANTIUM
- MODELS OF ETHICAL ACTING THE FAIR TRADE AGRICULTURE AS AN EXAMPLE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RESPECT OF CULTURES, NATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN ROMANIA
- WOOD CHURCHES OF ROMANIA AND NORWAY-COMPARATIVE CONSIDERATIONS
- BOOK REVIEW
- FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Vol. 1 no. 4
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- QUANTUM PHYSICS, CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE†
- ‘UN-TANGIBLE WORLD’ AND MODERN PHYSICS
- TEILHARD 2005: RETROSPECTS AND PROSPECTS
- NATURE AS HYPOSTASIS
- ‘SERVICE DELIVERY’ AT SACRED SITES POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
- THE MISSION – SCIENCE OR VOCATION?
Vol. 2 no. 1
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- HEISENBERG AND THE LEVELS OF REALITY
- LIFE SCIENCES, APOPHATISM AND BIOETHICS
- ASSESING COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO RELIGION: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT
- A BEING OR TO BE?
- PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT FUTURE
- RESEARCH ON NEUROSCIENCE AND RELIGION
- AND THE NEED FOR INTERDISCIPLINARITY
- ORTHODOX ESCHATOLOGY VERSUS SECULAR AND SECTARIAN-DENOMINATIONAL ESCHATOLOGISM†
- BOOK REVIEW
Vol. 2 no. 2
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- IMAGE OF GOD FOR AN EVOLUTIONARY UNIVERSE
- THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY IN THE ORTHODOX ESTHETIC AND ICONOGRAPHY
- ICONOGRAPHIC BENCHMARKS
- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BYZANTINE LEGACY FOR THE ROMANIAN SACRED ART
- BIBLICAL ELEMENTS IN COPTIC ICON
- THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THEAKATHISTOS HYMN FROM MOLDOVIŢA
- THE ATTACK OF ANOBIIDS ON BOOKS FROM THE ECCLESIASTIC PATRIMONY
- FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF NATURAL BOOK COVER SURFACES
- NOVEL ASPECTS IN LEATHER COVERS CONSERVATION MANUSCRIPTS FROM PUTNA MONASTERY
Vol. 2 no. 3
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- THE PARTICIPATIVE-INTERFACE LOGIC IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS AND ECCLESIAL KNOWLEDGE
- ABOUT THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF FATHER SERGIUS BULGAKOV’S ICONOLOGY
- THE ICON A THEOLOGICAL AND CATECHICAL APPROACH
- ARGUMENTS FOR A COURSE ON ECCLESIASTICAL CULTURAL PATRIMONY CONSERVATION (PRESERVATION) IN THE FACULTIES OF THEOLOGY
- A ‘BOOK COVER’ MADE OF GILDED COPPER. OBSERVATIONS REGARDING ITS HISTORY, ARTISTIC AND ICONOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION,WORKING TECHNIQUE AND CONSERVATION
- THE CHURCH ‘SAINT NICHOLAS’ FROM POPAUTI RESTORATION ASPECTS OF THE MURAL DECORATION
- BOOK REVIEW
Vol. 2 no. 4
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- THE KENOSIS OF THE CREATOR, HIS CREATIVE CALL AND THE CREATED CO-CREATORS
- RELIGIOUS CRITICISM IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION: CHARLES TAYLOR
- ROTTING AWAY NATURALLY:SCIENCE, THEOLOGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEATH AND DECAY
- THE MISTERY THE LIMIT WHICH REVEAL ITSELF†
- FTIR SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VEGETABLE TANNED ANCIENT LEATHER
Vol. 3 no. 1
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- SCIENCE & THEOLOGY AND THE DIALOGUE AMONG CULTURES: TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, HANS JONAS, BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS†
- SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ÉMILE DURKHEIM
- MAPPING CULTURAL AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES METAPHORS IN MAPPING HUMAN NATURE
- ETHNICITY – THE GRAVITATIONAL CENTRE OF EVANGELIZATION AN ESSAY IN AFRICAN ECCLESIOLOGY
- BOOK REVIEW
Vol. 3 no. 2
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- THE ECOLOGICAL SELF: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ANTHROPOGENIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE†
- FAITH, BELIEF AND COMMITMENT
- IDENTITY, OTHERNESS AND THEIR POSTMODERN ETHICAL DISCOURSE†
- OLD INSCRIPTIONS ON 1ST CENTURY TOMBS AND NEW TESTAMENT RELATIONS
- THE SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STRING-COURSE IN ORTHODOX SACRED ARCHITECTURE
- BOOK REVIEW
Vol. 3 no. 3
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CONVERGENCE BETWEEN CHEMISTRY AND THEOLOGY THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE A NEW VISION†
- COSMOLOGY AND MYTHOLOGY A CASE STUDY†
- STUDY ON SOME RESIZING AND CONSOLIDATION METHODS OF OLD PAPER SUPPORT
Vol. 3 no. 4
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- TECHNOLOGY AS SALVATION? CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM AN AESTH/ETHICS OF THE SPIRIT
- THIS SACRED EARTH AT THE NEXUS OF RELIGION, ECOLOGY AND POLITICS†
- SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGIOUS RELATION TO REALITY
- ASPECTS OF MOUNT ATHOS’ CONTRIBUTION TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE TRICONCHIAL PLAN IN ROMANIAN SACRED ARCHITECTURE
Vol. 4 no. 1
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- CYBORGS AND SMART MICE HOW HUMAN CAN THEY GET?
- HOMO RELIGIOSUS FROM THE RUPESTRAL PAINTINGS TO THE WEBSITE ICONS
- GOD’S MARK ON NATURE A TRINITARIAN APPROACH †
- THE TRANSFIGURATION OF NATURE IN THE DIVINE LITURGY
- HISTORICAL AND BIBLICAL SURVEY ABOUT WATER SOURCE OF JERUSALEM
Vol. 4 no. 2
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- TOWARDS A THEOLOGICAL VIRTUE ETHIC FOR THE PRESERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
- APPROACHING THE TIPPING POINT CLIMATE RISKS, FAITH AND POLITICAL ACTION
- THE RIGHT FOR PROPERTY AND ITS LIMITS ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE
- CASA CARES PUTTING ECOTHEOLOGY INTO PRACTICE
- ENVIRONMENTAL SPIRITUALITY: GROUNDING OUR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- THE INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IMPACT ON RELIGIOUS HERITAGE IN ROMANIA
- KRISHNAMURTI’S ENVIRONMENTALIST CRITIQUE OF TRADITIONAL RELIGION
- A CRITICAL APPRAISAL FROM PERENNIALIST PERSPECTIVE
- RE-APPRECIATING AND RE-APPROPRIATING THE INTEGRITY OF CREATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
- KARL BARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, LAW AND CUSTOM
- ASCESIS AND ASSISTED MIGRATION RESPONSES TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ANIMAL SPECIES
- THE ECHO OF NATURE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE FORMATION OF THE LITTLE
- CITIZEN TRANSCENDENT GROUNDS NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF TRANSCENDENCE
Vol. 4 no. 3
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- ANCIENT ROMANIAN ART TREASURES PRESERVED AT THE SUB PIATRĂ HERMITAGE, ALBA COUNTY
- THE TRADITION AND THE NEW TENDENCIES IN THE DECORATION OF PUTNA’S CODICES COLLECTION
- THE MEANING AND THE CONTENT OF THE SACRED IMAGE FROM A PEDAGOGICAL VIEW
- EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION OF SOME MODERN TECHNIQUES OF ICON AND FRESCO RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION
- DIGITAL VERSION OF OLD DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS AND THE INDIVIDUAL VIRTUAL MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM TOOL
- ABOUT CONSERVATION AND INNOVATION IN ORTHODOX ECCLESIAL ART
- FRACTAL ANALYSIS ON CHEMICAL DEGRADATION OF NATURAL RESINS PROTECTOR FILM
- ASPECTS CONCERNING THE PRESERVATION STATE OF VAMA CHURCH IN THE BUCOVINA VILLAGE MUSEUM, SUCEAVA
Vol. 4 no. 4
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- MUSIC: AN INSTRUMENT OF DIALOGUE CHRISTIAN MEDIEVAL MUSIC AND ARAB MUSIC, OR THE NEED FOR HERESY
- BUILDING THE EARTH, REBUILDING LEBANON FROM TEILHARD DE CHARDIN AND GIORGIO LA PIRA EXPERIENCE
- THE FUTURE OF LEBANON PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON ‘HOPE’ WITH REFERENCES TO PIERRE TIELHARD DE CHARDIN AND GIORGIO LA PIRA
- ECOLOGY AND THEOLOGY IN THE ROMANIAN CONTEXT OF EU INTEGRATION
- THE DOCTRINE ON LOGOS BETWEEN HERACLITUS AND THE PATRISTIC HORIZON THE RATIONALITY OF THE WORLD FROM THE HARMONY OF CONTRARIES TO INDEFINITE VIRTUALITY
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DATING OF SOME PIECES BELONGING TO SUCEVIŢA MONASTERY†
- ICON – THE RELATION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND BEAUTY†
Vol. 5 no. 1
- CONTENTS
- ANTI-TRINTARIANISM IN NEWTON’S GENERAL SCHOLIUM TO THE PRINCIPIA
- THE MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE OF IOAN KRATOVSKI
- SURFACE AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES STUDY OF ROMANIAN COINS
- THE THEOLOGICAL OPENNES OF ECONOMY
- THE REVERSE PERSPECTIVE IN THE ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY ACCORDING TO P. FLORENSKI
- A DOGMATIC PERSPECTIVE
- THE PLACE OF CHURCH ART WITHIN THE ORTHODOX WORSHIP AND SPIRITUALITY †
- ASSESSMENT OF SILOXANE-BASED POLYMERIC MATRICES AS WATER REPELLENT COATINGS FOR STONE MONUMENTS
Vol. 5 no. 2
- CONTENTS
- MODERN SCIENCE AND SCIENTISM A PERENNIALIST APPRAISAL
- ISAAC NEWTON’S ‘OF THE CHURCH’ MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF BODMER MS. IN GENEVA
- OLD CHURCH PAINTINGS RESTORATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- THE CONSERVATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL WOOD
- BOOK REVIEW: Cosmology and New Testament Theology
Vol. 5 no. 3
- CONTENTS
- SOCIAL NORMS AND RELIGIOUS VALUES ON SECULARIZATION
- IS RELIGION GROUNDED IN EVOLUTION? A CRITICAL LOOK AT SOME MODELS
- THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ALFRED ADLER’S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY
- REVELATION AND VERBAL SYMBOLS IN THE ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY – DOGMATIC ASPECTS
- IRON GALL INKS INFLUENCE ON PAPERS’ THERMAL DEGRADATION FTIR SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS†
- POLLUTION IMPACT ON THE LIFETIME OF OLD DOCUMENTS
- BOOK REVIEW Dictionary of Orthodox Theology and Science
Vol. 5 no. 4
- CONTENTS
- HOW RELIGION MIGHT INFORM OUR CONCEPTUALISATION OF REALITY A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION
- LIGHTING AND KNOWLEDGE AT SAINT AUGUSTINE
- FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH OF MONASTERIES
- UNDERSTANDING SPIRITUALITY AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON ROMANIAN YOUTH AND NEW METHODOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS
- CARBOXYMETHYL-CHITOSAN AS CONSOLIDATION AGENT FOR OLD DOCUMENTS ON PAPER SUPPORT
- BOOK REVIEW About ourselves and about others
Vol. 6 no. 1
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- THE DISTORTION OF THE IMAGE OF GOD, THE FATHER, AND ITS RELATION TO PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- REMARKS ON THE RELEVANCE OF GREGORY OF NYSSA’S TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE FOR THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF 20th CENTURY PSYCHOANALYSIS
- MYSTICISM AND ENVIRONMENTALISMAN AN APPRAISAL OF OSHO’S ECOCENTRIC INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION
- TH E STRUCTURE OF THE MONASTERY CHURCH FROM CURTEA DE ARGES A THEOLOGHICAL INTERPRETATION
- THE EVALUATION OF SOME CONSOLIDATION AGENTS APPLIED IN THE CONSERVATION OF GRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS
Vol. 6 no. 2
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- NEW TRENDS IN MEDICINE
- THE VIEW OF CREATION THROUGH THE EYES OF VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV AND NIKOLAI LOSSKY
- REPORTING ECONOMICS TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS
- A STRANGE CASE AT ORIGIN OF MODERN METAPHYSICS (EXEMPLI GRATIA: DESCARTES)
- THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TYPE AND PROTOTYPE IN SAINT JOHN DAMASCENE’S TEACHINGS ON THE VENERATION OF ICONS
- ANCIENT POTTERY ANALYSIS USING SEM IMAGE PROCESSING
Vol. 6 no. 3
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS FOUNDED IN BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS AND CHRISTIANS ICONS
- IMPLICATIONS OF ACCOUNTING AND TAX REGULATIONS IN THE ACTIVITY OF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS
- DIVINE AND SECULAR CASE STUDY OF DIVINE INSPIRATION IN SCIENCE
- THE INCONVENIENT RELATION BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE: THE PREVALENCE OF THE HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
- ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF SOME RELEGIOUS ARTEFACTS IN SIMULATED ACID RAIN
- DATABASE FOR RESTORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OBJECTS
Vol. 6 no. 4
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL
- ROMANIAN EDITORIAL
- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IDEAL OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
- TRADITIONS AND MODERN SCIENCE. TRANSFORMATIONS OF UNDERSTANDING INSPIRATION AND INFALLIBILITY OF THE SCRIPTURE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- ON THE FALSE CRISIS OF FAITH OR ON HOW THAT THEOLOGY CANNOT END UP IN IDEOLOGY
- THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE CHURCH IN BYZANTIUM TP THE NATURAL SCIENCES BYZANTINE ASTRONOMERS AND SCIENTISTS
- THE SACRED AND THE BASIS OF CREATION BY MYTH AND SYMBOL
- HIGH FREQUENCY COLD PLASMA POSSIBILITY OF APPLICATION IN THE STATIONER CULTURAL HERITAGE FIELD