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Early Christian Texts
Independent translations of early Christian texts with historical research, the Greek original, audio editions, and transparent explanations of editorial decisions.
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Stromata e.V. is currently developing several areas of work in which interviews, articles, documentary materials and project structures are taking shape. These projects show how the idea of the association gradually becomes open educational and cultural work.

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Independent translations of early Christian texts with historical research, the Greek original, audio editions, and transparent explanations of editorial decisions.

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A research-oriented project on modern evolutionary theory, the Christian understanding of the human person and the dialogue between science, philosophy and theology.

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A research and media project on Mount Athos as a space of prayer, memory, history, living tradition and inner journey. The first texts and video materials have already been published; the project will continue to develop.
Stromata articles on early Christianity, faith, history and humanity — for thoughtful reading and independent exploration.

Welcome a stranger as the Lord — then ask how long the visit will last. The Didache places these demands side by side, trying to preserve hospitality without leaving it open to exploitation.

In this early Christian teaching text, the prayer takes up a single paragraph. Reading it closely reveals two different things: features of the Greek text and choices made by its translators.

Before us is a parchment codex from 1056, commonly called H54. Among various works, it preserves the only continuous complete Greek text of the Didache that has reached us in its received sixteen-chapter form. Yet the Didache belongs to the.

The word “apocryphon” may be applied to a book that one Christian tradition excludes from the Old Testament while another treats it as part of Scripture. The same word is used for the Gospel of Thomas, a collection of sayings preserved in.

“Give us this day our daily bread …” The line is recognised before each of its words is considered. To an English ear, “daily bread” sounds so natural and solemn that the Greek text may seem simply to have waited for this equivalent..

An introductory material on marriage in the Christian tradition: biblical foundations, the meaning of church wedding, responsibility, love and spiritual maturity.

A major Stromata study of the Holy Mountain: from Ouranoupoli and Karyes to the Great Lavra, Kerasia, and the Skete of Saint Anna.

A longread on modern evolutionary biology, human origins, and theological questions that cannot honestly be bypassed.

A material on where the real boundary of the debate between evolutionary theory and Orthodox theology lies.

A genealogical study of the idea of the “Russian World”: from the baptismal memory of Rus, Byzantine inheritance, Holy Rus and the Third Rome to contemporary political theology of war.

A research article on the Orthodox understanding of war and peace and on how the modern formula of “sacred war” changes theological language.
Here you can browse all current areas of Stromata: from active research and documentary projects to ideas that are still in preparation or coordination.
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Stromata e.V. creates educational, cultural and documentary materials about faith, knowledge, the human person and society. We are not interested in quick answers, but in attentive work with reality: research, conversation, publication and long-term value.
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