The 49th issue of the scientific and theological journal "Theological Bulletin" was published by the Moscow Theological Academy's publishing house

The Moscow Theological Academy Publishing House has published the 49th issue of the scientific and theological journal "Theological Herald", the second for 2023.
The issue contains 16 articles on a variety of topics:
- biblical studies,
- natural science apologetics,
- religious philosophy,
- comparative theology,
- patrology and Christian literature,
- history of the local Orthodox Churches,
- history of the Russian Orthodox Church,
- church art and archaeology,
- religious studies.
In this issue:
Priest Dmitry Baritsky in his article "'Contradictions' in the Gospel Narrative through the Prism of Generative Narratology" attempts to resolve the seeming contradictions that arise between the Gospel narratives using the tools of narrative criticism. The solution is based on the basic position of narratology that the narrative of an event is not the event itself. Narrative emerges as a result of the interpretive activity of the author's consciousness, which processes reality in order to conceptualise it. Generative narratology is used, which helps to identify the main stages of this process: "happening", "event", "fact", "sign". As a result, the author focuses on two generative levels of narrative, such as "event" and "fact". It is noted that for the transition from "event" to "fact", the hermeneutic operations that result in the "event" and "fact" are significant.