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All Bible quotations are taken from New Revised Standard Version, unless otherwise indicated.
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Mateos, Juan. S.J. 2016. The Liturgy of the Word. Translated by John Lewis, David Bertaina, Mark Mourachian. Fairfax, Virginia: Eastern Christian Publications. The translation is based on Mateos’ 1971 work, La Célébration de la parole dans la Liturgie Byzantine with addition of lectures he gave in a series of four conferences in Fordham University in summer 1965.
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__________.. 1991. Corpus Dionysiacum II. Patristische Texte Und Studien. K. Aland und E. Mühlenberg. Band 36. Berlin, New York: Walter De Gruyter.
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Ricoeur, Paul. 1967. The Symbolism of Evil. Translated by Emerson Buchanan. Boston: Beacon Press.
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