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Agency Experience and the Limitations of Non‐Contrastive Transcendence

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-612, October 2025.
Abstract This essay argues that although the principle of non‐contrastive transcendence (NCT) is persuasive on its own terms, there are theologically important dimensions of the relationship between divine and human agency that are not captured by an interpretive framework governed by NCT alone. Agency is not just a philosophical category; it is also a
Simeon Zahl
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Metaphors for Metamorphosis: The Poetics of Kenosis and the Apophasis of Self in Saint John of the Cross

Religions
Spanish mystic Saint Juan (John) of the Cross (1542–1591) began writing poetry while imprisoned by his own monastic order. He developed manuals for contemplation, in part, in the form of commentaries on his principal poems.
George Faithful
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Apophatic Community: Yannaras on Relational Being [PDF]

, 2019
For Martin Heidegger the story of Western philosophy ended basically in egocentrism or the metaphysics of “subjectivity”; however, he acknowledged the possibility of another path in Greece: that of pre-Socratic thinking.
DALLMAYR, Fred
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Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 625-637, October 2025.
Abstract In this article I engage with Kathryn Tanner's theological framework for understanding God's agency, focusing on the way her rules of non‐contrastive transcendence and non‐competitive immanence govern her account of God's acts of creation, providence, incarnation, and atonement.
Sameer Yadav
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Toward an Ethnography of God

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 541-551, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
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Fish, Fetishization, and Faith in the Arctic Ocean

Religions
The ocean is a site of energy, space, movement, depth, and extraction. The biblical creation account begins there, with the energy of movement of the Spirit over the Deep.
Marion Grau, Lovisa Mienna Sjöberg
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“The Kingdom of God Is Anarchy.” Apophasis, Political Eschatology, and Mysticism in Russian Religious Thought

Religions
This essay examines the reception of Western mystical theology in early twentieth-century Russian religious thought, showing how leading Russian thinkers—such as Ivanov, Frank, Bulgakov, and Berdyaev—reinterpreted Meister Eckhart’s central categories ...
Francesco Vitali Rosati
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Spirituality and culture: the case of Celtic Christianity [PDF]

, 1996
We have seen a tendency in Christian circles in recent years for the theme of spirituality and culture to be increasingly drawn together. For the ethnic minorities of modern Britain, culture and religion can seem contiguous, with the one supporting the
Davies, Oliver
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Foucault's Apophasis: Beyond Modernity, the Real

, 2022
My usual first line of defence when accusations of ‘postmodernism’ are levelled at Foucault is pedantic: there is no philosophical ‘postmodernism’ (with the possible exception of Jean-François Lyotard’s thought), and no one who knows what they are talking about suggests Foucault is a “postmodernist.” He himself ultimately rejected any possibility of a “
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Glisson's Capsule in The Avicenna's Canon of Medicine. [PDF]

Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr, 2023
Sadeghi S, Dostmohammadi E, Firoozi M.
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