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Esoteric Potentiality in Creating and Viewing Angel-themed Photographs

Approaching Religion
This article explores esoteric potentiality—the perceived possibility of accessing the otherworldly—through a hermeneutic framework that integrates artist intent, the photographic image and audience reception.
Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen, Terhi Utriainen, Alexandra Bergholm   +2 more
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
wiley   +1 more source

Prawda dogmatyczna w dynamice poznania mistycznego

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2017
One may distinguish cataphatic and apophatic knowledge within the mystical tradition of the Church. The apophatic knowledge (obscure) is more appreciated than the positive one, because in knowing God, we attempt to know a reality absolutely transcendent.
Jan Paweł Strumiłowski
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
wiley   +1 more source

Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
wiley   +1 more source

From abstraction to unsaying: how the Eunomian controversy changed Gregory of Nyssa’s aphairetic ethics to an apophatic ethics

Vox Patrum, 2018
In early Christian thinking negative theology was often applied for polemi­cal purposes, as a means of asserting the Christian distinction between God and everything else.
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
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Life and Death Ethoses in the Short Story The Mystery of Foreseen Death by Aleksandr Grin: Imaginative Apophatic Reality

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2021
The paper is dedicated to the issue of the apophatic component of artistic culture associated with Thanatos that is developed in the literature oeuvre of Aleksandr Grin.
M. A. Dudareva, N. Z. Koltsova
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Human Destiny and the Natural Law in St Maximus the Confessor: A Contribution to Orthodox Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
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