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THEOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND CLOUD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

Zygon, 2016
As a work of constructive theology attentive to the deconstructive edge of theology itself, Cloud of the Impossible offers a contemplative space for fresh transdisciplinary encounters.
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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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Mysticism: a way of unknowing

Acta Theologica, 2008
The phenomenon of mysticism has been a cause of intense debate for philosophers, religionists, and theologians for centuries. Interest in mysticism is particularly vibrant in the 21st century, not only among the afore-mentioned, but also from other ...
C. E. T. Kourie
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Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Ful llment in Medieval Mysticism [PDF]

, 2016
Self-knowledge is a persistent—and paradoxical—theme in medieval mysticism, which portrays our ultimate goal as union with the divine. Union with God is often taken to involve a cognitive and/or volitional merging that requires the loss of a sense of ...
Van Dyke, Christina
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Plotinus’s Apophatic Theology

Ideas and Ideals, 2020
The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of Plotinus’s apophatic theology. The problem of the limit of human cognition has always been topical in the history of the human thought. The absolute reality acted as such a limit in Platonism. The apophatic aspect was the final step of its cognition.
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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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Love’s Deepest Abyss: A Contemplative Ecology of Darkness

Journal of Contemplative Studies
“Love’s deepest abyss is her most beautiful form,” so claims Hadewijch of Antwerp, the great medieval Flemish mystic. This strange and alluring idea, shared by many of the apophatic tradition, reflects the sense that the abyssal (sometimes conceived of ...
Douglas E. Christie
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Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic by Whitney A. Bauman [PDF]

, 2017
Review of Whitney A.
Corrigan, Paul T.
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Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction [PDF]

, 2018
John Sanders’ Theology in the Flesh, the first comprehensive overview of the toolkit that contemporary cognitive linguistics offers for theological appropriation, despite its remarkable success, gives rather minimal attention to blending theory, one of ...
Masson, Robert
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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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