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Apophatic Confrontation: von Balthasar’s Thought on Kenosis and Community as a Veiled Response to the “Trend” of Political Theology

Open Theology, 2023
This article explores the potential theological–political discourse of Hans Urs von Balthasar, presenting the following arguments: (1) Despite its often-disregarded status, Balthasar’s thought contains a discernible thread of political theology; (2) His ...
Almudena Molina
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Negation as Infinite Affirmation

Diakrisis, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to identify the meaning of negation in Dionysius the Areopagite’s apophatism: how and towards which reality does it orient contemplation and what does it actually say about God who reveals Himself?
Grigore Dinu Moș
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Playing in the Flood of Love: A Response to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference [PDF]

, 2011
As John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts\u27 title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the
Bannon, Brad
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Are You There, God? It’s Me, the Theist: On the Viability and Virtue of Non-Doxastic Prayer [PDF]

, 2022
In this article, I explore the possibility of what I call “non-doxastic theistic prayer”, namely prayer that proceeds without full belief in God – or in the kind of God who could be the recipient of such prayer.
Griffioen, Amber
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Christos Yannaras's View on the History of Western Theology from St. Augustine to Nietzsche

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2023
The article analyzes the anti-Western and radically anti-ecumenical theology of the Greek Orthodox thinker Christos Yannaras and his idea of gradual centuries-old deviation of Western theology from the authentic tradition of the early Church Fathers ...
Andrii Shymanovych
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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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I Am What I Do—Negative Work as a Lens for the Study of Movement Chaplaincy

Religions, 2023
This article explores the application of the concept of negative work within Movement Chaplaincy, contending that this framework facilitates engagement with negative spirituality in this sphere of ministry.
Edda Stephanie Wolff
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Augustine on music as the harmonious language of spirituality: An apophatic theological study

In die Skriflig
This article arose from the study of apophatic theology also known as the via-negativa. Apophatic theology, by definition, refrains from stating what and who God is instead of focusing on what God is not.
Godfrey T. Baleng
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Intellect or Heart, Reason or Faith?

Diakrisis, 2020
Addressing the imputed opposition between Christian theology and metaphysics from the premise of the inadmissibility of severing ties with the Holy Fathers of the Church, this paper argues for the necessity of revisiting dogmatical works like the ...
Paul Andrei Mucichescu
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Ecology as a New Foundation for Natural Theology

Religions, 2021
The erosion of metaphysics that began in Modernity has led to the discredit of the whole project of natural theology as a means to reach God, establish the classical divine attributes, and account for divine action.
Andreas Gonçalves Lind, Bruno Nobre
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