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PARMENIDES’ THEORY OF NON-BEING AS A HISTORIC-PHILOSOPHICAL CORE OF PLOTINUS’ HENOLOGY

Вестник Мининского университета, 2018
Introduction: immediacy of the problem of non-being for philosophy is givenness. Parmenides’ ontology is the origin of the problem of non-being in Western-European tradition.
A. V. Bogomolov
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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
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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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Considering the Place of Apophaticism within Science-Engaged Theology

Zygon
Despite its firm embeddedness in the Christian tradition, apophatic theology has been strangely absent in the science-and-religion dialogue. Given that the apophatic theologian eschews the idea that we can fully comprehend God, or positively articulate ...
Mikael Leidenhag
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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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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 242-266, July 2026.
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
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Human–Artificial Intelligence Relationships in Lacanian Perspective: Desire, Silence, and the Big Other

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers a Lacanian psychoanalytic interpretation of emerging forms of human–artificial intelligence (AI) relationships, particularly emotionally responsive systems such as AI companions and AI girlfriends. It addresses the notion of “AI psychosis,” understood not as a diagnostic category but as a descriptive term for disturbances ...
Tibor A. Brečka
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Apophatic Theology of God’s Incomprehensible Trinitarianism as Seen by Vladimir N. Lossky

Collectanea Theologica
The purpose of this text is to present the apophatic struggle with the incomprehensible mystery of God’s trinitarianism by one of the most eminent Orthodox theologians of the 20th century, and a radical defender of the apophatic nature of Christian ...
Michał Płóciennik
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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Sensing and Longing for God in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s The Return and Leviathan

Religions, 2016
This article explores apophatic ways of presenting God (the Other) in two films of Andrey Zvyagintsev. The lens for this analysis is the phenomenological theology of John Panteleimon Manoussakis, using the following concepts: (1) God as personal Other ...
Denys Kondyuk
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