Badiou and the Reconstruction of the Concept of God
Abstract In this article I first summarize Badiou’s and Žižek’s critique of the concept of God, which I and other interpreters conceive as a radicalization of the theology of the death of God. I then pose the question of how to formulate a positive conception of God after the death of God that would overcome the limits of negative or apophatic theology.
Michael Hauser
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Considering the Place of Apophaticism within Science-Engaged Theology
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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Are You There, God? It’s Me, the Theist: On the Viability and Virtue of Non-Doxastic Prayer [PDF]
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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In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon’s Metaphysics after Lenin
Abstract Donald MacKinnon expressed a distinctly realist and actualist metaphysic. One aspect of his metaphysics that is less frequently commented upon, however, is his reception of Vladimir Lenin. While not an unqualified admirer of Bolshevism, it is readily apparent that MacKinnon incorporated elements of Lenin’s philosophy and theories regarding ...
Khegan M. Delport, Dritëro Demjaha
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Herbert McCabe wrote extensively about the classical topics of Christology, although his writings are scattered in many short texts. As for Incarnation, he holds both Bultmann’s demythologisation and De Lubac’s supernatural.
F. Manni
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Апофатичний шлях: логічна функція абстрагування та екзистенційний рівень зустрічі (Apophaticism: Logic Function of Abstraction and an Existential Level of a Facing) [PDF]
У статті розглянуто проблему апофатизму у різних вимірах: як логічну процедуру абстрагування та як досвідно-екзистенціальну зустріч. Говоріння про простого Бога мовою складного світу призводить до множинності імен.
Лімонченко, В. (V. Limonchenko)
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Three Challenges in Political Regime Classification: The Regime Configuration Framework
ABSTRACT This article reviews political regime classification in the context of contemporary debates. We problematize the classical division between categorical and continuous approaches and recent responses to their limitations. We use hybrid regimes to question the conventional framing of political regime classification.
Zarina Kulaeva
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Apophaticism and Kataphaticism in Maximus the Confessor's Thought
J. Bieler
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Analytic Theology, Model Pluralism, and Progress
Abstract In recent discussions of methodology in analytic theology, attention has been paid to the use of model‐building—providing simplified accounts of doctrines, or clusters of doctrines, that merely approximate to the truth of the matter—as a practice that enables analytic theologians to carry out their work whilst respecting the mystery ...
Harvey Cawdron
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Apophatic Theology of God’s Incomprehensible Trinitarianism as Seen by Vladimir N. Lossky
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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