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Is Eco-theologian Thomas Berry a Thomist?
Scientia et Fides, 2019 I examine the views of the renowned Catholic environmentalist, Thomas Berry, C.P., by comparing them with those of Thomas Aquinas, an author Berry frequently references.
Marie George
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An Apophatic View of God and Creation [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2019 The English Dominican Herbert McCabe highlighted some ideas of Thomas Aquinas on the knowability of God and on creation, which can usefully challenge some widespread commonplaces.
Franco Manni
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A Critical Analysis of Aquinas' Reading on the Avicenna's Creation Model
حکمت سینوی, 2019 One of the oldest and most important metaphysical problems is the creation of the multiplicity of things and their relations to oneness. Avicenna adopted a viewpoint on the issue that Aquinas has recited it in his works.
Alireza Fazeli +1 more
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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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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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
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