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Divine Energies: The Consuming Fire and the Beatific Vision [PDF]

TheoLogica, 2018
I argue that a comprehensive ontological assessment of the beatific vision suggests that an individual’s experience of God’s face is not merely dependent on a revelation of the divine energies, but that it requires a particular mode of reception on the ...
A. G. Holdier
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Editorial: Beatific Vision

TheoLogica, 2018
‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God’ (Matthew 5.8; NRSV), so says Christ at the beginning of his greatest sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. But just what it is to be pure in heart and what it is to see God, he never explains.
David Efird, David Worsley
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Recovering the Reformation’s Ecumenical Vision of Redemption as Deification and Beatific Vision [PDF]

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020
The beatific vision is widely perceived as a Roman Catholic doctrine. Many continue to view deification as a distinctively Eastern Orthodox doctrine incompatible with the Western theological tradition, especially its Protestant expressions.
Mosser Carl
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Communal Knowledge and the Beatific Vision

TheoLogica, 2018
In this paper, I will consider what role, if any, our communion with the saints plays in our knowledge and communion with God. By considering recent work on the epistemology of personal knowledge and epistemology of religious ritual, I argue that our ...
Joshua Cockayne
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Ensouling the Beatific Vision. Motivating the Reformed Impulse [PDF]

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2017
The beatific vision is a subject of considerable importance both in the Christian Scriptures and in the history of Christian dogmatics. In it, humans experience and see the perfect immaterial God, which represents the final end for the saints.
Farris Joshua R., Brandt Ryan A.
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Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision: A Christological Deficit

TheoLogica, 2018
This article argues Aquinas’s doctrine of the beatific vision suffers from a twofold christological deficit: (1) Aquinas rarely alludes to an eternally continuing link (whether as cause or as means) between Christ’s beatific vision and ours; and (2) for ...
Hans Boersma
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The Beatific Vision and the Heavenly Mediation of Christ

TheoLogica, 2018
This article argues that Thomas Aquinas is to be interpreted as holding that the beatific vision of the saints is causally dependent on the glorified humanity of Christ.
Simon Francis Gaine
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In the Beatific Vision, both Freedom and Necessity

TheoLogica, 2018
According to Aquinas, the souls in heaven (hereafter, the blessed) are both necessitated (i.e., determined) and free in their choice to love God. But if Aquinas is right, it may seem that we cannot give an incompatibilist account of the freedom of the ...
Justin Noia
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Idealist Solutions to the Beatific Vision with Resurrection: Solving Cortez’s Extraneous Problem of the Body During the Beatific Vision

Diacovensia
Marc Cortez recently raised the extraneous body problem to a more traditional view of the beatific vision in personal eschatology. We argue that the criticism is overstated, and that there are two variants of one solution to the problem that supply an ...
Ryan A. Brandt, Joshua R. Farris
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What an Apophaticist Can Know : Divine Ineffability and the Beatific Vision [PDF]

, 2017
The doctrines of divine ineffability and of the beatific vision seem to contradict each other. According to the former, we cannot know the divine essence. But, according to the latter, we will know God fully.
Efird, David, Worsley, David Andrew
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