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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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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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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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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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Divine Energies: The Consuming Fire and the Beatific Vision
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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Doing the Will of the Father: Jesus’ Freedom and the Beatific Vision
Irish Theological Quarterly, 2018 Popular conceptions of ‘doing God’s will’ often draw upon images of some pre-existing plan, which we need to follow even though its details are not clear to us. Equally similarly popular conceptions of Jesus’ knowing, informed by his beatific vision, entail Jesus knowing his life-plan as mapped out by God from the beginning, with him simply having to ...
Neil Ormerod
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DiacovensiaMarc 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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The Beatific Experience of Being: A Phenomenology of The Chakrasamvara Tantra
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2020 This article is a phenomenological elaboration of the Chakrasamvara Tantra. The Tibetan Chakrasamvara Tantra brings forth a naturalistic understanding of the process of the Embodiment of Being and the process of the invocation of the Bliss of Embodied ...
Rudolph Bauer
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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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