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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.
Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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Ecumenical Service of Reflection and Reconciliation

African Christian Theology
This liturgy was designed by members of the TWP, St Nicholas Theological Seminary, and clergy at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Cape Coast (July 2024) for an ecumenical service held there as part of the TWP workshop.
Daniel Justice ESHUN, Sara J. FRETHEIM
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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Mimetic Desire and Fantasies of Deliverance: Crucifying Girard's Claims About Religious Violence and Revelation

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A previous paper described and challenged Girard's extensive revisions and rejections of psychoanalytic ideas, further elucidating some of his egregious misunderstandings and erroneous claims. This paper continues by dissecting his problematic claims about religion, especially his dubious insistence that Christian revelation is the only ...
Jerry S. Piven
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Who Is the Greatest in the Kingdom?--Beatitudes 2 [PDF]

, 1991
I indicated real briefly that my focus is going to be the theme is Kingdom living here now in my electives. The way I\u27m going to be getting at that theme is by dealing with the Beatitudes in Matthew 5.
Johnson, David A.
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“I Thank God We're Rich”: Justifying Economic Inequality in an Evangelical Congregation

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 303-316, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Christianity has been the inspiration for a variety of responses to economic inequality in the United States and beyond. However, evangelicalism has been associated in the literature with consistent justification of unequal economic circumstances.
Dawson P. R. Vosburg
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The Kantian's Desire

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 652-675, September 2025.
Abstract Christine Korsgaard's oft‐quoted image of the reflective agent “backing up” from her desires has been criticized on the ground that it depicts desires as items external to practical reason which can, therefore, have no normative bearing on her rational activity.
T. A. Pendlebury
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 43-59, April 2026.
Georgie Newson
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Spinoza's image of thought: Ratio and the example of the fourth proportional

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page S57-S68, September 2025.
Abstract What constitutes the image of thought for Spinoza? The “image of thought” is a term Gilles Deleuze uses to describe how a philosopher represents thinking, implicitly and pretheoretically. It refers to what a philosopher presupposes about thinking.
Beth Lord
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Revisiting the Literal Sense of Scripture, in Dialogue With Thomas Aquinas

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 331-350, July 2025.
Abstract Brevard Childs suggests that ‘one of the burning issues in theology lies in a search to recover a new understanding of the sensus literalis’. In this article, I retrieve and commend Thomas Aquinas's account of the literal sense, using Peter's Pentecost speech in Acts 2 as a way of testing Thomas's mettle.
Christopher R. J. Holmes
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