Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Difference within Theology of Nature: The Strategies of Intelligibility and Credibility [PDF]
This author examines and augments a particular aspect of Ian Barbour's well-known fourfold typology for relating religion and science (conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration) in order to clarify two options available for theology as it ...
Wegter-McNelly, Kirk
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Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity
Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous, in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation.
Rowan Williams
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The Philosopher in the Eyes of the Sufi: The Place of Ibn Sina in the Thought of Sheikh Ala' al-Dawlah al-Sammani [PDF]
This paper examines the views of Sheikh Ala al-Dawla Semnani, a jurist and mystic from the 7th and 8th centuries, in his criticism of Avicenna and the philosophers.
Ghasem Raufi +2 more
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Abstract This article examines the doctrine of Christ’s two states of humiliation and exaltation in Herman Bavinck’s and John Calvin’s thought, with the aim of illuminating Bavinck’s use of Calvin. The article begins by exploring Calvin’s use of the two states and argues that his treatment of Christ’s descent into hell is an important though ...
Sarah Killam Crosby
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Examining Seyyed Jalaluddin Ashtiani's criticisms on Ghiyathuddin Mansourdashtaki and Agha Ali Modares's theory of reincarnation [PDF]
One of the main challenges of reincarnation is the form of reincarnation. Mir Ghiyathuddin Mansourdashtaki and Agha Ali Modres-Zanuzi have proposed a kind of connection between the soul and the body after death and wanted to be freed from the forms of ...
sayed mohammad amin derakhshani +1 more
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The Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆
Abstract The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an
Filip Taufer
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Risalah Mithaliyyah Nuriyyah by Sheikh Baha al-Din Muhammad bin Ali Lahiji [PDF]
Risalah Mithaliyyah authored by Shaykh Baha al-Din Muhammad bin Ali Lahiji is about the world of ideas. According to Armawi, a traditionist, Lahiji is no one other than Qutb al-Din Muhammad bin Ishkawari, author of Mahbub al-Qulub.
Ihsan Fattahi Ardakani
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Psyche and human thought from the anatomies of the past. [PDF]
Ciliberti R, Fusco R.
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Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrines [PDF]
This contribution discusses Leibniz’s views on key Christian doctrines which were surrounded, in the early modern period, by particularly lively debates.
Antognazza, Maria Rosa
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