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De Atenas a Jerusalén. La creación del mundo en Filón de Alejandría

Isidorianum, 2018
El objetivo del presente artículo es trazar un recorrido por las principales líneas de la cosmología de Filón de Alejandría tal y como ésta se manifiesta en su obra De Opificio Mundi. Dicha obra es exponente de la síntesis que lleva a cabo el autor entre
Fr. Luis Javier García-Lomas Gago, OSB
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 157-173, March 2025.
Abstract We argue here that bringing insights from evolution and bioengineering to bear on traditional accounts of divine providence helps to illustrate just how complex providence is and how difficult it is to achieve. While other non‐human animals might exhibit greater agency in creation and its evolutionary development than has traditionally been ...
Michael Burdett, Andrew Jackson
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La creatio ex nihilo, límite al aristotelismo tomasiano

Studium: Filosofía y Teología
El trabajo se propone analizar el límite irreductible del aristotelismo tomasiano en la noción de creatio ex nihilo, en su Comentario a la Física, Libros VII y VIII, pero tratando de salvar la teoría aristotélica todo lo posible.
Celina A. Lértora Mendoza
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Freedom as a Matter of Perspective and Perception in Martin Luther's De servo arbitrio☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 3-30, January 2025.
Abstract Martin Luther's notion of freedom, as presented in De servo arbitrio, is often interpreted as a denial of free choice in matters of God (salvation) and as an affirmation of free choice in earthly life. This article questions this twofold distinction and argues that in De servo arbitrio Luther's notion of freedom is set into epistemic discourse
Karin Kallas‐Põder
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ADOLF GRÜNBAUM ON THE STEADY‐STATE THEORY AND CREATIO CONTINUA OF MATTER OUT OF NOTHING

Zygon, 2011
The ideas of creatio ex nihilo of the universe and creatio continua of new matter out of nothing entered the arena of natural science with the advent of the Big Bang and the steady‐state theories in the mid‐twentieth century.
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Griffin on the Traditional Theological Approaches to the Problem of Evil [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018
One of the most important issues in theology and philosophy of religion is the problem of evil and its relation to God and his omnipotence and omnibenevolence.
Haajar Darbandi Darian, Azam Ghasemi, Malek Shojaee Joshooghani   +2 more
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Racism as ontological terror and onticide

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2024.
Abstract This paper elucidates the existential and psychological dynamics of onticide: the malicious annihilation of another's existential‐emotional being. On any given day, chances are we're going to read a new account of racist violence and injustice that is, simply put, grotesque.
Jerry S. Piven
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Philosophical Creationism: Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Creatio ex Nihilo [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2016
All philosophers, beginning with the pre-Socratics, through Plato and Aristotle, and up to Thomas Aquinas, accepted as a certain that the world as a whole existed eternally.
Andrzej Maryniarczyk
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Approaching religious fatalism in cancer screening education

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 5, Page 842-847, August 2024.
Abstract Rationale Religious fatalism has for decades been pointed out as a barrier to cancer screening attendance and several studies suggest interventions to decrease fatalism, given its negative impact on the uptake of cancer screening. Aims and Objectives Our objective in this interdisciplinary exploration on religious fatalism in the context of ...
Thea Beate Brevik, Knut Willy Sæther
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