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Deus Ludus: The Christocentric Games of Nicholas of Cusa and Blaise Pascal
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 489-502, July 2023., 2023 Nicholas of Cusa and his daringly speculative theology seem odd matches for Blaise Pascal, the constant critic of the philosophies en vogue during his life. A commonality they share is their mutual concern for the apparent disproportion between the infinite God and the finite human.
Garrett Lincoln Ashlock
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Of Signs: Matter and Revelation in the Liturgies of William Durand and John Calvin
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 190-206, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article seeks to set aside what we might call Cartesian physics to revisit William Durand's conception of sign as set forth in the Rationale divinorum officiorum and John Calvin's as set forth in the Institutio christianae religionis. Reading the two works through the lens of medieval physics reveals commonalities – both held signs to be ...
Lee Palmer Wandel
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IS THERE A DISTINCTIVE QUANTUM THEOLOGY?
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 265-284, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Quantum mechanics (QM) is a favorite area of physics to feature in “science and religion” discussions. We argue that this is at least partly because the arcane results of QM can be deployed to make big theological claims by the linguistic sleight of hand of “register switching”—sliding imperceptibly from technical into everyday language using ...
Wilson C. K. Poon, Tom C. B. McLeish
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Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 19-46, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay explores the development of Tillich’s writings on the relationship between divine providence and suffering, and his approach to theodicy. First, I attend to the various stations of his early life and his earliest writings in various genres.
Samuel Andrew Shearn
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IN GOD'S EXISTENCE: CONNECTING PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND COMPUTATION
Zygon®, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1000-1018, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The exploration of metaphysical arguments in the symbolic AI environment provides clarification and raises unexpected questions about notions in philosophy of religion and theology. Recent attempts to apply automatic theorem prover technology to Anselm's ontological argument have led to a simplification of the argument.
Andrea Vestrucci
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Endangerment and lament in the Covid Pandemic: Ways out of two theological impasses
Dialog, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 360-368, December 2021., 2021 Abstract The essay analyses two causes of the eloquent silence of many churches during Corona: That it has become unthinkable for many theologians that while humans pose a threat to nature, nature itself threatens humans in turn. In addition, a conception of God that assumes only the suffering companion and human acts of solidarity blocks the ...
Günter Thomas
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Erich Przywara’s Late Reception of Luther
Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 595-615, July 2021., 2021 Abstract Erich Przywara’s late career writings have to this point received little attention in English. While Przywara’s earlier writings include both significant dialogue with Protestant theologians (most prominently Karl Barth) and occasional references to Martin Luther, Luther takes on a new prominence in his work after the Second World War.
Adam T. Morton
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THE NATURALIZATION OF SCRIPTURAL REASON IN SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY EPISTEMOLOGY
Zygon®, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 188-208, March 2021., 2021 Abstract Several scholars have claimed that the decline of revealed or Scriptural mysteries in the early Enlightenment was a consequence of the trajectories of Reformed theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reformed theology's fideistic stance, it is claimed, undermined earlier frameworks for relating reason to revealed mysteries ...
Jon W. Thompson
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With Bloch against Žižek: Towards a critique of decisionist political theology
, 2021 Constellations, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 350-367, September 2021.
Adrian Paukstat
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Studia Litterarum, 2017 This article is a fragment of the PhD thesis Philosophical and Aesthetic Principles of Tragedy in Calderon and Racine (Department of the History of Foreign Literature, Moscow State University, 1988).
Maria Yu. Ignatieva (Oganisyan)
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