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Toward the philosophy of creation: Maximus the confessor [PDF]
The article aims to present the philosophical argumentation in favor of the Christian idea of the creation of the world exposed in the work of the seventh century author Maximus the Confessor.
Cvetković Vladimir
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Apocryphal Stories about Angels in "Paley Tolkova"
In the Old Russian Palea, which begins with a story about the creation of the world with extensive interpretations borrowed from the works of Severian of Gabala, Basil the Great, the interpretations of John Chrysostom on the Book of Genesis ...
I.V. Dergacheva
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An Essentialist Bimodal Interpretation of Descartes’ Creation Doctrine [PDF]
This paper develops and defends an essentialist bimodal (or biessentialist) interpretation of Descartes’ Creation Doctrine. The two modalities express facts about essences: i-modalities express relations of compatibility/entailment as obtaining between ...
Andrew Tedder
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A Future for the Doctrine of Substantive Legitimate Expectation? The Implications of Kwazulu-Natal Joint Liaison Committee v Mec for Education, Kwazulu Natal [PDF]
In this paper I briefly discuss the development of the doctrine of legitimate expectation in South African law, which had left the way open for the Constitutional Court to develop a doctrine of substantive legitimate expectation in KwaZulu-Natal Joint ...
Melanie Murcott
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The theological polemic purpose of Genesis 1-3: implications for the reformed doctrine on original sin This article focuses on the polemic nature of Genesis 1-3 and the implications thereof on the reformed doctrine regarding original sin.
N. Vorster
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The creation as an analogy: An assessment of the doctrine of creation of Karl Barth in the light of the appeal of the ecological crisis In a comprehensive article in Afrikaans, the author points out that the problem of the relation between man and ...
J. Buitendag
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On Generating Categories in Theological Ethics: Barth, Genesis and the Ständelehre
Though the doctrine of creation is often invoked in Christian ethics, its relation to the book of Genesis remains obscure. The dominance of an ethics of principles among Christian ethicists and exegetes provides one reason for this obscurity in ...
Brian Brock
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Jonathan Edwards' brilliant conception that combines disposition and being, and God's absolute being with dynamicity, has challenged the most commonly accepted classical greek dualism between being and becoming, and absolute and dynamicity.
Jimmy Pardede
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God’s General Revelation: A Conversation of Dogmatic and Biblical Theology
The aim of this work is threefold. First, it is an attempt to revisit the doctrine of God’s general revelation in conversation of dogmatic and biblical theology.
Oprean Daniel G.
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The Divine Idea of the Self and Contemporary Culture
Taking as its point of departure Pope Benedict XVI’s comment that ‘[e]ach of us is the result of a thought of God’, this article explores how the divine idea of the self bears promise for enabling a Catholic theological response to certain features of ...
Jacob Phillips
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