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Communion and Creation

TheoLogica, 2022
In this paper, I argue for an extension of relational accounts of the imago Dei which includes a kind of priestly relation to the created order. In this relation, humanity is intended to ensure the independent flourishing of creation in a way reflective
D. T. Everhart
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On Generating Categories in Theological Ethics: Barth, Genesis and the Ständelehre

Tyndale Bulletin, 2010
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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The Christian Approach to Divine Creation in the Context of Scientific Worldview

Religions
The paper examines the main components of the Christian view of creation in light of a scientific worldview. Although no scientific theory can refute or corroborate the doctrine of creation, the current state of natural sciences does have some impact on ...
Marek Słomka
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An Apophatic View of God and Creation [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2019
The English Dominican Herbert McCabe highlighted some ideas of Thomas Aquinas on the knowability of God and on creation, which can usefully challenge some widespread commonplaces.
Franco Manni
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NATIONAL INNOVATIVE DOCTRINE: DRAFT PROPOSALS

Известия высших учебных заведений и энергетических объединенний СНГ: Энергетика, 2003
The paper considers some problems relevant to formation of National innovative doctrine. The proposals concerning creation of new scientifically-based fields of energy consumption and alternative energy supply of the economy of the Republic of Belarus ...
M. I. Demchuk, A. T. Urkevich
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Descartes e il problema della teodicea nella prima modernità

Phenomenology and Mind, 2019
The article deals with the critical reception of the Cartesian theory of the eternal truths. It aims to analyze the central role played by Descartes’ doctrine in Early Modern Philosophy, with particular regard to the reflections of Leibniz, Malebranche ...
Alfredo Gatto
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Creation and Grace: Understanding the Pre-Modern Frame of Aquinas’ Approach to Sanctification

Religions, 2023
This article proposes a Thomistic account of graced human nature that emphasizes the importance of underlying developments in Aquinas’ doctrine of creation that inform his approach to the doctrine of grace.
Reginald Lynch
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Thomistic Themes in Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s Theology

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2022
Among many other sources, Ratzinger received his formation from the “three great masters” – Augustine, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas. While rejecting an unpersonal and essentialist scholasticism, he recognizes the authority of Aquinas – seen through an “
Pablo Blanco-Sarto
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The Creation of Necessity:

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2015
In Descartes theological writing, he promotes two jointly puzzling theses: T1) God freely creates the eternal truths (i.e. the Creation Doctrine) and T2) The eternal truths are necessarily true.
Beth Seacord
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Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez on Possible Being

Studium: Filosofía y Teología, 2017
In this article I consider the problematic that creation ex nihilo presents for Christian metaphysicans’ speculation regarding possible being. I explore Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of possibility and show that, while he attempts to remain faithful to a ...
Victor Salas
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