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Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.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 господь–господинъ Dichotomy and the Cyrillo-Methodian Linguo-Theological Innovation
Slovene, 2019 This article investigates early Slavic exegesis and its influence on Slavic languages (and, more broadly, models for transferring Judeo-Christian thought onto the Slavic soil).
Alexander Kulik
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.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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Vox Patrum, 2023 The article reconsiders the structure of Clement’s writing Quis dives salvetur? and as a consequence questions the traditional designation of this text as a homily.
Jana Plátová
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Periskop, 2017 The Image as a Living Atlas in the World. An Introduction to George Didi-Huberman’s Image Theory Project and Curatorial Practice This article delivers both an overview of the ongoing work of art historian Georges Didi-Huberman (b.
Michael Kjær
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Citations and Allusions to Jewish Scripture in Early Christian and Jewish Writings through 180 CE [PDF]
, 1992 Reviewed Book: McLean, Bradley H. Citations and Allusions to Jewish Scripture in Early Christian and Jewish Writings through 180 CE.
Reimer, David J.
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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