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Lost in Communication? Beyond the Aporia of Kenosis
Abstract Contemporary kenoticist Christologies reach an impasse when they conflate metaphorical and analogical predication. Interpreting divine “self‐emptying” in analogical terms—as divine self‐divestment—generates ethical concerns as well as philosophical, exegetical, and doctrinal difficulties.
Ligita Ryliškytė SJE
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(2025): S. Marotta, The 'controlled growth' of Catholic ecumenism under the Holy See of Pius XII: from Amsterdam 1948 to the Ecclesia Catholica instruction, in: A. Melloni (dir.), A History of the Desire for Christian Unity.
Saretta Marotta
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Biblical Reasoning and the value of devout reading
Abstract ‘Biblical Reasoning’ is an experimental practice of shared scriptural reading amongst Christians from different churches. A central motivation for its development was the hope that it might provide a space within which ecumenical differences could be explored, and in which strands of deep mutual learning could grow across those differences ...
Mike Higton
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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Based on a specialized bibliography, the present study highlights – both theologically and historically – some important moments of fraternity and communion, of a real ecumenism, between Christians of different confessions in the territory of ...
Silviu-Iulian SANA
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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account
ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
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Method can mean either the steps taken to achieve church unity or the principles appropriate to the study of ecumenism. Most ecumenists have sought organic unity; they have hoped that agreement on the issue of authority would further this end.
William J. Abraham
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ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: An Interpretation of the Akan Proverb Ti Koro Nko Agyina
In our diverse world today, cultivating relationships between different religions and denominations is essential for fostering mutual understanding and promoting global harmony.
Samuel Kofi Boateng Nkrumah-Pobi
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