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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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International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 50 (2003-2004), 1913 New Testament Exegesis conducts research on the cre ation, contents and use of the New Testament and enables students to develop s ki ls in assessing and interpreting these texts.
B. T. D. Smith
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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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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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Mythe et allégorie dans l’œuvre de Lucien
Kentron, 2008 This paper examines Lucian’s attitude towards myth and allegory, under its double aspect of interpretative technique and creative process. A careful reading shows that Lucian’s use of myth and allegory is deeply ambiguous and
Corinne Jouanno
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John Chrysostom, rhetoric and Galatians [PDF]
, 2004 This paper examines the influence of contemporary rhetoric on John Chrysostom’s commentary on Galatians (with some reference to other exegetical works). Because ancient rhetoric developed over time, the primary points of reference are works on rhetorical
Heath, M.
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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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Exégesis patrística y exégesis narrativa. Un aporte a la relación exégesis-hermenéutica
Franciscanum, 2015 Within the context of the dichotomy problem between biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, this reflective paper derived from a research project, presents an analysis of the relationship between the defined patristic exegesis in two representative authors ...
Hernando Barrios Tao
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L’« Anonyme » : un palimpseste démocritéen dans le Protreptique de Jamblique ?
Kentron, 2012 Iamblichus, in the Protrepticus, brings together many texts mainly borrowed from unnamed philosophers, first and foremost from Plato and Aristotle, into a broad synthesis, framing all of these quoted fragments with a syncretic ...
Michelle Lacore
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The Problem of Christ’s Acquired Knowledge
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Thomas Aquinas is universally applauded for his “courage and perspicacity” in eventually admitting an acquired knowledge in Christ. According to this doctrine, Christ, through the experience of his senses, came to know what he previously did not know.
Joshua H. Lim
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