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Reclaiming Heaven from History: A Theological Critique of Martin Hägglund's This Life

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 248-269, April 2025.
Abstract Martin Hägglund's This Life offers an incisive critique of Christian visions of eternal life. Theological responses to Hägglund emphasize the ‘worldly’ nature of heaven over‐against overly Platonic, ‘otherworldly’ accounts of everlasting life.
Jared Michelson
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Lex Orandi, Lex Operandi: The Relationship of Worship and Work in the Early Church [PDF]

, 1987
(Excerpt) We are all familiar with the famous dictum of Prosper of Aquitaine, who in the fifth century coined the axiom, lex orandi, lex credendi. I propose a variation on this principle by suggesting lex orandi, lex operandi, the law of prayer gives ...
Volz, Carl A
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To Each According to their Needs: Anarchist Praxis as a Resource for Byzantine Theological Ethics [PDF]

, 2018
I argue that anarchist ideas for organising human communities could be a useful practical resource for Christian ethics. I demonstrate this firstly by introducing the main theological ideas underlying Maximus the Confessor’s ethics, a theologian ...
Dewhurst, Emma Brown
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Cement and displacement

American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 31-43, February 2025.
Abstract Displaced people have not escaped war and do not live apart from it. This is evident in the material life of internally displaced Iraqi farmers seeking refuge in a concrete construction site, downstream from a cement‐processing plant in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kali Rubaii
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Seeing Otherwise: ‘The Least of These’ and Revelation in Jean‐Luc Marion

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 54-71, January 2025.
Abstract In his familiar essay in Phenomenology and the ‘Theological Turn’, Jean‐François Courtine writes that the ‘cardinal experience’ of revelatory phenomena would undoubtedly be the incarnation. But in its singularity, this experience, he admits, seems to elude phenomenological thought.
Thomas Breedlove
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“THE GOD WITH CLAY”: THE IDEA OF DEEP INCARNATION AND THE INFORMATIONAL UNIVERSE

Zygon, 2023
This article explores the relations between the idea of deep incarnation and scientific ideas of an informational universe, in which mass, energy, and information belong together.
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Christian Insights into Plotinus' Metaphysics and his Concept of Aptitude (Ἐπιτηδειότης) [PDF]

, 2017
Modern scholarship on Late Antique philosophy seems to be more interested than ever before in examining in depth convergences and divergences between Platonism and Early Christian thought. Plotinus is a key gure in such an examination.
Pavlos, Panagiotis
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Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 96-119, January 2025.
Abstract Rowan Williams's trinitarian ontology rests on the affirmation of eros within God and the ‘irreducible otherness’ of the divine persons to one another. The divine persons are accordingly conceived in ek‐static terms as ‘giving more than they are’.
Patrick John McGlinchey
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The Darkling Lights of Lucifer: Annihilation, Tradition, and Hell

, 2013
Gregory of Nyssa is famous for defending both the doctrine of epektasis, the continual ascent of the blessed toward God, and, in places, the doctrine of apokatastasis, the eventual restoration to God of all creation, including the Devil.
McCullough, Ross W.
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Dreams in Evagrius Ponticus' Life and teaching [PDF]

, 2017
There are few late antiquity authors who pay more attention than Evagrius todreams. For him, visions and dreams are not a way to prophesy the future or tokeep in contact with the dead.
Peretó Rivas, Rubén Angel
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