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Genealogies of Truth: Theology, Philosophy and History
Abstract Modern Christian theology still seeks to escape from the historical constitution of truth. This not only contradicts the Incarnation, but has its own genealogical origins in a dubious loss of Christian philosophy as an integral enterprise. In general, genealogy can be seen as negative or positive.
John Milbank
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“THE GOD WITH CLAY”: THE IDEA OF DEEP INCARNATION AND THE INFORMATIONAL UNIVERSE
Abstract 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. It is argued that the cosmic Christologies developed in the vein of Cappadocian theology (fourth century) and the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure (thirteenth ...
Niels Henrik Gregersen
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HUMAN UNIQUENESS: DEBATES IN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
Abstract In both science and theology, there has been a revolution in our understanding of the nature of human uniqueness. As a background to this Symposium on the subject, a summary is here given of the history of Homo sapiens that is being revealed by fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence.
Eric Priest
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Celebrating Synodality: Synodality as a Fundamental Aspect of Christian Liturgy
Abstract A synodal church makes assumptions about our basic ecclesial experience which takes place when we assemble liturgically, especially when we act eucharistically. The basic assumption is that we are a genuine human community knowing and relating to one another as brothers and sisters in baptism.
Thomas O' Loughlin
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Reframing Anselm and Aquinas on Atonement
Abstract Thomas Aquinas's vision of atonement is generally considered more conceptually expansive than Anselm of Canterbury's. Where Aquinas's multipartite account of Christ's passion incorporates a variety of biblical motifs, Anselm appears to narrow the focus to satisfactory debt‐repayment alone. This article proposes two approaches for reframing the
Rachel Cresswell
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Reading the Fourth Gospel in the COVID-19 pandemic context
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic situation persuades a reader of the Fourth Gospel to interpret the Scripture in new lights. In the contemporary context, the gospel of John has the potential to attune the attention of the reader towards ...
Johnson Thomaskutty
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This article focuses on the portrait of Jesus as depicted by the Johannine community according to John 9. Exploring the perspectives of Johannine scholars, the historical context of the Gospel of John, and the image of Johannine faith community, this ...
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The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1–41
The story of the man born blind is constructed within a grand irony of ability and disability. The Johannine narrator develops the characterisation of the man born blind as a progressive, seeing and missional personality, whereas all others in the story ...
Johnson Thomaskutty
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Transcendentality and Conversation: On the Trinity and ‘Word‐Exchange’
Abstract This article considers how the notions of ‘word’ and ‘conversation’ can contribute to contemporary developments in theological metaphysics by drawing on Christoph Schwöbel’s ontological rendition of Martin Luther’s theology. By way of reading Schwöbel’s theological ontology of conversation with reference to John Milbank’s theology of the gift,
King‐Ho Leung
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Normal, post-normal and new normal: A theology of hope in John 20:1–29
This article re-reads John 20:1–29 to foreground the normal, the post-normal and the new normal realities within the Johannine resurrection narrative.
Johnson Thomaskutty
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